Oz Domestic One Day Cup.

[Donny]

Pattinson and Harris have been included in Victoria's Marsh One-Day Cup side for Monday's 50-over clash against the Blues.

Victoria's One-Day Cup squad: Peter Handscomb (c), Xavier Crone, Zak Evans, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Sam Harper, Marcus Harris, Mackenzie Harvey, Jon Holland, Nic Maddinson, James Pattinson, Matt Short, Will Sutherland

[Donny]

The other squads.

NSW: (Squad for game v Victoria on Feb 15) Pat Cummins (c), Sean Abbott, Harry Conway, Oliver Davies, Ben Dwarshuis, Jack Edwards, Liam Hatcher, Matthew Gilkes, Moises Henriques, Daniel Hughes, Nathan Lyon, Kurtis Patterson, Steve Smith


Q'land: (Squad for game v Tasmania on Feb 22) Usman Khawaja (c), Xavier Bartlett, Joe Burns, Brendan Doggett, Sam Heazlett, Matthew Kuhnemann, Marnus Labuschagne, Jimmy Peirson, Matthew Renshaw, Billy Stanlake, Mark Steketee, Jack Wildermuth


Tasmania: (Full squad) Tom Andrews, Gabe Bell, Jackson Bird, Alex Doolan, Jake Doran, Nathan Ellis, Caleb Jewell, Ben McDermott, Riley Meredith, Lawrence Neil-Smith, Tim Paine, Alex Pyecroft, Sam Rainbird, Tom Rogers, Peter Siddle, Jordan Silk, Matthew Wade, Charlie Wakim, Beau Webster, Mac Wright.

SA: (Full squad) Wes Agar, Will Bosisto, Alex Carey, Tom Cooper, Brad Davis, Daniel Drew, Callum Ferguson, David Grant, Travis Head, Henry Hunt, Jake Lehmann, Conor McInerney, Joe Mennie, Harry Nielsen, Lloyd Pope, Kane Richardson*, Luke Robins, Chadd Sayers, Cameron Valente, Jake Weatherald, Nick Winter, Daniel Worrall

WA: (Full squad) Ashton Agar, Cameron Bancroft, Jason Behrendorff, Jake Carder, Hilton Cartwright, Cameron Gannon, Cameron Green, Liam Guthrie, Aaron Hardie, Josh Inglis, Matthew Kelly, Mitchell Marsh, Shaun Marsh, David Moody, Lance Morris, Liam O'Connor, Joel Paris, Josh Philippe, Jhye Richardson*, D'Arcy Short, Marcus Stoinis, Ashton Turner, Sam Whiteman

[Donny]

ALL matches to be live streamed on cricket.com.au and Kayo Sports

* denotes match also shown on Fox Cricket

Feb 15: New South Wales v Victoria (North Sydney Oval)*

Feb 22: Tasmania v Queensland (Blundstone Arena)*

Mar 2: Western Australia v South Australia (WACA Ground)*

Mar 4: South Australia v New South Wales (Adelaide Oval) (D/N)

Mar 10: Victoria v Tasmania (CitiPower Centre)*

Mar 11: Queensland v Western Australia (Gabba)*

Mar 12: South Australia v Tasmania (CitiPower Centre)*

Mar 14: New South Wales v Western Australia (North Sydney Oval)*

Mar 18: Tasmania v New South Wales (Blundstone Arena)*

Mar 20: Queensland v Victoria (Allan Border Field)*

Mar 23: Western Australia v Victoria (WACA Ground)

Mar 28: Queensland v South Australia (Allan Border Field)

Mar 31: New South Wales v Queensland (North Sydney Oval) (D/N)*

Apr 8: Victoria v South Australia (CitiPower Centre)*

Apr 8: Western Australia v Tasmania (WACA Ground)

Apr 11: Final (Venue TBC)*

[Donny]

Tomorrow.

NSW v. Victoria.

North Sydney Oval. Starts 10 am.

Check asterisks (above) for coverage by Fox.

[Donny]

NSW sent in. 9/318. Smith 127, Davies 57, Cummins 49 (30).

Pattinson, Sutherland, Evans and Holland took 2 wickets each.

[Pies4shaw]

Which Smith was that Donny - the one who can't play ODIs, the one who can't play T20s or the one who can't play Tests?

[Donny]

Mmm. I think it's the one who can't play domestic one-dayers.

[Donny]

Vics making heavy weather of this.

2/20 after 7 overs. Cummins has 2/10.

[Donny]

Harris getting a move on. 34* from 45 balls.

Vics need just over 7 r.p.o. 2 down.

[Pies4shaw]

Vics are 7/228. They need 91 from 54 balls. Pattinson is still there on 45 from 30 but Matthew Short (67 at a run a ball) is gone, so they have it all to do from here.

[Donny]

Good win for the Blues.

Cummins first go at captaincy, a success.

[23 YIPPEE!!!]

Yep NSW to good. Was a great total for NSW too looked like they were only going to get 200 runs but blazed away and got it to 318 great batting in the middle lower order and backed it all up with the bowling kept it tight and fielded well.

The Vics run chase just could not get going and a slow start always behind on the run rate.

Nice game i feel theres another game at North Sydney today or tomorrow.

[23 YIPPEE!!!]

I stand corrected tomorrow the shield starts at the SCG NSW V Vic.

Should be a good match too.

I really like the shield.

[K]

Which Smith was that Donny - the one who can't play ODIs, the one who can't play T20s or the one who can't play Tests?

If I were a fan of Smith, I'd be happier if he'd failed. Then it'd be easier to explain away this summer. I could just claim he was in bad form.

But now, to explain it away, I'd have to claim that he's been bouncing around many times and very frequently between top form and bottom form. I suppose it's possible for that to happen, but can you name any examples? It's a short summer. A batsman might have a form slump and come through it. But not up and down and up and down like a yo yo.

The more realistic explanation is not the magical yo yo explanation. The more realistic explanation is that Smith is a Flat-Track Bully -- and Down-Hill Skier.

He had a poor IPL. Then, when there were meaningless ODIs on the usual very flat ODI pitches, with no preparation, no crowds, nothing, he was able to slog runs.

When it really mattered, in a Test series, with a teeny weeny bit of help for bowlers in Adelaide, he failed miserably. He made 1 off 29 balls, including being given a life.

In Melbourne, it was very flat, but at least India still had something mixing 1st XI and 2nd XI bowling. Smith failed miserably.

Against India's 3rd XI on extremely flat tracks, Smith was able to FTB a bit (but not enough -- remember Slater criticised Marnus for not scoring at least 150).

So it's not form bouncing up and down and up and down and up and down... That doesn't happen. It's just when the pitch is extremely flat, and the bowlers are the 3rd XI, and when it doesn't matter (DHS in meaningless one-day matches) that Smith can FTB. On pitches a little less dead, when at least half of the 1st XI bowlers are playing, and the result matters, Smith fails.

So the profile of Smith's innings this summer is just what you'd expect from an FTB.


Re. ODIs: Smith's ODI record is much worse than Joe Root's. That's a clear fact. I showed it in another thread*. It's interesting because it feels like half of England have wanted Root dropped from their ODI side for years.

* https://magpies.net/nick/bb/viewtopic.p ... 28#1954028

[Donny]

Q'land beat Tasmania. Khawaja 93, Stanlake 4/24.