Season 2: First Class Shield (Discussion Thread)

[nrich102]

The Koalas need more Head

:o ;D

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Mackin why  :'(

If only I'd made him captain  :'(

Huge score coming up for Mackin. Like really huge.

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Round 5: Day 3 Stumps
Q Koalas 411 (Milenko 199)
T Devils 936 (Khawaja 576, Richardson 200)
Game over

WA Swans 479 (Maddinson 220, Nicholas 152, Conway 105)
ACT Cockatoos 832 (Voges 266, Holland 259, Rainbird 139, Boland 112)
Game over

V Possums 592 (Tremain 400, Mennie 108)
NSW Platypuses 157
Game over

SA Wombats 748 (Sayers 516)
NT Kangaroos 823 (Mackin 449, Feldman 126)
BOY OH BOY WOWEE! So NT have Cartwright who may get a few batting points, and any fielding points from Michael. SA have whatever Hartley, Wildermuth, Swepson can put together with the remaining 57 runs before they lose, but also have Cameron White who you'll think will get a decent chance to make some runs!

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Live Update:
SA Wombats 762
NT Kangaroos 823

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Soooooo, I was mucking around trying to work out what White needed to score, then I noticed a tiny error... :-[

Everyone that was bowling 5 maidens in their 2nd bowling innings was getting a 30 point bonus, those that were taking 5 wickets in the 2nd innings were not getting their bonus.

Hasn't changed a result from a past week, but does change where the SA vs NT game sits.

[fanTCfool]

Cheering for Cam White for pretty much the first time in my life, but it sounds like this small scoring blunder will make a big difference to the score we will need to get a win.

[nrich102]

potatoes.

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Round 5 Results

Q Koalas 421 defeated by T Devils 995
QLD Best: Simon Milenko 207, Peter George 97
TAS Best: Usman Khawaja (c) 576, Kane Richardson 170, Jackson Bird 147

WA Swans 479 defeated by ACT Cockatoos 952
WA Best: Nic Maddinson (c) 220, Josh Nicholas 152, Harry Conway 105
ACT Best: Adam Voges (c) 320, Jon Holland 229, Sam Rainbird 197

V Possums 582 defeated NSW Platypuses 157
VIC Best: Christ Tremain (c) 352, Joe Mennie 108
NSW Best: Alex Carey 93

SA Wombats 892 defeated NT Kangaroos 827
SA Best: Chadd Sayers (c) 576, Cameron White 91
NT Best: Simon Mackin 449, Luke Feldman 128

Ladder

WA are officially out of the final race, and it'll be difficult for NT now as they need the Devils to not win another game. The race for the top 2 and a double chance probably a race between 3, Round 6 fixtures are obviously very important.

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

Best Possible score Round 5:
V Possums 1375
NT Kangaroos 1237
SA Wombats 1160
ACT Cockatoos 1021
T Devils 995 (Perfect week!)
NSW Platypuses 747
Q Koalas 602
WA Swans 521

Overall Efficiency
T Devils 82.70
ACT Cockatoos 81.59
SA Wombats 78.84
WA Swans 78.82
Q Koalas 73.44
NT Kangaroos 67.56
V Possums 64.15
NSW Platypuses 46.43


Round 6 Fixtures (1st February 2017)
ACT Cockatoos vs Q Koalas
NSW Platypuses vs T Devils
NT Kangaroos vs WA Swans
SA Wombats vs V Possums

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Forgot to mention with the Devils being the top scorer R.Griffen is our manager of the week! First time him and the Devils have won the award in the Shield!

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India squad:

Steven Smith - ACT

David Warner - TAS
Usman Khawaja
Jackson Bird

Matt Renshaw - NSW
Ashton Agar
Steve O'Keefe

Shaun Marsh - SA
Mitchell Swepson
Nathan Lyon

Pete Handscomb - VIC

Glenn Maxwell - NT
Matthew Wade

Mitchell Marsh - WA
Mitchell Starc
Josh Hazlewood

Only QLD avoided players, and they are still an outside finals chance :)

[R.Griffen]

Tigers squad: George Bailey (c), Cameron Boyce, Alex Doolan, Jake Doran, Jake Hancock, Ben McDermott, Dom Michael, Simon Milenko, Andrew Perrin, Sam Rainbird, Jordan Silk, Cameron Stevenson, Beau Webster.

Ben Dunk dropped

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Tigers squad: George Bailey (c), Cameron Boyce, Alex Doolan, Jake Doran, Jake Hancock, Ben McDermott, Dom Michael, Simon Milenko, Andrew Perrin, Sam Rainbird, Jordan Silk, Cameron Stevenson, Beau Webster.

Ben Dunk dropped

So Torp is going to be without one of his only decent players :(

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http://www.cricketnsw.com.au/news/sean-abbott-moises-henriques-trent-copeland-return-from-injury-nsw-blues-sheffield-shield/2017-01-30
NSW Squad: Moises Henriques (Captain), Sean Abbott, Doug Bollinger, Harry Conway, Trent Copeland, Ed Cowan, Daniel Hughes, Nick Larkin, Nic Maddinson, Peter Nevill, Kurtis Patterson, Will Somerville

Jay should be happy to see Larkin in the squad, according to the article he's hit consecutive double tons in the futures league

[Torpedo10]

Tigers squad: George Bailey (c), Cameron Boyce, Alex Doolan, Jake Doran, Jake Hancock, Ben McDermott, Dom Michael, Simon Milenko, Andrew Perrin, Sam Rainbird, Jordan Silk, Cameron Stevenson, Beau Webster.

Ben Dunk dropped

So Torp is going to be without one of his only decent players :(

How can they drop a player who has been so successful over the last month in BBL, surely form counts for something...

[Scrads]

Tigers squad: George Bailey (c), Cameron Boyce, Alex Doolan, Jake Doran, Jake Hancock, Ben McDermott, Dom Michael, Simon Milenko, Andrew Perrin, Sam Rainbird, Jordan Silk, Cameron Stevenson, Beau Webster.

Ben Dunk dropped

So Torp is going to be without one of his only decent players :(

How can they drop a player who has been so successful over the last month in BBL, surely form counts for something...

And wasn't he the shield leading run scorer a year ago?