State Victoria - The Mighty Bushrangers

[Phil Inn]

The simple answer is allegedly he’s the best we’ve got and the next man in Lemire is nowhere near as good with the stick allegedly

I remain perplexed the Vics havent at least tried to bring someone in from interstate if local stocks are so light.

 

[western royboy]

I think Blackford is probably next in line but isn't as good a keeper as Lemire or Harper.

He’d want to be a real good bat if he can’t keep to a high standard

 

[eth-dog]

I remain perplexed the Vics havent at least tried to bring someone in from interstate if local stocks are so light.

Who? Queensland have Peirson and that's it. NSW had Inglis and Philippe, who left to NSW because he had no real competition, Tassie have Doran then Jewell who isn't great, SA have Neilsen as the back up to Carey but whilst Carey is the #1 for test cricket why would he leave and NSW had Holt and Gilkes, neither of whom are better at either facet.

He’d want to be a real good bat if he can’t keep to a high standard

I've only seen him a couple of times but his batting looks good.

 

[western royboy]

I remain perplexed the Vics havent at least tried to bring someone in from interstate if local stocks are so light.

We could bring in virtually an entire batting lineup - but as we’ve posted in another thread - no one is producing what i would term “quality” bats - there are oodles of “talented” ones but none with the old school G&D - you can argue why forever