Australian Domestic Season 2020-21

Cheers Nath.

Wank joins the 'Canes for next BBL

But Archer not returning?

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/cricket/cricket-tv-rights-channel-7-starts-process-to-pull-out-of-broadcast-deal/news-story/407bc87eae3777364d5ef2fdd0a2a2f2

Channel Seven have commenced the process to terminate its contract with Cricket Australia.

In a dramatic escalation of the TV rights drama, News Corp understands that the network sent a legal letter to CA bosses earlier this week informing them that they would begin the process to cancel the remainder of their $450 million deal, citing a belief that Cricket Australia is in breach of their contract.

Cricket Australia say the letter sent to them was not a termination letter.

Industry sources have told News Corp that Cricket Australia has 14 days to respond, before the dramatic escalation would then go into a lengthy mediation and arbitration process.

This is really the Yakuza v the Mafia meets Keystone Cops v the Three Stooges. I have zero confidence in CA

LOL @ Channel 7.

Bitching about possible low crowds at the BBL, apparently their main beef. Um, have they heard of Covid-19??    

Dickheads.

Whole thing has been a cluster ****** on both sides.
Channel 7 overpaid in the name of getting the rights , and CA trying to milk the Big Bonk for more than it's worth.

First four rounds of the Shield to be played in Adelaide. Victoria & NSW have agreed to postpone their first round game till Nov 17 because of South Australia's quarantine laws. Season kicks off on Oct 10th.

It takes a long time to disinfect stinky vomits

Big Dog wrote:First four rounds of the Shield to be played in Adelaide. Victoria & NSW have agreed to postpone their first round game till Nov 17 because of South Australia's quarantine laws. Season kicks off on Oct 10th.

Gone are the days of sitting in the sun at the Junction Oval.

reading through the articles on the CA website with a countdown of the 30 best individual Shield seasons, they're down to the final 2. Guess it's "Funky" Miller's 67 wickets in a season vs Katich's 1506 runs in a season?

Miller was #2

Pretty good bowling attack. As usual, batting will be our Achilles heel.


Tasmania Sheffield Shield squad: Tim Paine (c), Tom Andrews, Gabe Bell, Jackson Bird, Alex Doolan, Jake Doran, Ben McDermott, Riley Meredith, Nathan Ellis, Sam Rainbird, Peter Siddle, Jordan Silk, Matthew Wade*, Charlie Wakim, Tim Ward, Beau Webster, Mac Wright *Wade to join squad ahead of Round 3 match against Victoria

WA TRAVELLING SQUAD
Ashton Agar
Cameron Bancroft
Hilton Cartwright
Cameron Gannon
Cameron Green
Liam Guthrie
Aaron Hardie
Josh Inglis
Matt Kelly
Shaun Marsh
David Moody
Lance Morris
Joel Paris
Corey Rocchiccioli
D’Arcy Short
Ashton Turner
Sam Whiteman

Mitch Marsh ...injured...medium to high grade syndesmosis to right ankle ...out of quarantine on the 10th when they will work out if he needs surgery

Stoinis and Phillippe ...IPL

Richardson and Behrendorf ...recovering from surgeries

Ridiculous the two with IPL contracts have not returned.

Bendover Cricket 'Cause Ipl provides all the $$$$$

NSW Blues squad: Peter Nevill (c), Daniel Hughes, Nick Larkin, Kurtis Patterson, Moises Henriques, Daniel Solway, Jason Sangha, Matthew Gilkes, Sean Abbott, Trent Copeland, Mitchell Starc, Chris Tremain, Nathan Lyon, Liam Hatcher, Harry Conway, Jack Edwards, Tanveer Sangha

Inside word with Luke Butterworth

Squad: Travis Head (c), Wes Agar, Tom Cooper, Brad Davis, Callum Ferguson, Henry Hunt, Conor McInerney, Harry Nielsen, Lloyd Pope, Luke Robins, Chadd Sayers, Liam Scott, Cameron Valente, Jake Weatherald, Nick Winter

Possible best XI: Jake Weatherald, Henry Hunt, Callum Ferguson, Travis Head, Tom Cooper, Harry Nielsen, Liam Scott, Chadd Sayers, Nick Winter, Wes Agar, Lloyd Pope

Vic Squad

Peter Handscomb (Captain), Scott Boland, Xavier Crone,
Travis Dean, Zak Evans, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Seb Gotch, Sam Harper, Marcus Harris, Jon Holland, Nic Maddinson, Simon Mackin, Todd Murphy, Jono Merlo, Mitch Perry, Will Pucovski, Matt Short, Will Sutherland

Queensland Bulls Squad: Usman Khawaja (c), Xavier Bartlett, Joe Burns, Blake Edwards, Benji Floros, Matthew Kuhnemann, Marnus Labuschagne, Michael Neser, Jimmy Peirson, Lachy Pfeffer, Matt Renshaw, Mark Steketee, Bryce Street, Mitchell Swepson, Jack Wildermuth.


I think Matt Renshaw (155 grade cricket runs @ 31) was a bit lucky to make the squad ahead of either Sam Heazlett (287 @ 71.75), Nathan McSweeney (339 @ 113) or Jack Clayton (227 @ 75.67).

WideWally wrote:Queensland Bulls Squad: Usman Khawaja (c), Xavier Bartlett, Joe Burns, Blake Edwards, Benji Floros, Matthew Kuhnemann, Marnus Labuschagne, Michael Neser, Jimmy Peirson, Lachy Pfeffer, Matt Renshaw, Mark Steketee, Bryce Street, Mitchell Swepson, Jack Wildermuth.


I think Matt Renshaw (155 grade cricket runs @ 31) was a bit lucky to make the squad ahead of either Sam Heazlett (287 @ 71.75), Nathan McSweeney (339 @ 113) or Jack Clayton (227 @ 75.67).

WW - I was a big Renshaw fan. Seemingly possessed both a good technique and temperament. Do you have a view on why he has seemingly fallen off a cliff? Do you reckon he has a chance of recovering his early career form. FWIW he is also a fantastic slip fieldsman.

Horrie, I think his problem is psychological in a couple of different ways.

One is the balance between attack & defence. He is a very fine strokemaker who regularly destroys bowling lineups in grade cricket & sometimes in Shield cricket such as the latter half of the 2017/18 season. However, in first class cricket, he has usually been ultra-cautious. When Renshaw gets the balance right, I believe he can score heavily in the Sheffield Shield.

I also believe the local media has caused him problems throughout his career. They have been promoting him as a contender for a Test spot when his form didn't warrant it. He should have just been concentrating on Shield cricket without that kind of pressure.

Last season, he was dropped from the Shield team & decided to take a few weeks off because of his mental state. I would have preferred to see the selectors wait until he was hitting centuries in grade cricket before picking him this season.

Thanks Wally for that.

Lance Morris playing for the wozzies

my brother played against him in Busso

(Lance was very young)

embee wrote:Lance Morris playing for the wozzies

my brother played against him in Busso

(Lance was very young)

good luck to him in his first game.

The Vics will have some debutantes as well when we eventually play.

To put it might mildly, our prep has been less than ideal but I am hoping we will be competitive. Lucky they have Rogers coaching.