GerryShedd
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My version of today's events:
https://deepextracover.com/2024/06/vitality-county-championship-warwickshire-v-hampshire-day-three/
My report on yesterday's play:
https://deepextracover.com/2024/06/vitality-county-championship-warwickshire-v-hampshire-day-two/
Absolutely right that Barker had personal reasons for wanting to move to the South coast.
Absolutely right that Barker had personal reasons for wanting to move to the South coast.
LeicesterExile wrote:
Highveld wrote:
There is a four day sexond eleven game starting Monday, ideally Chris is allowed to keep wicket and bat wherever he wants in the order.
I'd be really pleased if he has a good performance in that game.
A telling typo in there or was your mind elsewhere? !!
Telling also that you were the one to spot it!
My theory is that Benjamin is getting picked so that, even though we are top of the table and have won two matches in the last two days, we still have something to complain about.
Nice of Yorkshire to beat Lancs which makes them look much less like Group winners.
Queue here for the bus to Rugby and back:
https://tickets.edgbaston.com/resources/samp/EDG/EDG_2024_Rugby_School_Festival_Bus_Travel_NZ8atlfrOmVR9PebOlxD3iGHI%3D.html
Interesting points re strike rate.
I guess that if a side often bats second and has a strong bowling attack (like the Bears), the batters are more able to pace themselves towards a lowish target. I wouldn't fault Sam Hain's judgment in steadily steering the Bears to their target in the last two games.
I thought it was a tricky pitch for batting - the fourth time it had been used.
I agree the camera work was pretty dreadful, far worse than any other recent efforts at other grounds.
A bit worried that Sam Hain seemed to be having problems with an injured leg while batting though if he has to drop out, no doubt Benjamin will step up at number four.
The G-Men look like good signings.
I am, as may be obvious from my posts, a "glass half full" man. But even I think that the continued selection of Chris Benjamin is strange and not necessarily in his interests because he must go out to bat feeling like a walking wicket.
Maybe today is the day he proves us wrong.
Thanks for this.
As usual, it's a really interesting read, if slightly depressing in places.
Regarding the pavilion redevelopment, I guess it's impossible to say what would have happened if it hadn't been done; but it's reasonable to assume that Edgbaston's allocation of major international matches would have dried up more or less completely. I actually loved the old pavilion and spent many happy hours there but it was no longer fit for purpose.
Yes, it's on youtube and it's in the first over. If you freeze it at the right moment, it definitely looks out.
Highveld says Sue Redfern is an excellent umpire and I would never doubt his word; but I think she got this one wrong.
Alex Davies says: "We had a few decisions that were really questionable - we ran Bedingham out early and it wasn't given."
I missed that - and so did the umpire - but that could have made a massive difference because he played a superb attacking innings.
Here's my (fairly brief) report (and I know it should just be "Bears" but I didn't write the headline):
https://deepextracover.com/2024/06/vitality-blast-match-report-birmingham-bears-v-durham/
In the end, came closer than I thought they would.
That was a disastrous start to his first over by Hasan Ali - a no-ball with the free hit going for six, sixes off his next two balls, then a wide and then a four. So with three balls of the over to go, he's conceded 25. And when Mousley replaces him, his first over goes for 22.
Those two overs played a big part in the defeat.
Weather forecast not looking too great.
Who would have thought that it might rain in Manchester?
Oh ye of little faith!