Cricket Thread

MillionMilesAway said:
I bet that makes him feel better. Looks like a couple of the middle order went mad.

I wonder if it's one of those Oval matches where they put the pitch some way off to one side and the boundary is really short
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Sibley notched 305 and the boundary on one side is slightly benevolent, but it’s a baked road of a wicket, and once the Kookaburra goes soft, there’s no contest.
 
Gabriel said:
Jennings and Green had good knocks.

In Division 1 today, the 5 matches yielded an average of 351.6 runs for 4.4 wickets. Must listen to Key explain again how the Kookaburra experiment will help England’s bowlers win Ashes series in Australia…
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Even more ridiculous is the fact that they’re not using the Kookaburra against India so only the bowlers with no chance of going to Australia are flogging themselves into the ground for no wickets, whilst the lads already in the team are bowling plenty of rubbish but taking wickets with the Dukes ball. Madness…
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
Even more ridiculous is the fact that they’re not using the Kookaburra against India so only the bowlers with no chance of going to Australia are flogging themselves into the ground for no wickets, whilst the lads already in the team are bowling plenty of rubbish but taking wickets with the Dukes ball. Madness…
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If the idea was to get England’s future bowlers on their chinstraps and accustomed to seeing the opponent cream the Kookaburra to all points of the compass, then there’ll be strength in depth come the 29-30 tour.
 
I'm off to the Northants Vs Lancashire T20 game on Friday evening.

Are the big names likely to be playing? Looks like there could be quite a good chance with Buttler, Livingston and Anderson not in the Test side.
 
beehive_bob said:
Cracking day out at Chesterfield. Excellent gritty knock by Jennings holding it together and Green's century was class. Definitely a bit of a greentop wicket so might explain the early wickets...speaking to groundstaff they said it usually starts to change on day three and a proper dust bowl on the final day in these conditions, so we'll see where we stand after Derbyshire have a bat.
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We stand 106 in front, Lancs with first inning lead (again).

The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
Didn’t they get 500 in a day last week?
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I think it was 4 1/2 sessions, but they were setting a big lead, and really went for it (then predictably failed to win a game they should have had won mid-afternoon).
 
Looking at the table, obviously Leicestershire are running away with it, and rightly so they've been fantastic. But below them it's all very tight, could be a real scrap for 2nd.

A couple of wins and Lancs are right in and amongst it, could be an exciting finish if we get our shit together.
 
EastMidlandsBlue said:
Looking at the table, obviously Leicestershire are running away with it, and rightly so they've been fantastic. But below them it's all very tight, could be a real scrap for 2nd.

A couple of wins and Lancs are right in and amongst it, could be an exciting finish if we get our shit together.
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Sounds promising.

(But … is there some uncertainty about what the format etc will be next year? Thought I’d read something about “consultations” going on)
 
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