Have The QLD Bulls Booked A Home Final?

The Queensland Bulls are now four games into the Sheffield Shield competition and looking good to have booked a place in the final.  There is still a long way to go with six more games to be played but looking at past seasons it is hard to see how they won't make it.

Currently the table has Queensland on a maximum 24 points from 4 games with Western Australia 10 points adrift in second place and Victoria a further 4 points back.  In most cases any season total above 26-30 points is good enough to make it into a final and anything above that a good chance to be hosting the final. 

The most recent game was a trilling 14 run victory over NSW and is being done with players that rarely get a mention for National colours, although this afternoon it was announced that Ben Cutting was named in the Australian A team to play New Zealand next week.  For a undefeated team dominating domestic cricket this season it is the snubbing of the players this side of the border that is the reason Queensland will go on to be very successful this year.  North of the border it is this sort of thing that drives our passion in sport and feeds our hatred of any team wearing blue.

On one hand I hope none of the Queenslanders get picked for Australia this season to enable them to win the 4 and 1 day competitions this year, but Australia will be worse off for it.  Australia needs players in it's team that are on top of their game, in form and know they can win, something that has been lacking of late.  Maybe if Lehmann eventually becomes coach of the national team we will start seeing players picked on form rather than promise and performances too far back to consider.  Otherwise I am happy to sit back and see Queensland dominate in yet another sporting competition.