English Domestic Season (2014)

beamer wrote: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...

Bet they wish ManU fielded a cricket team

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

Yeah, very Gooch-like. About 50 seconds in:

http://www.ecbtv.co.uk/video/i/4165659/title/derbyshire-v-leicestershire-day-1

Basil wrote: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!

Steve Rhodes has had a little cry about the pitch. Having watched the highlights he might want to have a little cry about some of his batsmen's shot selection as well. Pitch looked green but seam movement didn't seem extravagant for any of the wickets, just Jesse Ryder dobbing it on a length and letting the ball do the rest. Any opinions Bas?

MoH wrote:

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

Yeah, very Gooch-like. About 50 seconds in:

http://www.ecbtv.co.uk/video/i/4165659/title/derbyshire-v-leicestershire-day-1

yep, clearly out under the laws

Leics in dire straits again. They really are embarrassing.

So where does Jesse Ryder rank among the great allrounders of world cricket?

WideWally wrote:So where does Jesse Ryder rank among the great allrounders of world cricket?

I think only Stuart Binny is above him.

lardbucket wrote:

MoH wrote:

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

Yeah, very Gooch-like. About 50 seconds in:

http://www.ecbtv.co.uk/video/i/4165659/title/derbyshire-v-leicestershire-day-1

yep, clearly out under the laws

Don't know why he didn't walk, he was never going to get away with that.

He may not have known it was out

Possible but unlikely. I'd like to think all professional cricketers know handling the ball results in a dismissal.

Although, I seem to remember Gooch hung around a bit but that was more disbelief at what he'd done rather than not knowing he was out. Maybe that was the same for Pujara.

Hmmm, what's the craic with Middx / Lancs again? Looks like a possible humdinger down there - Middx 214, Lancs 246/6....

Lankies 258 fer 6 off 95 overs.
Basically the wankers at Middlesex need to bag the remaining 4 wickets -  before bowling 110 overs -
to secure safety with the 3 bowling points.

Their batting has let them down badly (not that their bowling's any better) !  If Buck Rogers and/or Dawid Malan and/or Dexter don't score, then we're f**ked. Denly, Morgan, Robson all f**k ups when the pressure's on ...

I've resigned myself to Middlesex playing 2nd Div cricket next season in the desperate hope that that qunt Fraser gets the bullet ... but sadly he won't - being so far up Giles Clarke's and the ECB arses he's lost sight of daylight.

Qunts....
Top of the table after 6 games - now scrapping to avoid relegation.

MoH wrote:Although, I seem to remember Gooch hung around a bit but that was more disbelief at what he'd done rather than not knowing he was out. Maybe that was the same for Pujara.

Well, you can hit the ball twice legally to defend your stumps, so perhaps some batsmen assume the same to be true for handling the ball...

I don't know why but I just find this picture of Hampshire's James Tomlinson very funny-

Mouth open - attitude of acceptance and you're telling me that's foreign to you?

Moving swiftly on - just the two days to bat for the Pears then to secure the Div. 2 championship.

yip damn yippee...it will be fun for the Pears to pass the baton on to Middlesex as they go down to 2nd div

BM....any chance the Pants will make the runs needed for 1st innings points?

horace wrote:yip damn yippee...it will be fun for the Pears to pass the baton on to Middlesex as they go down to 2nd div

The fat lady hasn't warmed up, let alone sung yet H !

horace wrote:BM....any chance the Pants will make the runs needed for 1st innings points?

Heck no. I reckon it's likely to rain, anyway, we've had two full day's play, which is a bit worrying at this time of year. We're going to end up winless, with a record low points total. That we deserve too, let us crash down with the height of ignominy...

Shout out to Kettleborough, Stone, Duckett and Keogh though.

With Wakely, Newton, Crook and Willey, they form a decent nucleus. Apparently we're getting Levi as a non-overseas and Kleinveldt as our overseas, so we could have an OK side next year.

Brass Monkey wrote:Shout out to Kettleborough, Stone, Duckett and Keogh though.

With Wakely, Newton, Crook and Willey, they form a decent nucleus. Apparently we're getting Levi as a non-overseas and Kleinveldt as our overseas, so we could have an OK side next year.

The SA Levi?

taipan wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:Shout out to Kettleborough, Stone, Duckett and Keogh though.

With Wakely, Newton, Crook and Willey, they form a decent nucleus. Apparently we're getting Levi as a non-overseas and Kleinveldt as our overseas, so we could have an OK side next year.

The SA Levi?

Yeah!

Meanwhile, Northants have already announced the signing of Adam Rossington and Josh Cobb and are confident that Richard Levi will be signed as a non-overseas player. They have also identified South African allrounder Rory Kleinveldt as their first choice overseas player, but it is understood they will not pursue an interest in released Yorkshire offspinner, Azeem Rafiq.

Fat f*ck, but he made an impact in the FC games he played

Levi is like Warner without the talent.