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Davies has an ability to score big. Every good player is dropped or has a form slump at some point or another
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Albeit because he busted his hand representing the country, otherwise he'd be 4/4.
Not sure where Connolly fits into things but the kid has had a knack of rising to the level. He'll get a chance in the next 18-24 months if he doesn't fall off a cliff somehow.
The test side needs rejuvenation and there could be a 10 year player in Connolly.
The three mentioned above
Konstas
Davies
Connolly
from a technique point of view all have some challenges
Konstas and Connolly both have split grips which is not norm. To compensate they need to have a real good eye as they tend to be bottom hand dominant players and a but susceptible to the ball leaving them. Conversely the split grip enables you to ramp the ball and play reverse sweeps.
Konstas also has a pretty big gap between his bat and pad, only Davies has a bigger one.
Normally you would say you wouldn’t want these blokes batting high in the order and Davies certainly doesn’t and in years gone by you would rarely get a Test batting gig batting at 6 for your state.
I had an interesting chat with a current commentator and former Test batting gig at the Cricket on Sunday. He rolled his eyes when he asked what I thought of Konstas’ technique.
Interesting times ahead.
Konstas
Davies
Connolly
from a technique point of view all have some challenges
Konstas and Connolly both have split grips which is not norm. To compensate they need to have a real good eye as they tend to be bottom hand dominant players and a but susceptible to the ball leaving them. Conversely the split grip enables you to ramp the ball and play reverse sweeps.
Konstas also has a pretty big gap between his bat and pad, only Davies has a bigger one.
Normally you would say you wouldn’t want these blokes batting high in the order and Davies certainly doesn’t and in years gone by you would rarely get a Test batting gig batting at 6 for your state.
I had an interesting chat with a current commentator and former Test batting gig at the Cricket on Sunday. He rolled his eyes when he asked what I thought of Konstas’ technique.
Interesting times ahead.
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I mis represented but Steve Hogan who is from Queensland as a prodigious talent alongside Ollie Peake from Victoria as the two from that next generation.
Ollie Peake is generational imho, im talking Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, Phillip Hughes generational talent. Maybe not at that billing (yet) but that top, top tier talent levels
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I didn't realise this, apologies
Tbh i was never convinced by Phil Hughes and I have a similar view on Konstas…purely from a technical view.
I am all chips in on Peake
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Hughes scored hundreds for fun. I had full faith that he would have ended up in the 10,000 test runs club
Peake (and Hogan) appear generational talents
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Keep an eye out for Hugh Weigben from QLD. Captained the under nineteens Australia side. Averaging seventy five in grade cricket this season after having a few setbacks. I’d be expecting him to debut for the Bulls after the Big Bash.
Hope so. Keen to see how he goes.
I wasn't as convinced by him as Konstas, Dixon and Peake but clearly a talent.
Vidler is the one I can't wait to see come through.
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Yeah I think there’s a decent crop of young quicks coming through. They’ll be ready to play soon but we’ve gotta keep them fit.
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Wylie and Peake are the 3 I look at and think that they just have a stack of time. Weigben looks to have killer temperament from what I have seen from him, he’s unflappable.
Konstas has time and an eye like a dead fish, remains to be seen how he goes when he just bats normally.
Konstas has time and an eye like a dead fish, remains to be seen how he goes when he just bats normally.
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Redbacks recruiters will be going HARD!
The running joke is that at the U19 national championships the SA coaching staff are there to watch the other teams
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Yeah the QLD set up don’t seem to have a club. They let McSweeney, Doggett go to SA. Just horrendous management
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Yeah the QLD set up don’t seem to have a club. They let McSweeney, Doggett go to SA. Just horrendous management
Id be going hard at recruiting Dixon from Vic for next season if he cant break into the team after the BBL finishes up.
There’s a clear role for him as we need another opening bat and he wouldn’t have much competition for spots, so he’d be given plenty of opportunities.
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Looks a more dangerous top order.
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Why are so few of the SA team South Australians?
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Poor development nowadays, outside of Head and Carey.
Low participation - vast area
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NSW development hasn’t been that great either. They’d normally have a few young quicks worth a look at. They were aggressively trying to recruit Callum Vidler from QLD over the off season.
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ditto Tasmania
fun fact and straying off topic but something 20 - odd players across all shield teams last round were either born or raised in NSW.
The NSW thing is real
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Roughly 6.9% of the Australian population is in South Australia.
Means that out of the 66 who are playing Shield cricket each round (or 77 if there is an Australian game on) there should be about 4-6 South Australians there.
All other things being equal.
The SACA cricket gurus used to work on 10% as a rough guide. If there were 10% or above in the first class/international set up they were punching slightly above their weight.
Not sure what it would be recently
