Cricket Discussion - Part 3

[raptalia]

Yay the IPL is underway for another year - 1 down, 73 to go. The final is on May 25 .

Time for Cricket Australia to upgrade their contracts so that Contracted Players have to give precedence to Australian Cricket. Travis Head playing in the IPL in preference to the Shield Final is a travesty and should not be allowed.

Hopefully SA will prevail but if they don't Travis, PAFC Ambassador or not, should cop some stick. If it wasn't for Shield Cricket Trav would not have an international reputation to trade on.

Go Redbacks.

Qld 0/15 after 10 overs.

 

[Papa G]

4/18!!!

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

FMD - did they water the pitch last night.

I was going to write why the hell did we send them in. Its flat and will be hot. Ryan Harris knows more than me.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

5/22

 

[RangaInTeal]

5/22

Bowlers win premierships

 

[philreich]

Just don't want to bat before lunch - give the pitch time to settle down.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Bharat Sundaresan wrote a great article on Ryan Harris in the Weekend Oz and how he has changed the mindset of SA players

Behind a paywall but will try and get around it later.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/cricket/ryan-harris-takes-a-charge-at-ending-south-australias-29year-sheffield-shield-drought/news-story/cc0748ca466a1fbc2fba6c38f8a6a71e

 

[Greasyrhys]

Gotta get neser out then hope the rest will fall.

 

[Grave Danger]

Doggett must've had a good breakfast and an even better lunch.

Cane Toads 9/88, Doggett 5/27

 

[JimmyBC]

Wow only just catching up with the score, we'd have to bat like the Birdwood 3rds to lose this now.

 

[RangaInTeal]

Really have to question what is going on with SA sport, feels like less and less Lads drafted these days, this whole bowling line up is from interstate, 36’ers haven’t had a good play off run for years, Adelaide United has floundered for years…

Is SASI still a thing? What happened to our young sporting ‘ability’?

 

[RangaInTeal]

Wow only just catching up with the score, we'd have to bat like the Birdwood 3rds to lose this now.

Amazing what happens when there is a voice or 4 from people who didn’t grow up in the leafy Eastern Suburbs. Harris, Cosgrove and Watt all with great ties to Northern Districts during ‘The Jets’ reasonable era ‘03-08ish.

 

[philreich]

South Australia have officially avoided the follow on.

 

[Grave Danger]

Really have to question what is going on with SA sport, feels like less and less Lads drafted these days, this whole bowling line up is from interstate, 36’ers haven’t had a good play off run for years, Adelaide United has floundered for years…

Is SASI still a thing? What happened to our young sporting ‘ability’?

McInerney, Lehmann and Carey are the only locals in the XI

 

[Papa G]

Really have to question what is going on with SA sport, feels like less and less Lads drafted these days, this whole bowling line up is from interstate, 36’ers haven’t had a good play off run for years, Adelaide United has floundered for years…

Is SASI still a thing? What happened to our young sporting ‘ability’?

The real Women's Sport of Netball has come good again, which SA was traditionally strong. Outside the West Indian imports I think only 1 of them is not from SA.

 

[Rising Power]

South Australia have officially avoided the follow on.

2/30...Hunt and McSweeny both out for 0. SA Great!

 

[philreich]

SA doing its best to hand the momentum back to Queensland.

 

[Rising Power]

I'm not exactly sure how the points system works (something about runs v wickets inside 100 overs), but I reckon if SA can still be in at the 36 over mark and have more than 95 runs, I think we get a bonus point? Ideally we bat for 100+overs and have a shit ton of runs.

 

[philreich]

I'm not exactly sure how the points system works (something about runs v wickets inside 100 overs), but I reckon if SA can still be in at the 36 over mark and have more than 95 runs, I think we get a bonus point? Ideally we bat for 100+overs and have a shit ton of runs.

We certainly don't need to declare - just bat and bat and bat for 200 overs, which would still leave another 200 to bowl them out.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

This is how the bonus points system works: the batting side earns 0.01 points for every run scored above 200 in the first 100 overs of the first innings and the bowling side earns 0.1 points for every wicket taken in the same period.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/how-is-a-drawn-sheffield-shield-final-decided-1258795

So we have the full 1.0 points for bowling and Queensland scored none for batting. If we can get to 200 we have them covered in case of a draw (unlikely).

 

[Rising Power]

200 is looking a stretch at the minute. That bloody Redback batting coming back to bite lol

 

[Duckimus Prime]

I'm not exactly sure how the points system works (something about runs v wickets inside 100 overs), but I reckon if SA can still be in at the 36 over mark and have more than 95 runs, I think we get a bonus point? Ideally we bat for 100+overs and have a shit ton of runs.

See Ford's post.

Dismissing Queensland in less than 100 overs got SA full bonus points for bowling. Failing to score over 200 meant Queensland got no bonus points for batting.

Now SA just needs to make sure they score enough to gain some batting bonus points, or bat long enough to stop Queensland from getting the full points for bowling.

 

[Papa G]

Forget aboput the bonus points. I dare say they were instigated to stop the home grounds keeper preparing a road so they could bat out 5 days. That aint happening in this game.

 

[Rising Power]

Forget aboput the bonus points. I dare say they were instigated to stop the home grounds keeper preparing a road so they could bat out 5 days. That aint happening in this game.

Could be all over by Friday the way it's going

 

[philreich]

This is a massive partnership in the context of the whole match. If these 2 can get to stumps, it's advantage SA, but a quick wicket, and it's game on.