***Official*** English Domestic Season 2008

[jakob1978]

Epic collapse from Durham against a pretty mediocre bowling attack. Presumably there's a fair bit in the wicket.

Seems to be that way...At stumps Kent are 43-5, chasing Durham's massive 146

 

[PavlovsDog]

Jonathan Trott currently averaging 188 against Northants in List A matches!

95 not out with a couple of overs left.

I thought Ian Ward mentioned he was averaging over 400!!!

 

[stumpski]

He did, but that's just in this competition, and it must only be three or four innings in that case.

Unfortunately he got out in the last over and brought it crashing down to 115.

 

[Richard]

Anyone watching Warks - Northants? Warwickshire very much on top at 129-1 in the 22nd, but Troughton's 11th domestic one-day 50? Is that all? He was playing ODIs for England what, four years ago.

Jamie Troughton should never have been anywhere near ODIs. One of the countless wrong-form-of-game picks that so bedevil every country but seemingly England worse than most (perhaps because England's ODI team is worse than most resulting in more players being needed to be tried).

 

[Richard]

Hick really slaughtered the Derbyshire bowling today. I *think* his 100 came up at faster than a run a ball. Finally out for 149. Davies also chipped in with a good 71. As with last week the run rate is well over 5 an over. Kind of shows the difference in Div 2 and Div 1 bowling attacks, much as id like to think its all down to the Worcs batsmen

Well it's certainly down to them in some way.

I've never seen two such astonishing displays of successful (ie, massive-total-bearing) 5-an-over+ assaults on a bowling-attack in succession. I'll be surprised if it's happened very often throughout history.

I can accept it being simply utterly shocking bowling on one occasion but two in a row? Has someone put something in the drinks of Mitchell, Moore, Hick, Solanki, Smith and Davies that's turned them into psychopaths?

Annoying that Kevin Dean finally gets a chance this season after seeing rubbish picked ahead of him time and again and is greeted by that.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Well it's certainly down to them in some way.

I've never seen two such astonishing displays of successful (ie, massive-total-bearing) 5-an-over+ assaults on a bowling-attack in succession. I'll be surprised if it's happened very often throughout history.

I can accept it being simply utterly shocking bowling on one occasion but two in a row? Has someone put something in the drinks of Mitchell, Moore, Hick, Solanki, Smith and Davies that's turned them into psychopaths?

Annoying that Kevin Dean finally gets a chance this season after seeing rubbish picked ahead of him time and again and is greeted by that.

Moore has been the real sensation for me. Dont know where this season has come from. Unfortunately it looks like its alerted some of the bigger counties, as word is he's stalling over a new contract and may be off at the end of the season

We really have assembled a good team. Not just a good batting unit but also a GREAT bowling one.

 

[Richard]

Aye, said earlier this thread that I think Worcs' might well be the strongest in the country at the moment. Shame if Moore is off.

 

[Manee]

I have mentioned him before and I know that injuries have blighted his career, but Mark Davies really does have an incredible record with 199 FC wickets at 22.43 and is clearly currently in some good form with 4/14 off 8 against Kent currently.

 

[Richard]

Aye, been a spectacular bowling game there so far and similar if slightly less dramatic in most other places in the country.

Dominic Cork gets a wicket on his 37th birthday BTW - Sussex giving him a birthday-present with Michael Thornley opening. Yardy presumably injured.

It's utterly criminal that Durham apparently think Plunkett and Onions are better than Davies. Although Davies has got in this game with Durham fielding six bowlers.

 

[Richard]

Davies now on 11-14-5. He and Thorp have massacred Kent. Currently 63 for 9. Can only presume this is a very, very, very, very green pitch.

 

[Manee]

Davies now on 11-14-5. He and Thorp have massacred Kent. Currently 63 for 9. Can only presume this is a very, very, very, very green pitch.

Yeah. Has anyone here seen Davies bowl, cricinfo have him down as RM, but I'd suspect he was a bit more than that to attain the statistics that he has.

 

[Richard]

I saw him bowl once, in 2001, at which time he certainly was only low-70s in mph terms, and was clearly a very poor bowler. Was smashed by Paul Pollard, as was the rest of the attack mind.

Since then he's gotten infinitely better, and an increase in speed (though probably not all that much, I'd be surprised if he could've gained much more than 5 or 6 mph, else you'd have to think he'd have done such a thing before) is a certain possibility.

Nonetheless, Durham's Riverside pitches have often tended to seam-friendly. How good he'd be for another county we can only guess, but I'm fairly confident he'd still vastly outperform the Plunketts and Onionses.

 

[Spitfires_Fan]

Ludicrous stuff at the Riverside, surely there has to be a pitch inspection there?

 

[Richard]

I mean, Durham's batting-line-up is weak (and their bowling-attack pretty strong, even without Harmison, with Davies and Thorp) but still... with the Durham tail in it's now 26 wickets for 301. You don't usually want cricket played on the sort of surface this surely must be?

 

[Spitfires_Fan]

Yeah, Kent's batting lineup is probably the weakest it's been all season but 30 wickets taken by tea on the second day is ridiculous, especially when time has also been lost to rain. Durham to be docked some points methinks...

 

[zaremba]

Nash (undoubtedly not an opener)

And in his very next innings...

Sussex 1st Innings
1. C Nash lbw Croft 108
......

I think this is what Mickey Arthur refers to as Mother Cricket doing her stuff

 

[Richard]

Well, I call it "coincidence" personally.

Obviously a single innings doesn't change a non-opener into an opener. Nor do I know anything about the innings - he might've been dropped 3 times.

 

[Spitfires_Fan]

Key obviously treating this game with the disdain it deserves, sending in Khan as a pinch-hitter at 3. Khan gets out first ball.

 

[Richard]

Yeah thought that was extraordinary. Order-reversal evidently the way to go with McLaren (who admittedly can bat) coming-in at four.

 

[zaremba]

Nor do I know anything about it

Let no-one say you're not prepared to admit it when you don't know what you're talking about.

Anyway yes a coincidence, but a very enjoyable one.