the Sheffield Shield, brought to you by a soggy breakfast: WA

Western Australia, the test match batsman

Players that wont be available for large chunks of the season

Mitchell Johnson, Michael Hussey and Shaun Marsh.

They won’t miss Johnson because they have never had him, but when they have him it will be handy.

Hussey and Marsh are not going to be missed in a batting line up of this strength.

Leadership

Marcus North is very strong captain, and with Cameron White is the best captain in Australia.

Voges is the Vice Captain, and he was at one time a potential Australian captain.
So it's a pretty good base they have there, Chris Rogers left because of a lack of leadership oppurtunities and he captained Derbyshire this year. 

Bowling

Hard to see where the wickets are going to come from.

Magoffin is a wicket taker, Edmondson is proper quick, and Dorey is tall.

But you can’t see them getting 20 wickets too often.

Aaron Heal is a great one day spinner, but isn’t really a four day bowler, and I can’t see anyone else in their squad who can contribute wickets.

Batting

This is where Western Australia come into their own.

Pomersbach, Voges, and North are all test match quality batsman in lesser countries.

Liam davis made a hundred on debut against NSWales last year and Luke ronchi is a freakin superstar.

Long in the tooth

Matthew Innes took a lot of wickets last year, but he was retired, so um, no one really.

Ready to lose the nappies

Geoff, Shaun, and now Mitchell. The third in the line of Marshs, he is only young, and is rookie listed, but with Rogers and Langer leaving he may be a good fit for the top order.

Nostradamus

Shield

3rd or 4th.

One day

2nd or 3rd.

2020

3rd or 4th.

The rub

Can bat the ass off a polar bear, but can they take wickets.

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