Australian Domestic Season 2020-21

embee wrote:wozzies chuck away two wickets to lloyd poop in the over before lunch

our batting looks vulnerable with green at 4 and agar at 6

....and our bowing looks like it wouldnt take a wicket

skully wrote:Geez, except for Neser's 5-fer (and Pope's very expensive michelle) it's been a batsman's paradise of a start to the Shield season.

With Agar's ton, does this start another push by a crappy WA bowler to nab the selectors' desperately sought after allrounder spot in the Aus XI?

the push is already on for Cam Green

skully wrote:Geez, except for Neser's 5-fer (and Pope's very expensive michelle) it's been a batsman's paradise of a start to the Shield season.

With Agar's ton, does this start another push by a crappy WA bowler to nab the selectors' desperately sought after allrounder spot in the Aus XI?

lol... Has 1/80 off 20. Get him in says the BNLG

embee wrote:

skully wrote:Geez, except for Neser's 5-fer (and Pope's very expensive michelle) it's been a batsman's paradise of a start to the Shield season.

With Agar's ton, does this start another push by a crappy WA bowler to nab the selectors' desperately sought after allrounder spot in the Aus XI?

the push is already on for Cam Green

Lorne does not bowl anymore. That won't stop bnlg, CA and Lalor talking him up as an all rounder.

In all fairness he does look a good prospect as a batsman. Puc at 5 and Lorne at 6 is worth a crack.

Both are upgrades on Head and Mere/Wade.

Mind you a KFC bucket would be an upgrade on Marsh.

Neser is about to score a ton to back up his Michelle. Maybe he's the AR we need

Yay!

Michael Neser scores his first century in FC cricket.

Wow. What a game he's had!!!

How crap are the Jellies. Agar of all the rubbish cricketers going around looks like he will emulate Neser.

Michelle for Agar

lol jellies

At least Neser and Agar aren't Mishmash, so if that's whose place one of them ever takes it improves the side. Especially Neser ('the Monster?) who has been ready for a shot at the big time for a while. This 'Agar is the latter day Johnny Watkins' narrative has always baffled me. He did OK in BD in both roles the last time they brought him back as I remember.

Geez, I wonder how often (if ever) 2 players have completed the "100 + 5-fer in the 1st innings double" on the same day in the Shield before.

skully wrote:Geez, I wonder how often (if ever) 2 players have completed the "100 + 5-fer in the 1st innings double" on the same day in the Shield before.

In more than 2200 Shield games during that time, only 26 players can lay claim to the double that patrons in Adelaide could have witnessed twice today if they carefully timed their stroll from one venue to the other.

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Agar follows Shield century with five wickets
West Indies legend Sir Garfield Sobers – rated the greatest all-round cricketer of all time – managed it four times inside three seasons when playing for SA in the 1960s.

Monty Noble achieved it three times for New South Wales either side of the turn of the 20th Century, while ex-Test players Doug Walters (NSW) and Phil Carlson celebrated it twice during the 1960s and 70s.

Former Test captains Warwick Armstrong, Richie Benaud and Bob Simpson have their names on the list, as does Steve Smith who scored an even hundred and snared 7-64 for the Blues against SA at the SCG in 2009-10.

Doug Walters did the ton & Michelle double over the course of a match at least twice: a double and a 7-for as an 18-year-old 10 months before his Test debut in 1965, and Dec 1972 v Vic which sealed his return to the Test team for Windies 1973. Phil Carlson also became our 300th Test cap after making a century and taking twin 5-'s in Jan 1979.

embee wrote:

skully wrote:Geez, I wonder how often (if ever) 2 players have completed the "100 + 5-fer in the 1st innings double" on the same day in the Shield before.

In more than 2200 Shield games during that time, only 26 players can lay claim to the double that patrons in Adelaide could have witnessed twice today if they carefully timed their stroll from one venue to the other.

Play Video
Agar follows Shield century with five wickets
West Indies legend Sir Garfield Sobers – rated the greatest all-round cricketer of all time – managed it four times inside three seasons when playing for SA in the 1960s.

Monty Noble achieved it three times for New South Wales either side of the turn of the 20th Century, while ex-Test players Doug Walters (NSW) and Phil Carlson celebrated it twice during the 1960s and 70s.

Former Test captains Warwick Armstrong, Richie Benaud and Bob Simpson have their names on the list, as does Steve Smith who scored an even hundred and snared 7-64 for the Blues against SA at the SCG in 2009-10.

Cheers A.

So I guess the answer to my Q is "never" although Sobers and Walters did achieve the feat in the 60s. I might have a bit of a look to rule out that they did it on the same "weekend".

Think Mitch Johnson may have been the last to achieve this feat.

Sobers thrice, in a very short Shield career; he was that good.

Did Gilmour ever manage it? Noffke? Moody? Chappell G? Brendon Julian? Don Nash? (RIP Woody) More seriously, I'm wondering who else achieved the feat in that list of 26.

Tas looks to be heading to an Innings defeat, while the Jellies seem headed for defeat.

Double failure for Paine. **groan** Tas are really missing Wade's batting. Apparently* he is on leave.

Head is 43* and has a chance of a long knock to get a draw.

Noffke
Steve Smith
Mitch Johnson

Apparently been done 33 times by 26 players

horace wrote:Tas looks to be heading to an Innings defeat, while the Jellies seem headed for defeat.

Double failure for Paine. **groan** Tas are really missing Wade's batting. Apparently* he is on leave.

Head is 43* and has a chance of a long knock to get a draw.

None of our batsmen did well.

However, the real problem seems to have been dropping Labuschagne three times before he was thirty. Two 'regulation' catches at slip and one at midwicket, and they were just the ones on the highlights.

lardbucket wrote:

horace wrote:Tas looks to be heading to an Innings defeat, while the Jellies seem headed for defeat.

Double failure for Paine. **groan** Tas are really missing Wade's batting. Apparently* he is on leave.

Head is 43* and has a chance of a long knock to get a draw.

None of our batsmen did well.

However, the real problem seems to have been dropping Labuschagne three times before he was thirty. Two 'regulation' catches at slip and one at midwicket, and they were just the ones on the highlights.

... or lowlights. I woofed Head whose career is full of great starts caught short.

horrie

Glen Mitchell interviewed Chris Rogers this week on Great Sporting Lives

check it out on the SportFm podcasts (along with a heap of other great interviews)

embee wrote:horrie

Glen Mitchell interviewed Chris Rogers this week on Great Sporting Lives

check it out on the SportFm podcasts (along with a heap of other great interviews)

Will do.

Thanks for that

Good starts to the Shield season for the Banjos and the Crabs.

Gunna be another long season