first week state round up
Posted by jrod on October 17, 2007 under NSW, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC | 
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Sound up from the first week of state cricket in Australia
Queensland (new texas) v Tasmania
Qld really let themselves down with this one, Tassie and Victoria are always susceptible early in the season up north. early on it looked like Noffke with his 5 wickets then his amazing century was going to win the game on his own. Then Michael Di Venuto stepped up, he batted for a day and a half making 178 and dragging Tasmania to a draw they didn’t deserve.
The balls: When you get a good team on the ropes you have to finish them, Queensland really need the out right here, but in the second dig, when the wicket was flatter they struggled. According to Big daddy Noffke will be playing for Australia soon. I don’t think so.
Victoria v South Australia
This wasn’t a game. For the redbacks (sa) it was more like they were caught naked in their backyard with a tub of margarine. David Hussey smote them, Wade withstood them, Nannes, Siddle and Denton cut them down. Jason Gillespie top scored in both innings (with 18 in the second dig of 77). The redbacks bowling was fine, they were beaten by a good batting line up. Hussey made 176 for the game for one out. Their batting is shit house, I’m talking battlefield earth bad. Gillespie and Elliott were the only batsmen to provide résistance, and they are both over 30. For the bushrangers (vics) their no name bowling line up was pretty damn good again
The balls: The Vics are a damn good team, the redbacks are not, and they have the welt marks on their ass to prove it. David Hussey best number 4 in the country? Ponder that mofo’s.
Western Australia v New South Wales
Damn I hate New South Wales, the minute I finished writing they were shit they come out and shit all over the warriors (wa). The blues (nsw) look crap on paper, and they struggled early on. They were only saved by a hundred by of all people Matthew Nicholson who is look spritely for an 83 year old. From that century onwards this was the blues game. Their quicks destroyed the warriors, then Jacques went in and won the opening slot for Australia. In the second dig for the warriors they fell apart again, with the oldest young man on the planet, Bollinger, getting a five for.
The balls: How shit are the warriors? Pretty shit. How good are the blues? Who knows. Has Jacques done enough to start at the top of the order for the Aussies, you’d say so.
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Stuart said,
Qld. took advantage of a first day greentop (unusual for the Gabba) but then showed a lack of a decent spinner once the pitch flattened out. There is talk that Australia may play four quicks for the First Test – hopefully the Banana Bender’s failure to bowl Tassie out will highlight the problems with an unbalanced lineup with no decent spin option.
SA suck as per normal, and NSW were surprisingly good. Not much else to say really.
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Uncle J rod said,
Stuart, your selling this first week short. Hussey, Bollinger, Jacques, Cameron and Siddle young guys with 5 fors, its all happening.
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Homer said,
How has the drought impacted the wickets? Am seeing some pretty tall scores so early in the season..
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Uncle J rod said,
Homer, I don’t think the drought has anything to do with it. These day all pitches are benign. Waca dont bout. mcg dont shoot, scg dont spin, gabba dont get results, and down in tassie well actually nothing has changed there.
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Homer said,
So here is my follow up – how do you see the Indian tour Down Under go, given that we come there late summer? Also the fact that the last time we were there and Australia was not playing McGrath or Warne, it turned out to be a pretty competitive series?
Will this series also see scores in excess of 500 per innings?
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Uncle J rod said,
Homer, I’ve already started writing a blog about it, it’ll be up shortly.
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