English Domestic Season (2014)

It's the colour of the elite, beamer. Goes back to Roman times, dye to make clothe purple came from rare shells

beamer wrote:Not sayng they didn't deserve it, but penalty runs are a very unsatisfactory way to effectively decide a match. Can't they have a delivery clock in T20 rather like in an athletics field event, so if the bowler doesn't deliver before the clock runs out it's a no-ball and free hit?

Probably was a bit iffy, but we won. I await Petey Poos lament.

eowyn wrote:It's the colour of the elite, beamer. Goes back to Roman times, dye to make clothe purple came from rare shells

Not a traditional cricket colour though... more Adrian Peterson than Kevin/Robin/Alviro...

Flamin' 'eck, Jesse Ryder has 5-for for Essex v Kent.

Spitfires - the shame.

I suppose if Ryder was ever going to play for a County team, it would be Essex.

Pears - top of the North group in the 20/20 shite. I had to laugh, apart from Nick Knight, Sky sent Mark Butcher, Athers and Straussy - they know so much about T20 cricket don't they!?

lardbucket wrote:Flamin' 'eck, Jesse Ryder has 5-for for Essex v Kent.

Spitfires - the shame.

I suppose if Ryder was ever going to play for a County team, it would be Essex.

He'll play for anyone that pays in booze and/or fried chicken.

Durham didn't bowl Stokes - this is the bloke who was deemed good enough to come on as fourth seamer for England in the winter, and he doesn't get to turn his arm over I a T20 game? Weird. Oh yes, and Borthwick didn't bat or bowl, so basically - Pears beat 9 1/2 players. Not that I'm complaining.

I see Khawaja has been signed by Lancs. His inconsistancy cost him a place in the Aust A side so playing county cricket may not be a bad move although he may struggle on the slower wickets.

lardbucket wrote:Flamin' 'eck, Jesse Ryder has 5-for for Essex v Kent.

Spitfires - the shame.

I suppose if Ryder was ever going to play for a County team, it would be Essex.

Yeah, he's Chav through and through...

lardbucket wrote:Flamin' 'eck, Jesse Ryder has 5-for for Essex v Kent.

Spitfires - the shame.

I suppose if Ryder was ever going to play for a County team, it would be Essex.

**Dibbly Dobber In Tearing Up County Cricket Shocka**

Mark Footitt simply cannot keep out of the wickets. 6-fer today bumps it up to 29 this season so far, to go with the 42 last season. Did Trev say he's finished or something? Seems to have done him wonders.

Speaking of a Trevving, I see Peter has done for young Luis Reece - who has been dropped.

eowyn wrote:Ha ha ha, Lankies

eowyn wrote:

beamer wrote:Not sayng they didn't deserve it, but penalty runs are a very unsatisfactory way to effectively decide a match. Can't they have a delivery clock in T20 rather like in an athletics field event, so if the bowler doesn't deliver before the clock runs out it's a no-ball and free hit?

Probably was a bit iffy, but we won. I await Petey Poos lament.

Mmmm, not really. Ange, I don't lament T20 losses any more than I gloat over wins. Generally (it's just not my game), but least of all, crowing over wins in T20. Except in rather obvious jest, on those rare occasions when Lancs (or England) scrape a win, I prefer to leave the ner-ner-ner mentality - and by the same token, the harrowing howls of emo humiliation when the next loss comes along - to the kids. ....  

(I didn't shriek'n'wail when it seemed Gilo was inevitably gettin' the gig. I tried to express my (strong) feelings why that was not a great idea.)

As I've made clear more than once on the thread above, the four-day game is what worries me, where Lancs are concerned. (In the T20 format Lancs have actually had some success so far - 4 wins out of 6 I see. I'd swap those four wins - and any more they may fluke - for one CC win any day, tbh.)


I fear signing UK is another panic move. They've been shuffling the pack of batters with no (good) result, and grabbed at a stylist where they need solidity.

@Ange again:

But on the purple bit, I don't think you've got it quite right.

eowyn wrote:It's the colour of the elite, beamer. Goes back to Roman times, dye to make clothe purple came from rare shells

I don't think it was that the shells were that rare. If I've understood this correctly, the dye was valued because it faded slowly, and into greater opulence (rich, bright red), in the sunlight.

To be honest, I'm not sure I would take the Roman paths to glory too far ...

The other reason for its value was that the dye was a laborious process, involving the boiling down of stinking decomposing snail slime. I am not sure that "provenance" is an altogether happy symbol for Yorkshire's crack troops.

On the other hand, the "purple" metaphor is a bit irrelevant anyway. if  I remember right (from school), the colour of "purpura" wasn't actually what we call "purple" in English. It was more an imperial, forbidding dark crimson. Like used oxygen-depleted blood returning to the heart through the veins - rather than the oxygen-rich scarlet flowing through the arteries. (Which is closer to the Red Rose. ...)

DANNY!! You're 6 days late on the dropping of Luis Ruiz. I commented after Reece was dropped at Taunton (his birthplace), - 02 June, 11.30.

"Trevving" was duly acknowledged there, and in at least two posts before that.

Returning to real life (as opposed to man, myth and woofing superstition): I hope Luis can find his bearings, and adjust to the higher level. Not just for Lancs' sake. The country needs those young batsmen, and a competition for places in the next five years.

Phurt. You can't feed all the people. What am I, impotent?

Look on le bright side, you can start a-Trevving Alex Davies instead.

He's batting better than Buttler. ...

DAMN WHY DID I SAY THAT??!?!

is Trev lost in the sth am jungle...no posts of late

55 ball hundred from Jason Roy against Gloucs. In a championship match. Nine fours and seven sixes.

Talent. Wildly inconsistent, but if someone could just teach him a couple of defensive shots, I still reckon he could be a player.

Four in Four for the Fonz

Good old Alfonso. First one to do it for Somerset

So, Hampshire bat out the day for a draw. That'll be two draws between the sides this season. If you'd offered joint top on 11th June, to me at the start of the season, I would have bitten your hand off.

well done hantsy pantsy...but hons surely to the mighty Pears

horace wrote:well done hantsy pantsy...but hons surely to the mighty Pears

In truth, we should have nailed them, but hats off to Carberry and Maxwell.

aye re the mighty Carbs.....noshow was lucky

Jason Roy 81* off 43 balls as Surrey splatter Sussex in T20.

He's in some AGBB form.

It's the hope that kills...