State of Origin

[drainpipe32]

It happens in AFL and NRL, so maybe it could work in Shield cricket? It'd be interesting to see the sides, some of them would look very different to current domestic teams.

Your thoughts?

Western Australia
Simon Katich
Shaun Marsh
David Hussey
Michael Hussey
Adam Voges
Luke Pomersbach
Luke Ronchi (INT)
Beau Casson
TBD
TBD
Tim Macdonald

Victoria
Michael Klinger
Nick Jewell
Brad Hodge
Marcus North
Cameron White
Andrew McDonald
Peter Nevill
Peter Siddle
Shane Harwood
Jon Holland/Bryce McGain
Dirk Nannes

New South Wales
Chris Rogers
Phillip Hughes
Phil Jaques
Michael Clarke
Ed Cowan
Usman Khawaja (INT)
Brad Haddin
Steven Smith
John Hastings
Doug Bollinger
Stuart Clark

Queensland
Shane Watson
Ryan Broad
Michael Dighton
Lee Carseldine
Nathan Reardon
TBD
Chris Hartley
Mitchell Johnson
Nathan Hauritz
Steve Magoffin
Ben Cutting

Tasmania
TBD
TBD
Ricky Ponting
George Bailey
Matthew Wade
Tim Paine
Luke Butterworth
Xavier Doherty
Ben Hilfenhaus
Brett Geeves

South Australia
Mark Cosgrove
Daniel Harris
Callum Ferguson
Cameron Borgas
Graham Manou
TBD
TBD
Mark Cleary
Dan Cullen
Peter George
Shaun Tait

Overseas
Luke Ronchi
Usman Khawaja
Andrew Symonds
Steve O'Keefe


Some of those teams are quirky. Some of my selections are stupid. But it'd be interesting....

 

[mattfb]

Err, whats with your choice of teams? WA, VIC and NSW? It's QLD vs NSW in NRL...

 

[TumTum]

Err, whats with your choice of teams? WA, VIC and NSW? It's QLD vs NSW in NRL...

WA don't have enough, they're gone

 

[drainpipe32]

Nah, I was gonna do all the teams, but then my effort quota ran out.

 

[drainpipe32]

5 changes to QLD, 4 to WA. And I still can't find 11 cricketers.

Well quality ones anyway. I could put Nathan Coulter-Nile in to WA

 

[cricketmad09]

I don't see the point in a state of origin type thing for domestic cricket as most of the blokes in each team are local to the state anyway