Shield Final

[Scraggers]

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It's a shame about the rain really because I'm confident that we would have beaten them anyway.

I was confident that we would win the twenty/20 and One Day final as well ...

[Mantis]

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Lunch - Day 4

Vics all out 510

White 135
McKay 39*

QLD 0/30 off 14 overs

Slow r/r indicates the Qld'ers aren't on the hunt for quick runs.

[Scraggers]

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That'd just about get us the trophy then I'd imagine.

Start counting ... 1 cluck cluck cluck ... 2 cluck cluck cluck ...

[ledge]

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Qld four for about 100 and the ball is moving off the pitch , dont think Qld have a hope in hell.

[hujsh]

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121/6

Giving them payback for the years before (though most of those players are now retired or playing international cricket.)

[Mantis]

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All out for 200.

Nannes 4/65

What do we think, put them back in and try and win the game or let them rot in the field?

[lemmon]

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All out for 200.

Nannes 4/65

What do we think, put them back in and try and win the game or let them rot in the field?

Id have a crack and put them back in, they're not going to win it from here so lets do it comprehensively and win in 3 and a half days. Give the crowd something to watch as well.

[LostDoggy]

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gee they need 9 wickets and over 400 to win on the last day, whats the chances?

Little to none, except that it's Victoria and a domestic final we're talking about here. Hodgey could pull a muscle putting his pants on again, Symonds could hit the rest of his career runs in one innings.

Ridiculous or not, I'm holding my breath until Whitey's got his grubby mitts on the trophy.

(And what are the chances of Vics not being able to break into the Australian Test team until a month or two before the Shield Final, when they take our strike bowler, our leg-spinner, and our all-rounder... if you didn't know better you'd think it was a conspiracy. If Siddle, McGain and McDonald get dropped from the Test squad and sent home after the Shield Final it would confirm it!)

ps. Taking nothing away from Phil Hughes - I don't think it's a particularly unreasonable or paranoid charge to say that if Rogers were playing for NSW this year, he would already be opening for Australia.

[Mantis]

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Contrary to what I have posted on enforcing the follow on in the past I would have definitely done it on this occassion. After losing so much time to rain we were never in a position to lose the game, add to this the massive first innings score plus the piss poor batting efforts from the Qld'ers, why not go for the win?

There is no better feeling than winning a final by taking the final wicket or by scoring the winning run, a far better feeling than winning the game by it simply being called off.

[hujsh]

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Should have enforced the follow on. As Mantis said QLD won't win and I think we should make it a comprehensive victory

[lemmon]

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Not sure why we didnt enforce the follow on. Would've much preffered to see us lift the trophy comprehensively with a win.

[Sockeye Salmon]

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I'm the most emphatic non-follow-onerer on WOOF and even i would have made them follow on.

We couldn't lose either way, we may as well have won the game.

[LostDoggy]

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Reason given for not enforcing follow-on was that Nannes et al were carrying niggles (that made them miss the last couple of games), a break would freshen them up for a second innings tilt.

(Of course, they did bowl only something like 60 overs, and they were getting a whole evening to put their feet up anyway.. don't know what a couple of hours more rest is supposed to achieve...)

[Mantis]

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Reason given for not enforcing follow-on was that Nannes et al were carrying niggles (that made them miss the last couple of games), a break would freshen them up for a second innings tilt.

(Of course, they did bowl only something like 60 overs, and they were getting a whole evening to put their feet up anyway.. don't know what a couple of hours more rest is supposed to achieve...)

There is no way in the world you would ask QLD to bat again in this game.

[LostDoggy]

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They were thinking about it -- maybe two sessions or so with a lead of 500. Try to bowl them out.

It's a moot point with the rain now though. I'm almost ready to celebrate the win.. almost.