Exiled Bear wrote:

Is it minimum 10 or 20 overs per side to constitute a match for a group game?

To answer my own question, it’s a minimum of 10 overs per side, rising to 20 for knockout games

Is it minimum 10 or 20 overs per side to constitute a match for a group game?

Wow, that relay catch was stunning.

We could do with some luck here, everything going Surrey’s way

Andy wrote:

Interested to learn that Leicestershire will apparently be charging a fee to watch their live streamed home games from August 11th...

It was only a matter of time. I’m surprised it took this long to be honest.

I wonder if the counties collectively would go down the route of having one subscription that covers all the counties with the revenue split according to how many select a particular club as their “favourite”. Of course one problem is that some counties put more into their live streams than others.

Andy wrote:

Unbelievably poor dismissal from Hamza.

It was there to hit, just got it completely wrong.

I don’t hate it…wouldn’t it be worth increasing the stadium capacity a bit at the same time though?

At least it looks a lot better than the monstrosities they built at Old Trafford…

Gloucestershire at home in the quarter final, then.

He looks so much better opening the batting than coming in in the middle order, I seem to recall that he used to open for Worcestershire as well.

3 from 7 balls when we were going along at more than 10 RPO before that is quite impressive

Hain is “a little sore” so hopefully not too serious.

Crazy that some people were calling for Mousley to be dropped earlier in the tournament!

Inside-edge wrote:

Benjamin is keeping wicket

I wonder if it’s because Davies isn’t fully fit, or whether it’s just an excuse to keep Benjamin in the side…

I can only assume that Benjamin has a clause in his contract that becomes very expensive if he’s not selected.

Andy wrote:

Which rounds were with the Kookaburra? Have Davie and Yates literally only made runs against the Kookaburra. They both made half centuries in the game v Somerset, was this against the Kooka?

Poor opening partnership for years? Davies struggled last season I'll give you that but Yates compared very favourably in comparison to other regular openers.

Kookaburra were the first two games only.

Opening partnerships so far this season:

37 (Kookaburra)
343 (Kookaburra)
116 and 56
10
59 and 18
21 and 3
38 and 15
48 and 29
19 and 106

So it's not at all accurate to say that it's a poor opening partnership. There's quite a few swallows in there...

I can't be bothered to calculate this for other teams as well but I'd bet that our opening partnership compares favourably with other teams.

As has been said already, the problem for us this season hasn't been the batting, it's been bowling teams out twice.

ExiledBrummie wrote:

I love Woakes but he's lucky to get picked for England nowadays. As for Davies, promoted well above his ability to be a championship captain although I do think he's decent enought for the one dayers. My choice would be Barnard.

The whole cosy coaching set up needs a complete re boot too, hopefully not starting in Div 2 although that looks very possible.

I agree that Woakes is lucky to have been selected for the upcoming Test series, but he was player of the series in the Ashes only last summer. The lack of cricket for him in the last six months has been detrimental for sure.

Got to be one of our worst defeats. We were in control for pretty much the whole game apart from the first and last sessions. Got to ask how we allowed them to score over 400 on the final day.

A lot of these runs have been very streaky.

BristolBear wrote:

I bet we bat on tomorrow. Maybe 10-15 more overs.
104 overs in the day. Think it’s 2 lost for change of innings. 10 overs batting tomorrow gives you a chance of 10 overs with the second new ball, plus makes the run rate that little bit higher.
Robinson and Davies are nothing if not conservative when it comes to these things.

It’s only 96 overs on the final day, no matter how many overs have been lost on previous days.

meashambear wrote:

Exiled Bear wrote:

Odds of a declaration a few overs before the close?

We scored 374 on the first day so I hope not with our record of not being able to take 10 wickets

Pitch seems to have slowed down a bit though? Certainly seems hard to time it at the moment