County Cricket 2011 Season (III)

Scotty Borthwick coming to the party for Durham just when they need him most. May have just sealed a Winter tour spot with his performance today.

PeterCS wrote:Was she pregnant as well?

Don't you think it's time you turned yourself in?

I ent fat, I ent go no sores - besides, I'm a punch'n'run type.

MEAN-F*CKING-WHILE THE COUNTY ARE F*CKING IT WITH A TYPICALLY WEAK DISPLAY............ WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. THAT GO-SLOW TACTIC REALLY WORK WELL, DIDN'T IT? DIDN'T ITTTTTTTTT????????????

Yes, a rather meak(er) performance from Northants.

Good effort Trev.

All joking aside, this is a really low ebb. I can literally barely control the rage I am feeling. It is an unabashed rage. I'm seriously finding it hard to keep it in. I'm sure I can actually taste blood in the back of my throat.

I hope your uvula hasn't ruptured.

Danny's vulva burst long ago. He calls it a pie nowadays, it's so sloppy and crusted with pastry.

PeterCS wrote:Lancs 80-9 = all out.

As good as an innings defeat.


Baz can breathe again - his team seem safe.

Not yet we're not - can't see how Hampshire can fail to beat Somerset and the Bears not having it all their own way - I think we're still going to need at least a decent crop of bonus points in our last match against Durham. Although if we beat Sussex in our next match we should be home and dry, which would also potentially drop Sussex in the poop.

Not an easy pitch evidently, but Jack Birkenshaw - the ECB's pitch Liaison Officer was present for both days and doesn't have a problem with the surface.

Worcs have done a lot better than I expected Bas tbh. I'd have taken your position at the start of the season.

So would I: if the batting had not been so flaky at times this season, we would have been safe two or three weeks ago - as it is, ther's is everything to play for.

Lancashite's batting's hopeless.

Their best batsman this season averages 33.

It's a typical Peter Moores team - a bunch of bits and bobsy try hards muddling along. Doesn't say much for the standard of division one that they are (or were) championship challengers.

Fives for Meaker and Borthwick.

Nice.

34 wickets @ 21s for Meaks. Solid season. Needs to stay fitter for longer. If he'd have played as many games as Linley, he'd probably have 50+ wickets for the season - which would be good going.

Lions duty for him this winter, for sure.

Durham beating Sussex
Hampshire beating Somerset
Yorkshire giving the Bears the runaround.

Div 1 is aboult to get a lot less straightforward.

Dello wrote:Lancashite's batting's hopeless.

Their best batsman this season averages 33.

It's a typical Peter Moores team - a bunch of bits and bobsy try hards muddling along. Doesn't say much for the standard of division one that they are (or were) championship challengers.

Astonishingly, still are, if now on the outside rails than at the head of the race.

We all keep saying that about Lancs batting, and the comment it makes on the CC Div I .... Durham in some ways apart.

I've been saying it meself for a couple of months or more, ffs.

But, since they have the points in the table, the mathematical/logical corollary of the batters playing chumps is that the bowlers have been playing like champs. (Or most of them .... possibly Saj apart.)

Which is what the huge gap in the two columns of bonus points also indicates.

Weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak effort by Northants. Couldn't even make it to lunch. Most likely going to piss it down soon. Still, shows we don't deserve to go up. Now they can go ahead of us by one point if they win their game in hand.

Danny, I'd rather your boys went up than the Slurreyites, but I think you are going to struggle now - for one thing Surrey play Direby in their last game - nuff said I think.

Heh, cheers Bas, I don't give us much of a chance myself anyway. They're putting together some good cricket. We're flailing around death's door style. All we've got to do is pull off a max-point blinder and hope for the best. Tame, rain-affected draw, I reckon though. Probably haven't got the financial staying power for Div 1 anyway, I reckon.

Clydesdale Bank 40 semis: Somerset look like beating Durham and Surrey playing Sussex in the other one in a rain-reduced 24 over-a-side game.

Durham's bowling has been tripe thus far.

Who needs Tres?

Can't complain at all. The two best teams in the tournament got through. Jebus Surrey smashed it. Looking forward to the final, for a change. Bet it's a washout.

Slurrey in danger of becoming a half decent side again.....

Bad Times.

No Tres for us. May as well consign ourselves to runners up again here and now.

So ... who's favourite for the CC now then?

I suppose Warks? They have Notts at home, though - usually tough, even though they can't win themselves. And then Hants away, weak this season, and who may possibly have given up the ghost by then.

Lancs? I say it myself, but it would be a bit of a travesty if the Red Rose won it (at last), with that batting. Hants at home (well, at the unpredictable Southport) SHOULD be a win, but ... being Lancs ... .... And then Taunton, daunting even if Tres is still not fighting fit. If they win that one, maybe they have deserved it on the factual evidence of points after all. Well, the bowlers will have ...... ~ Not sure I can see it, I have to say.

Durham would be the worthiest champions I think, despite their recent setbacks. But though out front, it's only by 7 pts, with a single game left (as opposed to their rivals' two). Worcs at home in the last round - who may or may not be safe by then, so may be more or less inclined to fight tooth and nail (I am not suggesting they will throw in the towel, Baz - just that there are degrees of fight).

I guess Durham will be hoping it rains solid from Wed to Sat ...... or even to next Thurs .....

It's possible I suppose that Soms might yet win the pennant. Will take two near-max-points wins though, and a few draws or losses from the current top three. Yorks at Leeds will be scrapping like Tigers/Tykers, one would expect (or else face being lynched by the White Rose Faithful). If the Zoiders can however extract 22-24 points there, Lancs can expect a sandblasting effort to finish with.



Warks, or else Durham via weather, I suppose.

It's been quite sporadic and is hard to tell, but I suspect it won't be Durham - more likely Lancs / Warks (well, depending on whether the weather holds).

PeterCS wrote:So ... who's favourite for the CC now then?

I suppose Warks? They have Notts at home, though - usually tough, even though they can't win themselves. And then Hants away, weak this season, and who may possibly have given up the ghost by then.

Lancs? I say it myself, but it would be a bit of a travesty if the Red Rose won it (at last), with that batting. Hants at home (well, at the unpredictable Southport) SHOULD be a win, but ... being Lancs ... .... And then Taunton, daunting even if Tres is still not fighting fit. If they win that one, maybe they have deserved it on the factual evidence of points after all. Well, the bowlers will have ...... ~ Not sure I can see it, I have to say.

Durham would be the worthiest champions I think, despite their recent setbacks. But though out front, it's only by 7 pts, with a single game left (as opposed to their rivals' two). Worcs at home in the last round - who may or may not be safe by then, so may be more or less inclined to fight tooth and nail (I am not suggesting they will throw in the towel, Baz - just that there are degrees of fight).

I guess Durham will be hoping it rains solid from Wed to Sat ...... or even to next Thurs .....

It's possible I suppose that Soms might yet win the pennant. Will take two near-max-points wins though, and a few draws or losses from the current top three. Yorks at Leeds will be scrapping like Tigers/Tykers, one would expect (or else face being lynched by the White Rose Faithful). If the Zoiders can however extract 22-24 points there, Lancs can expect a sandblasting effort to finish with.



Warks, or else Durham via weather, I suppose.

I take your point Pete - the indifferent weather forecast for this weeks acts in our favour, and we may well be safe by this time next week, but sides get more prize money the higher they finish so there will be some sort of incentive for us to do well to do well and we owe it to the other sides in contention not to roll over and have our tummies tickled.

Aye Baz, position matters - click