English Domestic Season 2015

Glamorgan undone by Malan and Harris.


It's criminal how underrated Harris is on this forum. It's like a bowler "we can't discuss" - he bowled Middlesex to victory against Sussex and bowled economical and with great reward against Glamorgan. Both under pressure innings.

Ignore the 9fer against Durham, third in the CCDiv1 wicket list, 25 years old. The season of his career so far for a top Division One club.

Steps up when Finn is on international duty, carries the burden well.

"Oh he won't be in the touring party for Pakistan in the Winter"

The MightyZ lose 6 wickets in 8 balls for 4 runs. Symmetry. It's a good job we'd scored in excess of 330 by that point.

DJ_Smerk wrote:Glamorgan undone by Malan and Harris.


It's criminal how underrated Harris is on this forum. It's like a bowler "we can't discuss" - he bowled Middlesex to victory against Sussex and bowled economical and with great reward against Glamorgan. Both under pressure innings.

Ignore the 9fer against Durham, third in the CCDiv1 wicket list, 25 years old. The season of his career so far for a top Division One club.

Steps up when Finn is on international duty, carries the burden well.

"Oh he won't be in the touring party for Pakistan in the Winter"

Meh.

That is all.

I don't want to have him murdered with a wildly-swung cricket bat so I won't name-check him, but I will say that there's one half of a pair of twins who plays for a County in the South-west, and it will be absolutely criminal if he's not picked in England's ODI squad to face Australia, which I assume is announced in the next few days.

And he's miles more promising than James Harris.

Henry wrote:I don't want to have him murdered with a wildly-swung cricket bat so I won't name-check him, but I will say that there's one half of a pair of twins who plays for a County in the South-west, and it will be absolutely criminal if he's not picked in England's ODI squad to face Australia, which I assume is announced in the next few days.

And he's miles more promising than James Harris.

I've known bowls of cold porridge more promising than James Harris.

Henry wrote:I don't want to have him murdered with a wildly-swung cricket bat so I won't name-check him, but I will say that there's one half of a pair of twins who plays for a County in the South-west, and it will be absolutely criminal if he's not picked in England's ODI squad to face Australia, which I assume is announced in the next few days.

And he's miles more promising than James Harris.

The headshrinkers? I'm on the train to WGAFsville... wake me up before you gogo,

Why do they play cricket in Yorkshire? The weather is so dogshit. Bomb the shithouse.... let the rain put out the flames.

Cool... so Somerset or Durham go through because there's typically crap weather at Leeds. Great times.

Henry wrote:I don't want to have him murdered with a wildly-swung cricket bat so I won't name-check him, but I will say that there's one half of a pair of twins who plays for a County in the South-west, and it will be absolutely criminal if he's not picked in England's ODI squad to face Australia, which I assume is announced in the next few days.

And he's miles more promising than James Harris.

Are we talking the Overtons? I thought Lewis Gregory was the next big thing. Or was that a couple of years ago, who knows.

Gregory was picked in England's ODI squad to play Ireland a couple of months back, so he's on some sort of radar. I'd like to see him making the runs he's capable of making, though.

The two you mentioned are the biz.

Goodbye David Willey. Decent farewell would be winning us the T20 final...

I'm going - Vilks, are you?

Sorry Monkey Man

eowyn wrote:Sorry Monkey Man

Bloody heck, is that an official Yorkshire CCC photoshop? That's some amateur hour FB advent calendar nonsense. Why's he exploding everywhere?

Was the only picture they could find of him batting the one where he looks like he doesn't have the first idea of the basics of batting? Is he shaping up for a backhand volley?

That picture is pretty much par for the course in the weekly "Friday Night Lights" emails YCCC send me. (This was in a mid-week extra today it's "big" "news", you're blessed I didn't copy and paste the whole thing)

that must have been some curry

I'm just pleased they've moved on from the whippets and flat caps. It was a looonnnngggg time coming.

We never had whippets in curries!

eowyn wrote:We never had whippets in curries!

What about flat caps?

lardbucket wrote:

eowyn wrote:We never had whippets in curries!

What about flat caps?

Heavily disguised as Naan breads.

Looks like Nottinghamshire MightyZ might have a decent end to the season after looking like fodder in the early stages. It's good to see us fielding such a young attack, with Ball, Hutton and Wood having come through the youth ranks. They're doing okay, too, having taken 72 wickets @ 29.3 between them. Ball has come on a lot this year, it'd be nice if we could find a decent, regular spinner to supplement this young attack for next year.

It'd be nice to win the 50-over competition, but I don't think we will. I think we're too much of a batting team in the limited-overs competitions, which makes it hard if we only get up to a par score.

Chivalry Augustus wrote: It's good to see us fielding such a young attack, with Ball, Hutton and Wood having come through the youth ranks. They're doing okay, too, having taken 72 wickets @ 29.3 between them. 

Dobbing STBs one and all

Brass Monkey wrote:

Chivalry Augustus wrote: It's good to see us fielding such a young attack, with Ball, Hutton and Wood having come through the youth ranks. They're doing okay, too, having taken 72 wickets @ 29.3 between them. 

Dobbing STBs one and all

They are, although Ball has got progressively quicker. The reality is that the majority of county cricketers are like this. I'd rather see them playing than overseas players who don't raise the standards significantly. In fact, this is something that people have been wrong about in recent years. Losing the second overseas player isn't necessarily important. The problem is that some overseas players are just as mediocre as their English counterparts. Overseas players should be high-quality spin-bowlers or good international batsmen, not just an above average South African or New Zealand equivalent.

Well, yeah - a shit player is a shit player, regardless of country of birth. But the laws are too stringent in terms of Visa qualifications... just because someone hasn't played a required amount of international matches doesn't mean they're a shit player. If you could get two overseas players who are possibly just under international standard or out of favour with their NSP, I can't see it being any less beneficial to the national side than selecting players who are only likely to succeed in a certain set of conditions.

Another hundred for the Roy Dawg.

Sangakkara's dad will NOT be pleased