Season 2: First Class Shield (Discussion Thread)

[PowerBug]

Still no word on squads for games starting tomorrow. I did read that everyone bar Smith, Warner, Starc, Hazlewood from the test team will be available though. Not sure on Shaun Marsh and Peter Siddle with their injuries, but Mitch Marsh, Joe Mennie, Ferguson are all available to play so it'll be a pretty strong round this one :) And obviously so much pressure on some players to perform so we could see some stellar performances this round :)

[Torpedo10]

Really needed Starc or Hazlewood playing  :(

[PowerBug]

http://www.saca.com.au/news/squad-vs-bulls/2016-11-14
SA Squad
Alex Ross back, no Mennie or Worrall, David Grant in the squad but likely 12th man

My bad about the test players, NSW squad below:
http://www.cricketnsw.com.au/news/blues-bolstered-by-return-of-test-stars/2016-11-15
SMITH, WARNER, Nevill and Lyon all in. Cowan, Somerville, Gibson and Carters out.

http://www.bushrangers.com.au/bushrangers-name-squad-to-face-nsw/
Nothing surprising with this squad. Assume Ahmed will miss like last time.

http://waca.com.au/other/news_detail.php?ID=4755
Voges, Mitch Marsh in for WA. Bosisto, Duffield, Moody all out. Josh Nicholas and Simon Mackin also in the squad.

Also on this page is the Tassie squad, I don't see anything surprising here, Jackson Bird also in.

http://www.qldcricket.com.au/blog/2016/11/14/truloff-earns-bulls-call/
Queensland squad, but Joe Burns needs to be added to this, my guess is for Hemphrey as Renshaw is also back and will open with Burns, pushing Charlie out.

[PowerBug]

Just a reminder that player poaching is a part of this game. To avoid players going on the poachable list. It's too wordy to explain but basically if any player gets to 4 on the list below then they are on that list. Remember naming a player on the emergencies will count as naming the player, so your emergency players do have some meaning :)

South Australian Wombats
Cameron White 1
Jordan Silk 1

New South Wales Platypuses **
Jonathon Wells 1
Will Somerville 1

Queensland Koalas
Simon Milenko 1
Peter George 1

Victoria Possums
Travis Dean 1
Dan Christian 1

Northern Territory Kangaroos
Dominic Michael 1
Ryan Carters 1
Glenn Maxwell 1

Australian Capital Territory Cockatoos
-

Tasmania Devils
Ryan Duffield 1
Dan Worrall 1

West Australia Swans
-

** Note that in Round 1 Doug Bollinger was not named at the toss but then entered the game from Day 3 onward. As he wasn't named in the initial XI he will not get a strike against his name for this. Obviously this will apply for any future instances of this.

http://forum.fanfooty.com.au/index.php/topic,100309.msg1807164.html#msg1807164
Here is a list of all the players that are over the age limit so could possibly go onto this list :)

[BratPack]

How is Carters on that list when I named him as an emergency last round?  ???

[PowerBug]

How is Carters on that list when I named him as an emergency last round?  ???

I have him down as having played in Round 1 as well, when he wasn't named :o


Also realised that where I wrote 3 in the opening paragraph I meant to write 4, so plenty of wiggle room still :)

[R.Griffen]

KHAWAJA scores a ton vs one of the best bowling attacks in Australia

[BratPack]

Finch and Michael out, Bancroft fails again. Wade and Maxy don't even bat and Khawja makes a ton against us as captain.

I give up

[PowerBug]

Round 3, Stumps Day 1
Q Koalas 121 vs V Possums 356
SA Wombats 63 vs WA Swans 47
NT Kangaroos 24 vs T Devils 423
NSW Platypuses 85 vs ACT Cockatoos 64

I haven't made any substitutions for players not playing so scores may be higher for teams which have late changes :)

[Nige]

Fark, didn't name Trav Dean.

[PowerBug]

Fark, didn't name Trav Dean.

Handscomb 200 make up for it?

[Nige]

Fark, didn't name Trav Dean.

