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baggygreenmania - 7 Jan 2019 4:21 PM
grazorblade - 7 Jan 2019 3:34 PM

grazor  I see Patterson as long term not a stop gap. Where is Maxwell @46. I have him at @41 career average.. mostly after a strong 2017/18. Has he played this year? Can not see his record. 

I made 3 lists
1 of shield averages (higher than 1st class) 1 of shield average from last 2 seasons and one that weights each average equally (to weight career and form equally) 46 is that equally weighted score
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baggygreenmania - 7 Jan 2019 2:02 PM
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 Think you will find that Harris has already done sufficient for an Ashes berth. Many pundits and former players are talking him up. I guess he does need to be playing and developing tho.  Renshaw's domestic form will return. Is too good a player for it not to. He does have this in his favor to be on the plane to England.  Playing for Somerset this county season 6 m 513 r @51 with three centuries. The three kids are on spec.. a gamble. Blood one of them against a weaker opposition. He may just score a big ton to put himself in the frame for the Ashes. Joe Root has big wraps on Sangha...perhaps give him the nod. He, Philippe and Pucovski are our three most promising red ball cricketers imho. What is the point in putting Agar on a contract and not playing him in any format. it is foolish and one CA should rectify. He must be so disillusioned. A mixture of poor bowling conditions and injury is reason for his moderate figures for WA. His bowling has improved markedly. His batting is resolute but he can lift the scoring rate in a heartbeat if needs be. Zampa is our best performed limited overs wristie and his red ball game is improving. Ahmed  bowled well in the shield before Holland returned. He is also bowling well in the circus game. 

I just read an article which said WA rested Agar from their last shield match so he would be fresh for the BBL. THIS IS A DISGRACE. He has hardly played for whatever reason yet was still RESTED. IT MAKES NO SENSE. The only way I can interpret it is he was protected from being injured so he could play the BBL. So somehow the fake cricket BBL is being put above FC cricket. FUMING. I think Agar is talented but he needs to play FC cricket so he can develop and in a few years replace Lyon as our main spinner. Playing BBL instead of FC cricket is not going to do him any good.
Ahmed has good looking figures but I checked the games he played and every wicket he took was a tail ender so the stats flatter him an awful lot. He is also 36 and has a modest FC record. 
Choosing a second spinner is not going to be easy if one is needed. 
Lyon has 20 wickets at 21.45 but no one else has done anything to really impressive
Swepson 14 wickets at 47
Ahmed 9 wickets at 17 but all tail enders
Pope 9 wickets at 51, with 7 coming in one innings.
Holland 8 wickets at 35. It is probably difficult for him to take too many wickets with Boland and Tremain taking so many but his average is a bit high. He did take 5/65 in the last match.
O'Keefe 7 wickets at 44
Labuschagne 5 wickets at 59
Sangha 4 wickets at 34
Usman Qadir, oh wait he is from Pakistan and has terrible figures anyway.
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we need a spinners paradise

perhaps the northern territory can work as a new sheild team and reproduce subcontinent conditions
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grazorblade - 7 Jan 2019 5:01 PM
baggygreenmania - 7 Jan 2019 4:21 PM

I made 3 lists
1 of shield averages (higher than 1st class) 1 of shield average from last 2 seasons and one that weights each average equally (to weight career and form equally) 46 is that equally weighted score

oh ok.
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Test_Fan - 7 Jan 2019 10:50 PM
baggygreenmania - 7 Jan 2019 2:02 PM

I just read an article which said WA rested Agar from their last shield match so he would be fresh for the BBL. THIS IS A DISGRACE. He has hardly played for whatever reason yet was still RESTED. IT MAKES NO SENSE. The only way I can interpret it is he was protected from being injured so he could play the BBL. So somehow the fake cricket BBL is being put above FC cricket. FUMING. I think Agar is talented but he needs to play FC cricket so he can develop and in a few years replace Lyon as our main spinner. Playing BBL instead of FC cricket is not going to do him any good.
Ahmed has good looking figures but I checked the games he played and every wicket he took was a tail ender so the stats flatter him an awful lot. He is also 36 and has a modest FC record. 
Choosing a second spinner is not going to be easy if one is needed. 
Lyon has 20 wickets at 21.45 but no one else has done anything to really impressive
Swepson 14 wickets at 47
Ahmed 9 wickets at 17 but all tail enders
Pope 9 wickets at 51, with 7 coming in one innings.
Holland 8 wickets at 35. It is probably difficult for him to take too many wickets with Boland and Tremain taking so many but his average is a bit high. He did take 5/65 in the last match.
O'Keefe 7 wickets at 44
Labuschagne 5 wickets at 59
Sangha 4 wickets at 34
Usman Qadir, oh wait he is from Pakistan and has terrible figures anyway.

Good post.  Yes the spin cupboard is bare going on those figures. To be fair the Shield decks this season have been grassy which is good for pace .. not so good for spin. We need to have somewhere where our spinners can actually take wickets. There has been talk of the NT. The red dust ant bed like decks that certainly would provide spinning conditions. Does the new CA CEO have the foresite to do something about this. If this is in the too hard basket, CA  could always install one of those Indian-like practice decks at the NCC in the middle of an actual ground. So our cricketers can play an actual game using actual spinning conditions. 
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baggygreenmania - 8 Jan 2019 8:33 AM
Test_Fan - 7 Jan 2019 10:50 PM

Good post.  Yes the spin cupboard is bare going on those figures. To be fair the Shield decks this season have been grassy which is good for pace over spin. . We need to have somewhere where our spinners can actually take wickets. There has been talk of the NT. The red dust ant bed like decks that certainly would provide spinning conditions. Does the new CA CEO have the foresite to do something about this. If this is in the too hard basket, CA  could always install one of those Indian-like practice decks at the NCC in the middle of an actual ground. So our cricketers can play an actual game using actual spinning conditions. 

Are we all forgetting that an OZ A side will travel to England for matches against County sides while the WC is on. This is an excellent prep for fringies if needed for the Baggy Greens in the Ashes. So that squad also has to be picked. 
This side should contain some of our most promising cricketers. Josh Philippe, Jason Sangha, Cameron Green, and Will Pucovski.  Tremain and J Richardson should be automatic selections. Others in contention are Trent Copeland, Jack Wildermuth, Josh Inglis, Jake Lehmann, Riley Meredith, Jimmy Peirson,  Ashton Agar, Cameron Bancroft, Nick Winter, Michael Neser, Alex Doolan, Tom Cooper, Matthew Wade, Mark Steketee, Dan Worrall, Jackson Bird. I also have Worrall and Nick Winter as Ashes tourists. Our two best swing bowlers imho.
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