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Anyone interested in Second X1 cricket. I follow it as it offers alternate Shield players for those retired, out of form, etc. Also offers a pathway for promising cricketers to show their wares at the level below first class cricket. Am currently watching the Qld Bulls v Tassie Tigers match and am frustrated by something I have not come across before. The entire Tasmanian eleven are hidden behind a private profile wall so other than a couple of players I recognize, the rest I have no idea of their identity. So this makes following the match very bloody frustrating and frankly annoying. I question why the names are hidden and plead with the hider not to continue this for the entire season.
 
You can blame Play HQ and the players themselves for the private player stuff. When you sign up as a player on PlayHQ you can hide your identity so all those players must have done so.

Another terrific innovation from the team at PlayHQ.

Edit: Or Cricket Tasmania have done so when signing up for them.
 
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Game Centre for Queensland v Tasmania in Toyota Second XI Summer 2023/24 season, Round 3
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The scorecards from that match have been updated with the Tasmanian players names, but now their 2nd innings scored have disappeared (PlayHQ is terrible). Looked like a pretty good match from the scorecard. Good to see both teams trying to set the match up to get a result rather than just playing to statpad, which is imagine would be tempting to do at that level to "get your name up in lights".
 
eth-dog said:
PlayHQ is hot garbage tbh.
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toml said:

Queensland v Tasmania, Summer 2023/24, R3 - Game Centre | PlayHQ

Game Centre for Queensland v Tasmania in Toyota Second XI Summer 2023/24 season, Round 3
www.playhq.com www.playhq.com
The scorecards from that match have been updated with the Tasmanian players names, but now their 2nd innings scored have disappeared (PlayHQ is terrible). Looked like a pretty good match from the scorecard. Good to see both teams trying to set the match up to get a result rather than just playing to statpad, which is imagine would be tempting to do at that level to "get your name up in lights".
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A good example where PlayHQ's line of thinking that "all sports need essentially the same thing" falls short.

This looks far more like how you would expect a football scoreboard to look, rather than cricket.

1 - Why is there no result, requiring the user to calculate both scores and even then it could still be a draw. The user has to work far harder than necessary to work out the result in either of these games, especially the Tas v NSW game. This is a major fault in the user experience here and has come about because they normally serve sports where the result is more obvious, and they haven't card to look at the nuance of two-innings cricket matches.

2 - Why is the second innings highlighted over the first innings? Both contribute equally to the final results. This isn't as important as the above, but still a jarring way to look at a cricket scorecard. I don't know how others felt, but I was drawn to the bolded score of the top team and my initial thought was they must have been the team that won.

3 - Why is each day's play listed individually? Cricket specific sites only list it like that when a game is played over two weekends. For matches on consecutive days Mon 16 Oct, 23 - Thu 19 Oct, 23 would be the standard format. This is a nitpick but a good example of a lack of care towards each individual sport they are serving.

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Day 1 of the Qld vs SA 2nd XI match is under way.

Bryce Street 74no, Lachlan Hearne 58no. Hearne has been piling on 2nds and Premier grade runs since making the move from NSW at the start of last season.
 
Surely the obvious choice to open on a flat deck against an extremely inexperienced attack would have been Dixon? Merlo's never going to open for the shield side
 

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The 1 instead of the I in the title is doing my head in. It's XI or 11.
 
Voice of the G said:
Thank you.H/Q cricket what a joke,the bowler with all the xxx,s as his name was Maxwell.A great innings by Lovell though on what I saw up to tea.Sundries 53 including 17 byes,not sure who was the Vic.keeper.
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it makes me laugh, like it's some kind of trigger word.
 
toml said:
Surely the obvious choice to open on a flat deck against an extremely inexperienced attack would have been Dixon? Merlo's never going to open for the shield side
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Thought the same as well, surely Dixon opening is a better option development wise for Victoria....Dixon is reputedly as good as Konstas, just give the kid a crack.
 
Torz said:
Pretty bad dismissal for Maxwell in the second innings as well.
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Was there today when he batted and got 10 in 30 plus balls,dropped on 6 with difficult catch down the ground and caught on the fence on the short boundary to a crap ball. To much white ball cricket and struggle to see at his age that he will be able to adjust to red ball cricket again.
 
Voice of the G said:
Was there today when he batted and got 10 in 30 plus balls,dropped on 6 with difficult catch down the ground and caught on the fence on the short boundary to a crap ball. To much white ball cricket and struggle to see at his age that he will be able to adjust to red ball cricket again.
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Didn’t watch his innings, but based on his dismissal, it looked like a guy who wanted to hit it for six and did everything he could to restrain himself, only to be caught in the middle.
 
Torz said:
Didn’t watch his innings, but based on his dismissal, it looked like a guy who wanted to hit it for six and did everything he could to restrain himself, only to be caught in the middle.
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Yes similar thoughts with Maxi,when dropped on 6 he tried to re strain himself, if that was a white ball game he would have hit the ball he go out of the park
 
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Cleavy said:
"Queensland won by 171 runs". huh, they didn't bowl us out? are 2nd XI games most runs win, if it's a draw?
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That's how PlayHQ is programmed for any 2-5 day game. First innings wins it
 

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