Sheffield Shield 2023-2024

right ...

Neser rejoining the match

Ditto puc in the last game.

Biggest controversy in the Vix v Spivs is the NSW umpire flown down for the match.

He gunned Short and Sutherland in successive balls off Reeks FFS after denying clearer outs when the Spivs batted.

May have saved Reeks career.

Hmmn. The GOAT has been grazing in a good paddock! Expect his injury delayed going for a jog.

Watching the tail in the Shield can be yesterday Bird top scored for the Spivs. Showed us his full array of swashbarnyard shots. Today is the turn of Ferg O'Neil, Vic medium pacer. He is most eccentric and fun to watch.

Haha... Fun over. Vic's put on 58 for the last wicket with ScoBo contributing a single. Ferg the Lurg remained 70* off 79. Seven or Eight balls were bouncers a foot or so above O'Neill's head. None were called a wide. Reàlly hope the hot tempered Mad Dog did not have a crack at the Umps. Iirc he copped a Shield or One Day suspension last year and has previously been suspended in Grade cricket.

Spivs need 379 to win.

Elsewhere Banjos are doing it easily and the Worsties have got back on top of the Jellies.

Oof ... Spivs struggling in reply at 4/51.

I shouldn't laugh. The NSW winless drought is nearing record breaking levels.

Now 8 down and stuffed ...

WA well on top v SA, with Bancroft and Hardie the main batting strength for WA.

QLD has (with the returning Neser) put Tassie well under the pump, and need just 8 wickets on the last day for a win. 350 on d4 seems totally unrealistic for Tassie to win so they will be hoping that they can scrap their way to a draw.

Can’t believe Tas got over QLD there; that’s some chase.

horace wrote:Biggest controversy in the Vix v Spivs is the NSW umpire flown down for the match.

He gunned Short and Sutherland in successive balls off Reeks FFS after denying clearer outs when the Spivs batted.

Can't argue at all, h. Shield umpiring is far-too-often deplorable, espesh the lbw decision-making.

It creates more dismissed batsmen head-shaking than Shane Watson in his pomp.

lardbucket wrote:Can’t believe Tas got over QLD there; that’s some chase.

Congrats to the Tozzies.

Fantastic effort from Tassie. What a memorable win.

Current table:

Tasmania 17
WA 17
QLD 11
SA 11
VIC 8
NSW 5

Early days, I know. WA won last year - again - but maybe they will be challenged this year.

CA meddling with our fast bowling selections isnt helping 

...and the selected bowlers injuring themselves at regular intervals sucks too

I saw that Matt Kelly and Gannon have both been injured recently ... on top of Jhye Richardson, who seems to be injured more often than not. He is our version of Mark Wood ...

Joel Paris - how good has he been over the years; how often has his talent been stifled by injury. Has CA managed him out of WA's next game?

Morris has been managed out of the first and third shield games 

Paris missed the first two with injury 

Richardson dislocated his shoulder in the second XI game

… and Kelly? Behrendorff? Gannon?

Kelly has been injured all season

The Dorf's back only sees him available for white ball cricket 

Gannon and Stobo have both had niggles

... that's a long injury list!

Is that the end of Richo?

Hopefully not.

lardbucket wrote:Hopefully not.

Most unlucky

The Bruce Reid of 2023

lardbucket wrote:The Bruce Reid of 2023

Do the West Coast Eagles share their medico and fitness staff with the WACA?