The Cricket Thread

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
I thought Finals Day was a good day overall, as usual. However, I did get a bit bored part-way through each match as they did drag on a bit. I started to feel that around 16.4 overs, that was enough for me. Also felt the Hampshire side was missing something to make it more watchable, perhaps we could have put in a few players from Sussex, Warwickshire and a couple of other counties?! ;)
 
  • Like
Reactions: Saints_Alive
Oscar Cricket said:
I thought Finals Day was a good day overall, as usual. However, I did get a bit bored part-way through each match as they did drag on a bit. I started to feel that around 16.4 overs, that was enough for me. Also felt the Hampshire side was missing something to make it more watchable, perhaps we could have put in a few players from Sussex, Warwickshire and a couple of other counties?! ;)
Click to expand...
…and moving to Taunton?
 
Oscar Cricket said:
I thought Finals Day was a good day overall, as usual. However, I did get a bit bored part-way through each match as they did drag on a bit. I started to feel that around 16.4 overs, that was enough for me. Also felt the Hampshire side was missing something to make it more watchable, perhaps we could have put in a few players from Sussex, Warwickshire and a couple of other counties?! ;)
Click to expand...

Seriously though, I felt much more invested in saturday's action than any of the Hundred stuff and just those extra 3.2 overs per innings makes for a much more nuanced and tactical game IMO.
If The Hundred attracts more kids to the game then that's great but I hope that it does not sound the death knell for the future of T20 cricket.
 
  • Like
Reactions: RedandWhiteManofKent and The Ides of March
Saints_Alive said:
Seriously though, I felt much more invested in saturday's action than any of the Hundred stuff and just those extra 3.2 overs per innings makes for a much more nuanced and tactical game IMO.
If The Hundred attracts more kids to the game then that's great but I hope that it does not sound the death knell for the future of T20 cricket.
Click to expand...
100% on all counts :emoticon-0148-yes::emoticon-0165-muscl
 
  • Like
Reactions: RedandWhiteManofKent
Yes, good signing for T20 team and hopefully we'll have Donald back next year too. However, doubt we'll get to see him in 50 over team for reasons we won't get into again here now!

Can be a bit hit and miss, literally, but a good squad addition. Still need a solid Championship top 3 player, fingers crossed for that. Hopefully the Irani Essex argument will carry on and Mr Cook will decide to open for us for 2 or 3 years instead (very unlikely I know).
 
Oscar Cricket said:
Yes, good signing for T20 team and hopefully we'll have Donald back next year too. However, doubt we'll get to see him in 50 over team for reasons we won't get into again here now!

Can be a bit hit and miss, literally, but a good squad addition. Still need a solid Championship top 3 player, fingers crossed for that. Hopefully the Irani Essex argument will carry on and Mr Cook will decide to open for us for 2 or 3 years instead (very unlikely I know).
Click to expand...
Yeah no chance of that. Although Whiteley said playing at the Ageas Bowl in the Hundred played a big part in him signing for Hants.
 
Donald, Whiteley and a couple of overseas players would certainly give us a stronger t20 XI than the one we put out on Saturday. In theory there's Gubbins too - but with a career t20 average down in the mid-teens, I can't see him making the team any time soon.

For example: Overseas keeper, Donald, Vince, Weatherley, Overseas all-rounder, Whiteley, Dawson, Fuller/Currie, Wood, Crane, Wheal
 
  • Like
Reactions: Saints_Alive
Jimmy still being rested by the ECB (and Buttler). Phew.

And still no Jennings or Mahmood.
 
  • Like
Reactions: tomw24
We don't yet know if the 50 over competition will clash with the 100 next year. So it could yet be that Whiteley is available to play both white ball formats for us.

All we know for sure right now - ignoring all the rumour, speculation and suggestion - is that the 100 will be played slightly later next year, to avoid clashing with the Commonwealth games (with the KO stages of the t20 played before the 100 rather than after).
 
Given we've named Crane in the team, I'm not unhappy that they've put us in. Really need one of the top 3 at least to make a score though.
 
Damn, I was hoping we'd be bowling first - I am always extremely nervous watching us bat in the Championship. We need to put 300 on the board ideally if they reckon it's going to start spinning later. Assuming it does, I hope they don't forget about Gubbins' handy leg breaks, to supplement Dawson, Crane and Organ.

It would be nice if the top order got us off to a solid start rather than being 100-5 (or worse) and forcing the bowlers to play catch-up for us throughout the rest of the game.
 
tomw24 said:
****ing useless Gubbins.
Click to expand...
Little bit harsh! Although, yes, his form has dropped off a bit in recent weeks. Alsop's figures don't look great, but he didn't seem to do too much wrong with his dismissal. Got to try to get up as close to 250 as we can, commentators saying that it's typical September bowler-friendly conditions
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back