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Well, can the top order hang on to their wickets?

From anyone watching this live, is the madness of the scoring explained by the changing conditions?
Did both teams lose early wickets in good bowling conditions and score runs in good batting ones?
 
shoot_spiderman said:
Well, can the top order hang on to their wickets?

From anyone watching this live, is the madness of the scoring explained by the changing conditions?
Did both teams lose early wickets in good bowling conditions and score runs in good batting ones?
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I think the trial of using the kookaburra ball for this round of matches (and the previous round) has a lot to do with it. The 1st innings' for Essex and Glamorgan, for example, were similar.

Seems like the ball does a fair bit for about 20 or 30 overs, then starts to go soft very quickly - such that from about 40 overs onwards, it's just not worth bowling with.
 
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Good to see us using our brain and not opening with Weatherley. I presumed it would be Organ rather than Abbott, but either way it's fine.
 
st_brendy said:
I think the trial of using the kookaburra ball for this round of matches (and the previous round) has a lot to do with it. The 1st innings' for Essex and Glamorgan, for example, were similar.

Seems like the ball does a fair bit for about 20 or 30 overs, then starts to go soft very quickly - such that from about 40 overs onwards, it's just not worth bowling with.
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It also seems in the Tests that every change of the ball when it failed the test, improves things for the bowling team
I'm sure there were a fair few wickets taken straight after
 
st_brendy said:
Narine has a busy few days ahead of him. He's currently in USA, ready to play in the opening game of the Major League Cricket competition - which begins 1.30am our time, on Friday morning (playing for the LA Riders). He then plans to be back in the UK for Surrey's SF (2.30pm on Saturday) and the final if they qualify (6.45pm on Saturday). And then plans to be back in the USA for LA's second match (9.30pm our time, on Sunday).

Interestingly, Daniel Sams' team are also involved in the opening game, but it doesn't sounds like he's following Narine's lead. I think he's remained in the UK ahead of Final Day, and will only fly out to the US afterwards.
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Good news for Somerset (and potentially the winner of Hants-Essex). Having landed in USA, Narine has screwed Surrey over by changing his mind to not fly back for Finals Day.

That said, the weather forecast still looks pretty poor. They might struggle to get any of the matches completed.
 
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