The Cricket Thread

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I appreciate that the weather looks awful for tomorrow, and not great for later in the day on Wednesday either, but I'd still have batted a little bit longer if I was Middlesex. So long as the rain does comes, the only way they can possibly win this is by being able to enforce the follow on. By declaring now they've set us a target of 318 to effectively draw the game. Given our batting, I'd say it's touch and go whether we could get there - but if they'd have just smashed another quick 50 runs, then they'd have no doubt put the target out of our reach, and only taken say 5 more overs out of the game.
 
Fair play to Sri Lanka for making England bat again, most teams would've laid down and died, if they could by some miracle get a lead of 150+ it could make the match a bit interesting!
 
Saints_Alive said:
What the hell has happened to Carbs this season?, with all the injuries and Vincey's call up, we need the senior players to step up.
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At least he's made a 100 this year. He didn't manage that at all last year. But yes, that one innings aside, he's even worse this year than last year.

It doesn't help though that Jimmy and Smith have been equally as poor. All three of them have only made one score of note each so far. Fingers crossed that changes today, but I'm not holding out any hope.
 
st_brendy said:
At least he's made a 100 this year. He didn't manage that at all last year. But yes, that one innings aside, he's even worse this year than last year.

It doesn't help though that Jimmy and Smith have been equally as poor. All three of them have only made one score of note each so far. Fingers crossed that changes today, but I'm not holding out any hope.
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Understandable that Jimmy might be out of nick, he's just come back, but 9 batting points all season is abysmal and if it doesn't improve Hants will have a struggle to stay up.
 
Saints_Alive said:
Understandable that Jimmy might be out of nick, he's just come back, but 9 batting points all season is abysmal and if it doesn't improve Hants will have a struggle to stay up.
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13 bowling points out of possible 18 isn't great either - on average, that means every opponent is no more than 8 down after 110 overs, so are almost certainly putting on 300+ each time (on average).

But at least our horrific injury problems can be of some reasonable excuse for that. Unlike those abysmal 9 batting points, as you say (so whilst we're shipping 300+ every first innings, we're only getting 200 - 250 ourselves).
 
Right, now the three walking wickets are out, we can start our innings. Good luck...
 
So, we've already lost more wickets than Middlesex did in their entire innings.

When we are bad, we are bad.
 
I said, all three of them are walking wickets. Order them however we like.
 
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