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English Domestic Season 2023

Yeoman

U19 Captain
I know it can feel that way sometimes but I find that when you turn up to a ground to play or spectate and you focus on the game in front of you, the context soon falls away and the love of cricket returns.
 

Third_Man

State 12th Man
This farce with players coming into the matches on the second day because of the One day International with Ireland.
Crawley will be jettisoned in tomorrow for Kent, others likely at other matches.
It is becoming a joke, maybe ECB should have scheduled these matches a little closer together.

I'm becoming increasingly disillusioned with the game.
Crazy, Lancashire have nominated a spinner (hartley) to replace a seamer (Williams). Kent will no doubt use a night watchman if required to bat, to allow Crawley to bat twice.
 

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
That's not a new thing anyway is it? I swear players like Gooch and Gower used to go straight back to the Championship when a Test ended, sometimes same day.

Anyway - still worried @wpdavid ?
 

Pothas

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
It is @wpdavid of course he is.

Guess you could say that this has made a result certain and Hampshire's bowling is so much stronger than the batting. Obviously Surrey probably just win the game easily.
 
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Third_Man

State 12th Man
That's not a new thing anyway is it? I swear players like Gooch and Gower used to go straight back to the Championship when a Test ended, sometimes same day.

Anyway - still worried @wpdavid ?
Players like Gooch and Gower did not replace county teammates mid way through a match on day 2 or 3 of a county match.
 

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Players like Gooch and Gower did not replace county teammates mid way through a match on day 2 or 3 of a county match.
You know your stuff so I’ll take your word but it’s what I genuinely thought had happened in the past.
 

Yeoman

U19 Captain
You know your stuff so I’ll take your word but it’s what I genuinely thought had happened in the past.
There was a case in 1988 when Essex named Gooch in the team for a match at the Oval even though the Test Match against Sri Lanka at Lord’s had yet to finish. Sri Lanka held out than expected and so Gooch missed the start of the match however he was not allowed a full substitute.
 

wpdavid

Hall of Fame Member
It is @wpdavid of course he is.

Guess you could say that this has made a result certain and Hampshire's bowling is so much stronger than the batting. Obviously Surrey probably just win the game easily.
Ah, shame on you for your lack of faith in your boys. So negative .... 8-)

Anyway, four bowling points in the bag is a decent start, but Abbas and Abbott are always going to be a handful in the Autumnal conditions. As Sibley and Burns will already testify. And it's only a week since we failed to muster a single batting point against Northants, so that additional point with the bat is hardly guaranteed against a superior attack. But obviously we'll see. We might pass 250, but we might not. As for the result, who knows. iirc your lot were Ollie Pope'd last time we played you, and he's not playing this time. And Hampshire are a good side, as Essex supporters will tell you. It's 50/50 as far as I can see.

EDIT
I see that Northants have declared with wickets to spare to have a go at Essex in the gloom.
 
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wpdavid

Hall of Fame Member
You know your stuff so I’ll take your word but it’s what I genuinely thought had happened in the past.
Smart move, because he's right. My immediate interest is whether Jamie Smith will be able to turn out for Surrey tomorrow.
 

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Ah, shame on you for your lack of faith in your boys. So negative .... 8-)

Anyway, four bowling points in the bag is a decent start, but Abbas and Abbott are always going to be a handful in the Autumnal conditions. As Sibley and Burns will already testify. And it's only a week since we failed to muster a single batting point against Northants, so that additional point with the bat is hardly guaranteed against a superior attack. But obviously we'll see. We might pass 250, but we might not. As for the result, who knows. iirc your lot were Ollie Pope'd last time we played you, and he's not playing this time. And Hampshire are a good side, as Essex supporters will tell you. It's 50/50 as far as I can see.

EDIT
I see that Northants have declared with wickets to spare to have a go at Essex in the gloom.
Think it’s only 3 bowling points max.

I can’t see anything about a declaration?
 

wpdavid

Hall of Fame Member
Think it’s only 3 bowling points max.

I can’t see anything about a declaration?
I think you're right about the bowling points judging by the latest table, so I guess we need 2 batting points to be certain. Which is even less guaranteed against Abbas and mates than 250 of course.

And no, I was just trolling heathdavis after he was so rude about my boys.
 

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Watching your boys now. It is a shame that they can’t televise these crunch games so we aren’t stuck with the one camera and local comms
 

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