1. Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!

The Cricket Thread

Discussion in 'Southampton' started by TheSecondStain, Apr 11, 2016.

  1. Puck

    Puck Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jul 3, 2012
    Messages:
    4,957
    Likes Received:
    1,822
    Yes it was the same story as usual today. Wheatley could really do with a score now but I feel a bit for Stoneman. He got a cracking delivery and the WIndies bowlers look fairly toothless now.
     
    #2901
  2. st_brendy

    st_brendy Well-Known Member
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Apr 13, 2011
    Messages:
    21,038
    Likes Received:
    9,892
    Hampshire website currently states that Crane has not been released by England for tomorrow. I would take that with a slight pinch of salt - very rarely this season has the website actually got the squad correct, and England might yet change their mind.
     
    #2902
  3. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 18, 2011
    Messages:
    68,876
    Likes Received:
    24,070
    England 260-2 Root on 127; Cook on 105.

    Very odd watching a Test Match so late.
     
    #2903
  4. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 18, 2011
    Messages:
    68,876
    Likes Received:
    24,070
    This game will finish not long after it gets really dark....most of the match will be played in difficult twilight.
     
    #2904
  5. MorgansBitOnTheSchneid

    MorgansBitOnTheSchneid Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 27, 2011
    Messages:
    2,421
    Likes Received:
    2,467
    Yorkshire 220-1 off 16.3 Lythe 129 off 60. Some crazy hitting
     
    #2905
  6. st_brendy

    st_brendy Well-Known Member
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Apr 13, 2011
    Messages:
    21,038
    Likes Received:
    9,892
    But at the same time, Northants bowlers aren't bowling to their fields at all. Time and time again Yorkshire are able to hit the ball to parts of the boundary where there isn't a fielder in sight.
     
    #2906
  7. tomw24

    tomw24 Well-Known Member
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Jun 9, 2011
    Messages:
    62,301
    Likes Received:
    30,850
    150 for Lyth.
     
    #2907
  8. MorgansBitOnTheSchneid

    MorgansBitOnTheSchneid Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 27, 2011
    Messages:
    2,421
    Likes Received:
    2,467
    Still very entertaining none the less.
     
    #2908
  9. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 18, 2011
    Messages:
    68,876
    Likes Received:
    24,070
    Root bowled on 137. Batsmen have been showing signs of discombobulation under the lights....add in tiredness and you get loss of concentration. Oh....and the bowler may have had something to do with it. :)


    Going to be tough for Malan.
     
    #2909
    Last edited: Aug 17, 2017
  10. tomw24

    tomw24 Well-Known Member
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Jun 9, 2011
    Messages:
    62,301
    Likes Received:
    30,850
    Northants going like a train in response. 61-0 after 3.4 overs.
     
    #2910

  11. st_brendy

    st_brendy Well-Known Member
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Apr 13, 2011
    Messages:
    21,038
    Likes Received:
    9,892
    Whatever Yorks and Northants can do, Essex can do better.
     
    #2911
  12. Number 1 Jasper

    Number 1 Jasper Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 30, 2011
    Messages:
    24,143
    Likes Received:
    14,856
    I wish the West Indies would sort themselves out .
     
    #2912
  13. The Ides of March

    The Ides of March Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Oct 21, 2011
    Messages:
    12,778
    Likes Received:
    4,686
    Given that Hants and Glamrgan are through, I'd like to see Sussx and Kent join them in the qfs. I don't think Middlesex have done enough to go through.
     
    #2913
  14. ......loading......

    ......loading...... 25 undefeated

    Joined:
    Aug 31, 2012
    Messages:
    8,576
    Likes Received:
    8,261
    Isn't the problem that American sports now dominate the Caribbean? Young West Indians are more likely to play basketball than cricket.
     
    #2914
    Number 1 Jasper likes this.
  15. Number 1 Jasper

    Number 1 Jasper Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 30, 2011
    Messages:
    24,143
    Likes Received:
    14,856

    That's interesting , I did not know that , it's just a real shame IMHO . They were BRILLIANT .
     
    #2915
  16. fatletiss

    fatletiss Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 17, 2011
    Messages:
    57,300
    Likes Received:
    40,066
    It's exactly this. Was talking to my wife's Jamaican cousins about this just last week.
     
    #2916
  17. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Feb 8, 2011
    Messages:
    37,241
    Likes Received:
    35,094
    School kids in the Caribbean should be shown videos of the glory days of the 1970's and 80's. Clive Lloyd, Viv Richards, Gordon Greenidge, and later on Brian Lara, and then the bowlers who ripped apart the rest of the world: Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Malcolm Marshall and co.

    I would finish the daily brainwashing session with Sir Garfield Sobers scoring 6 sixes in an over against Glamorgan in the John Player Sunday League in 1968 (sorry Helen!)
     
    #2917
    fatletiss likes this.
  18. The Ides of March

    The Ides of March Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Oct 21, 2011
    Messages:
    12,778
    Likes Received:
    4,686
    Just to take the analogy a stage further, perhaps youngsters in Scotland should be shown footage of great Scottish footballers - Kenny Dalglish, Paul McStay, Jimmy Johnstone, Graeme Souness, Denis Law, Duncan Ferguson, Jim Baxter.
     
    #2918
  19. The Ides of March

    The Ides of March Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Oct 21, 2011
    Messages:
    12,778
    Likes Received:
    4,686
    Going back slightly, Rohan Kanhai, Sonny Ramadin, Lance Gibbs, Wes Hall. Adding to list of greats Desmond Haynes, Joel Garner, Ambrose, Richardson, Courtney Walsh, Wayne Daniel.
     
    #2919
    ChilcoSaint likes this.
  20. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 18, 2011
    Messages:
    68,876
    Likes Received:
    24,070
    Malan gone for 65. Now 449-4.
     
    #2920

Share This Page