Magrat Garlick
Rather Mad Witch
He's going for 400, isn't he...Pedro Delgado said:Boof going mad. He's in my Telegraph team too
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*Official* English Domestic Season 2006
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Pedro Delgado
International Debutant
Hope so. Just keep bloody going old cake is all I can say and rack up my points.
Pedro Delgado
International Debutant
His record for France is unbelievable, 87 matches over 8500 runs at 68.
superkingdave
Hall of Fame Member
nice end to Bicknell's first class career, given out from a ball inches away from his bat
Sussex enforce Follow on to the opponent and other team loses 4 wickets, Mushtaq bags all 4 of them and is 3 shy of magical 100 for the season.......good for him
superkingdave
Hall of Fame Member
Its a good job Sussex won because otherwise Chiltons decision not to enforce the following would have looked even more stupid than it does.
superkingdave
Hall of Fame Member
eh? constant rain and your down. you need to pray for a result in the Durham-Yorks game and it ain't going to happen, they just played long enough for Durham to get the bonus point needed to send you down.Tomm NCCC said:I said before the game all we have to do is turn up... They didnt leave the house, let alnone make it onto the pitch. Just gotta pray for constant rain for 24 hours
Jungle Jumbo
International Vice-Captain
By relocating to the Cote d'Azur for the first and last month of the season.open365 said:
Seriously though, I think Sussex are probably deserved champions. On paper their squad is strong and very solid - shown by the relatively few number of players used. At Lancashire we still have quite a fragmented lineup, because of the lack of a) a top all-rounder, or all-round spin bowler, and b) little depth in the batting department.
That said, Notts were dire and fully deserve to go down. Some of those shots they tried to play against Mushtaq were terrible. He wouldn't have taken those nine wickets so easily in a club match.
superkingdave
Hall of Fame Member
I'd say that's a tad harsh, we have the most batting points in the division (9 more than the next best(sussex)) We have Sutton averaging over 40, Chapple averaging 30, Hogg averaging 36 and Cork and Smith having made contributions. I don't think our batting order is the problem at all, No 6 was a problem last year but Sutton has filled it admirably. We don't really nead a spin bowling all rounder when we have 3 or 4 pace man who are more than handy with the bat.Jungle Jumbo said:
Replacements for top order batsmen are a worry sure, but Sussex have no guns waiting in the wings in that regard, and the likes of Goodwin, Montgomerie and Adams are as likely to be retiring anytime soon as Loye and Law.
I see our biggest problem being a lack of class in the opening partnership, we too often lose early wickets or if we don't we struggle to score at a decent rate, putting pressure on Loye and Law. With Hodge set to return i'd like us to sign an opener and move chilton down to 5. Maybe Chris Gayle after the Windies tour finishes. This would give us another spinning option as well.
Gayle
Sutcliffe
Loye
Law
Chilton
Sutton
Chapple
Cork
Smith
Mahmood/Anderson
Keedy
superkingdave
Hall of Fame Member
last year he played 4 CC games, 6 OD games and 2 Twenty20 games. That was because we weren't touring at the start of the season and he was comingGoughy said:
back from injury and didn't play the SA ODers. He only bowled in one of the CC games (took 1-59) and two of the OD games. His batting wasn't particularly good.
Next season i'd be surprised if he plays a single game. There is the WC, WI tour, India tour and Twenty20 championship.
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Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Not really, they've 3 bowlers (2 of whom are imports) who took virtually all of the wickets at a very good average and 4 batsmen (best one being an import) who make most of the runs, the rest have performed at the level of just sub-par plodders really, so they're more about a few individuals than a big strong and solid squad.Jungle Jumbo said:
Mushtaq Ahmed gives Sussex a chance of bowling sides out even on roads, this is what elevates them above Lancashire - getting more results. If Lancashire had someone like Murali again they'd have won the division at a canter.
As for Notts they're not done yet, there's every chance of Durham pulling off yet another horlicks of epic proportions as they've been doing most of the season.
Magrat Garlick
Rather Mad Witch
Your comments about imports are interesting when you consider that Durham regularly field sides including various permutations of Benkenstein, Breese, Thorp, Lewis, Gibson and Maher.Scaly piscine said:
And who's the second Lancashire bowling "import"? Keedy who played a sum total of 1 game for Yorkshire?
Edit: Never mind about Lancs, me being stupid, as SKD pointed out...
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