*Official* English Domestic Season (2004)

[SpaceMonkey]

Marc what is Bell's actual style of bowling, Does he literally just run in and bowl a line and a lenght and the batsman think it's easy runs? or does he get some swing/seam movement a bit like Mark Ealham for example, or is it a bit more Butcher/Trescothick.

Very much like Mark Ealham, he gets a fair bit of swing if its there, not that pacey though.

 

[marc71178]

Marc what is Bell's actual style of bowling, Does he literally just run in and bowl a line and a lenght and the batsman think it's easy runs? or does he get some swing/seam movement a bit like Mark Ealham for example, or is it a bit more Butcher/Trescothick.

To be honest I'm not entirely sure - I've never seen him be anything but a pie bowler.

He worked on it at the Academy and obviously last winter as well, and is suddenly taking wickets (as well as getting runs)

All-rounder of the season so far - batting average over 90 and bowling under 20!

 

[Craig]

Still not as good as the Bears - we also seem to have a rotating ball policy whereby Knight can chuck it to almost any of our top or middle order (Wagh, Bell, Trott, Troughton) and they outperform our International bowlers!

Bell in particular is most bizarre - 4-1-4-4 yesterday!

 

[Gaijin-san]

Who does Warne think he is, listing himself above of Michael Clarke in the batting order? Moron. I'd hate to see what he'd be doing if he had become captain and not Ricky.

He's been doing this a lot lately, putting himself up too high.

 

[PY]

Rather an odd decision to say the very least. I'll be extremely surprised if that is the batting order.....

 

[PY]

Durham are 21/0 off 9 overs, Hampshire are 16/1 off 9 overs and Sussex are 15/1 off 7 overs.

 

[V Reddy]

Two more Chopra Columns

Asians in Britain, Generation Next

Getting abroad: Mates, agents and illegal aliens

He hardly says anything about his Cricket in his articles. Is he suggesting ways to illegally immigrate to UK ? . Anyway nice columns though

 

[Rich2001]

Who does Warne think he is, listing himself above of Michael Clarke in the batting order? Moron. I'd hate to see what he'd be doing if he had become captain and not Ricky.

He's been doing this a lot lately, putting himself up too high.

It's pinch hitting I guess AND/OR Maybe the number three got a injury and he is just covering trying to not unsettle the order to much.

Funny enough the day you say that he will bat @ 7

 

[Rich2001]

What a day!

Jonesy hit's a fine 50 for England and I look to see how bad Kent are going, with a weakened team against the undefeated OD Lancashire side and I see this!

Kent 244/3 (35.1 ov/45ov) - Kent RR: 6.94

A Symonds 146* (108) 17 x 4's and 4 x 6's


Not bad for a side without - Sami, Saggers, Jones, Sheriyar, Ed Smith etc etc

 

[twctopcat]

Good performance by Sajid Mahmood today, 4/42 so far off 9 overs despite Symonds onslaught. Hope he keeps these up during the season.

 

[marc71178]

Rather an odd decision to say the very least. I'll be extremely surprised if that is the batting order.....

He's been pinch-hitting a fair bit all summer, and generally with success, so why not continue it?

 

[Rich2001]

Kent tried to throw all Symo's hard work away but Walker wasn't having it and recovered the situation to take the total past the 300 mark

 

[marc71178]

And the specialist batsman Shoaib takes the New Ball...

 

[Tom Halsey]

Lol.

 

[Craig]

Why is NCL matches only 45 overs?

I would have thought it was logical to have them at 50 overs since that is how many overs are bowled in each innings of a ODI?

 

[marc71178]

It's to do with start times - for years it was 40 overs, which could start at 2, then 45 starts at 1 - 50 overs would start before lunchtime and I believe it attracted fewer spectators.

 

[luckyeddie]

The origin of the one-day game as we know it goes right the way back to tours in the mid-1960's by the International Cavaliers, who took part in challenge matches against some of the first-class counties on Sunday afternoons.

It might have been something to do with the late, great John Arlott, but the games were often shown live on BBC2.

Matches started at 2.00 pm and were of 40 overs a side duration, the object of the exercise being that the games should be over before the Church Evensong services started around 7.00 pm. Amazingly, they got 18 or 19 overs an hour in easily (witness today's paltry 13 if you are lucky).

I know it sounds corny, but 40 or so years ago the Lord's Day Observance Society was a huge political lobby movement, trying to:

'keep the Sabbath sacred',
'ensure that people realised that Sunday was for being with the family',
'be a bunch of interfering old farts justifying their position by trying to stop people having a good time',

the usual stuff.
Shops were not allowed to open, pubs were closed between 2.00 pm and 7.00 pm and everyone wore long faces as they shuffled to and from church under the benevolent, watchful gaze of the religious thought police.

Then we had the miners strike, the three day week and the whole idea of Sunday being anything other than another day of the week where people could choose to worship God, Allah, Buddha, Krishna or Derby County was finally consigned to the swamp of intolerance where it belongs.

 

[chris.hinton]

it should be 50 overs though

 

[luckyeddie]

it should be 50 overs though

Agreed - just explained the history behind it.

 

[marc71178]

In an ideal world yes, but unfortunately it doesn't suit the paying public as well!