The Cricket Thread

Felix is nearly up there with James Fuller as one of the surprises of the season and I thought that he may have been replaced by now but he's in the side on merit.

 

That Lancs-Yorks scorecard is unique. Nothing for any of the front line bowlers. All six for a part-timer.

 

H 229 - 5 COP. Bad light stopped play.

 

Part of me isn't too disappointed with Dawson out early. That brings Barks to the crease to bat with Donald. Could be fun...

 

We need to get to 300 (as soon as possible) so that we don't miss out on too many bonus points. Anything more than that would be a bonus (pretty much literally!). Rain is apparently very close now unfortunately, I had hoped we'd get an hour's play in.

 

Met Office radar for 11am then 12pm:

 

In short, we MIGHT get lucky. And even if we don't, the rain will pass through quickly.

 

This is excellent from Donald. I said yesterday that Donald's aggressive batting style could be very useful for this match.

 

Ah, here's the rain.

 

It's annoying that they don't keep the live feed camera on, it means we can't see what's happening at the ground. Is it still raining, are the ground staff busy removing the covers ahead of an inspection etc.?

 

Radio Solent Sport twitter says no play before at least 12.40pm. I assume that's because the umpires have said that a (very) early lunch will be taken at 12pm?

 

2pm restart.

 

In Berlin but following & keeping everything crossed that we get a chance to continue & hopefully finish this match.

 

I think we should get to 300 and then let Donald go into T20 mode.

 

Oh dear - Barks lasted one ball after the delay.

 

Donald falls 6 short of a ton. Fantastic innings though.

 

As long as we get 14 more to get the 4th batting point I won't be too fussed about getting bowled out fairly promptly.

 

That's 350 up.

 

Fuller skies one straight up.

 

H 354 - 9 81.4 overs