English Domestic Season 2011

[Jacknife]

very brave going with the spinners, would have thought Lancs would have gone with their best yorker bowler.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Get in Foxes.

 

[Howe_zat]

Do the runs scored/conceded in the eliminator count towards averages?

Not according to cricinfo. I don't think they do.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Hilarious. Particularly being sat between pockets of Leics & Lancs fans as they vacillated between ecstasy and despair. Oh the joys of neutrality...

 

[Howe_zat]

very brave going with the spinners, would have thought Lancs would have gone with their best yorker bowler.

Reckon they missed Junaid Khan itbt.

 

[Spikey]

hahahaha didn't even know he tied it up

 

[Daemon]

wait why didn't Chapple bowl himself or Maharoof again

 

[Howe_zat]

Three spinners each for the second semi. No surprise Tresco wants to chase with weather around.

 

[nsniks]

Nice start by afridi

 

[Jacknife]

I don't know whether it's the spinners or the pitch but the pitch seems to have flattened out.
Kartik doesn't look fit either.

 

[Scaly piscine]

I don't know whether it's the spinners or the pitch but the pitch seems to have flattened out.
Kartik doesn't look fit either.

I guess if the pitch or ball gets a little wet then the ball doesn't grip, either in the hand or on the pitch and can skid through. If a pitch gets damp and dries out properly it can grip even more than previously - according to TMS anyway.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Feel for Somerset. Bad luck to come up against Afridi on the one time in ten thousand he comes off.

Anyway, gone now.

 

[Jacknife]

Rode his luck a fair bit did Afridi, apart from the multiple times he swung himself off his feet, he rarely hit the ball cleanly and had the great knack of the just clearing the boundary.

 

[Howe_zat]

Cidermen will be thankful for the rain. Hants playing 3 spinners, after all. I'm hearing it'll be 9 overs, which makes the length of Afridi's innings more or less irrelevant.

 

[Jacknife]

95 from 10 overs is the number now, I bet Somerset would fancy that with their line up.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Shame really for all 4 sides that rain is winning today.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Shame really for all 4 sides that rain is winning today.

Pretty much.

Finals day needs a rethink in my opinion. 10/15 over games aren't good enough given D/L's failings and what's at stake.

 

[BoyBrumby]

This is why we used to own a quarter of the globe: we wanted to get away from the ****ty weather.

Tres off and running first ball.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Kies coming to the party now: 4, 6, 3 and the three only not a boundary because Adams took all the pace off a nailed cover drive.

& Tres hits the last ball for 4. 18 off Corky's first over. Ouch.

 

[Jacknife]

These 2 went to town on Cork in his first over.