English county season 2008 (VI)

Well they're underway at Wantage Road....

Nhants 20-0

Look at this for a gash pace attack

Wright
Masters
Napier
Ten Doeschate

What a total mishmash:

Code:


Shoaib Akhtar 12 1 30 1 2.50 (1nb, 1w)
  JW Dernbach 11 2 31 2 2.81 
  PT Collins 14.5 5 41 0 2.76 (2nb)
  AJ Tudor 14 3 39 1 2.78 
  Saqlain Mushtaq 9 1 32 0 3.55 
  JGE Benning 3 0 11 0 3.66 


..................runs....balls
Peters (rhb) 6.......50


Is this guy the crabbiest crab in crabville?

Always seems to be trying to bore the oppo into submission whenever I see his SR.

Amazing to think he was really highly thought of when at Essex and was the star of EngU19's World cup win in the mid 90's

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:..................runs....balls
Peters (rhb) 6.......50


Is this guy the crabbiest crab in crabville?

Always seems to be trying to bore the oppo into submission whenever I see his SR.

Pretty much. Nigh on every time I go up, I seem to groan by accident if he gets a single off the last ball of an over. It's a bit of a rigid England-style plan, with Niall O'Brien tonking at the other end. He cost us the last match with said crabbing.

Same could be applying here, Danny if he goes on in that fashion much longer with a day already having been lost to the weather gods.

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:Same could be applying here, Danny if he goes on in that fashion much longer with a day already having been lost to the weather gods.

Doubtful there'll be a result. 1.25 days lost. But yeah, if he does it again I won't be pleased.

Not that we're going up.

Bopara 5.2- 0 - 41 - 2

Think that says all you need to know about his bowling!

Sales on fire currently.

They all seem to be having a wipe:

Code:



 SD Peters b Bopara 41 137 110 6 0 37.27
 NJ O'Brien b Middlebrook 45 78 59 9 0 76.27
 RA White c ten Doeschate b Bopara 24 32 28 4 0 85.71
 DJG Sales not out 28 45 26 5 1 107.69
 MH Wessels not out 17 20 17 3 0 100.00



Fark me 199-5

Boje 21* off 8 balls....

Top quality crabbing going on in the Glos game.

Bopara 8.5-0-66-3

At least both sides are getting on with it. Hopefully we can contrive a finish in this game after all.

JKLever wrote:Bopara 8.5-0-66-3

At least both sides are getting on with it. Hopefully we can contrive a finish in this game after all.

Yeah, it's good going. vilkrang is at the game. Thought they could have a go, but still not sure about the time.

5-84 for Harmison at Taunton

Northants' wheels come off. Shame. Leaving in 20, may try and catch some. Hopefully thunderfart will still be in.

Nhants 304 a/o.

Gallian & Maunders (FFS) seeing who can crab it the most....

Wow, Notts lost by 1 run

Must've really stuffed it up - were flying at 70-1 off about 10 when I watched the football instead.

So, Sorrey's great Shoiab gamble hasn't quite worked out: Hants 480/8

JKLever wrote:Such are Essex's batting shortages we are playing Leicestershire reject Jon Maunders FFS.

JK, he's hitting it very well this year. Has 3 or 4 2nd team 100's for your boys as well.

Hope the lad does well as he is a great bloke to boot.

holcs wrote:

JKLever wrote:Such are Essex's batting shortages we are playing Leicestershire reject Jon Maunders FFS.

JK, he's hitting it very well this year. Has 3 or 4 2nd team 100's for your boys as well.

Hope the lad does well as he is a great bloke to boot.

You're letting the fact that you know him blind you

We're playing a Leicestershire reject FFS!!!

JKLever wrote:Wow, Notts lost by 1 run

Must've really stuffed it up - were flying at 70-1 off about 10 when I watched the football instead.

They were utter shit - apart from Swann the batsman crabbed and made Gary Keedy look like Shane Warne. Swann tonked the living daylights out of the bowlers early on but the other batsmen only just reached double figures between them. Absolute crap. I think if we win on Sunday we still win the Pro40 though. Not that it's anything to jump about, it's the County Championship I'd prefer. Just imagine that sequence:

PROMOTED
CHAMPIONS
RELEGATED
PROMOTED
CHAMPIONS

Would be the strangest half-decade imaginable. It won't happen though - Somerset draw specialists will probably take it. Durham ought to win really considering they've won the most matches. I formulated a table the other day based on my proposed revamp of the Aussie system and Somerset would have been nine points behind currently, with only faint hope of winning the title. Bonus Points win teams championships in this country though, unfortunately.

JKLever wrote:

holcs wrote:

JKLever wrote:Such are Essex's batting shortages we are playing Leicestershire reject Jon Maunders FFS.

JK, he's hitting it very well this year. Has 3 or 4 2nd team 100's for your boys as well.

Hope the lad does well as he is a great bloke to boot.

You're letting the fact that you know him blind you

We're playing a Leicestershire reject FFS!!!

I'm letting the fact that I have seen him bat on numerous occasions this season, and he has looked every bit as good as any of the other pro's playing for or against us.

Plus he has also done very well in 2's cricket.

Your all to happy for Masters to play?????

Masters had a decent FC record behind him at Leicestershire though and wasn't released.

Maunders averages 29...

JKLever wrote:Masters had a decent FC record behind him at Leicestershire though and wasn't released.

Maunders averages 29...

Mate thats positively a ripping record compared to some of the pump your boys have put up over the last couple of seasons.

I reckon from what I have seen this year, he'll do OK for you, WHEN he gets a contract.

Noooooooooooooooo!!