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Yep that Hilton Carthorse is a lulu of an all rounder...to be fair it's not Carthorse's fault he gets picked though - someone else does that.

ooli -- that is true, but as Neil Young once sang 'there comes a time'.

If you look at the Warriors squad listed on the WACA website there are only the following actually listed as Batsmen
Bancroft
Sean Marsh
Bosisto ( hasn't he gone interstate?)
Carder
David
Phillipe
Wells
Everyone else is either graded as a bowler, all rounder or wicket keeper

Not sure how the WA 2nd XI is going for specialist batsmen, maybe they are going outside the squad.

the person in charge of the website is doing a good job:
Bosisto - South Australia
David - playing for Singapore in the ICC qualifiers
Wells - dropped from squad

sooner the CEO gets dumped the better - place is a joke

Maybe the CEO moonlights as a WA selector on the side.

And the way they sling around all rounder status these days I reckon Terry Alderman would probably wish this was his era - they would have called him a bowling all rounder.

All will be sweet when the skipper comes back into the top 4....world class bowling allrounder from memory is our Mitch

Beasley Hutton wrote:

mikeh wrote: Underperforming imposters?? Last time I checked they were 3-1 in this competition. Yes they had a bad day today but really they were mostly undone by a brilliant innings from Hughes.Far better to put in a shocker in the qualifying round than in the semi final which is what happened last year. Lets see how they respond in the next game.

Mike please the fact is WA has well underachieved for 20 odd years now, in this tournament so far we played the first 2 games at home against VIC & TAS who were not at full strength (no Ashes tourists- Harris, Pattinson, Siddle, Paine & Wade) and then the 3rd game on Monday NSW 2nd XI easily outscored us but only lost on DLS. Yesterday was nothing short of embarrassing against NSW 2nd XI.

As I posted some time back the pretenders (WA) are being taken apart by SA (yes South Australia not South Africa) 8/174 after 37 overs with Ashton Agar's younger brother taking a 5 for.
So after being 3-0 including playing at home against under strength VIC & TAS and the NSW 2nd XI at Drummoyne they have fallen in a heap again and will go from top of the ladder looking at hosting a Final to possibly not even making the Final!
If the performances in the SS do not improve in the 2nd half of the season is it time to have a complete clean out at the WACA?

Got to 252 with Cameron Green making 86. Making the so called specialist batsmen look silly again. Will that be defendable?

252 is a poor score in Adelaide, so will be difficult to defend. Lose this game and we're probably out of the final(again)

Croweaters 7/126 with Coulter-nile having 5 for... ferguson still there on 47....