Tasmania in the 2009–10 domestic Sheffield Shield cricket season
The Tasmanian Tigers represents the Australian state of Tasmania in cricket tournaments. They compete annually in the Australian domestic senior men's cricket season, which currently consists of the first-class Sheffield Shield, the limited overs Ford Ranger Cup, and the domestic Twenty20 competition known as the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash. They opened their season in late October, against South Australia.
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Season background
Before the start of the seasons, George Bailey replaced Dan Marsh who resigned as state captain. "It will certainly be a big change," Bailey said. He [Marsh] enjoys leading the team meetings and will speak more to the men than Marsh, who is playing on and will continue to offer tactical advice. "He's certainly a massive mentor of mine over the years and still is," Bailey said. "I think I'll be more vocal. Dan was one to lead from the front with the way he played but wasn't a huge speaker in front of the group. I'm more comfortable doing that. My style will develop over the next couple of years."
After finishing fourth in the 2008–09 Sheffield Shield season, Bailey wanted improvement from his team. "I keep going back to the people who have played quite a number of Shield games, it's time that they stepped up and were counted," he said. "People have said these guys have potential, but at some point the group has got to deliver. I'm included, along with Travis Birt, Rhett Lockyear, Luke Butterworth, Brendan Drew, Brett Geeves, Jason Krejza, Xavier Doherty. It's time that we started performing week-in, week out." If the team is consistent he believes they will contend in all three competitions."[1] Coach Tim Coyle said, "The challenge is to make the transition period as short as possible knowing, yes, we have got some new personnel, but to settle these people in really quickly and if we are developing a different game style and plan that we make sure we get that into our game very quickly. Hopefully the transition might only be a couple of months. We can't afford a transition period to take two years you won't be doing your job.[2]
Along with Australian captain Ricky Ponting, the Tasmanian squad has three other players who have represented Australia at International level: Ben Hifenhaus, Brett Geeves and Tim Paine. "The last six months there have been six players from our program play for Australia or Australia A. That is 25 per cent of our squad with International experience in some way — it is a good result. If you look at it from that point of view we are doing something right," said Coyle commenting on the sides International success.[2]
Teams
Table
The top two teams after each round is played will compete for the Sheffield Shield final. The match will be contested at the home ground of the side that finishes first. For an explanation of how points are rewarded, see Sheffield Shield Points System.
| Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Quo | ||
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 Victoria |
41 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 141 | 5245 | 164 | 5148 | 1.19 |
 Queensland |
32 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 159 | 4801 | 154 | 4647 | 1.00 |
 New South Wales |
26 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 126 | 5620 | 159 | 5096 | 1.39 |
 Western Australia |
20 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 160 | 5011 | 152 | 4836 | 0.98 |
 Tasmania |
17 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 168 | 4819 | 136 | 5390 | 0.74 |
 South Australia |
16 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 142 | 4852 | 131 | 5331 | 0.84 |
Last Updated on 15 March 2010.
Fixtures and results
Round 1
Tasmania opened their first-class campaign against South Australia in Adelaide. They won the toss and elected to bat in "damp conditions", before, Ed Cowan (in his first game for Tasmania) and Jonathan Wells partnered for a 44-run opening stand. In a rain-interrupted opening day, Tasmania struggled to score freely against some tight bowling from the seamers. Despite reaching 3 wickets for 149 runs (3/149) they finished the day on 5/149, with Wells, Alex Doolan and Bailey all dismissed in the 30s.[3] Tasmania were bowled out for 236 in the over after lunch on the following day, after only managing to add 87 runs to their overnight score. Debutant wicket-keeper Brady Jones top-scored and finished the innings on 45 not out, while Peter George, Chris Duval, Daniel Christian and Mark Cosgrove all took two wickets apiece. In South Australia's reply, James Smith scored his maiden first-class century, before becoming Jason Krejza's second of three wickets on the second day. The Redbacks finished the second day on 4/225, based upon a 94-run opening partnership between Smith and Daniel Harris.[4][5] They passed Tasmania's first innings total in just five overs, and after gaining first-innings points, South Australian skipper Graham Manou carried his team to 345. Krejza finished with 4/70 from 29 overs, meanwhile, Brett Geeves picked up 3/89 from 25 overs.
Tasmania began their second innings 109 runs behind, and fell into further trouble after being reduced to 4/73 early in the days final session. However, Bailey (72 not out) and Luke Butterworth (23 not out) finished the day with an unbeaten partnership of 78.[6][7] The pair could not continue their work on the final day, as South Australia bowled the Tigers out for 184 and went on to complete a 9 wicket victory. Beginning the day leading by 42 runs, Bailey was trapped leg before wicket for 90, before Tasmania collapsed, losing their final six wickets for 11. Part-timer Christian, finished with 4/31, while left-arm spinner Aaron O'Brien took three wickets on a turning pitch. Chasing 76 for victory, man of the match Harris, guided the home side to victory with 57 not out.[8][9]
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Round 10
Statistics
Most Runs
| Player | Matches | Innings | Runs | Average | HS | 100s | 50s | |||
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| George Bailey | 3 | 5 | 266 | 53.20 | 112 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Daniel Marsh | 3 | 5 | 217 | 43.40 | 134 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Alex Doolan | 1 | 1 | 194 | 38.80 | 83 | 0 | 2 | |||
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Most Wickets
| Player | Matches | Overs | Wickets | Average | BBI | BBM | 5W | ||
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| Jason Krejza | 3 | 122.1 | 10 | 38.60 | 4/70 | 4/105 | 0 | ||
| Brett Geeves | 2 | 65 | 9 | 23.00 | 5/106 | 5/106 | 1 | ||
| Luke Butterworth | 3 | 71 | 4 | 51.75 | 2/65 | 3/99 | 0 | ||
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Notes
- ↑ http://www.cricinfo.com/australia/content/story/429237.html
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Mercury, p. 45, 2009-10-11
- ↑ http://www.cricinfo.com/ausdomestic-09/content/current/story/429355.html/
- ↑ http://www.cricinfo.com/australia/content/story/429533.html
- ↑ http://www.tascricket.com.au/default.aspx?s=news_display&id=17429
- ↑ http://www.tascricket.com.au/default.aspx?s=news_display&id=17452
- ↑ http://www.cricinfo.com/australia/content/story/429637.html
- ↑ http://www.tascricket.com.au/default.aspx?s=news_display&id=17465
- ↑ http://www.cricinfo.com/australia/content/story/429839.html
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