Cricket Thread

Earlyriser said:
Whatever way you look at it was an absurd decision. I'm not having a go at Jimmy per se but the people running the Club. Attendances this season have been down which is probably explained by the terrible cricket played and the poor results. I fail to see what the Committee expected when planning for the season given their relegation and the continued employment of the coach. Little effort has been made to address the cricketing issues. In relation to Jimmy we ended up employing a man who has played 4 CC games and can only bowl 4-5 overs of the day. Madness.
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He tends to bowl about 10 a day but the wickets come in his first 5. I can see him being a bowling coach at England or even first team county coach, or franchise coach, but backroom staff at LCCC won't be enough to interest him.

It has been a very poor season, we could win this week but after Midds and Derbs getting 500+ we are unlikely to finish top half, only played Div 2 twice before and were promoted as champions both times.

The membership is upset as to how it is run, with LCCC third priority after the Venue income and the 100. We need promotion next year or we will lend up a second rate county pretty soon.
 
Corky said:
He tends to bowl about 10 a day but the wickets come in his first 5. I can see him being a bowling coach at England or even first team county coach, or franchise coach, but backroom staff at LCCC won't be enough to interest him.

It has been a very poor season, we could win this week but after Midds and Derbs getting 500+ we are unlikely to finish top half, only played Div 2 twice before and were promoted as champions both times.

The membership is upset as to how it is run, with LCCC third priority after the Venue income and the 100. We need promotion next year or we will lend up a second rate county pretty soon.
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To some extent I can understand the view of the Comm in relation to the County Game. You invest and develop a player and if he makes the breakthrough into the England side he disappears into the central contract world never ever to be really seen again in the CC side. It appears to be the only UK sport where this is allowed/permitted and the clubs except it. It is probably down to the financial structure of the county game though the finances of most RU clubs are as equally parlous and dependent on RFU handouts.
 
Corky said:
He tends to bowl about 10 a day but the wickets come in his first 5. I can see him being a bowling coach at England or even first team county coach, or franchise coach, but backroom staff at LCCC won't be enough to interest him.

It has been a very poor season, we could win this week but after Midds and Derbs getting 500+ we are unlikely to finish top half, only played Div 2 twice before and were promoted as champions both times.

The membership is upset as to how it is run, with LCCC third priority after the Venue income and the 100. We need promotion next year or we will lend up a second rate county pretty soon.
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“I can see him being a bowling coach at England”

Jimmy has already done that….reckon he thought he wasn’t involved enough and still fancied playing
 
On a separate note has the production line of Lancs cricketers from Manchester Grammar dried up?
 
Agarwal, incredible innings today, 175. Single handedly secured Yorkshire’s D1 status I think, esp after Bairstow’s duck.
Exactly to sort of ex-Indian international we could do with at Lancs.
 
Although we seem to have some exceptional young players coming through the talk is that probably the best prospect, Rocky Flintoff, is moving on. That probably highlights the lack of ambition within the club. Lancashire have been declining for the past two decades. The stadium is a mess, a bigger mish mash than Maine Road.
I always envisaged spending a lot of my retirement watching cricket but the state of the game now doesn’t appeal. Test cricket , one day slogs and London venues are all that matter
 
Great position for Lancs this.
In terms of the season too little too late of course, but a great position here nevertheless.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Probably finish 5th, unless the other games are washed out tomorrow.
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Yeah, I'd kind of missed Middlesex and Derbyshire very likely winning (in fact completely misread the Derbyshire game).

KS55 said:
The farcical first part of the season under a useless coach has cost us dearly.
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Been pretty useless most of the season in all competitions to be fair.
 
TonyColemansbagofapples said:
Although we seem to have some exceptional young players coming through the talk is that probably the best prospect, Rocky Flintoff, is moving on. That probably highlights the lack of ambition within the club. Lancashire have been declining for the past two decades. The stadium is a mess, a bigger mish mash than Maine Road.
I always envisaged spending a lot of my retirement watching cricket but the state of the game now doesn’t appeal. Test cricket , one day slogs and London venues are all that matter
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Rocky has been badly advised by his dad.
Injured early season, so was unavailable.
Then went to the Hundred with Yarrrkshire (or whatever their name is in that guise) when he should've been at Lancs playing Metro Cup.
He didn't play a game.
Rocky is a talent, no doubt.
But Joe Moores is the real deal. Would be great to have both but Fred seems to be upsetting a few at Lancs.
Mind you if it's Chilton and Gidney then fair play!!!!!!!
 
Pubteam Lomas said:
Rocky has been badly advised by his dad.
Injured early season, so was unavailable.
Then went to the Hundred with Yarrrkshire (or whatever their name is in that guise) when he should've been at Lancs playing Metro Cup.
He didn't play a game.
Rocky is a talent, no doubt.
But Joe Moores is the real deal. Would be great to have both but Fred seems to be upsetting a few at Lancs.
Mind you if it's Chilton and Gidney then fair play!!!!!!!
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If ‘badly advised’ means advised to leave Lancs, who can honestly blame him? The club seems to have little regard for cricket.
The appointment of a coach who had an unbroken record of failure summed it up for me.
 
Earlyriser said:
On a separate note has the production line of Lancs cricketers from Manchester Grammar dried up?
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I hope so to get the snobbery out of Lancs
A number of years ago I spoke to a big cricket fan and his lad was a very, very good player
His dad said that with the right coaching he'd be good enough to play for Lancashire, but it's all about who you know and what school you went to
 
KS55 said:
If ‘badly advised’ means advised to leave Lancs, who can honestly blame him? The club seems to have little regard for cricket.
The appointment of a coach who had an unbroken record of failure summed it up for me.
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Whilst I agree with the disregard of the cricket, by 'Badly advised' I meant going to watch the hundred with his dad instead of playing cricket in the Metro Cup.

We'd have done well in the T20 finals had we not been forced to play a second string cos the ECB arrange a series of International T20s on the same weekend.

Youngsters get their chance at Old Trafford.
Balderson, Hurst, Aspinwall have all done well.
Add Bosh, Hartley and Bell (a bit mixed to be fair) we do give you players a proper shot.

However, Gidney and Chilton are a disaster. Turned OT into an outdoor concert arena instead of a cricket ground and appointed, as you rightly said, 'a coach who had an unbroken record of failure'.
 
Congratulations to Nottinghamshire on securing the Championship, though if Surrey had unearthed Chahar (8-51) earlier, one wonders if they might have done better in their recent meeting. Promising debut, too, for young Ralphie Albert, snooker legend Jimmy White’s grandson. Another long summer closes; wonder what we’ll find to discuss in here over the winter…
 
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