Posted by Moses on February 23, 2009 under NSW, QLD | 
Dave Warner has been left out of the NSWales squad to challenge Queensland in Thursday’s 4 day match. I can’t find the actual squad posted anywhere, but I heard it on the radio so it must be true.
With Greg Mail top scoring in both innings with 101 and 49 in the game we won’t be mentioning, he’ll have to retain his position. So the selectors are left with a straight choice for the second opener – prolific run scorer and recently fit Phil Jaques, or Twenty 20 dominatrix machine and the most likely man to get out to a baseball slog David Warner.
Sorry Dave, but as much as I’d love to see you tonking Noffke back over his head for 6, this is a must win outright game for the Blues and hardly the time to be blooding new openers… but if the story is true then they could have at least picked him in their second XI squad! At least Warner’s useful in the field and will make a top notch 12th man, he’s got International experience after all.
Posted by jrod on December 1, 2007 under VIC |
In the last session Victoria decided not to take the new ball, for fear that they may wake NSW from their Valium induced coma.
I thought it was a good idea, the rest of the unwashed masses did not concur.
Mind you, in the first over with the new ball Denton got a wicket, so what do I know? However, that wicket was only possible because of McGain’s wicket with the old ball. The matrix is confusing kiddies.
Thornely smashed his way to 18 off 80 at one stage, as wrote that he hit a six. But you get the idea.
If this was the first time you had seen Matthew Wade keep (as it is for me) you would be forgiven for thinking the man cannot keep up to the stumps.
I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, one day doseth not maketh the man and all that sh1t, but it wasn’t pretty.
Mail made his hundred, his team mates were excited, they were perhaps the only ones who were. He batted stoically.
McGain continued to be the only bowler who looked like getting lucky, and he did, finally out boring Mail from around the wicket.
NSw are 280 odd in front, but if you want real scores, stats and such, why did you come here?
Posted by jrod on under NSW |
Updates, Hugh Trumble café and gift shop both air conditioned, and its appreciated.
In the gift shop the state stops are a 110 bucks a pop. What a disgrace. Australian tops are a 100. The state tops must be made better.
This session is the Bryce McGain show, he is the only bowler who look likes getting a wicket. And I’m not just saying nice things about him because he is old and he may die soon.
He dropped Forrest off his own bowling. But Forrest was so confused by the incident he thought the only gentlemanly thing to do was to run himself out.
Then he pegged Katich down, before getting him out for his first real failure of the year.
He dried up the runs and probed like an alien, while nameless faceless fast bowlers toiled at the other end.
Perhaps Hodge is more imaginative than I thought (I doubt it). With Dirty Dick bowling to Thornely, he had a short leg, leg gully and short mid wicket. All this while Dirty Dick bowled into Thornely’s arm pit.
Dirty Dirk gets so angry when anyone scores off him, its quite amusing.
Someone needs to check the water supply to the Nsw changeroom, it may have lithium in it. They have lost 3 wickets (one to a run out) and they are batting like they want a draw not a win. Quite odd.
The pitch is still a small pr1ck to bat on, but its not as bad as it was on the first two days. You can play your shots on it, not that NSW have tried that radical tactic.
Oh Greg Mail is still in, he has blazed to 95 not out.
Posted by jrod on under VIC |
Well I’m at the g, and its about to be lunch.
The game is as boring as sh1t, Mail and Hughes looked in complete control all morning, and batted like they were on xanax.
Hodge is not a spectacularly gifted captain. I think some of the fielders actually fell asleep at one stage.
All of the quicks bowled well, but none of them actually looked like getting a wicket. Not even Dirty Dirk Nannes.
Finally the ball was given to Bryce McGain, when I say given, it seemed that he was bowled due to rotation system and not part of some brilliant plan from Hodge.
McGain responded by starting with 2 full tosses, and the lady sitting in front of me, had her head in her hands.
From there McGain bowled pretty damn well, and dragged Victoria back into the match. Slowly.
Eventually he got Hughes out. At the other end Quiney was bowling his slow medium pacers. I’m telling you now people, the Mcg is the place for slow medium bowling. It even works from the other end.
Lunch. Pie, chips, coke.
Oh and the crowd isn’t too bad today.
Moses found this for radio coverage of the game, haven’t tried it, and its from a nsweslhamn, so it may not work. http://www.abctechnologies.com.au/cricket.asx
Posted by Moses on November 29, 2007 under NSW, VIC |
The Sheffield Shield history between NSW and VIC dates back to the summer of 1892 when those bloody mexicans beat us in the three way competition including South Australia. I’ve never forgiven them. Sure we’ve won 44 Shields to their 25 since, but we’ll never win the first Sheffield Shield, and that bites.
Some comfort can be taken from the fact that due to internal squabbling between the respective boards of the Mighty New South Welsh Bluetongues forebears and the Mexicans (the more things change the more they stay the same), Lord Sheffield’s generous £150 donation was not actually spent for several years and the Victorians while in essence held the shield, they did not in actuallity hold the shield.
So with the History of hatred recounted I can move on 215 years to the 2007 installment of the festival of hate.
The bluetongues go into this battle with their test stars returning. The return of Phil Jaques, Michael Clarke, Brett Lee, Stuart Clark and Stuart Macgill would be a real boost for any state team, let alone one that is already topping the shield table.
Alas inuries have plagued the returning superstars with Clarke succumbing to hamstring issues, Phil Jaques going down with the mumps, Lee got a last minute callup to the local Indian karaokee restaurant and Macgilla otherwise engaged at the bottom of a wolfblass bottle.
New South Wales: Phil Hughes, Greg Mail, Peter Forrest, Simon Katich (c), Domenic Thornely, Brad Haddin (w/k), Beau Casson, Mark Nicholson, Nathan Bracken, Stuart Clark, Doug Bollinger, Grant Lambert (12th).
Vics won the toss and are bowling.. dammit two early wickets not looking good.
Over 1.2: Nannes to Hughes, OUT, what a start for the Bushrangers, cracking delivery that was short and angled into the body, Hughes could do nothing but fend it away to Hodge in the gully.
Carn Bluetongues, do it for all things pure and blue and make Lord Sheffield proud
Tags: beau casson, brad haddin, brett lee, doug bollinger, greg mail, michael clarke, nathan bracken, peter forrest, phil jaques, Sheffield Shield, simon katich, stuart clark, stuart macgill
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