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Yes and that other English recruit Payne made an impressive debut as well taking 2 wickets. At full strength the Scorchers have an embarrassment of riches in the bowling department when you think that they were without Richardson and Berendorff for the Thunder game and managed to still bowl them out for 111. Also the batting output has improved a lot since Bancroft and Hardie have been promoted up the order. Hardie is an ideal number 3 in 20/20. He has a sound technique but can also belt the cover off the ball. Looking forward to seeing how they go against the Sixers tomorrow on their least favourite wicket ,the SCG

It appears that WA are keeping a couple of those NSW and Vic based franchises alive.
 

anchorman wrote:

It appears that WA are keeping a couple of those NSW and Vic based franchises alive.

 

Sorta like the VFL😬😬

Scorchers beaten by a better team  last night. I was distracted by the Fox commentary team of Brendan Julien, Mark Waugh and Brad Haddin. I normally take no notice of biased commentators but these guys took the skill to new levels, especially Haddin who got to the stage of cursing when the Sixers missed a run out. Sounded like he was in the Sixers coaching box. Awful stuff.

A very good game, good fightback from Scorchers after looking out of it.
another good knock from Eskinazi.  A gatherer of runs. But late we needed a hitter. But I guess the blame for that goes to the hitters earlier who fell.
It was rather galling to listen to Waugh again having a crack at Agar. He is constantly having a crack , claiming he failed on a spinners wicket in the rest. If my memory is not failing me, the quicks took the vast majority of wickets in that game.
He is a sour old past NSW player.

 

mikeh wrote:

Scorchers beaten by a better team  last night. I was distracted by the Fox commentary team of Brendan Julien, Mark Waugh and Brad Haddin. I normally take no notice of biased commentators but these guys took the skill to new levels, especially Haddin who got to the stage of cursing when the Sixers missed a run out. Sounded like he was in the Sixers coaching box. Awful stuff.

All we needed was another a grade Sydney muppet in Brett Lee instead of BJ and we would have had a trio of Sydney flogs!
Notice how these clowns always step around Sydney's shite weather, reckoning it only rains when the Test is on lol....having had to spend a lot of time in both Sydney & Melbourne over the years I can tell you it rains most days there not sparingly!

They need to be reminded that Benaud remained unbias to the end, working here and in
England.

Tim David has one year left on his Hurricanes contract.It looks like the Scorchers are going to move Heaven and Earth.To get the AU T20 player back to Wa.
If we finish top we will beat the 6 ers at Optus.Home prelim and final.Our tail is long and Tim would be perfect in the middle order.
Well done to the Nedlands local product for carrying his bat.Running that single last ball of the 19 over was a big mistake.Doesnt look like he has a power game but rotated the strike well.

How about the Brisbane Heat rolling Adelaide in Adelaide.. Defending an under par score.Adelaide with perhaps the best BBL batting line up ever assembled.Alex Carey,Travis Head,Matt Short,Chris Lynn..

Beasley Hutton wrote:

mikeh wrote:

Scorchers beaten by a better team  last night. I was distracted by the Fox commentary team of Brendan Julien, Mark Waugh and Brad Haddin. I normally take no notice of biased commentators but these guys took the skill to new levels, especially Haddin who got to the stage of cursing when the Sixers missed a run out. Sounded like he was in the Sixers coaching box. Awful stuff.

All we needed was another a grade Sydney muppet in Brett Lee instead of BJ and we would have had a trio of Sydney flogs!
Notice how these clowns always step around Sydney's shite weather, reckoning it only rains when the Test is on lol....having had to spend a lot of time in both Sydney & Melbourne over the years I can tell you it rains most days there not sparingly!

Could have been worse I guess BH. At least Geoff Lawson is not part of the commentary team!

anchorman wrote:

A very good game, good fightback from Scorchers after looking out of it.
another good knock from Eskinazi.  A gatherer of runs. But late we needed a hitter. But I guess the blame for that goes to the hitters earlier who fell.
It was rather galling to listen to Waugh again having a crack at Agar. He is constantly having a crack , claiming he failed on a spinners wicket in the rest. If my memory is not failing me, the quicks took the vast majority of wickets in that game.
He is a sour old past NSW player.


 

Hardie has been belting them everywhere in the last few games but he missed out this time. If either Turner or Hobson could have stayed with Eskinazi, the Scorchers would have got over the line. Hobson showed poor game awareness when the Sixers rolled the dice in the 17th Over with their best bowler ( Abbott). If he had got through that over rather than trying to belt Abbott out of the park, he would have found it easier to get boundaries in the last 3 overs.