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***Official*** English Domestic Season 2008

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pasag

pasag

RTDAS
Great start to the season from RTD with the ball, pity he hasn't fired with the bat, hopefully in this innings he will.

And congrats to our very own Andrew Gale who notched up his highest FC score of 150 the other day against Surrey. Feel free to leave a congrats message on the blog page.
 
Spitfires_Fan

Spitfires_Fan

State Vice-Captain
Bah, hopeless stuff from Kent yesterday and this morning - only Denly putting up a fight in this second innings and he was apparently dropped twice yesterday. Up to Denly and Saggs now - if they were to win this from here, Saggers would stay as my avatar for all time.
 
steds

steds

Hall of Fame Member
They'd be infinitely preferrable. But then again, so would anybody who played for any of the 17 real counties.
 
Spitfires_Fan

Spitfires_Fan

State Vice-Captain
Spikey said:
I'm not liking the last wicket stand in the Kent Somerset match...
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I am...

Lunch has come at the wrong time I reckon though. Wouldn't be surprised if we were all out in the first over or two after the break. It's been a fine effort so far though, will be really stoked if we somehow manage to pull it off.
 
TT Boy

TT Boy

Hall of Fame Member
Cricinfo are reporting that Warwickshire have made approaches to sign Alex Gidman, Steve Kirby, David Sales, Graham Onions and Stewart Walters. Warwickshire are also interested in signing Luke Pomersbach for their 20/20 campaign and Chris Martin to take other for the latter half of the season.
 
TT Boy

TT Boy

Hall of Fame Member
gettingbetter said:
Surely too many teams can be a cause though. Look at some of the bowling attacks. Often, only 1 bowler seems to be of any class, culling a few teams will allow a more concentrated competiton of skill. E.g. Glamorgan: Harrison, Harris, Croft, Cosker, Dalrymple and Gillespie as there international player, combine that with another team who'd at least have 1-2 decent bowlers and your batsmen have an attack that will challenge them.
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I agree, you look at some of the sides and you wonder why they exist (sentiment aside) for they either don’t produce English players, instead opt for keeping their under-19 England internationals in the seconds, employ a bunch of Kolpaks who still hardly ever improve their fortunes (or younger English players which is a fallacy in itself) and have a minuscule of support. 'Amalgamated' franchises is the way to go!
 
Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
TT Boy said:
Cricinfo are reporting that Warwickshire have made approaches to sign Alex Gidman, Steve Kirby, David Sales, Graham Onions and Stewart Walters. Warwickshire are also interested in signing Luke Pomersbach for their 20/20 campaign and Chris Martin to take other for the latter half of the season.
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Mid-season? WTF?
 
Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
Yeah, I know that. But I first thought that you were suggesting this was to happen this year.
 
Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
WoW, what an astonishing effort from Foster, Masters and Palladino to save Essex's game against Leics. Foster 88* from 212, the two bowlers lasting 140 balls between them. Incredible.
 
gettingbetter

gettingbetter

State Vice-Captain
TT Boy said:
I agree, you look at some of the sides and you wonder why they exist (sentiment aside) for they either don’t produce English players, instead opt for keeping their under-19 England internationals in the seconds, employ a bunch of Kolpaks who still hardly ever improve their fortunes (or younger English players which is a fallacy in itself) and have a minuscule of support. 'Amalgamated' franchises is the way to go!
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Thank you, finally someone who sees that sans international players and Kolpaks, many of the teams don't have a good bowling attack - Glamorgan, Essex, Warwickshire and co...pool all those players together and you'd get something decent.
 
gettingbetter

gettingbetter

State Vice-Captain
Richard said:
Glamorgan, until recently 1 of the weakest sides, have 1 excellent seamer (Gillespie), 1 hugely promising one (Harris), and 2 decent to excellent spinners on a turning pitch (Croft and Cosker). Even Derbyshire can currently afford to leave-out Kevin Dean, one of their best bowlers in recent memory.

There is enough talent in the UK and Ireland for 18 First-Class counties (maybe more if Ireland and Scotland get stronger in the next few decades). The trouble is that so many counties, especially the richer ones, employ far more players full-time than they need, especially players from overseas. If counties limited their full-time staffs to 15 or 16 players, grounds and net facilities around the country would be inestimatably better, not just at county but at club level, because there'd be so much more money to invest in them. Better club cricket would mean counties could afford to call on league players when injury crises hit them.
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A combined Essex and Middlesex team:

Goodleman
E.Smith
Shah
Bopara
Joyce
Pettini
Foster
Tudor
Udal
Murtagh
Palladino

Not a bad line up, obviously the batting is rewarded more with a pooling of the talent. The bowling still isn't that great, but that just shows what would happen(s) on a weekly basis. Also note that there are no overseas players and I'm quite sure, no Kolpaks.
 
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