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Australian Domestic Season 2018/19

Spikey

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https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/106485/kurtis-patterson-belatedly-lives-up-to-promise

Kurtis Patterson has been around Australian cricket for a long time. In November 2011, he became the youngest batsman in Australian first-class history to make a century on debut. He was 18 years and 206 days old at the time. His record-breaking ton came for New South Wales against Western Australia at the SCG, with Simon Katich at the other end when he reached the three-figure mark.

It was a strong NSW line-up with veteran opener Phil Jaques at the top of the order and the seasoned likes of Ben Rohrer, Trent Copeland and Peter Nevill in the mix. The only reason Patterson even got a look in was because Nic Maddinson had been picked for Australia A while the likes of David Warner, Phil Hughes, Michael Clarke and Usman Khawaja were preparing for the Test against New Zealand in Brisbane.

And despite becoming the talk of the nation and an overnight sensation, the lanky left-hander wouldn't play another first-class match for two years. He just wasn't good enough to force his way through the incessant batting riches available in the state. Patterson's next outing at the same level, at which he'd started so brilliantly, came against the touring England team in a warm-up match at the SCG.
it's very concerning that I can explain in vivid detail what happened, and so here is the history

patterson wasn't in the original 12 man squad despite the Aus A match in Brisbane, but Henriques got injured and they revised the squad. patterson at the time was basically at the top of the grade run chart and so him and Dutch Superstar Timm van der Gugten were called into the squad, but they didn't really want to pick Patterson it felt like. Once Moz went out, the spinner in the squad, luke doran, was essentially dropped and Katich took on spinning duties, as he had earlier in the summer when Casson had to retire during a game. Doran never made his FC debut. As I recall, Patterson was named in the squad for the next game but Moz, Mad Dog and TPC all returned to the team (moz as a batsman only and TPC after not being named in the squad). Moz made a pair while ****ing Steve Cazzulino and Ed Cowan put on like 300 runs in 50 overs to bat NSW out of the game (this was not rock bottom for NSW in this season, somehow). Big Ben batted with an injury and saved the game. The comp went into the BBL break and following the shield return, the team had to fit Hughes, Usman, Haddin, etc and so Patterson continued to miss out which made sense given it seemed they didn't want to pick him in the first place.

i should do something productive with my life
 

Burgey

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Bert 32 not vs Victoria. Hopefully a big score here will get him a Shield start, from where he will then excel at the back end of the season, thereby forcing his way onto the plane for the Ashes tour.
 

Prince EWS

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If Larkin averages 150 in that comp and sucks as hard as he does in the Shield I can't even imagine how much Bertus would suck at the higher level
Larkin has been one of the best batsmen in the Shield this season tbf. Another season like the second third of this one and he'll be playing for Australia in no time.

Bertus can fill the hole this creates in the NSW side.
 

GoodAreasShane

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Larkin definitely seems somewhat of a nervous starter at times, but when he is set he can play some nice cricket. The innings he played against South Australia at the SCG was classic case in point, Franky Worrall caused him a bit of strife early but then he broke down, once he had seen that off he looked pretty well in control
 

stephen

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The amount of faith showed in Larkin by NSW really does need to be repaid or he'll lose his contact, move to QLD and end up in the national side within two years.
 

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