*Official* English Domestic Season 2006

[steds]

Um, Lancashire favs? Oh really.....

What do you expect? We've only got like 2 batsmen or summat stupid like that.

 

[marc71178]

Darren Gough now seems to be a number 3..

He's been captaining recently - although not today...

 

[aussie]

Englands school squads announced

I guess this is based on recent performances in the current nationwide under-17 school championships, only one person from my school Manchester GS is selected:

The ECB Schools squad has been announced to play two One-Day matches against the Combined Services.

The matches will take place at the National Cricket Centre, Loughborough, on Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 July.

Squad:

Josh Bess - Taunton School
Richard Browning - Wolverhampton GS
James Burnett - Denstone College
Andrew Dodden - Queen's College, Taunton
Luc Durandt - Wellington College
Greg Evans - Wellingborough School
Charles Griffiths - Malvern College
James Lever - Bancroft's School
Stuart Meaker - Cranleigh School
Christopher Paget - Repton College
Christopher Prowting - Brentwood School
Michael Raikes - Sedbergh School
Harry Schofield - Charterhouse School
Alex Wakely - Bedford School
Daniel Woods - Manchester GS
Coach: Chris Scott

Manager: David Moss

Physio: Dale Cooper

 

[Barney Rubble]

I guess this is based on recent performances in the current nationwide under-17 school championships, only one person from my school Manchester GS is selected:

The ECB Schools squad has been announced to play two One-Day matches against the Combined Services.

The matches will take place at the National Cricket Centre, Loughborough, on Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 July.

Squad:

Josh Bess - Taunton School
Richard Browning - Wolverhampton GS
James Burnett - Denstone College
Andrew Dodden - Queen's College, Taunton
Luc Durandt - Wellington College
Greg Evans - Wellingborough School
Charles Griffiths - Malvern College
James Lever - Bancroft's School
Stuart Meaker - Cranleigh School
Christopher Paget - Repton College
Christopher Prowting - Brentwood School
Michael Raikes - Sedbergh School
Harry Schofield - Charterhouse School
Alex Wakely - Bedford School
Daniel Woods - Manchester GS
Coach: Chris Scott

Manager: David Moss

Physio: Dale Cooper

Stuart Meaker = the new Flintoff, apparently.

 

[Anna]

Haha, none of them are from Millfield....hahahahaha....um, yes, moving on...

 

[superkingdave]

nice to see good old Mr Moss there.

 

[superkingdave]

lol at Lancashire's squad for Leicestershire tomorrow night

Squad: Loye, Law, Astle, Chilton (capt), Cross (wk), Croft, Horton, Smith, Newby, Marshall, Keedy, Mullaney


Cross, Smith, Marshall, Croft all played their first twenty20 matches against Derbyshire. With Cork and Hogg now out, Mullaney, Horton and Newby come in to contention and they have 3 games between them.

Put money on Leicestershire at 11-10 its easy money.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Josh Bess is quality - don't think he's quite as good as his younger brother, mind. There's something ridiculous in the genes in that family.

 

[TT Boy]

Good afternoon/early evening at the Oval, atmosphere was awesome and Surrey just steamrolled Kent, did not have an answer. James Benning on a flat wicket, as a bowler you might as well not turn up, absolutely owned the Kent bowling. Even my man Tyron Henderson disappeared to all parts and my old cricketing colleague Neil Dexter did not fair much better got run out and got battered, not a happy bunny.

 

[TT Boy]

New Zealanders seem to like 20/20, yesterday it was Brendan McCullum going El Loco, today it was James Franklin, tomorrow Nathan Astle?

 

[superkingdave]

by eck we need him to

 

[wpdavid]

Good afternoon/early evening at the Oval, atmosphere was awesome and Surrey just steamrolled Kent, did not have an answer. James Benning on a flat wicket, as a bowler you might as well not turn up, absolutely owned the Kent bowling. Even my man Tyron Henderson disappeared to all parts and my old cricketing colleague Neil Dexter did not fair much better got run out and got battered, not a happy bunny.

How good do you think Benning is?

 

[superkingdave]

not a bad win tonight, Croft saving us from the mire with a boundary off the last ball, decent prospect is the young lad.

Marshall bowled very well today

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Tremlett 4-0-18-2 for Hampshire.

WHY was Kabir called up instead of Tremlett?! Surely he's proved to be fit by now...

 

[Jungle Jumbo]

not a bad win tonight, Croft saving us from the mire with a boundary off the last ball, decent prospect is the young lad.

Marshall bowled very well today

Marshall did bowl brilliantly, must have been pretty daunting for him as a young leggie. Croft did it with the bat for me, but I don't think his bowling's going to go anywhere, least of all in Twenty20. Still lacking any batting after the top three, and surely it would make more sense for Chilton, however defensive, to bat above Cross?

 

[superkingdave]

On Cricinfo, it says you won off 18.1 overs.

On cricinfo it's wrong then

though actually it doesn't say we won off 18.1 overs it says we are 135/5 after 18.1 needing another 26 to win.

 

[Gloucefan]

Was at the Gloucester v Worcestershire tonight, great finish to the match.

Some good batting from Solanki, Taylor, Harvey...

 

[marc71178]

Seems bizarre Solanki can play when he's been called up to the England squad (or has he been dumped again?)

 

[Gloucefan]

Well it's not like he spent much time at the crease yesterday but yeah it does seem strage if he hasn't been dropped...

I wish he could bat like that for England.

 

[TT Boy]

How good do you think Benning is?

It’s pretty hard to say considering how flat the Oval wickets have been this year (I fancy myself to score some runs on those wickets). But from what I have seen of him in four day cricket his improved immensely from last season but the fact of the matter is he seemingly always coming in at number five or six with the scorecard already on 350 plus against tired and weary bowling attacks who are just asking to get annihilated. Also he still has this problem of batting on sheer adrenaline and he does get a bit carried away with himself. It is fine in the one day game but last season especially he was doing some stupid stuff at crucial periods in the game.

His record away from the Oval is not that impressive and I’ve seen him against one or two decent fast bowlers this year and his looked a bit iffy but I could see him playing one day cricket for England in the future. David Graveney says his pretty close to getting a call up and he can not be any worse than what we currently got. At least he goes down blazing not like Bell, Strauss and co. like a damp squib and anyone who saw his huge one day score on Sky recently knows the bloke has talent.