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Summer of Cricket thread

Richie said:
This is the comp I told you guys about, a rejig of the Champions League Twenty20 a premier international club cricket competition played from 2009 to 2014. An Aussie team won it once if memory serves. Good to have the Hurricanes repping us. But please first change that all purple kit.
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New South Wales won the inaugural edition of the comp in 2009 before the Sydney Sixers won it in 2012, but since then other countries have caught up and the Indian Premier League has continued to cement its status as the dominant franchise league worldwide.
 
Decentric said:
USA and Canada
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Have you read the team list of these two countries mate. You'd be thinking you were playing a Sub Continental nation. VERY FEW home grown natives in either side. This is poor planning by the ICC.
 
Watching NSW v Tas in the Shield - day night game.

NSW right on top on a green pitch. Haven’t seen Hatcher bowl, but Hadley, Jack Edwards and Stobo are all bowling well ATM.

Tas 5-103.

Doran and Wakim steadying the ship.

Test batters Webster and Weatherald out for not many runs. Ward, not long ago top Shield run scorer, is also out for not many.
 
Doran out caught behind, bowled Hatcher. He tried to pull a short ball and mishit.

NSW right on top at 6-104.
 
Owen caught keeper, bowled Stobo.

Short ball that lifted off the pitch outside off stump and feathered to keeper.
 
Australia in trouble here

Sri Lanka cruising with some due

need just 60 off the last 6
 
We got off to a blinding start, but really struggled to turn good balls into singles as the ball softened and it got hard to hit out of the park
 
Sri Lanka just not even looking stretched here. Australia need a change of momentum or this is the end of their tournament
 
Stoinis pulled apart and the game is all but gone

3 4's and a 6 off his over
 
oof Australia get a bad not out decision from the 3rd umpire (it looked pretty clear on the line) and next ball have another stumping chance but the keeper misses it and its 4 byes
 
silly misfield and we turn a 1 into a 2. Looks like we just mentally aren't in the game
 
back to back sixes and its just 14 off 19 needed. Game over, very poor this tournament Australia and once again we just have too many in key positions of power in Australia not taking t20 seriously
 
Game over

Australia not even close and almost certainly out of the tournament
 
I forgot the shield was restarting yesterday. Marbles aint what they were.

Jeez Hatcher bagging a 5for and currently sitting hi on wk list for this season, proves the decks have been massively bowler friendly.
 
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Louis Smith continues to alert selectors of his promising all round ability with another impressive double of 2/20 and 64 runs in a red baller for his club University. He is scoring more runs and improving his bowling economy every year. He has to now be well in line for a Tigers contract in '26/7.
 
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Richie said:
What a good idea to introduce some minnow Asian nations such as Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia to top level international cricket.
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Being former Commonwealth countries, Singapore and Malaysia might already have nominal cricket taking place.
 
Richie said:
I forgot the shield was restarting yesterday. Marbles aint what they were.

Jeez Hatcher bagging a 5for and currently sitting hi on wk list for this season, proves the decks have been massively bowler friendly.
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NSW far too good, but the NSW batters had luck.

Impressed with Hatcher, Hadley, Stobo and Jack Edwards, all bowling on a juicy pitch. All pace bowlers bowled a good line.

For a shorter fast bowler, Hatcher got cut of the pitch and surprising bounce.

Then when Tas bowled, NSW openers Salzman and Konstats batted pretty well, but overall NSW had a lot of luck. Repeated and freqent LBW decisions were given NO. Also, many of the frequent NSW snicks kept falling just short of fielders, or were lofted into space off mishit shots.

The favourable scoreboard doesn't tell the whole story.

Salzman barely played a false shot though. Good opening innings. Very impressive.

Patterson looked good against the accurate Bell and Bird, plus Webster and Owen, but Meredith bowled some thunderbolts to unsettle him, and Shaw in particular. NSW batters were squared up quite a lot.

Tas have just beaten WA by 22 runs in WA. Very good day for NSW against Tas though on Day 1.
 
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