The Cricket Thread

H 79 - 5 Dawson gone

 

Watching Hants' slim championship hopes finally being snuffed out right now.
The batting has to improve next season.

 

H 90 - 6 Organ stopped, another lbw

 

H 122 - 6 Tea and the rain is coming.

 

That will be it for today and that's fine with me. Lead is 73. Realistically, we need another 70 or 80 tomorrow to make a game of it. 140-150 won't be an easy chase from what I've seen.

 

It was a horrible way to get out, but I understand what he was thinking. Finally a delivery from someone not called Porter, Cook or Harmer; we might not get too many of those, so lets try and cash in while we can. If Vince could have taken, say, 30 from two overs off of Walter, that would have been huge in the context of the match. Just look at how much Fuller's two overs yesterday stand out: painful.

Obviously it backfired horribly - and even worse, exposed a dreadfully out of form Brown to quickly follow - but I understand the thinking.

Porter-Cook-Harmer is the best bowling attack in the country, regardless of which four bowler they might have alongside them.

 

The plan for tomorrow is fairly simple: Gubbins stays at the crease while Fuller and Abbott look to score quickly. If those two get out before Gubbins then he goes up a gear or two. We don't know how tomorrow will go but either way it isn't going into a fourth day. Looking at the forecast it's going to be dry but very overcast so should be ideal for bowling so if we can get a lead of more than 140 it's game on.

 

Vell, a bit, but not werry much

 

H 123 - 7 Fuller gone

 

H 124 - 8 Abbott gone

 

Gubbins needs to play some shots now.

 

H 131 - 9 Turner gone 82 ahead

 

H 131 all out Gubbins out 45

 

Conditions are not nice to bat in at all. Probably haven't got enough but 3 or 4 early wickets and you never know.

 

You've got to think that 82 is not a defendable total, but stranger things have happened. Not many, though.

 

If Middlesex can bowl Warks out for 60 we can do the same to Essex. Have to take every catch and hope luck's on our side though.

 

1 down.

 

Australia won the toss and put us into bat .

Stokes says he would have Bowled First .

 

2 down

 

Root gone, a bit of a collapse.

From 62-0 to 73-3