***Official*** English Domestic Season 2008

[superkingdave]

Yeah, they only need 134 to go top of the table (displacing Somerset) and have raced to 36 off only five overs. Have to feel for Scott Newman who made 113 and 65 though.

Noticed a few performances by Clare already this season - a candidate for the Academy tour perhaps?

Nah he's nothing more than a medium pace bits and pieces player really, can't see him really ever being good enough for England

 

[Manee]

Big Steve's great season with the ball continues as he takes 4/28 in his seven overs so far in the Pro 40 against Middlesex.

 

[TT Boy]

Perhaps even more interesting is the story of a Worcestershire-man:

Arif was born (in January 1984 - so 2 school years older than me) in Bradford.

Turns out Imran Arif was in fact not born in Bradford but Kashmir, Pakistan. Cricinfo have updated his profile accordingly.

And apparently (according to guys over at PakPassion) he isn’t 24, more like 27/28.

 

[Richard]

Haha, another mysterious Pakistani figure.

 

[Richard]

WTF?

AR Adams   8 0 25 2 3.12
CE Shreck  5 0 29 1 5.80 (1w)
MA Ealham  4 0 23 1 5.75
PJ Franks  5 0 36 1 7.20
GP Swann   [B]9[/B] 1 31 3 3.44
SR Patel   6 0 32 1 5.33

I hope CricInfo have made a mistake there, else several people have been impossibly careless.

 

[Richard]

Looks like they did, as it's now been changed.

Seems like a phenomenal innings from the famed Ryan ten Doeschate too. Essex, requiring a mammoth 256 from 40 overs (that's 6.4-an-over) fell to 99 for 5 then 147 for 6. But thanks to 99* from 66 balls from ten Doeschate, they managed a tie.

 

[Goughy]

Looks like they did, as it's now been changed.

Seems like a phenomenal innings from the famed Ryan ten Doeschate too. Essex, requiring a mammoth 256 from 40 overs (that's 6.4-an-over) fell to 99 for 5 then 147 for 6. But thanks to 99* from 66 balls from ten Doeschate, they managed a tie.

So he failed then?

 

[Richard]

 

[Goughy]

He did all the hard work and didnt finish it off.

To finish 1 run short of winning and 1 run short of a century after doing so much is a wasted innings.
When you get so close after a remarkable effort then you had better finish it off.

 

[Richard]

They were behind the rate all the time - as well as being reduced to batsmen at the other end of varying degrees of incapability. They needed 15 from the last 5 balls (so got 14). Not entirely sure, as the last two deliveries were updated at once, but he may even have needed six from the final delivery to tie and hit it.

 

[Jungle Jumbo]

Only Richard would have both the time and energy to waste reporting mistakes off a live Cricinfo scorecard...

 

[Richard]

You sure about that?

 

[Langeveldt]

Only Richard would have both the time and energy to waste reporting mistakes off a live Cricinfo scorecard...

Haha yeah I was thinking that.. And then feeling the need to tell everyone about it..

 

[Perm]

Just a shame RTD couldn't manage an extra run, still a fantastic innings.

 

[superkingdave]

Good bowling by Tom Smith in that game 2-34 from 8 not bad when the match rate was over 6 an over

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

I think its time to say it.

Ryan ten Doeschate is the Dutch Graham Napier.

 

[Richard]

ten Doeschate > Napier, easily. Easily.

Much, much, much better batsman and very similar as bowlers.

 

[Manee]

I disagree about their similarity stylistically as bowlers, despite quite similar statistics. Ten Doeschate is about 5mph slower and much more skiddy than Napier.

 

[Richard]

What I meant about their bowling is that they're both pretty poor at bowling, their First-Class averages are both astronomical (but to date this season, very low) but in one-day cricket they have a somewhat frightening knack for being gifted wickets despite being smashed most of the time.

 

[TT Boy]

Interested to see how Hampshire’s new overseas signing Imran Tahir gets on. Tahir was excellent for the Titans last year, particularly in one day cricket where no one could pick his googly. He was so good in fact that Cricket South Africa was apparently looking into how long it would take Tahir to get qualified for the Proteas (Tahir’s wife is South African).