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We get 1 crack in Hobart - i reckon there are about 37 overs left in the day, so we need to score at 7 per over with 8 wickets in hand.
Could yet be 1 more twist here, especially as Cam Green seems to be goign well.

If him and Bangers can up the scoring rate and not lose a wicket for a while it allows Hardie and others to throw the bat late in the day.

We have to play the vics in the last game at Junction oval - you can bet dollars to donuts that will be flatter than the nullabore plane.

Will they go for it or not?

premiership hangover wrote:

We get 1 crack in Hobart - i reckon there are about 37 overs left in the day, so we need to score at 7 per over with 8 wickets in hand.
Could yet be 1 more twist here, especially as Cam Green seems to be goign well.

If him and Bangers can up the scoring rate and not lose a wicket for a while it allows Hardie and others to throw the bat late in the day.

We have to play the vics in the last game at Junction oval - you can bet dollars to donuts that will be flatter than the nullabore plane.

Will they go for it or not?

Yep, I agree, this is set up now to have a final crack. They have to go for it don't they? Victoria away will be a tough prospect. 

Not sure Hardie is going to bat though. 

The pitch obviously got better as the game went on and was a road on days 3 and 4. This is why Tasmania delayed their declaration in the 2nd innings, they didn't want to give WA a sniff, they are playing the Vics next in Hobart with a home final on the line for them. The table with two rounds to go 

Tasmania    38.96 (still to play Vic (H), SA (H))
Victoria       36.94 (Tas (A), WA (H))
WA               32.49 (QLD (H), Vic (A))
NSW            30.82 (SA (H), QLD (A))
QLD             23.94 (WA (A), NSW(H)
SA                23.41 (NSW (A), Tas (A))

With 2 more home games you would think that Tasmania are in the box seat for a home final, WA need to focus on beating Queensland next week at the WACA and get as many bonus points as possible to ideally try and sneak in front of the Vics before the final game. This may "deter" the Victorians from producing a road because they would have to beat us to get in the final. Then NSW may sneak up because they are playing the two bottom teams in their games, they would probably need to win both to get to the final. Queensland and South Australia are all but mathematically out of finals calculations.

On another note, the weather in Sydney is looking good for Sundays Marsh Cup final so hopefully we'll get a full game

Great to win a 3rd Marsh Cup in a row against NSW.
Knocked them over for 169 then knocked off the 170 needed with 5 down.
Fancy playing a domestic final at what is essentially a suburban grade ground!

This would be a special one for them BH even considering the number of titles they have won over the last 3 years. Not only did they beat the Blue baggers on their own patch, the team had to get to Sydney via other cities because all direct flights had been booked by people going to the Taylor Swift concert. Also NSW had beaten us on 4 occasions this year and this was one back at them.
Great to see Cartwright play an innings of substance that won a big final for his team. They were in a dicey situation when he came in but it was a brilliant counter attack from him and led to them winning with 16 overs to spare.
The bowlers did very well to skittle NSW for 169. Credit particularly to Paris and Agar, the latter breaking a dangerous 4th wicket stand between Henriques and Davies
Hopefully this will give them some impetus to have a crack at another shield final

Great win by WA. Besides a Davies / Henriques fightback and an early WA collapse, WA controlled the final for long periods. Cartwright goes from drooping a soda v Tassie, resulting in Jewell scoring a double ton, to guiding WA home in a  cut throat final. Great to see Paris get a 4 for, talented bowler, sadly plagued with injuries.

Shield still to come, will be a big ask, but this WA side knows how to win under the pump and take the big moments.....time will tell if they can deliver again. Wll be a fantastic achievement if they can.....probably one of their finest.

 

I forgot too mention the biased NSW/ES commentary from the likes of Stuart Clark, Brad McNamara (really?) etc also.
How is it when we host these finals we get lumped with ES commentators and like wise when we are the visitors???
Oh for those great days in the 80s/90s of the local Ch9  coverage of the Sheffield Shield, McDonalds Cup with local commentary from the likes of the late greats Rod Marsh & Bruce Yardley, plus Kim Hughes, Wayne Clark, Bruce Yardley, Mick Malone, Craig Serjeant etc with Michael Thomson or Bruce Walker as host.....they put these current ES biased flogs to shame!

Is there a better piece of earth on the planet than this joint for producing cricket talent? I doubt it.

Venue a joke, a few bus commuters lucky not to wear one, pitch substandard but hey, only the country's premier one day competition so no drama. 

When you look at who didn't play - WA could have come 1 and 2 in the Marsh cup

M Marsh
Green
Inglis
Turner
Stoines
Hardie
Richardson
Morris

all come to mind very quickly, would not be hard to put three or 4 more around them and have 2 very strong teams

Interesting day 1 of the latest Shield matches.

17 wickets on Day 1 in Tassie. This is the same pitch where WA and Tas played out a boring draw. a few weeks back????  Anyway Tassie look like they have one foot in the final and the Vics will struggle to get any batting bonus points at 7-81.

At the WACA, the Warriors ended up on 9-287 (great knock by young Goodwin) and with 5 overs to go till the 100 have got 0.87 batting points. The plan I assume would be to bat for another 5  overs if they can, then unleash on the Queenslanders to bowl them out as quickly as possible. WA have picked 5 front line bowlers for this match because Voges no doubt realised that a win for WA is the only way to keep their finals hopes alive. Complicating this scenario is the weather forecast for the weekend which looks a little dicey.

If WA can win this game and Victoria lose theirs then we will be in front of them going into the Vic v WA match in Melbourne which will hopefully ensure that they produce a pitch that will favour a result.

Both these sides need to be aware of NSW as well who are sneaking up behind them and had a good first day against SA.