***Official*** English Domestic Season 2008

[Richard]

Seems, though, that any batting-line-up which comes-up against Kabir Ali and Simon Jones this season will be ripped apart.

As Leics are knocked-over for 120, we can now have a brief look. Jones has taken 24 wickets in 74.2 overs (SR 18.5) this season so far; Kabir has taken 22 in 116.4 (SR 31.8).

Pretty awesome stuff thaaaat.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

In other news, Ramps on 45*. 100 #100 tonight?

Aaaand out.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

As Leics are knocked-over for 120, we can now have a brief look. Jones has taken 24 wickets in 74.2 overs (SR 18.5) this season so far; Kabir has taken 22 in 116.4 (SR 31.8).

Pretty awesome stuff thaaaat.

May as well play Jones against RSA considering that's all Leicestershire are.

 

[Richard]

Malan has been there a couple of season, hasn't he?

Well he played a single Twenty20 Cup game for them in 2006, but apart from that he's not played for the first-team until this season.

Looks a decent player though.

In other news, Ramps on 45*. 100 #100 tonight?

No, Ramprakash out for 48. Guess who? Ryan McLaren... AGAIN. Cook also falls annoyingly short of a milestone, out for 95 to that noted fingerspinner Jake Needham.

 

[Richard]

May as well play Jones against RSA considering that's all Leicestershire are.

Not the only ones either. Northants are already discussed, today and earlier, and Somerset have a couple of SAfricans playing against their countrymen today, in de Bruyn and Kieswetter. And there's several others who could possibly be if picked.

Hopefully something will be done about that, and soon.

 

[Richard]

Mahmood gets ANOTHER wicket with a rubbish delivery, this time a Long-Hop that Rayner pulls straight to deep-square-leg.

Just after du Plessis has been gifted a wicket with another Long-Hop that kept low.

 

[pasag]

RTD passes 50, and gets his FC average back over 50 in the process.

 

[Richard]

Yeah Essex needed that too after their star-studded top-order fell in a heap.

Wonder why Greg Smith hasn't bowled in that game BTW, given that Wavell Hinds has?

 

[Richard]

BTW, with helmet on Luke Wright resembles Shane Watson; without, he much more resembles Michael Clarke. Or, at least, Clarke as he looks when he has hair, which he unwisely currently doesn't.

 

[Goughy]

BTW, with helmet on Luke Wright resembles Shane Watson; without, he much more resembles Michael Clarke. Or, at least, Clarke as he looks when he has hair, which he unwisely currently doesn't.

If it wasnt 4 on a Sunday Id have sworn you were badly drunk from reading the above. Not from the content but how it kind of rambles without focus

 

[GIMH]

Sussex 253/9. Flintoff not in the wickets but the overs I have seen he bowled nicely.

 

[Richard]

If it wasnt 4 on a Sunday Id have sworn you were badly drunk from reading the above. Not from the content but how it kind of rambles without focus

Aye, wasn't sure where to make that post, here seemed the best of a few bad choices.

Anyway, at Hove Mahmood completes a five-for, and every single wicket has come with a genuinely bad delivery.

 

[GIMH]

Two years ago a CC 5fer would have seen Mahmood get an ODI recall

 

[Richard]

At The Oval, Key's captaincy appears odd TSTL. McLaren's taken 2 wickets... so he bowls him less than anyone else.

Yasir 18, Joseph 22, Tredwell 20, Saggers 19, Stevens 3. They've 2 wickets between them. And McLaren has taken 2 in 10.

Baffling.

 

[Richard]

Two years ago a CC 5fer would have seen Mahmood get an ODI recall

If this game was before the ODIs rather than straight after them, I wouldn't rule such a thing out right now.

 

[Richard]

Well this Dawid Malan fellow now has a century in his maiden First-Class innings for Middlesex. Given that the only previous First-Class cricket he'd played had been in the amateur South African competition and that too 2-and-a-half years ago, that's a very good effort methinks.

BTW, his dad was a First-Class cricketer and has the exact same name. Useless fact #55362.

 

[Richard]

I'm so glad I get to see that wonderful Jason Lewry action for what will presumably be one last time.

Zaheer Khan surely must have modelled himself on Lewry.

Haha, Lou Vincent is a joke sometimes. Ridiculous to see new ball bowlers as good as Corey Collymore being swung straight for six.

 

[TT Boy]

Well this Dawid Malan fellow now has a century in his maiden First-Class innings for Middlesex. Given that the only previous First-Class cricket he'd played had been in the amateur South African competition and that too 2-and-a-half years ago, that's a very good effort methinks.

BTW, his dad was a First-Class cricketer and has the exact same name. Useless fact #55362.

Dawid is a top talent, really elegant and quite similar to Ed Joyce. I don’t think too many people at Middlesex or indeed in South Africa will be surprised to see him excelling for when he left Stellenbosch practically everyone expected him to go onto to bigger and better things.

Dawid’s brother is also a cricketer; think his with the MCC currently.

 

[TT Boy]

Sussex 253/9. Flintoff not in the wickets but the overs I have seen he bowled nicely.

Pace?

I caught ten minutes of this game this morning, how Sussex got bowled out that cheaply was a real surprise for the wicket looked completely 'lifeless'.

 

[Richard]

Pretty much every wicket was a gift - as I mentioned, including the Mahmood five.

I didn't see Flintoff top more than 85mph or so, and I'm pretty happy with that really, given he's just back from injury. His first spell was decent, his second and third more expensive.