The Cricket Thread (part 11) - from The Champing

What’s big bash?

About the level of cricket that Sam Harper is capable of…

7/61. Handscombe still there. Yikes.

750 runs for the loss of 42 wickets in the Shirkd today.

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…and Australia’s nightmare prep for the t20 wc continues with our warm up game against the dutch washed out

Are you suggesting James Brayshaw is not completely talentless? This is news.

It’s all good. Nothing to see here. The fact they rest players from the Pakistan series will come back to bite us big time. It should have been the World Cup squad 15 there and we should have rotated them through the 3 games. It certainly doesn’t help that Ellis, Hazelwood and David are all returning from injury.

Yes, for Brown

Tom Rogers subbed out

ha Ha, yeah thats who I meant…

This stat really surprised me. Kurtis Patterson is only the 6th player to play 100 first class matches for NSW

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Because after 10 first class games they are playing for Australia

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Only 8 Victorians with a 100 games

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Because they move to NSW for a better chance to play for Australia.

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11,350 runs in 147 games.

Hodge really was stiff not to play more tests, huh?

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Handscomb last out for 67, Vics make 144 giving QLD a 5 run first innings lead.

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Yes and no, for 3/4 of his career he had 2 x Waughs, Ponting and Martyn ahead of him; and Bevan/Lehmann/Symonds in competition.

He should’ve played another 10 at the end when the competition was a lot thinner.

On ability most definitely but when you slag off people in positions of power you don’t do yourselves any favours.

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And when you soil your strides in the last over against a South African quick while RT Ponting is at the other end. Bevan was worse as far as that went but he had his chinaman bowling to back himself up.

That’s part of being stiff. Played in an era where those numbers just put him amongst a pack and not a clear standout.

If he was playing today and putting up numbers like that, he’d be damn near second picked every test after Steve Smith.