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while that idiot is in charge - never mate

WA all out in their first innings for 332 with the youngster Cam Green top scoring on 87*.
Not a bad recovery after losing both openers for Ducks at 2/2.

Openers ??? not even the plastic tip from a bootlace
Jeez mate they've got two potential powerhouses in Short & Phillippe who in any other state would have had near on 2 years experience by now
but WA selects two spuds

Queensland absolutely bossing this game now and showing how inadequate WA's total of 332 was. Luckily Green and the other bowlers pulled the side out of a massive hole at 7-171 but the Qlds top order have shown WA's batsmen up for their incompetence. Stonis continues to make 40s and 50s but just can't go on with it. Bancroft keeps getting out the same way, Whiteman is just not an opener,how many more failures does he have to have for Voges to realise this? Queensland will be aiming to bat most of the day tommorrow,get a lead of 150 plus and then put WA under the pump on day 4 a bit like WA did against the Vics last match.

Agree on Stonis - he does get starts and from a technique perspective looks ok. Perhaps batting at 6 or 7 and playing as a genuine all rounder is a better fit for him. Bancroft, well his stats are something to look at - if you take out his first shield match back from suspension (made 138no and 86) his last 7-8 first class matches (including the 2 tests in England) then it looks pretty ordinary. But with Langer, Voges and Steve Waugh being around these days they keep pumping him up. As for Whiteman as an opener? - well the people responsible for selecting should get the chop before he does.
Queensland well placed now - interesting day coming up tomorrow.

Guys like Mitch Marsh and Stoinis aren't good enough to bat top 6 at test level, yet at the next level down command a top 5 spot...and their batting averages and lack of tons reflect this...bit of a conundrum here....as for the openers....Bangers is in a right state run wise...whilst Whiteman is a wicketkeeper who bats, not a batsman who keeps....

Are there any decent specialist batsmen in grade cricket?...I hear Murray Goodwin's son is a beauty.... only young tho...17/18?

Jayden Goodwin is 17 Freeze but if he is scoring runs as an opener get him in.
Jake Carder is another specialist opener been in the squad for a few years now, but they are preferring to open with a keeper at the top of the order.
Can see him doing a Harris, Rogers, D.Hussey, Katich, Stoinis, Shipperd, Brayshaw, Fitzgerald, et al and pissing off to another state before long if he keeps on getting overlooked, cant blame them either!

I see WA is at it again losing 3 wickets in 7 balls in their second innings to be 4 for 39 and still 40 behind Qland's first innings total. Another outright loss looming large here.

Yep and with Carthorse at the crease that pretty much means that it's 5 down.

ooollllrrrrrry2 wrote: Yep and with Carthorse at the crease that pretty much means that it's 5 down.

Hey our esteemed all rounder took 3 wickets with the ball today Ooolll (as did our other A-R Stoinis)
Mind you Bancroft even chimed in with 1 with the rankest of long hops imaginable...as the old saying goes- "shit gets wickets"!!