Australian One-Day Cup: First Week Preview (21-26 September)

Seeing as today is the first match of the Australian One-Day Cup, I thought I'd write up a little preview to get people prepared for it.

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Matches

Date/Time	Ground	Team 1	Team 2
21/09 2:00PM AWST	WACA	Western Australia	Victoria
22/09 9:30AM AEST	Allan Border Field	Queensland	New South Wales
23/09 10:00AM AWST	WACA	Tasmania	Victoria
24/09 9:30AM AEST	Allan Border Field	Queensland	South Australia
25/09 10:00AM AWST	WACA	Western Australia	Tasmania
26/09 9:30AM AEST	Allan Border Field	New South Wales	South Australia

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Batsmen Averaging Over 30

It's interesting to note the number of batsmen averaging over 40, only 10 averaging over 40, and only 6 of them have played over 20 innings. There have been a couple batsmen over the last few years with decent starts to their career, as seen from the top of this list. Edwards, Heazlett, McDermott, and Weatherald are all under 25 years of age and in the top 5 highest averaging List A batsmen. This is a really exciting time for the next up-and-coming group of batsmen.

Player	State	Innings	Runs	Average
Jack Edwards	NSW	5	273	54.60
Sam Heazlett	QLD	15	748	53.42
Daniel Hughes	NSW	19	879	51.70
Ben McDermott	TAS	14	652	50.15
Jake Weatherald	SA	20	882	46.42
Shaun Marsh	WA	158	6446	43.55
Callum Ferguson	SA	155	5463	42.67
Cameron Bancroft	WA	46	1601	42.13
Tom Cooper	SA	146	5253	41.03
D'Archy Short	WA	26	922	40.08
Aaron Finch	VIC	194	7448	39.82
Josh Philippe	WA	6	236	39.33
Harry Nielsen	SA	6	155	38.75
Daniel Sams	NSW	4	152	38.00
Peter Handscomb	VIC	92	2964	38.00
Alex Doolan	TAS	39	1320	37.71
George Bailey	TAS	250	8242	37.12
Nic Maddinson	VIC	71	2517	37.01
Matt Renshaw	QLD	24	766	36.47
Joe Burns	QLD	68	2146	36.37
Will Pucovski	VIC	6	218	36.33
Ashton Turner	WA	32	867	36.12
Kurtis Patterson	NSW	41	1109	35.00
Jake Lehmann	SA	29	875	35.00
Alex Carey	SA	51	1521	33.8
Moises Henriques	NSW	88	2474	33.43
Glenn Maxwell	VIC	160	4665	33.08
Marcus Stoinis	WA	76	2177	32.98
Marnus Labuschagne	QLD	27	809	32.36
Cameron Valente	SA	17	471	31.40
Max Bryant	QLD	13	405	31.15
Travis Dean	VIC	10	306	30.60
James Faulkner	TAS	94	1936	30.25

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Bowlers Averaging Under 50

There are a fair few more bowlers averaging better numbers than batsmen. As with most people, I usually focus more on batting so I can't really say much more here.

Player	State	Innings	Wickets	Average
Will Sutherland	VIC	6	13	18.00
Andrew Tye	WA	40	88	21.52
Daniel Sams	NSW	5	9	22.44
Gurinder Sandhu	TAS	51	98	22.60
Matt Kelly	WA	5	9	22.77
Sean Abbott	NSW	54	92	24.40
Matthew Kuhnemann	QLD	5	9	24.66
Nathan Coulter-Nile	WA	73	129	25.77
Cameron Gannon	QLD	19	30	26.56
Jackson Coleman	VIC	12	18	26.66
Mark Steketee	QLD	25	38	27.63
Kane Richardson	SA	79	130	28.69
Jhye Richardson	WA	29	49	28.95
Andrew Fekete	VIC	24	35	29.97
Cameron Green	WA	6	7	30.28
Cameron Valente	SA	19	29	30.31
James Faulkner	TAS	116	168	30.36
Chris Tremain	VIC	27	43	32.39
Jon Holland	VIC	49	63	32.55
Joe Burns	QLD	2	1	33.00
Adam Zampa	SA	81	118	33.64
Arjun Nair	NSW	10	13	34.38
Jack Wildermuth	QLD	13	15	34.53
Mickey Edwards	NSW	7	9	34.77
Ashton Agar	WA	43	53	35.09
Joe Mennie	SA	45	55	36.01
Moises Henriques	NSW	87	77	37.64
Michael Neser	QLD	47	52	37.94
Marcus Stoinis	WA	69	59	38.76
Tom Cooper	SA	49	25	39.20
Billy Stanlake	QLD	21	25	40.32
Jackson Bird	TAS	28	30	40.43
Scott Boland	VIC	55	67	40.62
Glenn Maxwell	VIC	135	91	43.84
D'Archy Short	WA	25	17	44.29
Riley Meredith	TAS	13	14	45.85
Aaron Finch	VIC	29	9	46.66
Nic Maddinson	VIC	21	7	46.85
Wes Agar	SA	7	8	48.00
Luke Robins	SA	1	1	48.00

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Teams - Players to Watch

New South Wales

• Abbott - After a successful last few years in the One-Day Cups, Abbott should be looking at staking his claim into the ODI after this Season.

