English county season 2008 (II)

Never!

If it had to happen i'd rather he takes an 8fer, naturally...

10-1 :|

Jones not even opening the bowling...

BTw, I fully expect to be mauled by Geoffrey for daring to put country over county. I think he'd rather die than willingly see Yorkshire lose, to anyone, ever.

11-2

Kabir'd....

Get Jonah on FFS

Ben Harmison's found a bit of bowling form of late. Wonder if he'll become a half-decent all rounder one of these days.

6' 5" - that's a good starting place for a bowler, says I. His batting's gone backwards, mind...

Can he play away from home though?

That Chopra fella's a bit of let down. Seemed on the cusp back in his under 19s days. Bit like Bilal Shafayat. Whose second XI does he play for these days?

Aye, Chopras a bit mediocre.

Gawd, Bops gone now 13-3 Kabir'd again.

I feel another Jamie Foster duck coming on.

It's literally all or nothing with him...

Have you watched the last Lost yet, Jay? Mentalism.

I've still got two more parts to download. So, no.

Fark. Derbyshire 217-6.

You don't feel safe unless you've got 500 first up at Lord's.

Who the hell are these people in the Warks attack? Woakes? Tahir? Anyon? Jokers.

Derbyshire lose another wicket.

Lara Lara Laughs wrote:Who the hell are these people in the Warks attack? Woakes? Tahir? Anyon? Jokers.

Derbyshire lose another wicket.

Tahir has been around for a while. Had a good season last season.

Wahay, Saj has brought his bowling arms today. 4-51 - four of the top six - and the Yorkies are on the rack.

More Saj love from Dello.

Don't tell me you're partial to asians with equine features?

No, just athletic, aggressive bowlers who don't mince in and float the ball down at 78mph.

I still say England should be investing more in this bloke. He's a long way from being perfect, but he's got enough about him to be around the international scene.

Oh dear, Essex four down for buttons on a Worcestershire wet top (presumably).

Yeah, we're generally roobish it has to be said.

We did this against kolpak ccc t'other day.

Kabir. Should still be around the England set-up IMO

Dello wrote:Wahay, Saj has brought his bowling arms today. 4-51 - four of the top six - and the Yorkies are on the rack.

I'm not so sure about that, 277-6 at the mo with the two saviours of English cricket at the crease. It's been overcast, warm and humid all day in Leeds, the sort of conditions you could swing a rusty cannonball, so one could argue that Saj and his chums have actually under-performed in very bowler friendly conditions.

How crap are Essex? SiJo's going to come on and take the tail and we won't have learned anything about "where he is".

Geoffrey Trueman wrote:

Dello wrote:Wahay, Saj has brought his bowling arms today. 4-51 - four of the top six - and the Yorkies are on the rack.

I'm not so sure about that, 277-6 at the mo with the two saviours of English cricket at the crease. It's been overcast, warm and humid all day in Leeds, the sort of conditions you could swing a rusty cannonball, so one could argue that Saj and his chums have actually under-performed in very bowler friendly conditions.

Yes......

Lara Lara Laughs wrote:How crap are Essex? SiJo's going to come on and take the tail and we won't have learned anything about "where he is".

Hmmm, above you in the table & in the QF of t'cup

Very crap.

I know what you mean though. I'll just use the Moores defence and say we're very 'inexperienced' in the batting...

To think I was going to give it large to B@s too....

Our batting is even worse than yours. Once you've got the openers, our entire middle order crumbles and then the tail hits a few.

In the past few years it's been our cracking batting that's made us competitive and this year our bowling is pretty damn good. We can never get both going at the same time.

Essex 5 down and Jones is brought on with Foster and Do-shit at the crease.