Gloucester used to do a dirty little trick that New South Wales used to do. After a batsman had hit the ball into the outfield, the fielder would chuck it in from such an angle that the batsman had to step out of his crease to avoid being hit, Russell then took the ball and ran out the batsman. I saw them get Darren Lehmann out this way when they played Yorkshire. It's a filthy bit of bad sportsmanship and they were not above it at all.

BosworthBear wrote:

paulbear wrote:

We could only get batting points by getting to 250, that will take forever so Notts sacrificed trying to get another 25 runs for another batting point and deny us another bowling point so that they hope to get a few wickets for bowling points.

So should we declare if we lose another wicket?

Notts could ask us to follow on, if you declare short of the follow-on margin, there has to be an agreement by the other captain that you can declare short of the 176 we need to avoid the follow-on.

We could only get batting points by getting to 250, that will take forever so Notts sacrificed trying to get another 25 runs for another batting point and deny us another bowling point so that they hope to get a few wickets for bowling points.

And that was only because Bancroft decided that his side were not going to put a spinner on for the Durham 2nd innings so the umpires said they couldn't go back on. I suppose he thinks he's being a tough Aussie by doing this, no he isn't he's being an awkward bastard.

Hove looks bloody awful for rain tomorrow (Or good from our point of view) and maybe with some around for Sunday, it might be hard for Somerset to force a result. It's important that we don't let Nottinghamshire get ahead of us in this game for points, they get 2 batting if they get bowled out for less than 300 but it could be tricky for us to get 2 batting (300) if we lose wickets steadily.

Just got back. BLOODY HELL, it was in the bag and then Mousley did the same as he did in the first innings, he suddenly became Harry Brook and decided he's done enough and if we had lost that, a few might have felt like throttling him. He did so well getting us into that position to win but someone should sit him down and explain the notion of seeing it through and making sure you are walking to the pavilion to milk the applause when it's won. I would have been furious if Sussex had won that. During the morning all they did is edge balls from false shots either with bat or pad. 41 extras explains it all and they could have been all out before lunch. Lots giving their wickets away but the ball did move more when that big ******* cloud moved in to almost spoil things. I need a lie down.

28-6 starting with Moseley's wicket. That one he gave away playing a poor shot that was never there (Don't try and hook if it's on the offside) and now we are in the crap. I was there this morning and saw a few keep low and if the conditions stay the same, I don't fancy us to chase 200+.

That more or less seals our fait in one-day games (I hate the term 'White Ball' cricket) so now we will just have to win the CC.

Yes, the selection was out of our hands to a certain extent but it is infuriating when that Hundread crap comes along, some of your players are taken and then aren't played. It's hard not to wonder what just one of those players could have done if they were available. A few more runs from a a player in a run chase might have seen us home, we could end up being one win away from being able to qualify.

I hope, like the T20, we don't end up looking back at a really poor start in the first 3 games.

But we do have only 5 genuine batsmen and a few allrounders and it does look short on batting from that perspective so I do hope that one of those 5 can stay in a 'Go Big'.

Always liked Will, stayed very humble when we won the title in 2021, no showboating or fist-pumping histrionics, those 4 days v Somerset when I was FORCED to take a long 'Sickie' in scorching sunshine and watched us gradually come out on top, I will not forget and I hope he can keep going. Strange how he has prospered more for Durham in One-Day games seeing as we always appeared reluctant to play him in T20's.

KingofSpain wrote:

I can understand any player wanting to maximise their income but playing in the nets for a franchise is harming careers. We saw it with Hain for the past few years. It probably cost him an opportunity to play for England.
Franchise sport will never work in this country.

I agree, the attendance at the Leeds v Manchester game was quite spares and there appeared to be quite a few empty seats. Do people in Yorkshire want to ALL support a team called Leeds and do people from Sheffield, Bradford, Halifax, etc, really want to cheer on a town/city that they really do not care about and how many Lancashire fans from out side Manchester, do not want to be associated with a side that doesn't represent where they come from within the county.

This is what pisses so many members off and we can all understand why the ECB are held in such contempt. Players skills are being diminished by not playing enough cricket or too much of one sort. Going back to play county cricket if all you have played is The hundred or sat on yer' bum for a few weeks, is not the way to forge a career and an easy way to get out of form and destroy your counties chances of trophies. Bethell will have a similar problem adjusting to Tests and no doubt Harry Brook will play as though nothing has changed. We saw the same thing during the Winter when Matthew Potts who has been overlooked as very ordinary players like Jamie Overton were playing v India last season and then he was picked to play v Australia in the final Test at Sydney having not played in ages - No surprise that he got carted everywhere and all people could do was criticise him instead of the ECB for their pathetic way of conducting a tour, like a bunch of arrogant twats, who unlike the UK cricket fans, didn't see it coming.

Andy wrote:

paulbear wrote:

I looked at the Somerset line-up and though that we had a good chance. After such an inept struggle, I really think we will lose all our games.

Ok did you look at our line up?!

Yes I did look at ours but there were a few names in theirs I didn't recognise so I thought that maybe we had a slight chance. Unfortunately for us it was 2 of the names I DID recognise that scored the bulk of their runs.

I looked at the Somerset line-up and though that we had a good chance. After such an inept struggle, I really think we will lose all our games.

Our tail looks massive, I can remember when we had sides in 50 over games (B & H Final 2002) when 9, 10, and 11 were Smith, Giles and Piper. A long time ago....

Some bloke called Hamza Shaikh has scored 104* for Leicestershire this afternoon. Hmmmmmmmmmm!

This is one of the most inexperienced and weak bowling attacks we have fielded.

I did see a few empties during the first semi when I watched the highlights unless it was that Hampshire and Notts fans hadn't arrived yet.