• Edwards Brothers - Both Jack and Mickey are in prime positions to learn from this year, both being young, and both played well in their respective positions last year, with Jack hitting a superb ton against QLD last year and Mickey taking a 4-wicket haul against Tasmania.

• Hughes - Averaging 51.70 in List A cricket from 19 innings, Hughes has a chance to increase his average this year and make a claim for a spot in the ODI team, despite being 30 years of age.

• Sams - Another relatively young cricketer, just starting his List A career. Averaging 38 with the bat and 22.44 with the ball from 6 matches is impressive stuff, it will be interesting to see how he goes this year.

Queensland

• Peirson - His second year of captaining Queensland in List A, it is on him to score vital runs down the order for his team and steady the ship if any collapses occur.

• Bryant - Explosive young opener, as seen from both last year's edition as well as the Big Bash, with a strike rate of 126.16 and average of 31.15. It will be exciting to see how Bryant and Heazlett go opening the innings like last year.

• Heazlett - An exciting young opener/top-order player with the highest List A average from players who have played more than 10 innings. If he can continue this form this year he would surely be in contention for an ODI spot.

• Steketee - After an impressive last season as Queensland's strike bowler, having bowled 66.2 overs from 7 innings taking 14 wickets, if he were to continue this form it would help Queensland's chances at a title this year.

South Australia

• Lehmann - Captaining South Australia, it's important for him to have a strong season with the bat, as he did last year scoring 259 runs @ 51.80.

• Carey - With not as much pressure from other players on him to remain the incumbent ODI keeper, it is important to build on his form from the CWC and cement his spot in that side.

• K Richardson - South Australia's lowest averaging bowler, it is important for him to lead the side with the ball for South Australia to have a chance at reaches the late finals, as this let them down last year.

• Weatherald - Another young batsman, averaging 46.42 from 20 innings, he is in the same group of batsmen as Heazlett and McDermott with chances of catching the selectors eyes. In addition to Lehmann and Ferguson last year, South Australia seem to have a strong batting line-up.

Tasmania

• Silk - Having taken over the captaincy of Tasmania, Silk needs to step up after a mediocre last season of 211 runs @ 30.14.

• Bailey - As one of the senior players in the squad, it is important for him to stand up this year and put his experience to good use to ensure that the younger and less experienced players in the team are comfortable.

• McDermott - After an incredible season last year, averaging 427 from 7 innings with 2 centuries, you would expect him to try keep this up as he is still young and has potential to be a good edition to the ODI squad, and he's certainly in the eyeline of the selectors having played 8 T20Is.

• Sandhu - Taking 18 wickets @ 16.66 last season was an incredible return for Sandhu, in his first year with Tasmania, after a solid 2017 season with NSW. Having been in the ODI squad previously, if he can continue this form it will look good for his List A average of 22.60, and a chance of playing ODIs later this year.

Victoria

• Handscomb - Captaining Victoria again after an outstanding year last year where he won the One-Day Cup for Victoria after taking MOTM and scoring 361 runs @ 51.57 in the campaign. Should be interesting to see him bat again this season and see if his technique changes at all after being dismissed easily in the one innings he played in England at the CWC.

• Coleman - Having taken 10 wickets @ 24.00 last year, it should be interesting to see if he continues this form this year.

• Maxwell - After an incredibly disappointing CWC, scoring 177 @ 22.12 from his 10 innings, Maxwell will look to bounce back during this JLT Cup to ensure he has a chance of playing in the ODI matches later in the cricket season.

• Sutherland - 19 years old and having played 3 matches for Victoria last season taking 8 wickets at 17.12, it will be good to see if he continues this this year.

Western Australia

• Bancroft - After a good English summer playing for Durham, it will be interesting if he can continue his form back over in Australia after coming back from his ban. In addition, his 377 runs from 7 innings @ an average of 94.25 was impressive for Durham. If he can continue this form for WA, it will make for impressive watching.

• Coulter-Nile - After a mediocre CWC for Coulter-Nile, playing 5 matches, taking 4 wickets @ 70, to see him bounce back from this would be impressive as his consistency and average over 10 years playing List A cricket could be the key to Western Australia going up.

• Kelly - A young right handed pace bowler, after impressive T20 and FC games last year, it will be good to see him return to his form from the 2017 One-Day Cup, having taken 8 wickets @ 19.75.

• Short - An impressive last season for WA, scoring 404 runs @ 71.17 and taking 3 wickets @ 40, a return to these figures this year will see his chances of making a comeback into the Australian ODI setup rise.

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My tip to win: Victoria, with the most experienced batting and bowling line-ups in the tournament, it's no surprise that they won last year. With a couple of young players and a few experienced batsmen, it's difficult to see Victoria crumbling under pressure.

Thank you for reading through this post! Sorry if it was a bit long, it sort of just snowballed after I started working on the batsmen averages. Hopefully this will help anyone on the fringes of watching Australian domestic cricket understand it a bit more and take more interest in it. Thank you!

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