Looks like Sussex are resting one or two players for tomorrow - Grant Flower says that the 13-man squad "sees plenty of opportunities for players yet to make an appearance in the competition this season."
https://sussexcricket.co.uk/news/warwickshire-vs-sussex-sharks
I wonder where the wicket will be on the square?
GerryShedd wrote:
Looks like Sussex are resting one or two players for tomorrow - Grant Flower says that the 13-man squad "sees plenty of opportunities for players yet to make an appearance in the competition this season."
https://sussexcricket.co.uk/news/warwickshire-vs-sussex-sharks
No Carson, Hudson-Prentice or Haines.
BosworthBear wrote:
I wonder where the wicket will be on the square?
Probably use the last hundred match wicket, fairly central if that's the case.
Sharks won the toss and are batting. Lintott and Slim Sylvester in for Bamber and Booth.
So Lintott bats and wins the game at Taunton, then gets dropped, booth does the same at Durham and then he gets dropped. Seems like you do well and get dropped, play poorly as some of the batters have at times and you keep getting picked. Odd
It's just rotating the bowlers.
Wicket, virtually centre of the square. Grey skies.
Very decent crowd in.
Might be a good job that Middlesex are going to lose!
Exiled Bear wrote:
Might be a good job that Middlesex are going to lose!
Not certain Middx will lose yet!
You’re right, I forgot how utterly woeful Lancashire are.
A real a shame how this is ending up considering how good all of the youngsters have been at various points & the fact that 5 wins is usually enough to qualify.
Davies just had to see things home but his wicket was the catalyst to a collapse. Lintott also being a senior player just needed to bed in and take it easy but went for boundaries when we were under pressure.
Lancs are indeed crap.
Are Lancashire trying to lose? No idea why they’re persisting with Shetty, who has gone for over 7 an over all innings.
Lancs are bowling a youngster called Shetty.......they have kept him on for the full 10 overs despite him going all around the park.
Thanks for that my least favourite opponent!!
Exiled Bear wrote:
Are Lancashire trying to lose? No idea why they’re persisting with Shetty, who has gone for over 7 an over all innings.
Sussex played in the spirit of the game and played to win, Lancs really are the opposite.
They have just taken the 7th wicket and look as though they have all lost £100
Henry Brookes to see Middlesex home?
Embarrassing finish from Lancashire there
Exiled Bear wrote:
Embarrassing finish from Lancashire there
Yes annoying but we threw our game away which was even worse.
Definitely.
I get the whole resting bowlers thing, but we left ourselves open to this sort of collapse by weakening the batting so much.
Some of us on here have been accused of going over the top and exaggerating a defeat but there are no other words for that except 'Abject Shit'. 204-3 with loads of overs left, a side who can't even qualify against a spinner who barely spun one and who's first class bowling is 7 wickets in 7 games. Did our players look at Old Trafford and think it was all over because a few supporters near me did, appearing to be concentrating on other games when I turned around and said "It's the Lancs/Middlesex game that matters...". Lancs didn't take a wickets for ages and because they couldn't qualify, were not that bothered maybe. Again, we give a lesser bowler a great return by giving out catching practice. Perhaps that needs to go on the wall in the dressing room, 1. Don't give the opposition catching practice 2. Don't play big shots if you have the game under control 3. Never think a game is over until it is. The other game at Old Trafford might have been one of those freak games which happens rarely but there was no excuse for that and all the hard work that has gone into run chases against better sides and here were are failing to get home on our own ground. Never mind 'T20 Bottlers' as we are called by other county supporters, this was as bad as any of those T20 games that we have ** up.
I think we gambled today by not playing Bamber & Booth, maybe got a little complacent thinking we would win and save them for the quarter-final on Thursday? I understand squad rotation but for an important fixture today surely they could of played? One would hope they would be fit enough to be able to bowl 10 overs every couple of days.
I think Ed Barnard has been excellent for us in this competition, i hope he is considered as captain for the County Championship next season.