***Official*** English Domestic Season 2008

[Richard]

He was a panic choice after Fidel Edwards pulled out of his contract. Now just a few weeks before he's due to start Nehra says he wants more money AND wants to start his contract much later in the season. Well he can just **** right off

With Kabir and Simon Jones Worcs have pretty well all the bowling they need, no?

 

[SpaceMonkey]

With Kabir and Simon Jones Worcs have pretty well all the bowling they need, no?

You'd think so. But i guess the Worcs management want to really go all out for a top bowling attack. We were looking at Bracken too apparently.

 

[Richard]

Meh, what a waste of money. You're going to import Steven Magoffin, might as well leave it at that.

Pick two excellent English pros and some poor ones (Andrew etc.) IMO.

 

[stumpski]

Yorkshire in big trouble now - five down and needing 9 an over. So it's starting to look like an all-southern final - at least the supporters won't have far to go.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

He was a panic choice after Fidel Edwards pulled out of his contract. Now just a few weeks before he's due to start Nehra says he wants more money AND wants to start his contract much later in the season. Well he can just **** right off

Nehra pulling the diva card.

 

[Richard]

Yorkshire in big trouble now - five down and needing 9 an over. So it's starting to look like an all-southern final - at least the supporters won't have far to go.

FFS we buggered that up totally.

WTF were we doing allowing it to get to 8.5-an-over needed? We still had 8 wickets in hand at that time, the rate should never have gone out of control like that. Why the hell was Bopara allowed to bowl 5 overs for 19?

Now ten Doeschate being gifted wickets as we have to throw them away.

 

[wpdavid]

Yorkshire in big trouble now - five down and needing 9 an over. So it's starting to look like an all-southern final - at least the supporters won't have far to go.

6 down now, with Rudolph gone. 4 wickets lost for 3 runs, and all over, you'd have thought. Looks like most of Essex's support bowlers were really tidy even when Yorks weren't losing any wickets.

 

[Richard]

It was all over long before the wickets went down.

Wickets going down are simply an inevitable result of the required rate going so far up. No-one can score 8.5-an-over over 15 overs against remotely good bowling.

 

[wpdavid]

It was all over long before the wickets went down.

Wickets going down are simply an inevitable result of the required rate going so far up. No-one can score 8.5-an-over over 15 overs against remotely good bowling.

I suppose a couple of spectacular overs would have made it interesting, but agreed that the odds were against them.

btw why didn't Vaughan play?

 

[Richard]

Because Adam Lyth is a better one-day cricketer than him.

Nah seriously - with the First Test not far off and a captain with a dodgy-ish knee, resting was always inevitable.

No Lord's final for Gough in his last season.

 

[stumpski]

Injury niggle, isn't it? I think I read that somewhere.


(here)

 

[Richard]

The orders to rest him were given before this latest swelling occurred, FTR.

 

[stumpski]

It's going to be the Battle of the Dartford Tunnel, then.


Bit of needle right at the end. Foster had the last word.

 

[tooextracool]

He is certainly a special bowler (no, I dont want to discuss this again) but unfortunately he is also a special child.

He was the most unique bowling talent England had produced since Willis.

As one of his few longterm defenders on here, Im not going to promote him any more after the Boycott incident.

While the comparisons with Ambrose are sometimes dismissed, the truth of the matter is that they are comparable bowlers. Yes, he is special, as anyone who can bowl at 90+ mph at his height and with his action and release is always going to cause problems because of the kind of bounce that he can generate. Problem is that, unlike Ambrose, when he bowls at 80 mph he is no longer really very threatening.

 

[fredfertang]

Harmy is on the way back - leave him with Durham for the rest of the summer and let him overwinter with the toon army and 2009 will be more like 2005 than 2006/07 - let us not forget the guy isn't 30 yet !

 

[Salamuddin]

On a seperate note. Nehra wont be coming to Worcs after demanding more money

Crazy move from Nehra IMO.

THis opportunity with Worcestershire was like a god-send. - if he had performed well, I'm sure the Indian selectors would have noticed and like ZAheer could have kickstarted his career.

Pity...I always felt he had more ability as a bowler than Zaheer.

 

[Manee]

He had lost the pace he had earlier in his career though and without that, it becomes apparent that he is quite an ordinary bowler - or at least, it did in the IPL.

 

[Richard]

Harmy is on the way back - leave him with Durham for the rest of the summer and let him overwinter with the toon army and 2009 will be more like 2005 than 2006/07 - let us not forget the guy isn't 30 yet !

Amazing how guys can dream!

If Harmison repeats 2005 in 2009, he'll be of little use. Let's remind ourselves that in the 4 Tests England dominated that summer Harmison took a sum-total of 3 top-order wickets without assistance from poor Umpiring decisions or a catch down leg-side when the game was almost over.

 

[Manee]

What was interesting about Harmison's performace in the FP Trophy game is that the camera often showed him running in from the side view and you could pretty much predict what speed the ball would register based on how quickly he was running in. If he was sprinting in, it would be 90-93mph but if it was more of a brisk jog it was closer to 85-88mph. It was a much clearer difference in run up speed between deliveries than I have seen in other international or county bowlers.

 

[fredfertang]

If Harmison repeats 2005 in 2009, he'll be of little use. Let's remind ourselves that in the 4 Tests England dominated that summer Harmison took a sum-total of 3 top-order wickets without assistance from poor Umpiring decisions or a catch down leg-side when the game was almost over.

If I had meant to suggest he (Harmison) should bowl in 2009 as he did in 2005 I would have said so – as I am sure you were aware I was referring to the result.

Personally I don’t believe the Harmison of the Caribean tour and the recent Old Trafford test is lost to us yet - I presume you disagree?

Amazing how guys can dream!

I may be a dreamer but if you lose the ability to dream then life itself must be a tad dull and sport – well - being a supporter is fuelled by dreams – isn’t it?