Cricket Thread

[Norbert D]

it was great batting conditions though if they get going and all that but hindsight is great

Not hindsight I said that on Thursday night, I actually thought they may even declare when they got level and make it a one day shoot out on Friday. England need a win or they have lost. Aussies only need a draw.

 

[Craig]

Not hindsight I said that on Thursday night, I actually thought they may even declare when they got level and make it a one day shoot out on Friday. England need a win or they have lost. Aussies only need a draw.

Well, whatever they did it was always going to be in the hands of the weather. They couldn’t declare when level and chuck away the advantage. Was better trying to get the runs in the first innings when they had something of a free hit. The Aussies were never gonna get involved in making a game of it. So we’d have had to either chase over 200 between the rain or try and bowl them out. Only needing 6 more wickets is as good as we could have hoped for in my opinion.

 

[mosssideblue]

Any sign of play any time soon?

 

[MCFC1993]

Any sign of play any time soon?

Pitch inspection at 2pm.

 

[Postman Pep]

Not rained in Hale for about an hour

Fingers crossed for a couple more. Even if they manage an hour we should be able to nick a couple more out under these conditions.

 

[mosssideblue]

Pitch inspection at 2pm.

Cheers mate. Fingers crossed England get opportunity to take it to the final test

 

[Indaparkside]

Stopped raining again hopefully may get a couple of hours looks a bit brighter here now

 

[waspish]

Pitch inspection at 2pm but think there the rain be back around 2:30

 

[Norbert D]

Well, whatever they did it was always going to be in the hands of the weather. They couldn’t declare when level and chuck away the advantage. Was better trying to get the runs in the first innings when they had something of a free hit. The Aussies were never gonna get involved in making a game of it. So we’d have had to either chase over 200 between the rain or try and bowl them out. Only needing 6 more wickets is as good as we could have hoped for in my opinion.

No worries, I am thinking of that daft first test declaration that cost England the first game, this seemed the polar opposite. Like you said there was no perfect scenario but I firmly believe batting to 600 when the forecast was so dire for the weekend was dumb.

 

[Bluemoon dan]

Covers coming off!

 

[Postman Pep]

Covers coming off

 

[Indaparkside]

Covers coming off!

Lazy ****

 

[Gabriel]

Match drawn in Lancs game.

Lancashire’s sixth draw of the season.

 

[kippaxwarrior]

2.45 start if no more rain

 

[waspish]

2.45 start if no more rain

Going to start light rain at 2:30 but will clear up after 15 mins I’ll be shocked if we start at 2:45

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Not to be a pessimist, but I think the chances of the rain not returning before 2.45 is probably about 1%.

 

[i kne albert davy]

Stopped raining again hopefully may get a couple of hours looks a bit brighter here now

Stopped raining quite some time ago in Gods back garden of sunny Duky where all the worlds weather springs from, get the convicts back out in the middle.:-)

 

[cleavers]

Typical British summer weather this.

People forget that an exceptional summer with record temperatures is not the normal summer.

 

[Cricket Blue]

Raining again now

 

[xgorton]

Lancashire’s sixth draw of the season.

Weather's shite.