Exiled Bear
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To be honest I prefer just “Bears” rather than “Birmingham Bears”!
Definitely.
I get the whole resting bowlers thing, but we left ourselves open to this sort of collapse by weakening the batting so much.
Embarrassing finish from Lancashire there
Are Lancashire trying to lose? No idea why they’re persisting with Shetty, who has gone for over 7 an over all innings.
You’re right, I forgot how utterly woeful Lancashire are.
Might be a good job that Middlesex are going to lose!
With Middlesex and Somerset playing the bottom two teams, and Yorkshire having a vastly superior net run rate, it looks like we'll probably need to win to qualify and hope that Middlesex don't get a huge win themselves.
Can someone remind me of the qualification process? Is it top team goes straight to semi-final, second and third placed teams from each group play each other to determine the other two semi-finalists?
Thanks Terry. I think the forum database got a slightly corrupted some time ago, and that thread sometimes doesn’t appear at the top of the threads page even when it has recent posts in it. Hopefully it should always be easy to find now!
GerryShedd wrote:
There does seem to be a bit more of an effort from the Club to listen to supporters. Those who get the weekly Club update email will know that it says:
"Here at Warwickshire, we're looking to improve our communication with our Newsletter subscribers. Whether you're a Member or someone who just likes to keep up with all things Warwickshire, we want to make these weekly updates as enjoyable as possible.
Please click below to answer our four question survey so we can learn a bit more about your time supporting Warwickshire."
This is all well and good but as someone that used to get emails (former member and frequent ticket buyer) shouldn’t this email also have gone to me? I used to get roughly weekly emails from the club, even after I stopped being a member, but I don’t think I’ve had anything for a couple of years now.
That might be one of the most poorly managed run chases I’ve ever seen.
We only need four runs per over, why are we trying to smash it around?!
Really sad to see Woakes head off the field with what looks like a dislocated shoulder just now. Really hope that isn’t the end of his test career.
Highveld wrote:
It is impossible to decide a stumping decision from the angle of the camera used for thr live stream, Essex do not appear to have side on cameras. Therefore you have to accept the decision of the professional umpire, who was in the best, side on, position.
Even in recreational cricket, the umpires get things right most of the time, and usually make less mistakes in the game than the players,
I agree that the camera angles aren’t the best, but the umpire was an awfully long way away to be judging him out by what must have been a millimetre at best.
Not entirely convinced by that stumping decision, his foot never left the ground and looked like it was always behind the line…
That is a pretty spectacular win after being behind in the game for basically all but the last two sessions!
Mikkyk wrote:
Exiled Bear wrote:
Embarrassing celebration from Taylor.
Think someone shouted something from the crowd before he bowled but couldn't hear what was said?
I figured it must have been something like that. Still, as a pro you’ve surely got to just ignore these things.
Embarrassing celebration from Taylor.
To be fair I can see the advantage of trying to get as many runs as possible before the new ball.