The Bupa Shield Discussion Thread

[Kellogscrunchynut]

What does everyone make of the U19 Australia captain nominating for the draft, I'm not going to pretend that the talent drain to AFL is a recent thing, but from the sounds of it he could have been better placed to be a great cricket player as opposed to the 20th pick in the draft.

Not to take anything away from his footballing abilities and I wish him a successful career in footy.

[henry]

It's absolutely devastating. Just by the way the collapsed after he was hit I had an awful feeling from the start about his future! fearing permanent brain damage or something, but to find out yesterday that he had died was tragically shocking.


Apparently James Sutherland has also suggested that everyone playing this weekend at whatever level should retire at 63, which I quite like

[shaker]

What does everyone make of the U19 Australia captain nominating for the draft, I'm not going to pretend that the talent drain to AFL is a recent thing, but from the sounds of it he could have been better placed to be a great cricket player as opposed to the 20th pick in the draft.

Not to take anything away from his footballing abilities and I wish him a successful career in footy.

Lets face it there are only a certain amount of places in the Australian cricket team and far more in available in the AFL and more likely to get a game as young bloke in AFL where it seems you have to be a lot older to get a game in our cricket team

[Master Q]

What does everyone make of the U19 Australia captain nominating for the draft, I'm not going to pretend that the talent drain to AFL is a recent thing, but from the sounds of it he could have been better placed to be a great cricket player as opposed to the 20th pick in the draft.

Not to take anything away from his footballing abilities and I wish him a successful career in footy.

Lets face it there are only a certain amount of places in the Australian cricket team and far more in available in the AFL and more likely to get a game as young bloke in AFL where it seems you have to be a lot older to get a game in our cricket team

Who is he?

[Kellogscrunchynut]

Patrick McKenna.

[Kellogscrunchynut]

What does everyone make of the U19 Australia captain nominating for the draft, I'm not going to pretend that the talent drain to AFL is a recent thing, but from the sounds of it he could have been better placed to be a great cricket player as opposed to the 20th pick in the draft.

Not to take anything away from his footballing abilities and I wish him a successful career in footy.

Lets face it there are only a certain amount of places in the Australian cricket team and far more in available in the AFL and more likely to get a game as young bloke in AFL where it seems you have to be a lot older to get a game in our cricket team

True, easier to make a living playing footy than cricket, not knowing how much state level cricketers make but since the crowds aren't big I think its safe to assume not much in comparison to AFL players.

[nrich102]

http://www.news.com.au/sport/sean-abbott-bowls-first-bouncer-since-phillip-hughes-death/story-fnaqgujp-1227149680522

Good to see Abbott is out playing again.

[Rusty00]

SA 5/17 in their second innings chasing 359 for the win against Tasmania.

Hilfy currently has 4/8 off 5.5 overs with 4 maidens, at one stage he had 3/0 off 4 overs :o

[Bill Manspeaker]

Abbott has 6/9 atm apparently  :o

[Nige]

SA are 8-35 against Tassie now.

[PowerBug]

Yeah SA got rolled for 45....

Abbott finished on 6/14 also

[Jukes]

Ed Cowan finished with 147 and 158 in that SA match too :o very good team performance

[Kellogscrunchynut]

How about Hilfenhaus

14 overs, 11 maidens, 11 runs, 5 wickets and an economy of 0.78

[Kellogscrunchynut]

The state government has allocated 25 million dollars towards the redevelopment of Junction Oval serving as the new home for the Bushrangers.

However Cricket Victoria wants the ground to be only for cricket use when it currently serves as a training base for St. Kilda.

[elephants]

Lynn and Hartley putting the Vics to the sword :o

Where was this form in the Big Bash Hartley!?