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England always do this on Australia tours. Wait until the series is over and then throw a young player in. They’re going to ruin him like so many before him.
Highveld wrote:
Not having Garton or Hassan Ali would not be a negative, their availability was dreadful, and in most games the performance was less than adequate.
We have wasted too much money on Hassan Ali for the low number of games played and poor performance levels.
This is such an odd take, Hassan took 25 wickets (far and away our highest) at an average of 15 last season!
Great!
Excellent news. Hopefully we can keep him fit!
Just like Andy was saying, we do seem to have a high turnover of coaching staff!
LeicesterExile wrote:
GerryShedd wrote:
Looking at the bottom of the table, it’s getting interesting at Southampton.
Are Hampshire going to survive due to bad light with 9 wickets down?
I thought the same but there’s another day to go yet!
Weirdly enough, despite the batting collapses this season, I actually think that if we’d had a bowling attack capable of taking 20 wickets consistently that we’d have been competing right up near the top. We got ourselves into good positions in quite a few games (most of them, really) but it was generally our inability to bowl sides out that really cost us I think. Convert even only a couple of those 9 drawn games to wins and the table starts to look a lot different.
With third place to play for (and prize money, if I remember correctly?) we should be well up for this one. Somerset have been deducted 4 points for a poor pitch in July so that brings them a bit closer to us in the table.
Andy wrote:
Hi,
A friend of mine, Warwickshire member, has been to trying to join this forum for a while but whenever he tries to register he gets kicked out which the message "not a member yet?"
How can I help/advise him?
Do you know if he emailed me to sign up already? Either way, have him drop me an email at bearsfans@bev.name and I’ll look into it.
I “worked” from Edgbaston for those four days. Took a video call from the back of the Hollies haha.
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?