The Cricket Thread

Over rate at -4 already. Daws will have to bowl more now!

 

On the one hand, I assume England will be very pleased to see Rehan scoring a 100 yesterday and now taking six wickets today, with the kookaburra ball.

But on the other hand, the opposition is Derby. Not exactly Australia.

 

H 80 - 0 close

 

Fair play to Weatherley and Middleton, excellent job of seeing off the new ball.

 

I see Ian Botham has been scathing about the Somerset pitch. And I see why!

 

Exactly what I was saying. 35 wickets in a day and a half is not a first class cricket pitch.

Plus I’m £48 out of pocket with no chance of a refund, the ****s.

 

Yeah, that's ****ty for you. I do wonder if part of the reason is a "**** you" to the ECB for forcing counties to use the kookaburra ball. But even so, that's a really bad pitch for county cricket.

 

Eh? How does that work?

 

The regulations say that for CC games the only refunds are when less than 19.5 overs are possible due to weather, and no result is possible..

 

So there's nothing for when a game finishes early? Have you contacted Somerset?

 

I will do, don’t worry!

 

Mention that the pitch was graded "below average" by the match referee, you shouldn't lose money because a sub standard pitch was prepared.

 

Been waiting in a phone queue for 15 minutes!

 

Apparently we’ll all get the refund automatically, once they have processed them! Fair play, I didn’t think it would be that easy. The woman I spoke to said she had never known a match finish on Day 2 before.

The club will lose a lot of money over this, with all the catering and drinks money they won’t get. A seriously stupid thing to do, and there’s still a possibility of the ECB taking action too. Somerset have history of this sort of thing!

 

So Pant is back out to bat. Just bowl yorkers at him.

 

I have to say I have huge respect for Pant. Broken foot and he's still managed a 50!

 

Just seen replays of the Gubbins and Brown lbws. I have to say that both look to be very poor decisions, not sure either was hitting the stumps? But that's what happens when you're down, luck doesn't tend to go your way

 

Given England have virtually no tail, I think India are deep in the **** already even with England still 250 behind.

 

I had thought 358 was a very good score by India - and that we'd be very unlucky with some of our bowling - but these two are suggesting otherwise.

 

Hants scoring at their usual snail's pace.