Sheffield Shield Final Round

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it's been an epic 30 years for queensland. 20 finals in 30 years, 8 in a row at one stage (98/99-05/06), and never had more than two consecutive seasons out of the final.

the only blemish is their 7-12 record in finals.

not including this season, if you gave out 6 points for winning, 5 for second through to 1 point for last spot the ladder since 1983/84 would be

Queensland 134 (139-140)
Western Australia 112 (114)
New South Wales 108 (112)
Victoria 101 (104)
Tasmania 80 (85-86)
South Australia 74 (75)

That's a lot of space between them and next, almost averaging a ladder position a year better than WA. in a six team comp that's massive.

On the other hand since 1983/84 WA has had many more regular international players.
 
On the other hand since 1983/84 WA has had many more regular international players.

no doubt that has helped queensland. how dirk tazelaar, greg rowell, adam dale, stuart law, martin love, carl rackemann, joe dawes, jimmy maher combined for roughly 20 tests is anyone's guess. even taking into account how strong australia were during that period.
 
http://ww2.cricket.com.au/news-list/2013/3/20/state-cricket-awards

Bupa Sheffield Shield Player of the Year:
Ricky Ponting (Tas) – 18 votes (8 games, 875 runs, 87.50 average, 14 cts)
Chadd Sayers (SA) – 16
Gurinder Sandhu (NSW) – 12
Usman Khawaja (QLD) – 12

RYOBI One-Day Cup Player of the Year:
Aaron Finch (VIC) – 15 votes (7 games, 704 runs, 84.00 average, 98.05 SR)
Kane Richardson (SA) – 14
Phillip Hughes (SA) – 12
James Faulkner (TAS) – 12

WNCL Player of the Year:
Nicole Bolton (WA) – 17 votes (6 games, 330 runs, 55.00 average, 81.28 SR)
Meg Lanning (VIC) – 17 (6 games, 394 runs, 65.66 average, 102.33 SR)
Alex Blackwell (NSW) – 16

WT20 Player of the Year:
Jenny Wallace (WA) – 27 votes (11 games, 246 runs, 24.60 average, 87.85 SR, 3 cts, 5 stmps)
Alex Blackwell (NSW) – 26
Alyssa Healy (NSW) – 24

Toyota Futures League Player of the Year: Nick Winter (ACT)
Lord’s Taverners Indigenous Cricketer of the Year: Nathan Price (NSW)
Cricket Australia Umpire Award: Bruce Oxenford
Benaud Men’s Spirit of Cricket Award: Tasmanian Tigers

Benaud Women’s Spirit of Cricket Award: Lend Lease Breakers

now i'm not sure how the voting system works, but I guess it's game-by-game cause Sandhu played two games and was m.o.m in both of 'em, and I reckon Usman got m.o.m in two games and no votes in any other games.

Nick Winter is a 19yo fast bowler. SA will probably get him if they want him, given their relationship with CACT.
 

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Aust Cricketers Assn@ACA_Players
ACA BBL All*Star Team - S. Marsh, Finch (C), Hodge, Ponting, Rohrer, Voges, Paine, Faulkner, Laughlin, Malinga, Muralitharan, Nannes (12th)

Aust Cricketers Assn@ACA_Players
ACA One-Day All*Star Team - Finch (C), Hughes, Ferguson, Hussey, Smith, Haddin, Faulkner, Botha, Coulter-Nile, Hastings, Richardson (Sandhu)

Aust Cricketers Assn@ACA_Players
ACA 4-Day All*Star Team - Rogers, Hughes, Doolan, Ponting (C), Ferguson, Henriques, Haddin, Agar, Butterworth, Sayers, Bird, Cosgrove (12th)
 
It's a bit chicken and egg. We have just come off probably the most exciting finish to a season in history (albeit disjointed because of Big Bash). Several years ago, due to the domination of bat over ball, CA issued a directive to curators to produce less highways and restore the balance. The curators have responded and we have a year in which exciting cricket has been played, but ball has dominated bat. If you believe the press we have zero batsman and a truckload of (fast) bowlers all waiting to tear into Test batsman the world over.

Reality says our total systems are in trouble. We have few batsmen of genuine Test Quality, we have few bowlers of genuine Test Quality and we certainly have no one banging down the door.

How much does scheduling have to do with this?

How much does our coaching and pathway systems have to do with this?

Get the answeers to these two and you can probably solve the riddle.
 
It's a bit chicken and egg. We have just come off probably the most exciting finish to a season in history (albeit disjointed because of Big Bash). Several years ago, due to the domination of bat over ball, CA issued a directive to curators to produce less highways and restore the balance. The curators have responded and we have a year in which exciting cricket has been played, but ball has dominated bat. If you believe the press we have zero batsman and a truckload of (fast) bowlers all waiting to tear into Test batsman the world over.

Reality says our total systems are in trouble. We have few batsmen of genuine Test Quality, we have few bowlers of genuine Test Quality and we certainly have no one banging down the door.

How much does scheduling have to do with this?

How much does our coaching and pathway systems have to do with this?

Get the answeers to these two and you can probably solve the riddle.
I think we need a massive review of our junior development programs, players seem to be coming in at a younger age than years ago, state teams did not have them playing for development that was what grade cricket was for, now we rush them in as they are the future but I prefer the old way of earning it on performance not talent.
 
I think we need a massive review of our junior development programs, players seem to be coming in at a younger age than years ago, state teams did not have them playing for development that was what grade cricket was for, now we rush them in as they are the future but I prefer the old way of earning it on performance not talent.
Music to my ears, but our systems are 180 degrees on what they used to be.

It used to be tach the basics first, try them out, learn the game then progress to games and up the chain you go.

Now it is play the game first, then we will identify the "elite talent" which we will then cordon off and given them specialist coaching and drop them into the elite systems.

Australia's great strength was its pyramid system, Junior Cricket, Country Cricket, Grade/District, State, International. The Country/ Grade cricket have been absolutely gutted by the changes in our approach to junior cricket IMO.
 
Music to my ears, but our systems are 180 degrees on what they used to be.

It used to be tach the basics first, try them out, learn the game then progress to games and up the chain you go.

Now it is play the game first, then we will identify the "elite talent" which we will then cordon off and given them specialist coaching and drop them into the elite systems.

Australia's great strength was its pyramid system, Junior Cricket, Country Cricket, Grade/District, State, International. The Country/ Grade cricket have been absolutely gutted by the changes in our approach to junior cricket IMO.
That sounds very much like what now happens in a certain code of football which I love.
 

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friday morning, still raining , going to miss out on play for sure. poured last night. outfield will be sodden
 
friday morning, still raining , going to miss out on play for sure. poured last night. outfield will be sodden

Fine at the moment, hasnt rained for a couple of hours. Geez it belted down last night. Heaviest rain for many months. Nothing since about 8am. Showers forecast so anything could happen. Looks ok out of my northern suburbs window at the moment. (My weather bureau!!)
I'll say we will get most of the day in. I'm going over after lunch as have some work this morning.
OOps shower just came across now!!
 

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