Exiled Bear
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I can understand throwing the bat a bit in the powerplay, trying to get a fast start while the field is up, but as soon as we lost a couple of wickets we needed to rein it in. Should be easy enough to score 5-6 an over outside the powerplay with little risk.
Says a lot about our batting depth that OHD is in at 10!
Andy wrote:
meashambear wrote:
Another awful shot there, this time from Yates. It is a poor wide ball, why chase after it?
Think it was fair enough to play it at, a poor wide ball as you say, just poorly executed shot.
Depends if they had a fielder at fine leg, if so no need to go after it, just take the free run for the wide!
Important that we give credit for our opening partnership of 72 in the second innings too, by far the highest opening partnership of a game in which the new ball did a lot of damage. Our openers have (rightly) got some criticism before this but another poor start in the second innings could really have set us on a path to defeat.
ITE7376 wrote:
Must be seen as a prospect for White Ball though and I think he fits in both senior squads, so you'd expect he is named in the limited overs Lions squads.
honestly I don't think he's quite good enough, still time to develop though but I don't see that level of higher end potential in someone who'd played first class cricket for about 6 years/45 games before he got his maiden first class ton.
I mean if say Joe Clarke has never got a chance for England in any format, having significantly outperformed Mousley in all 3 formats both across his career right now, and at the same point in their respective careers, i just don't see it.
I think Joe Clarke also didn’t get a chance because of his involvement in that rape trial a few years back. He was in the Lions squad at that point.
Match drawn. A shame as I think we could have had a good go at chasing it down, but a draw leaves us in a good position going into the break!
meashambear wrote:
Resounding win and nice to see the top 6 all get scores on he board.
I am still sticking to my previous posts despite it though and despite the inevitable baiting because you have an in game opinion/remark regarding rank poor play. We are not consistent enough and it is frustrating because there is talent there, lets see if we can push on from here.
Davies needs dropping & we have to do better in our first innings and show more resilience, we will not get away with it against better teams and it has to be said that this Yorkshire side is poor.
I think we showed great resilience in this game, all out for 147 in the first innings with the opposition 137/4 in reply, to come away from that situation winning by 377 runs seems pretty damn good to me?? Say what you like about the strength of the Yorkshire side but they beat a good Somerset side last week. We’re 2nd place and only 6 points off first for goodness sake!
From what I saw I think we bowled really well today, very few bad balls meant that the pressure was kept up, in contrast to the end of the first day when the bowling was generally fairly loose with at least one four delivery per over. The weather doesn’t look too bad for Monday so fingers crossed we can finish it off!
Yorkshire really riding their luck here.
Plenty of space for multiple spinners in the blast. Don’t forget that we lost Briggs in the off season.
I saw this too. I wonder if it fell through or is just delayed by visa issues or something.
I’d be surprised if we don’t see Barker in for this one, if he’s fully fit.
Always gave 100% when he played for us, it’s just a shame that a variety of factors outside our control meant he wasn’t able to play for us more.
BosworthBear wrote:
Exiled Bear wrote:
Well at least we wrapped it up quickly at the end there. I’m a bit worried about the first hour tomorrow though.
I fear bowling them out at the end there may be the worst thing possible!
I think it could go either way. If they were still batting overnight and come in and put another 50 runs on the board in the first hour it really puts us on the back foot.
Well at least we wrapped it up quickly at the end there. I’m a bit worried about the first hour tomorrow though.
paulbear wrote:
It looks very seamer-heavy with Webster, Barnard, Woakes and Booth who can all bat. If you include Smith then you perhaps leave out a bowler. I would like to see Booth play as he was really improving last season. It could mean we have Webster, Barnard, Woakes, Booth, Gilchrist and Bamber as seamers. If Smith plays, I would put him at 8 and have Woakes at 7, after all, he has a Test century and I cannot see why his talent can't see him up the order as Smith's time will come anyway. I would leave out Lintott, Thompson and Mousley from the 14 announced. There is still loads of batting and bowling there. I really am not sure why Lintott is the only spinning option.
Webster can bowl spin too
Good interview with Woakes here:
He turned down the chance to play in the PSL and it sounds like he’s ready to give it all in the championship!
Youngest player to score centuries for England in all three formats.
Mikkyk wrote:
He's signed to "build bridges with the community"
He was certainly very successful at burning his bridges here!
I’ve started getting emails from the club again, so maybe some of these vacancies have now been filled.