Aussie Test quicks Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins have bowled 25 overs between them in their red ball comeback. The sooner both are firing up for the Blues the better.

I can see Copeland being effective on this deck. He is the only Blue who has similar bowling attributes to the Redbacks trio.

One of the umpires in the Blues v SA game has missed two plumb LBs by my naked eye.

Abbot was hyped as the next big thing in all rounders at one stage. Today he is batting last drop for the Blues.

The under rated Trent Copeland pushes the Blues past 200.

Will Pucovski bags his second Shield ton. Another of our young batting turks.

What is the score In the NSW game?

1st NSW 2461st SA 2-51

Bulls struggling.

Useless Blues attack struggling to make inroads.
Bulls counter-attacking.
Warriors in big trouble at the WACA.

I was hoping no one noticed the performance of 2 of our Australian bowling attack against the Tasmanian 2nd eleven, with the Tasmanians scoring 600 runs only losing 14 wickets.
Hazlewood 22 overs 1/42
Cummins 23 overs 3/63
Not an inspiring performance. You would expect an international attack would tear a sub 1st class side apart. If they weren't who they are they would not be elevated to the NSW side. Especially when young Alex Pyecroft took 4/15 showing there was enough in the wicket for bowlers. With the poor performance of Starc currently in Pakistan we do need miracles soon. Who is the current bowling back up???? M Marsh.....surely 30 tests for him is enough, can't bat, can't bowl.....but lets make him VC. Let's bring Copeland back. Gabe Bell is going from strength to strength.

Sams strikes removing Ferguson. Tower lites blazing here at the AO.

The Blues badly need a wristie as their main spinner. SOK just does not create pressure.

Jackson Bird picks up a five for. Tigers now with a mammoth first innings lead.

Pucovski becomes the ninth youngest player to ever score a double 100 before his 21st birthday.:cool:

Tassie squandering its big lead.

Should have enforced the follow on perhaps as this Gabba green top is still doing plenty on the third day.

Praise be the Blues have Trent Copeland to call on.

In breaking news: Nic Maddinson, Fawad Ahmed and Andrew Fekete have each earned contract upgrades and join Victoria's 26-man squad for the 2018-19 season.

The two Josh's battling to keep the Warriors in the game.

I'm a bit surprised Bird hasn't been been selected for the UAE.

Good on him.

Welcome to the forum, Mike.

Feel free to post in the Pakistan Second Test thread, mate.

Copeland is an underrated bowler.

Fekete was playing for Tasmania not long ago.

Mike R keeps following me from forum to forum. We have been jousting each other for best part of five years. Remember we first locked horns on the Sky News sports site Mike? I signed out of my last forum mate as it was jinxed.. too many nongs and trolls.

DC. I asked the question on Test thread if Australia had bowlers of the ilk of Philander and Abbas. yes we do one Trent Copeland. But because he does bot bowl at 140kph our brainless selectors wont pick him.

Mikes favorite pastime is Blues bashing. He only comes on these forums to trash Blues bowlers and batsmen who he deems do not deserve a Baggy Green: He is as parochial a Qlder as you will find..

Copeland looked innocuous a few years back although bowling tightly at Bellerive. I've met his grandparents in the members.

Recently he has improved. We certainly need a bowler who can bowl with an economy of action and whose body does not break down through having great stress on the body when they bowl.

We have five bowlers who can all bowl over 140 kph, even at times reaching 150kph - Stanlake, Pattinson, Starc, Cummins and Hazlewood. Yet they are rarely fit at the same time!

The only time  many of  these were fit was i and English One Day series. The Aussie batters said it was hell in the nets facing Pattinson, Johnson, Starc and Cummins at the same time!

Mike also rarely answers his PMs.

Copes nibbles it both ways just enuff to beat the bat. He would be sensational on a deck like this UAE one ..sadly there arent any similar in  Australian domestic cricket. You can have Stanlake.. overated for mine. Another who I rate and is no slouch is Jhye Richardson. If memory serves I read he was the quickest bowler ever at the DK Lillee Pace Academy. 

Speaking of that man Copeland.. he has 6-80. Redbacks will hold a small first innings lead.

The WA/Vic match has three promising youngsters.. Pucovski, Philippe (pron/d Phil-eep) and Inglis.. the latter two have now posted their 100 run partnership to give some respectability to the Warriors  score after a shocker of a start.. 

WACA live stream is also a shocker.