Tom Smith?
You don't seem to know that much about him tbh. Was touted as a genuine allrounder but his batting has only seemed to start coming on at County level recently, so his batting looking to have more life isn't really a surprise, or really a problem. Infact, I heard people when he first broke in to the Lancs side who considered him a better bat than a bowler, so it's not a surprise at all.
I watched Tom Smith two years ago bowl at 80mph + and was a frontline seamer. I saw Smith this year bowl Collingwood medium pace with the keeper stood up and was only on whilst the South Africans took a break.
Glamogran 135/7 off 29.2, lose by 49 runs: means that under D/L they would need to be 184/7 after 29.2 to tie under D/L.Anyone understand the result from Scarborough? Yorkshire made 230-6 from their full 40; Glamorgan had made 106-6 from 14 (only two bowlers used, so presumably they had 40 available when they started) when the rain came. Result: Glamorgan (set 184) lose by 95 runs.
Whether the D/L score was 184 or 201, it seems ridiculously steep for 14 overs. I suppose it's meant to reflect that they'd lost six wickets though.
Edit: it's been altered now to a more sensible-looking 49-run win.
Let's hope it's just a short-term thing.
With everyone presuming it's Lancashire's Tom Smith, the right-arm seamer, I might note that there's another Tom Smith, a Sussex left-arm fingerspinner. I would indeed imagine it'd be Lancashire's much-mucked-about lad who'll be the one in question though.
Sami is a signing born of Sussex's lack of a pace bowler. Collymore, Lewry, RMJ and their support bowlers are all decent but there's no-one with any real pace. That's one thing that Sami ought to bring. And there is a history at Sussex of bringing the best out of players, Mushy being an excellent case in point. Frankly, that will need to happen because his record is uninspiring.Sussex demonstrate lack of basic common-sense - signing Mohammad Sami is bad enough as a move to attempt to ensure on-field success, but that's yet another ICL player on the books of a county.
Yes real pace helps - look what Lancs have achieved with Saj as our spearhead
What cricket fans care about is not of importance - it's what having yet more ICL players in the county game does to the ECB's like-it-or-not-exceptionally-important relationship with the BCCI, who don't seem to grasp the fact that neither they nor the ECB can do a thing about British and European laws.
Pretty sure it would be the Lanc, because Cross has come out here before and he's a Lanc (unless I'm mistaken), so you'd assume that the other Englishman would come out through that same tie.
Are St Kilda a first grade club Jack? Because if so, I can't see the likes of Cross and Smith being standout talents. Cross certainly played in the Cheshire Premier when not on Lancashire duty this year and was an good, rather than outstanding, batsman.
St Kilda are a first grade club (well they have other grades as well). Cross has played for them before in 05-06 IIRC and did okay. It would be strange for both of them to play at the same place because only one overseas player can play in each grade iirc
