Not a terrible gloveman either.

Don't know if we've covered this elsewhere but I'm hearing he's out for the season with a stress fracture.

Do these runs count towards people's season averages? I don't know anymore...

Dog of a ball weren't it. Floodlights taking affect now...

Davies walking off then looked a broken man.

I probably looked a broken man sat in the stands watching him tbf...

Oh Davies...

ajones1328 wrote:

1st over...

If you take out Yates do we have an opener to replace ?

Not sure a lad who made 93 in the previous game is in drop territory yet...he's definitely in patchy form though and needs to show some consistency...not sure what he could have done about that ball though...

Feel for Yates there, that has kept awfully low, you don't expect that from the new ball.

Why are Worcestershire taking their own time out of the game here?!

Why isn't the leggie on at the tail ender?

BosworthBear wrote:

Andy wrote:

6 down...is the door ajar?!

7 down now. Not certain this is a good thing. They were batting so slowly I think they would have found a declaration difficult.

Yeah don't think they knew whether to stick or twist after lunch.

Etahn Brookes looks brilliant, the difference between the 2 sides thus far, 11 sixes in the match. I think.

Well done Mark Robinson for not giving this lad a chance whatsoever.

6 down...is the door ajar?!

paulbear wrote:

Andy, who said I was having a go at the batting, I actually pointed out that it doesn't look weak even though stats do distort things and I did point out that the bowling is the problem. Maybe I should paint a phoney picture of things like the club website often does.

No didn't mean it like that mate, was talking about supporters generally, not you. I replied quoting you as I agreed with you.

meashambear wrote:

Just looking at the table and going purely on batting & bowling points, we have the worst bowling points total in the division and are currently 4th for batting (although that will likely fall to 6th by the time the games are finished).

I am convinced that those batting points mainly came in the first 4 games though.

We should be safe on the basis that others are running out of games and that the good old British summer seems to be back to normal

Not sure on that about the first 4 games? Don't think we gathered many, if any, batting points v Notts at home and Yorks away? Could be wrong.

Oh I get all that, I prefer to look at a players actual performances and who they make their runs against and game situations. For example Kai Smith has made just 3 half centuries this year and not else, but those 3 half centuries all came in high pressure situations etc. But looking at season averages then removing highest scores or lowest scores is weird as it's no longer a season average, just some of the season.

This business of taking batters averages but removing the highest and/or lowest scores, then revising the average and then judging the player accordingly is pretty mad, no?!

Test match in September? Blimey.

paulbear wrote:

Amazing that we have 8 players averaging between 29 and 61 and yet batting is still a problem. I suppose it's the games where we get into trouble that we appear to struggle to rescue ourselves. Our main problem though is definitely bowling a side out.

People are poking at the batters and for anyone that just follows the scores I get it that's the way it looks but time and time again it just feels as though the opposition bowlers have got that bit more than our guys have.

Look at this morning, it's tight, very accurate, disciplined, manful, hard working bowling but goodness me it's absolutely toothless in pretty favourable overhead bowling conditions for seamers. We're crying out for somebody with a yard of pace and/or a bit of swing as opposed to just 77mph seam bowlers. We've bowled well but sometimes you just need that bit more in order to try and force the issue. Take the Worcestershire attack, Shahzad and Taylor aren't express but they're quicker than our guys, get a bit more bounce and get a bit of swing. Finch is pretty quick. Hampshire game felt like the same on a similar surface. Opposition bowling attack seems able to extract more out of whatever surface we're playing on.

Yeah don't think Westwood can be blamed too much.