English Domestic Season 2022

It’s April, it’s snowing (or it was yesterday, at least)… it must be the cricket season.

Seems the Champion County curtain-raiser, in the Middle East or otherwise, has been shelved for now, though defending champs Warwickshire are seemingly playing a friendly with Somerset (were they second? They usually are.) A few university knockabouts starting tomorrow, as we build up to the important stuff like the second edition of the SixteenPointFour16.4 Cup, complete with its 80s Spectrum game neon graphics. Sure it will help us fill the gaping holes in our Test top six.

There’s a bit of red (and maybe pink?) ball cricket as well. And the good old-fashioned T20 Blast. But the mascot race without Bumble, how on earth will that work? Can’t imagine Blobert charging around the outfield after 18 nutcases in animal costumes…

Follow that, Jack Leach… Warwickshire’s number 11 Oliver Hannon-Dalby takes 94 minutes to get off the mark against Surrey. He did go on to make 11 not out, mind you…

Ben Compton becomes the 11th player to be on the field for every ball of a completed first class match.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/county-championship-division-one-2022-1297650/kent-vs-lancashire-1297676/full-scorecard

Just found out that Mick Lewis FFS is bowling coach at Essex! Chav-tastic…

LOL.

Speaking of bowlers, is Darren Stevens finally past it? The pensioner doesn't seem to be getting many wickets this season so far.

Yes, early doors I know.

Nobody’s getting many wickets it seems, looks like a run-fest so far… dry weather the reason, or something else going on?

When Stevens made his FC debut, John Major was Prime Minister

Stevens and Siddle are throwbacks to when real tough men bowled.

The likes of Trueman and Statham would be laughing at the current lack of ironmen bowlers.

Jimmy Anderson surely has that status, I know he rarely plays any domestic cricket but to be still going at the top level at nearly 40…

Most of them are made of glass these days though, especially the 90mph+ men. The fault of sports science, now they’re finely tuned athletes the side-effect is that they will break down frequently, as opposed to the days when they ran on pies, pints and cigarettes? Something common to a lot of sports…

Looks like Shan Massod is a chance of 1000 runs before the end of May - he's 611 with 3 matches to go.

Who was the last to achieve the feat?

Nevermind, it was Hick in 1988. DGB did it twice (in 1938 he needed just 7 innings!!).

JGK wrote:Looks like Shan Massod is a chance of 1000 runs before the end of May - he's 611 with 3 matches to go.

And surely that is the JGK KoD??!!

... out for 60 this time, c+b Hogan.

JGKd.

Plenty of time left.

skully wrote:

JGK wrote:Looks like Shan Massod is a chance of 1000 runs before the end of May - he's 611 with 3 matches to go.

And surely that is the JGK KoD??!!

Well Masood just missed the record for most runs by the end of April by 3 runs.

SO he made 1,000 before the end of April? How many did he make?

No, 713 before end April.

JGK wrote:No, 713 before end April.  

Where did you find that record?

Wisden on what Masood has to do

Kent’s Nathan Gilchrist (no relation - he’s a Zimyarpom) has equalled a world record with six consecutive ducks. Surpassing the Audi and Olympic to earn a Henry VIII. Three of the ducks were golden, and they were in three pairs as well…

Div 2

Player Mat Runs Ave
Shan Masood 4 713 118.83
CA Pujara 3 531 132.75
SR Dickson 4 520 74.28
WL Madsen 4 498 99.6
TJ Haines 4 447 63.85
BM Duckett 4 430 71.66
BD Guest 4 327 54.5
BL D'Oliveira 3 309 154.5
EG Barnard 3 303 75.75
DL Lloyd 4 302 37.75
DG Bedingham 4 301 60.2
M Labuschagne 3 299 59.8
AZ Lees 2 298 149
SA Northeast 4 288 36

Brooke Guest is a PomOzPom . Plays for South Perth in the Oz summer . Selected as a keeper in the Oz under 19s that didnt go to Bangladesh . Nows plays as a pom (born in Manchester) . I umpired him in wozzie premier cricket

I umpired Ed Barnard when he played 2s for Scarborough . Nice bloke

Div 1

Player Mat Inns NO Runs Ave
BG Compton 4 7 1 560 93.33
HC Brook 3 5 2 512 170.66
DJ Malan 3 5 0 395 79
MGK Burgess 3 4 0 372 93
NRT Gubbins 4 6 1 364 72.8
MS Harris 3 5 0 352 70.4
JM Cox 4 7 0 336 48
CDJ Dent 3 5 1 332 83
BC Brown 4 6 1 326 65.2
JR Bracey 4 7 0 326 46.57
OJ Pope 4 5 0 321 64.2
TB Abell 4 7 1 301 50.16
BT Foakes 3 4 2 288 144
JJ Bohannon 3 3 0 283 94.33
DJ Bell-Drummond 4 7 0 282 40.28
JJ Weatherley 4 6 0 279 46.5
RI Keogh 3 5 0 278 55.6
AN Cook 4 8 1 272 38.85

I think Masood only has 2 more matches before the end of May so he's going to need a big score somewhere.

beamer wrote:Kent’s Nathan Gilchrist (no relation - he’s a Zimyarpom) has equalled a world record with six consecutive ducks. Surpassing the Audi and Olympic to earn a Henry VIII. Three of the ducks were golden, and they were in three pairs as well…

Crikey!! He makes the infamous NZer Chris Martin look like a half decent batsman.