We Don't Like Cricket... We Love It!
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Shark_Hatch
Jaws
JFM isn't even consistent at state level, should be nowhere near the international side. Matt Short is out of form like Marnus but just needs a break back to state level to regain form. Done well for us in the past.
Sir Chadley
Jaws
Any chance my boys had of making the semis went out the window this morning. Started well with some great bowling and fielding to restrict our opponents to 122 off their 30 overs. Not a bad effort considering they are third on the ladder and have some big hitters. But we just couldn’t get our batting together, bowled out for 52.
Real proud of my boy this morning. He strained a side muscle playing in the heat last week and had two physio sessions during the week. He probably was only about 40% fit but he played because we really needed him rather than playing a man short. He couldn’t do his usual fast bowling so he bowled off spin and he took 1/8 off 3 overs. He also took two catches at mid off that were smashed to him. And then he came in at number ten and top scored with 14.
Real proud of my boy this morning. He strained a side muscle playing in the heat last week and had two physio sessions during the week. He probably was only about 40% fit but he played because we really needed him rather than playing a man short. He couldn’t do his usual fast bowling so he bowled off spin and he took 1/8 off 3 overs. He also took two catches at mid off that were smashed to him. And then he came in at number ten and top scored with 14.
Good display of character
HaroldBishop
Megalodon
Agree with @Thresher, great character. Your wife has done a great job raising him
Another loss for us today unfortunately. Bowled and fielded well but our batting needs a lot of work.
@Sir Chadley my boy might be heading in the same direction as yours. He bowled beautifully today. He always bowls fast but today without prompting he decided to bowl a fraction slower. The result, he bowled the best he ever has. Very accurate, line and length was great.
Batting however......
HaroldBishop
Megalodon
Sorry but he's done for mine until he revamps his style a bit,
Don’t play it again, Sam: Seven balls, three trick shots, 10 runs
Don’t play it again, Sam.
The ramp shot that helped launch Sam Konstas’ international cricketing career in such spectacular fashion is suddenly shaping as a major impediment in his quest to regain his position in the Australian team.
The 19-year-old opening batsman was skittled for 10 by Test teammate Scott Boland in the Sheffield Shield clash between NSW and Victoria at the SCG on Tuesday, after a whirlwind seven-ball innings.
After getting off the mark first ball with a leading edge for two, Konstas produced his trademark reverse ramp shot to scoop Boland’s second delivery of the match for a boundary over slips.
Next ball, he advanced down the track and blasted Boland past mid-off for another boundary.
But the entertaining mini-cameo came to an end on the seventh ball Konstas faced, when he stepped across his stumps and played an attempted sweep/lap shot, only for the delivery to bowl him behind his legs.
Don’t play it again, Sam: Seven balls, three trick shots, 10 runs
The swashbuckling approach that launched Sam Konstas’s international career has again brought him undone after an eventful seven-ball innings in the Sheffield Shield.www.smh.com.au
Flanno
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Yeah he’s playing Russian roulette- no way in the world he’s going to have a long test career if he keeps this up. Even at Shield level
CrazyMatt
Jaws
Yeah I think folks got a bit blinded by the whole “entertainment” part of what he does and people forgot that you can’t actually sustain that in a test career. Sometimes people have to look past the flashy **** and look at the bigger picture. There is a lot for Sammy to work on before he can be trusted as the key man at the top of the order. But I think he will learn, there’s too much raw talent there for him not too.
Agree on all of this. Unfortunately, this is the after-effect of 20/20 cricket.
For Konstas, I get he has the aggressive approach which we all love and want to see. But common sense and match awareness need to kick in from time to time.
HaroldBishop
Megalodon
The three of you are talking absolute sense which is a refreshing change I must say.
Rarer than a solar eclipse mate. You won't see this again for quiet some time lol
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Sir Chadley
Jaws
Well amazingly our junior cricket team is still in with a chance of making the semis. We have to win the last regular game of the season and win well and the team above us need to lose and lose badly. If this happens we’ll finish equal with them on 56 points in 4th place. Quotient then decides it and we are a bit behind. Good news is we are playing a bottom four team and the side above us are playing the comp leaders.
In todays game we were poor despite winning. We were playing the bottom team. Sent them in and had them 7/98 after 30 overs. We lost a couple of early wickets before our best two batsmen put on 55 for the 3rd wicket. But we then lost them pretty quickly and the procession started again having us 6/80 at drinks (15 overs). Still 18 runs behind, and we lost another wicket first ball after drinks. It took our number 8 batter to dig in, get some support and creep us past their total. He then let loose scoring 41off 37 balls to give us a total of 148.
One of our bowlers was on a hat trick at one stage and my boy bowled his first four overs taking a wicket and not concedi a single run. He bowled 6 overs, 4 maidens, 1-15.
In todays game we were poor despite winning. We were playing the bottom team. Sent them in and had them 7/98 after 30 overs. We lost a couple of early wickets before our best two batsmen put on 55 for the 3rd wicket. But we then lost them pretty quickly and the procession started again having us 6/80 at drinks (15 overs). Still 18 runs behind, and we lost another wicket first ball after drinks. It took our number 8 batter to dig in, get some support and creep us past their total. He then let loose scoring 41off 37 balls to give us a total of 148.
One of our bowlers was on a hat trick at one stage and my boy bowled his first four overs taking a wicket and not concedi a single run. He bowled 6 overs, 4 maidens, 1-15.
Sir Chadley
Jaws
Spencer Johnson with a crew cut!
sharkafar
Bull Shark
Eh. It's never good to lose to the poms but if I had to lose one then the ICC (I Could Care, Industrial Corruption of Cricket, make up your own..) Tropy would be the one I'd pick.
sharkafar
Bull Shark
Of course, it's always better to beat them, regardless of the tourney. 
CrazyMatt
Jaws
So apparently that was the highest successful run chase in Champions Trophy history. Josh Inglis and Alex Carey you stars.
