***Official*** County Cricket 2019

[Starfighter]

Does anyone here know much about Essex's Sam Cook? All I know is that cricinfo describe him as 'RF' rather than 'RMF', which is rare in itself, and that his track record at a still young age is impressive. I'm not suggesting for a moment that he should tour this winter, but maybe we have a genuine prospect here.

Rustled up some video from 2017 and he looked no faster than Porter's pace then, maybe even slower. Dunno if he's added any pace since then.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

From the little bit I have seen on the ECB website he looks fairly sedate. Decent outswinger though

 

[Tom Halsey]

He comes from my club. RF is very generous; he's probably about 80mph. I'm biased but he is very good though. Moves it both ways with good accuracy.

 

[wpdavid]

Thanks all.

 

[Starfighter]

Should probably remember that Abbas had RF on his cricinfo profile too, after playing domestic cricket for years, and he's one of the trundleriest trundlers from a top eight country in recent history.

 

[Raffski]

Pope back for England by the end of the summer?

 

[theegyptian]

Pope back for England by the end of the summer?

Hopefully not. He's better off with a clean slate with a new coach (and maybe captain) this winter. Bayliss will probably stick him opening or something if he plays in the ashes.

 

[wpdavid]

Pope back for England by the end of the summer?

I suppose there will be two schools of thought. The first being that good performances in the last four matches of the season shouldn't put him ahead of someone like Northeast who was averaging 60+ after the first ten matches. The alternative view is that, so far, Pope has carried on where he left off averaging 70 last season now that his injury is sorted and it wasn't his fault he was out injured. Depending on how the remaining three matches go, perhaps they are competing for the spare middle order slot in the winter squad.

EDIT
And theegyptian is spot on too.


Anyway, he's passed 200 now. His second double in two first class matches this season.

 

[Dan]

It's not our year

 

[theegyptian]

Cosgrove showing Steve Smith the right way to play the short ball. https://twitter.com/DurhamCricket/status/1164126641905385474

 

[wpdavid]

It's not our year

Somerset? Still some hope in the current match although it won't be easy. And Essex aren't helped by losing Amir for the rest of the season.

Elsewhere, decent effort by 37 year old Fidel Edwards to take five on what looks like a placid Oval wicket. Only deprived of the chance to match his fellow 37 year old Rikki Clarke's 7-for by Foakes' declaration. Now we'll see if the pitch has deteriorated enough for Virdi to make life tricky for Hampshire.

 

[wpdavid]

Watching the live stream from The Oval, one of the commentators seems unaware that Finch opens the batting for Australia when they were discussing who might open for Surrey if they are left with a run chase. Quite bizarre. Not that it will come to that as all of their quicker bowlers are sending down a succession of leg stump half volleys rather than actually threaten the batsmen at all. Virdi the only threat, and even he's straying to leg much of the time.

 

[Jarquis]

It's not our year

Shun the non-believer.

 

[Dan]

ITS OUR ****ING YEAR

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[flibbertyjibber]

Hopefully not. He's better off with a clean slate with a new coach (and maybe captain) this winter. Bayliss will probably stick him opening or something if he plays in the ashes.

Wouldn't disagree with that. Hopefully we go for Silverwood as coach not Gibson or the Saffer hack who has failed everywhere.

 

[_Ed_]

Cosgrove showing Steve Smith the right way to play the short ball. https://twitter.com/DurhamCricket/status/1164126641905385474

Amazing.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Lovely glancing header for the corner.

 

[91Jmay]

Watching the live stream from The Oval, one of the commentators seems unaware that Finch opens the batting for Australia when they were discussing who might open for Surrey if they are left with a run chase. Quite bizarre. Not that it will come to that as all of their quicker bowlers are sending down a succession of leg stump half volleys rather than actually threaten the batsmen at all. Virdi the only threat, and even he's straying to leg much of the time.

They'd have gone Finch & Pope I'd guess. Hottest bat and great LO player.

 

[theegyptian]

Luke Wood heading to lancashire at the end of the season. https://www.trentbridge.co.uk/news/2019/august/luke-wood-to-join-lancashire.html

 

[superkingdave]

Must have been reading my posts ?