Yes, got us out of utter strife too, barely raised a mention on here.

paulbear wrote:

Some of Tariq's deliveries had me looking at the umpires to see if they were looking at each other as regards his action. When he appeared to bowl with a higher arm, it appeared as though he got more turn. He is a weird one but we can't fault his economy rates.

The ball he bowled immediately after he recieved treatment on his fingers looked very suspect!

ITE7376 wrote:

True to form, a young man gets what must have been a very emotional breakthrough near-century aged like 28, after a long journey into professional cricket where he's been told he isn't good enough over and over again, and more Worcestershire players went out of their way to congratulate him on his knock than posters on this forum could stir themselves to comment on it.

I mean, I know it doesn't have the same allure of saying Davies is rubbish for the 19th time, but still.

Its rarely very active on here when we've won. When we're struggling though...

Right from when Zen got going you just felt there was only one winner tonight.

Zen 99 :( thats broke my heart.

Think he got dropped v Notts and only played v Somerset due to Hain being absent.

No Ethan Brookes for Worcestershire, broken thumb.

Express & Star reporting that Garton will be available to play as a batter.

Gunna be hot

Tayls79 wrote:

Some strong sides assembled, notice a sighting of the lesser-spotted Gleeson. Who is AS Nahal by the way? Is he a regular opening bat?

Sometimes opens, more often than not comes in middle order. He's only 17.

This is what i feared yesterday, Leach getting to work on a pitch breaking up with Ogborne roughing it up. This is gonna be hard.

Racist too.

meashambear wrote:

ExiledBrummie wrote:

meashambear wrote:

Overton is a right w*****. Embarrassing behaviour.

As a matter of fact Somerset fans & players seem to be tossers.

Oh what happened?

Overton stepping right up to Malik, mouthing and then still chuntering way after the over was finished.

I noticed that, he's incessant.

ITE7376 wrote:

from what I saw Rew jr has an interestingly different style to the elder Rew- much more bottom-handed? Rew elder looks very classical from what I have seen, jr looks a bit more like say Jonny Bairstow?

Said after I first saw him live in 2024 re. James, the short ball will sort him out at the highest level, good player though he clearly is.

Tom looks even better with bat and gloves in my opinion.

Zen opening

Overton 3rd ton of the season

Even if we dont get wickets, we absolutely cannot let Somerset get off to a bit of a flyer in the morning, going at 5's etc, gotta keep em off us.

Even when we were getting wickets it felt as though we were relying on Somerset making mistakes as opposed to our bowlers just being too good. I hope this isn't going to be another example of the opposition bowlers exploiting whatever conditions on offer better than our bowlers.

Im not so sure, even Yates and Mousley got a couple to turn sharply. I can just see Leach on his home ground going through us. He'll likely get 30 overs at us with seamers rotating from the other end. Might need a Hain special. Somerset favourites here for me :(

Fair points, I couldn't put my finger on why he didnt look as threatening as he might but I didnt consider his release points.