Exiled Bear
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Great news. Puts that particular rumour to bed.
I’m not sure rumours about the dressing room or individual personalities are particularly helpful, especially as I have never seen any evidence provided for these. If anyone has a source for them, please do share.
I think we just need to stop losing the toss to be honest.
According to the playing regulations “one reserve day is allocated to the playoffs, semi-finals and final”. The minimum length of the second innings also increases to 20 overs for the knockout games.
Could someone enlighten me as to what Country Membership is/was?
Some brainless cricket here. We need less than a run a ball so why are we trying to hit every ball out of the ground?
I know our stream isn’t the best around but it’s streets ahead of this one. Can barely see the ball from one end.
Highveld wrote:
Of course, if yesterday's game had been scheduled for an outground, there would have been no play and the club would only have a single point for an ababndoned game, putting qualifycation for the play off stage at risk.
Not necessarily by any means - the showers that went through that delayed the start were very localised and so almost certainly wouldn’t have impacted an outground.
A good win, I didn’t think we had enough either but comfortable in the end! I think that pretty much guarantees us top spot in the group, barring a big NRR swing?
Highveld wrote:
which will need a kitchen, cooks and waiting staff, as well as the additional stewarding costs
We already have all of those staff at Edgbaston on a match day though, surely they could work from an outground for one day a season (this could even be written into whatever contract they already have with the club whenever it is next renewed). I can’t imagine we’d need as many staff at an outground as at Edgbaston anyway
Yeah I remember watching Warwickshire play a championship match at Guildford some years ago and I don’t remember the facilities being anything spectacular, just a couple of very small temporary stands and a few marquees. I also saw us play Durham at South Northumberland a few years back and there you paid a deposit for a camping-style chair, with the option of just keeping the chair if you didn’t want the deposit back. I don’t see how it would cost anything like in the region of £100k to do.
That’s a poor LBW decision for Burgess.
Bethell and Brookes return to the squad, and Tazeem Ali is also included:
Rhodes
Ali
Barnard
Bethell
Booth
E. Brookes
H. Brookes
Burgess
OHD
Lintott
Miles
Shaikh
Smith
Yates
Anyone know much about Ali?
The second replay angle shows it best I think. You can see that the toe of his shoe is inside the rope, not on it.
BosworthBear wrote:
If he doesn’t touch the rope then he is levitating because it’s a long time before that foot touches the ground again.
To me the honest answer is he trod on the rope then reacted.
We will be a poorer game if we can’t rely on player honesty. And if we can’t then the correct decision is to give the batsman the benefit of the doubt.
We might well have won anyway. This one leaves a poor taste in the mouth.
He doesn’t levitate. He realises that he’s about to put his foot on the rope, then quickly lifts it up again, which is why his momentum then means he lurches over the boundary (but not before releasing the ball).
I’ve watched the video that Glamorgan tweeted a few times and you definitely can’t say for certain that he was touching the rope. Maybe, just maybe one of his spikes touched it but he wouldn’t have been able to tell that anyway. Calling him a cheat is a bit much.
Quite funny all the Glamorgan supporters replying to the tweet saying that it was clearly six. Even if it was given as six it probably doesn’t change the result of the match as they still would have needed 19 runs with only two wickets left.
How are the groups determined? Nice to play some teams that we don’t get to play very often in the T20 or Championship.
As others have pointed out, it’s bizarre that the England players are preparing for the World Cup by not playing that particular format in the build-up…
Anyone know if Barnard ever opened the batting for Worcestershire? Am I right in thinking that it’s the first time he’s done it for us? Seems to be working so far!
A lovely tribute to Woakes here:
Delighted that he’s finally getting the recognition that he deserves