There was a period from the mid 1980's until the mid 1990's when it was almost impossible for Warwickshire to lose to Hampshire in the CC but I doubt that every time we played them, we thought it would be a nailed-on win, at some point it had to stop. From 1981 up until the Natwest semi-final in 1989, we had not beaten Worcestershire in ANY competition. I doubt before that semi-final being played at a packed Edgbaston (Wouldn't have been full if it was so obvious that Worcestershire would win) that it was looked on as an obvious win for our neighbours. At some point, a run of good results has to stop, it won't continue indefinitely so all the 'They Always Do' isn't really a good reason for saying we would lose to them had we have played them yesterday.

paulbear wrote:

There was a period from the mid 1980's until the mid 1990's when it was almost impossible for Warwickshire to lose to Hampshire in the CC but I doubt that every time we played them, we thought it would be a nailed-on win, at some point it had to stop. From 1981 up until the Natwest semi-final in 1989, we had not beaten Worcestershire in ANY competition. I doubt before that semi-final being played at a packed Edgbaston (Wouldn't have been full if it was so obvious that Worcestershire would win) that it was looked on as an obvious win for our neighbours. At some point, a run of good results has to stop, it won't continue indefinitely so all the 'They Always Do' isn't really a good reason for saying we would lose to them had we have played them yesterday.

ha i was being slightly facetious, I'm scarred by 2010 and the CB40 final

Ross Whiteley.

2010, we won the CB40, 2012 we lost, absolutely gut wrenching defeat.

2010 was annoying on the basis that as Neil Carter always said, "If you finish top of your group, you should go to T20 finals day", just like Yorkshire and Worcestershire have done in this year's Metro Bank but we yet again finished top of our group, won 11, lost 4 and Hampshire scraped through buy 0.2 of a run after losing half their games and by the time they won the final, their record was won 11, lost 8 and we had won 11, lost 5, hardly seems fair that you should saunter through but have your hard work ruined by one game. Yes, the 2012 final also haunts me. Bell who had been superb, hit a full-toss straight to a fielder on the boundary. Carter should never have gone out to bat before Patel on the basis that Jeetan had plenty of innings recently unlike Carter who was rusty and hadn't batted that much recently, Blackwell (For a big hitter) farted about too much and I sat there thinking, "Carter, Just get something on it and run or crack it through the infield". He did neither. Despite winning the title that season, the season was ruined as it was the very last game of the season which was unusual.

Wasn't he in Auf Wiedersehen Pet, "I'll have to ask Brenda"

paulbear wrote:

2010 was annoying on the basis that as Neil Carter always said, "If you finish top of your group, you should go to T20 finals day", just like Yorkshire and Worcestershire have done in this year's Metro Bank but we yet again finished top of our group, won 11, lost 4 and Hampshire scraped through buy 0.2 of a run after losing half their games and by the time they won the final, their record was won 11, lost 8 and we had won 11, lost 5, hardly seems fair that you should saunter through but have your hard work ruined by one game. Yes, the 2012 final also haunts me. Bell who had been superb, hit a full-toss straight to a fielder on the boundary. Carter should never have gone out to bat before Patel on the basis that Jeetan had plenty of innings recently unlike Carter who was rusty and hadn't batted that much recently, Blackwell (For a big hitter) farted about too much and I sat there thinking, "Carter, Just get something on it and run or crack it through the infield". He did neither. Despite winning the title that season, the season was ruined as it was the very last game of the season which was unusual.

2010 is still the best T20 team we have ever put out due to the brilliantly balanced bowling attack of Carter, Woakes, Barker, Tahir, Botha and Piolet. that attack was superb, we were the best team in the country that year and would have beat anyone on virtually any other day because of it

on the CB40 final Yeah, i thought Bell would have been kicking himself that he didn't go on to win that game, and then for two players as experienced as Carter and Blackwell to mess up a relatively straightforward finish was galling

ITE7376 wrote:

Andy wrote:

Ross Whiteley.

2010, we won the CB40, 2012 we lost, absolutely gut wrenching defeat.

yeah I was thinking of the Hants connection beating us t20 QF in 2010 and CB40 final a couple of years later

I've mangled Ross Whiteley and Alex Wakely before. which is strange as I quite liked Wakely for some reason, he was like my pet non-WCCC player. and he was the polar opposite as a cricketer too, clever manipulator and good stroke player, ran well between the wickets, Northants captain when he was still pretty young, not some lumbering backwards caveman dot ball eating slogger like Whiteley