Australian Domestic Offseason 2011

[Spikey]

Probably misses his old glasses.

Left them in an Australian hotel iirc. still no reason to just refuse to come here

 

[SamSawnoff]

Left them in an Australian hotel iirc. still no reason to just refuse to come here

He may want to stay in sweet with the Sri Lankan board as much as he can and the SA and CA contracts would be worth peanuts to him in comparison with his IPL dosh. His injury is genuine according to his previous skippers.

It's interesting though, that the list of 'names' is getting thinner and thinner.

 

[Top_Cat]

It's true, and you want the best players playing. The thing is that SA have just kept on seeing a gap and trying to find a replacement outside of the state year after year, so it leads to no cohesiveness. It's the way you go about it that determines it's success.

The system below Shield cricket in SA isn't producing FC cricketers so it's a tough one for the SA selectors. Chadd Sayers for example; utterly dominated grade cricket last year, averaged < 10 with the ball. At Shield level, was pretty much a straight med-quick who, if the list stays fit, probably won't play a first XI game next season.

Mind you, I'm not letting the selectors off the hook because the few FC cricketers SA has produced or at least nurtured in grade cricket they don't pick or only did when the season was all but over soooo....

 

[Dan]

Mark Cameron's off to Western Australia

EDIT:
As are Nathan Rimmington and Travis Birt

 

[Spikey]

Very very good stuff from WA. Was expecting one of our quicks to go and WA was always the obvious place, but I was hoping it'd be Burt ****ley or someone instead.

Jackson Bird a decent enough get too (PEWS to confirm/deny)

 

[benchmark00]

Fuuuuuuu.

 

[benchmark00]

Crabb to be devo.

 

[Spikey]

well i for one believe in scott coyte

 

[Spikey]

so what

o'keefe
copeland
haze
starc/cummins/clark/so on with Moises in there too

next season

not that it matters cause they'll be injured

 

[Spark]

You're assuming Hauritz is in the Test team?

 

[Spikey]

nah hauritz is up at 4, where he belongs

i'm also not ruling out the chance hauritz will have just killed himself after shane warne's daughter gets picked for the SL tour


dougeh meanwhile is there given today's events

 

[benchmark00]

I wonder how Burt **** is coming along. Was looking the goods a couple of seasons back.

Played him in a rep game once. Genuinely scared me.

 

[Dan]

so what

o'keefe
copeland
haze
starc/cummins/clark/so on with Moises in there too

next season

not that it matters cause they'll be injured

IIRC, Clark gave it away to run a BBL side.

O'Keefe could easily bat 7 to get Hauritz in there; and I get the feeling Cummins will play as much of the season as possible, with a CA contract and all...

 

[Spikey]

Yeah but Clark's still going ahead in grade and will be on call if injures happen, which they will.

 

[benchmark00]

Yeah Clark has retired.

 

[Andre]

Cameron a great get for WA. If he can stay fit I fully expect him to become the 2nd best quick in the country behind R Harris.

Bit suprised with Tassie going for Bird from NSW. Having played a bit with him and against him he's looked a good first grader but hasn't really looked like kicking on from there. Haven't seen him bowl for a few seasons now though but he might be a yard short of pace for Shield cricket. Will be interesting to see, similar sort of gamble to the Matt Day one which didn't come off.

 

[SamSawnoff]

Mark Cameron's off to Western Australia

EDIT:
As are Nathan Rimmington and Travis Birt

Cameron is a bloody good pick-up by the Warriors. Hogan, Duffman, Cameron and Coulter-Nile make a very good attack, I wonder who will be sitting out matches out of that four. I'm not a big fan of Travis Birt but you would hope he'd strengthen the fragile batting a bit.

Mickey getting stuck in

 

[Nate]

Huge signings!

 

[Noble One]

The signing of Mark Cameron is a massive boost for Western Australia. Any further information on why he chose to switch states? If fit he was already in the NSW XI, and Western Australia are only giving him a one year deal.

The other signings are massive too. Rimmington and Birt both needed a change of states.

 

[GotSpin]

mickey getting stuck in

micky saying what we're all thinking - ca makes me want to tear my hair out