Andy wrote:

ajones1328 wrote:

1st over...

If you take out Yates do we have an opener to replace ?

Not sure a lad who made 93 in the previous game is in drop territory yet...he's definitely in patchy form though and needs to show some consistency...not sure what he could have done about that ball though...

Fair point ! I think I'm just fed up of this opening partnership

1st over...

If you take out Yates do we have an opener to replace ?

Ideally we'd want to bowl them out in next 5 overs and then stay off for the rest of the day with bad light. Weather forecast is showing brighter weather from 5pm.

These are not good batting conditions at all

They want less cricket..they might be having day off tomorrow at this rate !

Highveld wrote:

@AJ You are suggesting a move that would be considered to be intelligent captaincy.

When have we ever seen that under Davies?

True ! It's so predictable..5 overs of OHD and Bamber then 5 overs each for Webster and Barnard...going through the motions here

Mix it up! It's death by medium pace this morning.

Bring on our overseas spinner and see if he can change the game.

Awesome congrats Sam ! Great news

Back to a flat pitch it seems!

Very poor day, unfortunately had too many like this.

4-2..what a morning

Highveld wrote:

The captaincy this morning was worse than abysmal, it wouldn't be acceptable in a club 4th xi side, as this is meant to be one of the leadingg first class sides in the country.

The position of Davies has now become totally untenable, and change is needed now.

I have to agree that was awful stuff from Davies. Felt like we'd given up and just handed them an extra 30 runs.

Really not helpful to shout rubbish when Mousley is struggling to get through an over..

What Corey and OHD must think when he's gone to Mousley who just been smacked for two sixes..

We trying to throw the game away here

Think the game is 50/50 at the moment. Thought we bowled well.

Sad day for the region however R.I.P Ozzy

Mattmike66 wrote:

Nothing from club again ,not even a mention about match tommorrow on website .
No explanation why Bethall isn’t playing ,no Hain or any other news on player availability.
Is Latham unavailable and where is Simmons ?
Strange .
Surely Garton could be made available for selection .

Yep it's shocking. If they really wanted to increase attendances they'd be advertising this game all over the Internet with the kids off school.

Fairly clear they have no interest in promoting the county championship

Why no Bethall ? Surely he needs some cricket

Also..they will just drop the 4 day games in June and July so OHD and the like will be spending pretty much the entire summer playing 2nd cricket or the odd one day game

I wouldn't be offering players 12 month contract when they are only playing in April, May and September

LeicesterExile wrote:

I find it hard to understand the players wanting time to prepare and recover and at the same time do not complain about the season having 4 different formats = c/c. blast, odc and hundread and then are happy to chase the dollar in the IPL etc. If needing a more spread out workload why have they jumped to play the Hundread?
A spread out playing the c/c and blast through the season would achieve that - 5 days a week cricket maximum and I am sure there would still be time to play the ODC games. Of course it would need the players to say they do not want to add the Hundread to an already full schedule!!

They want to play as little cricket for the most amount of money. Likes of OHD are doing future red ball specialist out of job because all they will do is reduce red ball cricket further and play the hundred in July August...maybe even June

Andy wrote:

Too many games in too short a space of time I'd say. Hundred will be played during the school holidays and get much better marketing too.

I'd say it's a mixture of choosing where to spend money (Hundred winning due to six week holidays)

Then awful marketing and promotion of T20 compared to the Hundred

It will all be used to justify a much longer Hundred and potential scrapping of T20 blast

We have prioritised this competition but been left with players who do not turn up for the whole competition and when they do, they provide average performances