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*Official* English Domestic Season Thread 2010

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Pothas

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What a bizare game, ridiculously one-sided but felt like a win off the last ball with the rain coming. Quite an innings from David Hussey
 
Woodster

Woodster

International Captain
Yes assessed the situation well Hussey, must have known that rain was the most prominent reason they were not going to win the game, and so got it over quickly with some lovely clean hitting.
 
Flyonthewall

Flyonthewall

U19 Captain
superkingdave said:
This Dunn lad looks lively, mid-high 80's at 18yo.

Payne looks like a typical Gloucestershire bowler
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What do you mean by typical Gloucestershire bowler?

I've been impressed by Payne personally the couple of times I've seen him, reasonable pace and has the advantage of the left-arm angle as well. Seems to have done quite well in the one-dayers for the U-19s as a whole
 
Neil Pickup

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superkingdave said:
Hmmm....England just dropped someone on purpose so as not to lose 2 minutes
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I think that's genius if the cut-off is, as I think it is, 20 overs of cricket and it's fatal to the game. Very, very astute and Best strikes me as someone who is completely in control of his thoughts - batted very intelligently as well.

Would there have been the same controversy if he were a better actor? Or he'd taken two steps backwards and let it bounce?
 
Neil Pickup

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JTRC27594 said:
What do you mean by typical Gloucestershire bowler?
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Mark Alleyne or Mike Smith, I imagine.

Good control, ability to bowl cutters or slower balls, take the pace off the ball: and next to impossible to get off the square on a track like this one.
 
Manee

Manee

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superkingdave said:
Hmmm....England just dropped someone on purpose so as not to lose 2 minutes
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My SkySports is broken, what happened?

I remember getting told off in a school house match for dropping someone deliberately. It was because there was a rule in place that the top four batsman do not bowl and so there were mugs who just weren't scoring any runs at all at the crease and I didn't want to get the actual cricketers in to bat. They gave the oppo five penalty runs:laugh:, we still won though:)
 
Neil Pickup

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Manee said:
My SkySports is broken, what happened?

I remember getting told off in a school house match for dropping someone deliberately. It was because there was a rule in place that the top four batsman do not bowl and so there were mugs who just weren't scoring any runs at all at the crease and I didn't want to get the actual cricketers in to bat. They gave the oppo five penalty runs:laugh:, we still won though:)
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20th over of the Sri Lanka chase, score 43/5, rain getting heavier by the second.

The ball gets chipped to Paul Best at mid off, who runs in, takes the catch low down, then nonchalantly opens his palms and drops it to the turf, running back to the bowler and telling him to get on with it.

Moments later, with 20.2 overs on the clock, cloudburst of biblical proportions, game all but over and the D/L minimum of 20 overs is reached.
 
Manee

Manee

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Neil Pickup said:
20th over of the Sri Lanka chase, score 43/5, rain getting heavier by the second.

The ball gets chipped to Paul Best at mid off, who runs in, takes the catch low down, then nonchalantly opens his palms and drops it to the turf, running back to the bowler and telling him to get on with it.

Moments later, with 20.2 overs on the clock, cloudburst of biblical proportions, game all but over and the D/L minimum of 20 overs is reached.
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Interesting.
 
Manee

Manee

Cricketer Of The Year
Also, if it is raining in Canterbury, rain in SE London shouldn't be too far off. I am really not up for a game tomorrow, so I am praying for rain today and tomorrow.
 
zaremba

zaremba

Cricketer Of The Year
stumpski said:
Top effort to get Sussex out for 217 on the usually run-filled Guildford track, even if we did let them come back from 47-5. Lancefield now opening with Harinath, I like that, never agree with keepers opening in f-c cricket, and Sussex giving a debut to Surrey-born William Adkin. Perhaps Zaremba can tell us something about him?
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Two weeks after Lewis Hatchett took five wickets in only his second County Championship game, Sussex could have uncovered another home-grown talent in bowling all-rounder Will Adkin.

Grown is the operative word to describe the 6ft 9in beanpole who scored a composed 45 to help Sussex recover from 101 for 7 to 217 on the first day of the match against Surrey at Guildford.

Adkin, 20, already has two modest claims to fame. He ran out Andrew Flintoff in a Championship game when fielding as substitute in 2008 and when he made his one-day debut against Bangladesh last month he took a wicket with his first ball.

Like Hatchett, Adkin has come through Sussex’s Academy and while Hatchett is going to be rewarded with a two-year contract Adkin still needs to impress between now and the end of the season if he is going to be taken onto the staff.

It was somewhat ironic that Adkin only replaced Hatchett this week after the left-armer went down with vertigo which affects his balance and co-ordination. But he made a good impression after taking 29 balls to get off the mark, scoring seven boundaries before falling just short of his half-century when he gloved Chris Tremlett’s lifter.

Adkin, who is predominantly a bowler and captains Sussex League side East Grinstead, then sent down five overs at waspish pace. He said: “It was a surprise to get my chance but I was happy with how the day went. It’s a shame I couldn’t have got to my 50 but it was great just to spend some time at the crease.

“It took a while to get going because as you step up it is a lot harder to score runs but I felt good. I think I deserved my opportunity and hopefully the innings has helped me in my main aim which is to get a full-time contract.”

Sussex are still looking to bring in an experienced seamer this season following the retirement of Robin Martin-Jenkins but coach Mark Robinson insists that emerging youngsters such as Adkin and Hatchett will always get a chance, regardless of whether they are staff players or not.

He said: “Will has been knocking on the door for a few weeks. He got good reports in the second team and is a cricketer we have liked as he came through.

“We said at the start of the season that our supporters would see different players get their chance. We didn’t quite expect Lewis to come through and Will has been at university but we have always said that we don’t worry about reputations.

“What is excited is just how seamlessly they have fitted in. Will showed a lot of composure because we were in all sorts of trouble when he came in. It bodes well for the future.”
 
zaremba

zaremba

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That's Bruce Talbot (Brighton's Evening Argus scribe) talking. I've no idea whether he's waspish of pace or not tbh.
 
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