Stadium Australia, Sydney
7pm Wednesday January 19
Tassie play their last minor round game on the road, and if they can win they become favourites to stay at home in the major round by hosting the final. The Blues had the last round off and now lose Hauritz on top of Haddin, Bollinger and the injured Maddinson, but if they win they will be equal top with a game in hand on two of the three teams they're equal with, with SA to play on Thursday.
Bolllinger's absence means Coyte probably survives being Pollarded in the last game, with Trent Copeland to replace the Rug and 17-year-old Pat Cummins making his debut in place of Hauritz. Cummins apparently is very quick, and has 4/33 in 12 Twenty20 overs this year, on top of 18 wickets at 24 in the longer version of grade cricket. Nevill returns for Haddin, leaving one spot for Khawaja and Rohrer, the latter having been in the squad for the first two games being the favourite.
Thanks to Hilditch and co, no Tim Paine for the Tigers, but they do get to hang on to Xavier Doherty after he was dumped for reasons known to nobody outside the selection panel, and probably nobody inside the selection panel. Butterworth, Cowan and Drew make up the numbers but that's still as close as they're likely to get.
New South Wales XII:
David Warner
Daniel Smith
Usman Khawaja
Phil Hughes
Moises Henriques
Ben Rohrer
Steve O'Keefe
+Peter Nevill
Scott Coyte
*Stuart Clark
Trent Copeland (Twenty20 debut)
Pat Cummins (domestic debut)
In:
Copeland
Cummins
Khawaja
Nevill
Rohrer
Out:
Brad Haddin (Australia)
Nic Maddinson (thumb)
Nathan Hauritz (Australia)
Doug Bollinger (Australia)
Tasmania XIV:
Rhett Lockyear
Jonathan Wells
*George Bailey
Mark Cosgrove
+Travis Birt
Ed Cowan
James Faulkner
Ryan ten Doeschate
Rana Naved-ul-Hasan
Jason Krejza
Luke Butterworth
Brendan Drew
Xavier Doherty
Ben Hilfenhaus
In:
Butterworth
Cowan
Drew
Weather:
Drizzle, 23 degrees
Session Times
First innings: 7-8:20pm
Second session: 8:35-9:55pm
Coverage:
Cricket Australia's scorecard
Points Table:
South Australia - 4 (3)
Tasmania - 4 (3)
Western Australia - 4 (4)
Queensland - 2 (2)
New South Wales - 2 (2)
Victoria - 2 (4)
Tickets:
Adults - $20
Concession - $15
Children - $10
Family - $50
(Free entry with an SCG Ashes ticket)
(Gates open 5:15pm)
