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Youngest debut for Australia. 17 years 239 days- Ian Craig 18 years 193 days- Pat Cummins 18 years 232 days- Tom Garnett 19 years 85 days- Sam Konstas 19 years 96 days- Clem Hill

You'd think so, it's a good story. Back at his junior club and the club he has played two Cup games for. He's only 30 he could play three or four years of Cup. Souths could have Milford and Mam together- Black might not make the team.

Seems to love the moment too- anyone making their debut in a Shield Final and hitting their first two balls for boundaries, then getting to 90 and dropping back down a few gears to be aware enough to make stumps has good awareness. Martin Love was the last player I can remember that made his...

Milford a Magpie.

Real generational change/shift tomorrow- have we given up on the born 2000 era that should be coming into their prime now. For the first time ever in our Test history we won't have a player in their 20's in the team. We have gone from born in the 1990's skipped a generation to Konstas and the...

The Bulls game there two weeks ago was wild- Bulls 5/56 after Victoria sent them in Victoria 7/99 and no team cracked 250.

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Sorry, five weeks. I thought he got stood down and suspended.

The Sharks stood him down the next day and said he couldn't play- I thought he missed five weeks until the court case and then an NRL suspension.

Trindall was also sat out by the Sharks for five games and the NRL took that into account. Between the two his suspension was 10 weeks. JAC was four weeks and fined him $15,000 and terminated by the Bulldogs.

It would certainly be bold for the 19-year-old on debut on Boxing Day in front of 100,000 people to go the good time route. I think the BBL runs the other night and the 100 in Canberra have seduced them.

You'd just be repeating the McSweeney problem- Inglis has never got runs at 4. All his runs for WA have come at 6 or below- 7 FC 100's. Three- six times av 12 Four- once Five-six times for one 50.

They seem to be indicating that he wasn't attacking enough. But he was never going to fill that role. But as national selection panel chair George Bailey indicated today in announcing Konstas's elevation, it was a need to find a batter able to take the game to India's quicks (with McSweeney's...

It's like Ralph's heart breaking; you can pinpoint the exact moment you know you're out of your depth. I look forward to halfway through Boxing Day you saying you think Australia's batting depth and talent may be in trouble and then copying me.

I wasn't talking about anyone specific, just the fact lots have become very very easily pleased. It's relevant, you just seem to think great things happened once as an act of God, and we can't get back there. That's simply not true, CA got rid of the things that achieved those results and as a...

This isn't wishful thinking or dreaming, you can have high standards and have systems in place to support high standards. CA got rid of the Academy, now states do it themselves but who oversees that? No one. Shield isn't as hard or tough anymore and batting has suffered because those Under 21...

You can certainly take some of the guess work out and rely on the level below. Most Shield runs before Test debut for Australia. Lehmann 7985 Hodge 7537 Hussey 7282 Voges 6881 When all those guys got to play Tests, they knew, and you knew what they could and couldn't do and you can look at it...

What's happening to Marnus' average now? He averaged 56 in in 22, 34 in 24 and 26 in 24. If you are relying on players doubling their Shield average, you're going to be disappointed nearly every time.

At the risk of saying it again- you're getting what you paid for. He averages 36 in FC cricket and his highest Test score is 39. The fact is he's a good Shield player in two years of form, but Bumrah is a great Test bowler- he's just much much better bowler than McSweeney is a batsman. No shame...