*Official* English Domestic Season Thread 2010

[Jarquis]

Is Denly injured or just hiding away down the order?

 

[CricketAndy1990]

Yorkshire are looking good at the start of this season !!

Gale with a century

 

[grecian]

What's Wainwright doing due in at number 11?

This Yorkie side has some depth in batting.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Their batting averages are stupidly high too, shows how innocuous the bowling is.

Apart from the newbie they all average 28+

 

[flibbertyjibber]

We have good batting depth but the top order apart from Rudolph is shaky so we will need the lower order to continue to score heavily.We will probably be 100-4/150-5 in nearly every game this season yet i would still fancy us getting 300 every innings such is the depth of batting.

The problem comes though when England nick all our bowlers as we have no back up.The thought of Tino Best in place of Bresnan and Shahzad in a few weeks is one that fills me with dread.

We need to finish off Somerset in this game while we have a full side as it will be tough to take wickets when we are weakened unless it turns ridiculously this summer as the spin attack is our strength.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Is Denly injured or just hiding away down the order?

Whatever he is at least he is making a go of it in the 2nd innings unlike the rest of the side.

How can Northeast be out stumped off the last ball before lunch?

 

[wpdavid]

Whatever he is at least he is making a go of it in the 2nd innings unlike the rest of the side.

How can Northeast be out stumped off the last ball before lunch?

Reminds me of the guy who came in as nightwatchman and was stumped, second ball, for 6. Can't remember his name though.

 

[fredfertang]

Reminds me of the guy who came in as nightwatchman and was stumped, second ball, for 6. Can't remember his name though.

Wasn't that Robin Marlar?

 

[Jarquis]

Whatever he is at least he is making a go of it in the 2nd innings unlike the rest of the side.

How can Northeast be out stumped off the last ball before lunch?

Has to be injured if he's at 7, surely?
Thinking of starting the WTBHWYBRAOBFFS group.

 

[wpdavid]

Wasn't that Robin Marlar?

Sounds familiar.

 

[King Pietersen]

From a Cricinfo article:

"Robin Marlar had few pretensions as a batsman, and those consisted of trying to hit every ball as far as possible. An oft-repeated story tells of the time Doug Insole, his captain, sent him in as a nightwatchman much to Marlar's disgust as, according to a version of the tale told by Stephen Chalke, he had already changed into evening dress. Despite protestations, Marlar was sent to the middle, heaved his first ball for six and was stumped by some distance off the second. "As I was saying," he remarked to Insole. "I am not a nightwatchman." His actions were not unusual ce for a man who a contemporary recalled was followed onto the field by his side while captain of Sussex "only out of curiosity"

 

[Scaly piscine]

Top work from Durham letting a ****house county plodder take 18-7-42-3 so far.

 

[wpdavid]

Standards are less than sky-high in the capital at present. Surrey will do well to avoid an innings defeat to Sussex, and Middlesex have lost their first two wickets for one run chasing 374 to beat Glamorgan.

 

[stumpski]

Gloucs are hanging on with one wicket remaining, and Kent with three.

I see the Sussex tail wagged fairly ferociously. Schoey might be waiting a while for his next match.

 

[zaremba]

Gloucs are hanging on with one wicket remaining, and Kent with three.

I see the Sussex tail wagged fairly ferociously. Schoey might be waiting a while for his next match.

When Rana smites it, it stays smitten

 

[zaremba]

His actions were not unusual ce for a man who a contemporary recalled was followed onto the field by his side while captain of Sussex "only out of curiosity"

 

[Scaly piscine]

Durham should be ashamed of themselves being in this position against that shower of ****.

 

[zaremba]

Surrey 35-3, Ramps gone now

 

[King Pietersen]

Durham into their 2nd innings. 0/1, Masters picking up Coetzer in his first over. Scaly fuming.

 

[stumpski]

Surrey 35-3, Ramps gone now

He either seems to get a hundred or nothing these days. Double failure for Spriegel too - I like him, but not sure he's cut out to open.