The guy is a champ. He hit Guptill in the head with his first ball and had him out caught with his second. Also put a rather large dent in Anaru Kitchen's grill. Sent Bopara's stumps flying as well.
He's great. I've watched Essex a fair few times, and he always looks very good in the shorter forms of the game. I think those shorter stronger bowlers who also have a good bouncer are often good T20 bowlers.
They made finals day last year, knocked out in the semis, so they may well make the CL. Also, he's with Mumbai Indians...How good are Essex at 20/20?
In other words, are we likely to have him at the CL?
Damn. Thats annoying.
No mention of my fantastic four runs?
Brooke's as chatty as heck in the field, comes out at three without a helmet, then starts taking strides down the wicket. I finally decide to bowl him a bouncer and it barely get's higher then his hip, yuck haha.
Actually, that's not true, they made the semis in 2008. But they're a pretty decent LO side.
Is it definitely in India? I thought originally they said it was going to move round different countries.
Man thats such a insane injury must have been a ****in' tough rehabilitation tooNo mention of my fantastic four runs?
Nah yea I broke my femur just over two years back, wasn't the greatest feeling when it happened tbh haha and have never really been able to describe the pain when it happened. It does explain my amble to the crease and non-existent follow through I spose haha.
Must say I didn't enjoy bowling on that pitch of yours though, where's the bounce?
The only bounce you can ever get is that crazy tennis ball bounce, which is the only reason why your skipper got out to me instead of pulling me for six, lol. Yeah brooke is a **** most people know that haha but he's the sort of cricketer you'd rather have in your side that the opposition and yeah we know ya don't need a helmet on that wicket lmao
Instead of who sorry? Lol. Weston and Thompson will be tussling for that 11th spot, and don't think Worker's bowling form is good enough to warrant preference over them. I think Ross Taylor fancies himself a bit lol, haven't seen Jamie How bowl for a while either he used to be a useful offieGeorge Worker to play as a frontline bowler
Ah, so that was you that opened the bowling. Pretty much when you get our captain early you take out half our runs haha.Man thats such a insane injury must have been a ****in' tough rehabilitation too
You were looking good with the bat just when that guy gets his slower ball straight and full it is so hard to pick up and yeah the pitch is a shocker and it is extremely tough on visiting teams to come in and play on. It has taken us long enough to get used to it but seeing as we are finally used to it we have been able to turn it into something of a fortress. You should have seen the week before, one of our seamers bowled a ball that landed in his own half of the pitch and it hit the batsman plumb in front and was given out lbw
There is a SLA in the CD B side, Andrew Mason (currently injured). CD have seemed relucant to try any spinners this season since Schaw's departure, preffering the part time spin of Worker.
. Likewise Seth Rance who looks to be lethal in the right conditions misses out along with McClenaghan. In the bowling attack I'd rather have the most experienced proven guys there. Someone is bound to get injured at some point so that will give these guys some opportunities.
Hopkins is a complete chump. His captaincy once again was ridiculous. I also have nfi what he thought he was achieving standing up to the stumps to the seamers, it just completely restricted their options and took the short ball out of the equation.I missed the first innings so it seems very perplexing to me as to why Hira only bowled just the one over for a mere three runs, and Styris only bolwed three going at less than six whilst de Grandhomme bowled out
Just joking
Yah Wellington's a bit greedy with spinners, we need some sort of spinner draft to divide them up