Official Match Thread Season 38, Round 18 Gumbies FFC v Sin City Swamprats at The House of Gumby

[philreich]

41 is not impossible, but it is a quarter of his total hundreds in about 10% of his career so far.
He'd have to hit a hot run of form. He is completely capable of that though.
If he plays 20 more tests, which is probably the high end of it, he is a chance.

The other consideration is, at what point (if at all) do the national selectors start making some tough calls on certain players? I'm ancient enough to remember the impact of Greg Chappell, Rod Marsh and Dennis Lillee retiring at the same time - we took a while to recover. Do we risk something similar happening with the current group of players? Only McSweeney is the right side of 30.

 

[serial_thrilla]

I'm intrigued by what sort of pitch is going to be put up in Perth. The curators were saying about a month ago that they were trying to make a spicy early-90s WACA imitation, but drop-ins have had mixed success in WA. It has also been a mild spring thus far so hopefully that means the pitch will have plenty of life in it.

Rain forecast this week too.

 

[philreich]

Rain forecast this week too.

The weather looks good from Friday - perhaps it'll take a brave captain to say, "We'll bat first."

 

[damicky]

Rain forecast this week too.

At the House of Gumby

 

[beez]

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Looks like 3/4s of our team.

"Someone else will do it."