***Official 08/09 Sheffield Shield comp***

Henry wrote:Marcus North is the most underrated batsman in Australia, imo.

Consistent of late. We will need need another Hussey soon enough. I see he is 29. I think he made Australia A with mixed results. Anyone confirm?

JGK wrote:Tait 2 wickets in the first 4 balls then Bog takes 18 off an over.

As Bill would say "it's all happening".

How grouse was bog's pull shot off spud?

Lucky there was nobody in the crowd or else they would have needed to bring in a barrel

vague produces good knock even thi it was on the AO highway against the barrels

henriques finally has a good match (1st in 2 years) and is neing talked up as the next big thing...really don't understand the Skully bias against Hughes...sure he failed in the 2nd dig and it was against the snoozies, but he is still one of the form players of the comp - and the youngest of these...

the great pity is the Oz players will get cheaped boosts to their averages against a team that would struggle to knock off the Jellies - hell even Bung is likely to get wickets...

meanwhile the higher quality and tougher games will be in the shield where great performances by vague, achilles, the butler, rumpole, the kid Mk2, Gunns, nicky, out of his depth, macmuffin, pommybasher et al will be underrated by the national selectors..

Tonic is 88n/o

Vix are 198 ahead...surprising lead given the strength of the tozzie arrack

Tonic loses fizz at 88....puts self in JGK all star woofing comp.

Vix 220 ahead...time to declare Nicky!!!

MYTRYT nearing a ton too.

nice woofing for the declaration Rosco

heather gawn...tozzies 1/11

ernie gawn...tozzies 2/17

dighton gawn...tozzies 3/18....some bloke who is not good enough to play for Oz or NSW has 3/8

rumpole gawn...tozzies 4/48...a most untozzylike performance in this match

Geez the Dubber keeper Smith has a touch of the Mark Cosgroves...

Was it Horrie who was suggesting that Smith is the next Aussie 'keeper in line behind Haddin? Sounds like something Horrie would say.......

JGK wrote:Geez the Dubber keeper Smith has a touch of the Mark Cosgroves...

Aye, he's so rotund that he saves energy after taking a catch by not throwing it up or barely appealing.

lol...in the don nash tradition...nah dont see him as next line to replace haddit as Oz keeper, tho he may replace haddit as Spiv keeper soon.

tozzies hanging on...7/173..the butler is in ...marsh and butters...Donald has 4fer

great effort by the Butler...76 n/o...tozzies 8fer but vix will have to bat again and rain is forecast

poor tozzie

the butler was left stranded on 99

great effort...pity the top order did not work as hard as the bottom order...still as usual the tozzies do not lose without a great fight

But they still lose......

Butler stranded on 99 - I remember the same thing happening to Boycott in a Test in Perth, KOK in a tour match in NZ (he never made a FC ton), and one Waugh also in Perth when the other one got run out running for whoever the no 11 bat was (McDermott?)

Remember any other poor sods who got to 99 then ran out of partners?

Other famous 99's ... Moxon, Tudor


and Hick's 98* is worth a revisit

Or ran out by partners?

Max Klinger didn't run out of partners, Pistol declared on him.