**Official** County Cricket 2016

[Howe_zat]

Ton or nowt at Headingley, is it?

Noted England international Adil Rashid goes out to join noted England international Bairstow at the crease.

 

[fredfertang]

I'd bloody love to see Bell back in the side tbh

I'd love to see his neme on Lancs teamsheet - losing a wicket before we get a run may have been expected but still depressing - will we survive until the close?

 

[Howe_zat]

Essex's opening bowlers have taken a combined 0-137 at five an over. Ouch.

 

[Pothas]

Ton or nowt at Headingley, is it?

Noted England international Adil Rashid goes out to join noted England international Bairstow at the crease.

Well Hampshire often just go for nowt so it is probably a good score.

 

[cpr]

I'd love to see his neme on Lancs teamsheet - losing a wicket before we get a run may have been expected but still depressing - will we survive until the close?

Hameed seems to have the knack of not scoring runs down to a tee. 3 scoring shots of 50 balls.

Shudder to see Procter coming in at 3 in a FC match though. Be intriguing to see what Livingstone can do though.

 

[theegyptian]

Hopefully Hameed bats all day. Cook already out with his **** new helmet. And Wood is looking likely to need that operation that I was speculating he was going to need last week.

 

[91Jmay]

Middlesex climbing into our bowling by the looks of it. Robson motoring

Hameed now 7 off 74. What a vigil.

 

[superkingdave]

We might get past 200 at this rate and still not get any batting bonus points

 

[91Jmay]

Plunkett going absolutely berserk. What a fantastic innings. Bairstow just ridiculously good as well.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Yep 107-0 off the last 10. They might want to think about taking Fidel off at some point...

 

[theegyptian]

So Hampshire have already lost Topley, Wood and Dawson this season all injured during games. They are doing well.

 

[91Jmay]

Bairstow with highest score 246. Really has just gone from strength to strength as a player.

 

[cpr]

I calculate Hameed could only have hit a maximum 8 scoring shots of his 99 (one of his went for 2 yesterday). That's not a sign he's ready to open for us.

I'll repeat what I've said elsewhere, Procter is just a **** Rikki Clarke

 

[superkingdave]

I calculate Hameed could only have hit a maximum 8 scoring shots of his 99 (one of his went for 2 yesterday). That's not a sign he's ready to open for us.

I'll repeat what I've said elsewhere, Procter is just a **** Rikki Clarke

Staying in ages and not scoring as an opener is better than getting out quickly and not scoring. He's miles better than any other options we have.

Anyway, we've got a batting bonus point woohoo. We really need Alex Davies to continue his form from last year.

 

[Howe_zat]

I wonder whats the highest score

- in the CC in April
- after being put in to bat
- in the first team innings of a season

 

[Howe_zat]

Vince standing on the burning deck here

 

[fredfertang]

Delighted to see that the evidence so far shows that I was wrong and Gilo right - still don't think we'll get too many first innings leads this summer, but one is more than I expected

 

[Howe_zat]

Yeah the Lancs tail was supposed to be suckage, didn't they get the memo?

 

[fredfertang]

Kegga, Jimmy, Jarvis and Wagner didn't look like emulating the rescue acts that Saj, Hoggy and Chappy used to do on a regular basis, but looks like the tradition of the tail getting the batters out of the **** more often than not may be continuing

 

[Pothas]

So Hampshire have already lost Topley, Wood and Dawson this season all injured during games. They are doing well.

Yeah what a great start to the season. At least Vince is playing the sort of innings that he needs to if he is going to get into the Test side, state that leaves our batting in if he does though.