English Domestic Season (2014)

I can't imagine the Warwickshire top four being the answer to England's ODI batting problems anytime soon! Run rate of 3.1 after 19 overs.

lardbucket wrote:Probably win Div 2 again next year!

very very doubtful

Henry wrote:I can't imagine the Warwickshire top four being the answer to England's ODI batting problems anytime soon! Run rate of 3.1 after 19 overs.

Just being played a couple of weeks too late, this. You can't expect a decent game of one-day cricket too often when you have a 10.30am start in the second half of September, it's going to be win the toss, win the match 9 times out of 10.

I sometimes think in conditions like this the team batting first would have little to lose by just going out there and having a slog, if they get bowled out in 20 overs then so be it...

Warwicks royally fooked!

Not a good time for your ODI final...

There was once one of these domestic one-day finals which seemed to be going to this sort of script then the Chavs were bowled out for 50-odd chasing a low total...

Could still be a low-scoring thriller, anyway...

Yeah, 102/5. Collingwood and Stokes in. Still, they have 145 balls to make 62, so should be easy enough. Hope they get them.

Colly gone now. This could be tight.

Tight indeed. 35 to win, 3 wickets remaining.

Durham end up pissing it in. F*ck off you Bears.

10 overs to spare

Last round of championship matches today - fark me, but time flies.

Middlesex or Lancashire for the drop to Div 2, and they play each other. Hampshire or Essex to join Worcestershire in Div 1 next season. Pears need six points in their match against Essex to go up as champions.

And Leicestershite get their last chance to avoid a second straight winless season. They do play Direbyshire though, so might have half a chance of avoiding being the first since the legendary pre-war Pants side to achieve this...

Get this shit over with. Time flies? Bollocks. Time has nearly stood still for four months.

MoH wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:

MoH wrote:Here's the problem with judging potential England players on Div 2 stats: Jessy Ryder is opening the bowling for Essex and averaging under 20 for the season.

Hmmmm, I'd stick this under the 'dobbers reap rewards' category most English bowlers are under. Lollop up, dob it on a length, let the conditions do the rest.

You reckon? Not denying that happens but this is an extreme example. Before this season Ryder had taken about 50 first class wickets. He's taken 35 this season and he wasn't even bowling regularly at the start. I don't reckon this would fly in Div 1.

In today's game against Worcestershire, Jesse Ryder has 5/20 with Worcs collapsing to 7/31.

Jesse Ryder again FFS.

Henry wrote:Jesse Ryder again FFS.

New Zealand will be bringing him back into the team as a bowler at this rate. Worcs not bothered about this match as they're already promoted?

The left-handed Botham in for Worcs now. Can he save them again?

Pujara out handled the ball.

What did he do? Was it similar to the famous Gooch one i.e. a backhand flick away from the stumps, or was it Vaughan who stopped one on the ground rolling back towards them... surely not a "returning the ball" appeal which would definitely fall into the Mankading category.

(cricinfo)

Pujara played a ball from former Derbyshire fast bowler Atif Sheikh down into the pitch and then knocked it away with his glove as it threatened to bounce into his stumps. Leicestershire's fielders appealed immediately and after the umpires consulted, Pujara was sent on his way to mark an unusual chapter in what has been a disappointing summer in England for one of the world's most highly-rated batsmen.

Sounds pretty much identical to the Gooch one in the 1993 Ashes I think it was...

84 all out plays 198/3. Blimey, just as well we're already up. Pity we didn't take another two wickets to prompt a pitch inspection!

would prefer the Chavs to go up with the Pears