Handscomb 200 make up for it?

Ashton Turner too!

[Scrads]

Can't believe my efficiency is actually gonna get worse hahahaha ;D :'( ;D :'(

[PowerBug]

Round 3 Results

Q Koalas 791 defeated by V Possums 1090
QLD best: Whiteman (248), Head (126 x2 = 252), George (168), Milenko (145) [not named]
VIC best: Handscomb (265), Tremain (239 x2 = 478), Turner (178), Christian (122) [not named]
The Possums go to 2-1 with the top score of the round, the only team to break 1000. The right captain choice had them on the front foot early, QLD had some decent scores and were unlucky to lose being the 3rd best for the round.

SA Wombats 701 defeated WA Swans 266
SA Best: Doolan (262) [not named], Hartley (182) [not named], Wildermuth (172), Sayers (97 x2 = 194)
WA Best: Labushcagne (120)
New manager Koop gets the easiest of starts, up against a WA side that could only field 3 players. The efficiency rating will drop dramatically though with what were some poor choices at the selection table. (fyi fTC your team only managed 598) The Wombats go to 3-0 and are the only undefeated team left.

NT Kangaroos 460 defeated by T Devils 843
NT Best: Behrendorff (208), Feldman (114)
TAS Best: Khawaja (173 x2 = 346), Bird (203), Cutting 208 [not named], Richardson (152)
The Kangaroos fall to 0-3 with another poor showing with only 2 players hitting triple figures. The Devils on the other hand had 7 players reach double figures, but only named 4 of them. A nice start for them (2-1) but will lose Khawaja, Warner, Bird to the test team for the next round.

NSW Platypuses 526 defeated ACT Cockatoos 416
NSW Best: Carey (200), Zampa (179), Renshaw (248) [not named], Wells (164) [not named]
ACT Best: Boland (164) [not named???], Harris (110), Holland (114)
NSW get another win, and another chance to post a ridiculous score goes begging. The unlikely heroes constantly stepping up to ruin the efficiency rating for Scrads. The Cockatoos on the other hand must be wondering how Scott Boland managed to be missed at the selection table?? The errors has cost Jay and sees them fall to 2-1, but should see Nevill and Voges return to regular appearances for their state sides for a while.

Ladder


Efficiency
If only we lived in a perfect world... Well now we can fantasize over what it would look like!

Best Possible score Round 3:
V Possums 1399
NSW Platypuses 1248
T Devils 1208
SA Wombats 1189
Q Koalas 1072
NT Kangaroos 758
ACT Cockatoos 677
WA Swans 357

Overall Efficiency
SA Wombats 82.24
WA Swans 81.54
ACT Cockatoos 81.22
T Devils 75.87
V Possums 75.58
Q Koalas 73.61
NT Kangaroos 65.33
NSW Platypuses 50.76

SA, WA, ACT doing a good job at picking the right players (Well in WA's case it's not that difficult, they should be winning this thing!). The Platypuses on the other hand...

Available Assets
The last lot of numbers for this round, amount of players each team has had available so far this season:
V Possums   10   11   11   = 32
SA Wombats   11   10   9   = 30
NSW Platypuses   8   12   10   = 30
NT Kangaroos   9   10   8   = 27
T Devils   9   5   9   = 23
Q Koalas   7   8   7   = 22
ACT Cockatoos   7   4   7   = 18
WA Swans   6   4   3   0   = 13

Round 4 Fixtures (Saturday 26th November)
WA Swans vs Q Koalas
T Devils vs V Possums
ACT Cockatoos vs SA Wombats
NSW Platypuses vs NT Kangaroos

And there will be stuff during the week regarding the T20 Auction and fixtures so keep an eye out (I'll probably send a PM)


Hope you enjoyed my long run down haven't done one that detailed for a while, quite enjoyed it tbh! :P

[fanTCfool]

Nice to start off with a win, and very much appreciate the long write up PB!
Good thing about not naming our two top scorers is that we have some options to replace Sayers with  ;D