That's the problem, there's one man and his dog watching the Championship, no other team would bat Collingwood so low, especially when you've got Clark, Richardson and Pringle up the order who are all badly out of their depth in T20.
Was this at 2 down. Dropping your best T20 player on the TV is pretty ridiculous when your on financially struggling and that's what get people through the gate. Hope that useless numpty Stoneman never captains us again. Not even good enough to be in a T20 team, yet we drop people like Collingwood and Muchall.
Was pretty amazed Collingwood wasn't playing. Our bowling is good (though less suited to the shorter game) but our batting has been sketchy for some time.
In T20 the batting is a shambles, the bowling is unpredictable. The wrong players selected in T20, Stoneman is opening with an average of less than 20 and strike rate of less than 120 over 46 games, hardly captain material, you know if Mustard goes cheaply there's a good chance Durham will be 5 down in no time. Bowlers never had a chance tonight. Stoneman, Clark, Richardson and Pringle are out of their depth in T20. No one goes to Championship or 50 over games and T20 people are fed up of the we don't give a toss attitude.
Pringle you legend. Still likely to be a poor/ losing overall score but to get us past 200 - what an effort!! He has scored 123 of the 156 runs since he came in (as I type)
It took a freakish effort just to give us a glimmer. We totally deserved to lose that so no issue but Pringle deserves man of the match - to get that score when you come in at 50-6 and the players at the other end are just putting up shop, awesome.
Blimey what happened, Pringle got a 100, sounds like an incredible innings, once saw Patel for Notts play a similar innings against Durham that was truly a remarkable innings to watch. As for the rest oh dear.
I see Yorkshire seconds are sticking it to Durham. Thought I'd get this is in nice and early whilst we are still on top!
Bad day for Durham but looking at the forecast, the ball will be hooping around all week with the humid conditions.
Hope so can't see it, was there Durham's batting was pathetic with the expection of Stonemand and Burnham. Yorkshire will win by an innings.
I was hoping we'd string it out a bit longer. If they'd got 220 we'd probably have some hope. I have to say the swift conclusion to the innings has really hurt us. At 134-4 we need 3or 4 cheap wickets now. We'll certainly have to bat a whole lot better 2nd innings. We need quick runs from the aggressors like Borthwick/Stoneman. if they can set a platform for Burnham and Colly to build off we can set a total. Essentially though its all meaningless without quickfire wickets right now!
Good fightback from Durham but it unfortunately suggests the ball is not moving much and once again there is not much wrong with the pitch. We might be better off going really really big and just taking the draw if possible. Yorks massive favourites now I would think.
It might not happen but if Durham were to get another 150, could scoreboard pressure of chasing 400 be a problem for the Yorkies on the final day? Not unthinkable.
