Durham County Cricket Club

[Aidan11]

370/9.

I'm happy with that. Hope we can hang on for another point but I suspect we won't.

 

[The_Rey]

@The_Rey

previous two posts by me are the Surrey write ups

Thanks Carts

 

[The Red Telephone]

Good days cricket there. Good to see The Trapdoor Army being represented at Trent Bridge.

 

[CartyDurham]

Thanks Carts

Got the Wisden mag today which has a season preview

I’ll post up Durham and Surrey tomorrow sometime

 

[Bungo Bill]

A Notts mate of mine reckons we're in the box seat due to their "average" batting line-up. Hopefully he's right!

 

[CartyDurham]

Having this one re weather related @Aidan11

John Snow

 

[CartyDurham]

A Notts mate of mine reckons we're in the box seat due to their "average" batting line-up. Hopefully he's right!

Looks a long tail they have so hopefully so. They chose to make Durham bat so must have fancied bowling us out within a day

 

[Bungo Bill]

Looks a long tail they have so hopefully so. They chose to make Durham bat so must have fancied bowling us out within a day

Aye, think it also shows they don't have a lot of confidence in their batting.

 

[mackembhoy]

A Notts mate of mine reckons we're in the box seat due to their "average" batting line-up. Hopefully he's right!

Sure I saw Haynes in the squad so not sure why he's not playing.

He's their normally so Montgomery and James both batting a place higher then a long tail 7-11.

 

[CartyDurham]

 

[Bungo Bill]

Having this one re weather related @Aidan11

John Snow

Does Craig Kieswetter count?

 

[CartyDurham]

I fancy our attack v that XI

 

[CartyDurham]

Does Craig Kieswetter count?

You been checking Google anarl. His and Freddie flintoff came up when I searched weather related cricketers

I’ll give you a point for that one

 

[Bungo Bill]

You been checking Google anarl. His and Freddie flintoff came up when I searched weather related cricketers

I’ll give you a point for that one

Guilty as charged! It was a good way to kill time between frames in the snooker.

 

[CartyDurham]

Guilty as charged! It was a good way to kill time between frames in the snooker.

Old baz has been on top form this week. Hope he can win this but Higgins will take some beating

Selby another appearing to be in top form going into the crucible

I read today that Ronnie may not decide until the Thursday before it starts

 

[Bungo Bill]

Old baz has been on top form this week. Hope he can win this but Higgins will take some beating

Selby another appearing to be in top form going into the crucible

I read today that Ronnie may not decide until the Thursday before it starts

Higgins v Hawkins is high quality, best they've played for ages.

Really fancy Wilson has a chance of breaking the Crucible Curse though.

 

[brandon]

Thoroughly enjoyable first day of the 2025 campaign for Durham, I’m sure we’d have all taken that close of play score when the coin came down facing the wrong way at 10:30.

It’s slightly disappointing we didn’t make more for less though, given that we’ve come to expect highly competent batting from this group, but I suppose we can allow them a few mistakes in the early season as they find their feet again.

It’s still quite difficult to judge whether it’s par, or if not, whether it’s better/worse. The pitch seemed to offer some variable bounce in the first session, it also appeared to provide Ahmed with some turn from time to time, but the frustration comes with the knowledge that most of our batsmen appeared to get themselves out rather than being dismissed by supreme bowling.

For Notts, O’Neill could be useful, he bowled the most probing line and length of any home bowler all day and looked particularly threatening in his first two spells. Pennington and Tongue looked completely toothless for the most part mind, the latter was very wayward and I would’ve been fuming had a Durham bowler performed like that. James is a lovely little cricketer, he always seems to pose a threat even though his bowling looks fairly innocuous to the uninitiated.

Ahmed is going to be one to watch, I think both batsmen will be disappointed with their dismissals to him, but the lad barely waned all day from a general good area and gave very little away. He looks incredibly well disciplined and dare I say ‘complete’ for someone so young. His action is mental mind, especially the bit just before his run-up starts, where he sort of bends his top half forward, sticks his arse out and stands with his legs apart - made me think he was trying to squeeze a shite out .

All in all, a good day for Durham, I think having been inserted it’s a win that we’ll be back in the morning to bat, hopefully we can hang around for half an hour or so more to get up beyond 400 and frustrate the hosts. It’ll be interesting to see how our bowlers fare, 370 feels competitive but I want to get over 400 - that ridiculously short boundary makes it harder I think to truly judge what’s what, although I’d hope that Raine, Potts and Coggers can pose a greater threat than their bowlers.

 

[gordonmuchallno1fan]

good day today

 

[CartyDurham]

Thoroughly enjoyable first day of the 2025 campaign for Durham, I’m sure we’d have all taken that close of play score when the coin came down facing the wrong way at 10:30.

It’s slightly disappointing we didn’t make more for less though, given that we’ve come to expect highly competent batting from this group, but I suppose we can allow them a few mistakes in the early season as they find their feet again.

It’s still quite difficult to judge whether it’s par, or if not, whether it’s better/worse. The pitch seemed to offer some variable bounce in the first session, it also appeared to provide Ahmed with some turn from time to time, but the frustration comes with the knowledge that most of our batsmen appeared to get themselves out rather than being dismissed by supreme bowling.

For Notts, O’Neill could be useful, he bowled the most probing line and length of any home bowler all day and looked particularly threatening in his first two spells. Pennington and Tongue looked completely toothless for the most part mind, the latter was very wayward and I would’ve been fuming had a Durham bowler performed like that. James is a lovely little cricketer, he always seems to pose a threat even though his bowling looks fairly innocuous to the uninitiated.

Ahmed is going to be one to watch, I think both batsmen will be disappointed with their dismissals to him, but the lad barely waned all day from a general good area and gave very little away. He looks incredibly well disciplined and dare I say ‘complete’ for someone so young. His action is mental mind, especially the bit just before his run-up starts, where he sort of bends his top half forward, sticks his arse out and stands with his legs apart - made me think he was trying to squeeze a shite out .

All in all, a good day for Durham, I think having been inserted it’s a win that we’ll be back in the morning to bat, hopefully we can hang around for half an hour or so more to get up beyond 400 and frustrate the hosts. It’ll be interesting to see how our bowlers fare, 370 feels competitive but I want to get over 400 - that ridiculously short boundary makes it harder I think to truly judge what’s what, although I’d hope that Raine, Potts and Coggers can pose a greater threat than their bowlers.

Great summary this Branners.

hopefully we have another good day

 

[GarethBreese]

Hello all. Hopefully 400 today!