Cross group game, must win.
Cross group game, must win.
I'm predicting a small crowd tonight with the football, no matter how much they market it as a joint football and cricket experience.
Sussex also only 2 wins from 7 so we really should be looking to win this one.
We’ve won the toss and elected to bat
Yates
Malik
Mousley
Hain
Webster
Barnard*
Smith+
Thompson
Woakes
Gleeson
Tariq
Gleeson is such a good one day bowler. Can we sneak a best third place slot I wonder?
It’s a shame we took just too long to click because now that we have we look capable of beating anyone. Thompson and Gleeson’s yorker bowling has been exemplary.
If we squeeze through as a best third place somehow, we’ll be in a good place to hurt any team.
Handy NRR boost tonight might I add.
These two big wins have done wonders to our NRR!
I think second place is still within reach - we play Glamorgan and Gloucestershire next, and then Glamorgan again. If we win all three then we’ll be close
Fabulous win. You just looked at the Sussex XI at the toss and felt they were on a plate for us. Plenty of pace with Crocombe and Mills but in Yates and Webster we have 2 top order batters who in particular play fast bowling very well. Webster's ability to play powerfully through the covers off the back foot is amazing to see. Hits 4's through there even with a man on the boundary.
Gleeson is automatic, imagine if we had him all comp? Makes such a difference.
Pleased Thompson is being used properly now, he hit his yorkers almost at will. Making a mockery of these claims that he's not a good t20 bowler.
Such an encouraging win, so pleased, looking forward to Friday which will be another good test for us on a ground which we may not be too familiar with.
Looked very good and looks a settled and complimentary side now. Our groups third place does look best at present. Just wondering whether Northants as final game could be a sting in the tail. Skills of the bowlers to mix up quick yorkers with slower balls with bouncers was very impressive. I was thinking that Hain was slumping in his career but enjoyed his knock, as always quicker scoring than it appeared.
cjav1874 wrote:
It’s a shame we took just too long to click because now that we have we look capable of beating anyone. Thompson and Gleeson’s yorker bowling has been exemplary.
when we no longer use him in the power play Thompson has and will come into his own. like you say the yorker plan works really well for him, I think because it keeps it simple and is basically exactly what he's always done when he bowls at the death
That was a comfortable win as you can expect really. Yates set the tone early on and then Webster and Hain both carried it on. Only criticism was that with 4/5 overs left you would expect us to get over 200. Mills is still a good death operator though.
Then despite only getting 122 I would say Sussex were lucky to get that. I think they were in double figure of edges that landed safe or went just past the stumps. Woakes incredibly unlucky not to get a wicket but he seems to have a bit of a habit of that in the blast this season?
Sunday's game is now an important one - win the next four and we're through. If Surrey beat Gloucestershire on Saturday then four wins will almost definitely see us second.
Andy wrote:
. Webster's ability to play powerfully through the covers off the back foot is amazing to see. Hits 4's through there even with a man on the boundary.
indeed, i don't think I've ever seen anyone hit those shots harder, the ball just has this freakish weight behind it
Pleased Thompson is being used properly now, he hit his yorkers almost at will. Making a mockery of these claims that he's not a good t20 bowler.
yup, don't bowl him in the PP and he will shine as he can just keep it simple and look to nail his most comfortable length
I used to think Hose hit it hard but Webster is another level. Anything from square to cover on the offside is like a tracer bullet when he connects.
Mikkyk wrote:
I used to think Hose hit it hard but Webster is another level. Anything from square to cover on the offside is like a tracer bullet when he connects.
it made me start thinking of the hardest strikers of the ball I have seen
i couldn't really think of too many offhand that hit it as hard as Beau does- for some reason good old Mark Cosgrove came to mind but he was more a McCullum type with savage bat speed as I recall it. definitely one of the hardest strikers i have seen though.
With Beau it 'just' seems to be long levers + timing and yeah Hose i guess is similar in that sense. Beau just seems effortless with it and the ball looks like its travelling with the weight of a friggin football.
great call that was an outstanding last couple of overs from him
Hardest hitters - from a totally different era, (Lord) Ted Dexter.
Never rated Mills, there are plenty of bowlers who are in the 8.50 per over bracket, he's just a name that got thrown about like Chris Jordan but they have not really won trophies with all the different franchise side they played for, Jordan was the reason England lost that T20 semi-final in about 2021 v New Zealand with a terrible last over and he definitely cost Sussex the T20 final when Worcestershire won it by spraying it everywhere in the 'Death' overs. Hard Hitters, Clive Lloyd was a real blaster, his 2 innings in the 1972 Gillette Cup Final (Damn Him) and the 1975 World Cup Final were full of shots where the ball hit the ropes before the bowler had finished following-through.
paulbear wrote:
Never rated Mills, there are plenty of bowlers who are in the 8.50 per over bracket, he's just a name that got thrown about like Chris Jordan but they have not really won trophies with all the different franchise side they played for, Jordan was the reason England lost that T20 semi-final in about 2021 v New Zealand with a terrible last over and he definitely cost Sussex the T20 final when Worcestershire won it by spraying it everywhere in the 'Death' overs. Hard Hitters, Clive Lloyd was a real blaster, his 2 innings in the 1972 Gillette Cup Final (Damn Him) and the 1975 World Cup Final were full of shots where the ball hit the ropes before the bowler had finished following-through.
Agree about Clive Lloyd and those two innings - especially how he hit David Brown back to the pavilion fence in the 1972 innings. When he hit the ball into the crowd at mid-wicket in the 1975 match, John Arlott said it was effortless, "the stroke of a man knocking a thistle top off with a walking stick."
GerryShedd wrote:
Hardest hitters - from a totally different era, (Lord) Ted Dexter.
Tim Groenewald used to give it an almighty whack. Unfortunately it usually went straight up in the air.