The Ashes & Hampshire Cricket Summer Thread - II

Carberry plays.

 

Ruel Braithwaite plays for Hampshire. Who the hell is he?

 

Presumably we have him on trial?

Following his studies at Cambridge University, Brathwaite was at The Oval bowling in the nets to the England players. His bowling impressed Durham cricketer Paul Collingwood enough for him to contact the Durham Second XI coach Jonathan Lewis,[SUP][10][/SUP] who proceeded to invite Brathwaite to play for Durham for the remaining few weeks of the 2010 season,[SUP][8][/SUP] during which he made a single first-class appearance against Somerset in the County Championship, taking 4 wickets in the match.[SUP][11][/SUP] Following to 2010 season, Brathwaite signed a two-year deal with Durham.[SUP][8][/SUP][SUP][12][/SUP] Returning to the West Indies following the 2010 English season, he proceeded to make his Twenty20 debut for theCombined Campuses and Colleges against Guyana in the 2010 Caribbean Twenty20.[SUP][13][/SUP] In this match, he claimed the wicket of Christopher Barnwell for the cost of 33 runs from 3 overs, while with the bat he was dismissed for a duck by Lennox Cush.[SUP][14][/SUP]
Returning to Durham for the 2011 season, Brathwaite made his first List A appearance for the county against Scotland in the Clydesdale Bank 40,[SUP][4][/SUP] as well as playing six first-class matches.[SUP][2][/SUP] He has so far[SUP][when?][/SUP] taken 26 first-class wickets in 2011, coming at an average of 27.38, with two five-wicket hauls and best figures of 5/56.[SUP][7][/SUP] He has stated his desire not to qualify to potentially play for England, but to return to the West Indies to get into the Barbados team and to play for the West Indies.[SUP][1][/SUP] In 2012, he made just a single appearance for Durham in a first-class match against the touring Australia A team.[SUP][2][/SUP]

 

Northants 24/3.

 

32/4 now.

 

Dont understand why Balcombe in particular never gets a go at one dayers. Can't be more expensive than Griffiths!

 

David Griffiths will leave Hampshire at the end of the season and will join Kent.

 

Ireland are coming on in ODIs...apparently their target is to be a full Test side. More the merrier I say, as long as of a decent standard.

 

Carberry not shining in the catching department. Now not so good in the bowling.

 

Carberry getting grief from the crowd. Not his day...needs a nice catch now.

 

Northants 5th wicket partnership comes to an end at last

 

Carberry out.

 

And so ends a miserable day for MC!

 

Scotland 0-1 after 2 overs chasing an unlikely 363 to beat Australia

 

Looked forward to this game...but England aren't even making a game of it. Comes of not playing our best side....like the weakened side put out for a League Cup match.

 

It's looking embarrassing for England at the moment @ 25-3

 

Dire from England.

 

Just don't think it was meant to be for Carbs. Sadly though, think failure with England will hit his confidence hard for Hampshire.

 

Morgan and Bopara steadying the ship.

 

Partly because of how expensive he can be. Mainly because of his injury record. Can't put his body through lots of matches.