***Official*** English Domestic Season 2008

[Richard]

Yeah, 'course they are. There's 18 of them. But apart from Lancs and Yorks, I can't think that there'll be very many counties where there's more working-class involvement than upper-class.

 

[TheEpic]

Durham?

 

[Richard]

That's about the only other one that'd immediately come to mind, and of course they're a recent addition.

BTW, looking at the 2004 thread these posts are vaguely interesting.

How on earth can you pick a team 3 years in advance is beyond me

Lawson hasnt even played first class cricket yet (and hardly inspired me in the u19 world cup). If anything i hear Yorkshire have a VERY promising spinner (name eludes me atm) who is 16 now and would be 19 and a possible for the squad (but then how can i say that when ive never seen him play?
). Kadeer is pants, even i know that and im as bias as they come when it comes to worcestershire so is G Swann.

Spacemonkey I think you talking about Adil Rashid

Marc Kabir and Solanki are good enough At the Moment plus Kadeer will be good in a few years

Thats him Lets hope its not all hype as usual

 

[Richard]

WTF is going-on at The Oval? Martin van Jaarsveld, who hasn't bowled before this innings this season, currently has 5 for 28. Having had a previous career-best of 2-17, and a sum-total of 26 wickets in 191 matches.

Odds on him not bowling again this season?

 

[Prince EWS]

WTF is going-on at The Oval? Martin van Jaarsveld, who hasn't bowled before this innings this season, currently has 5 for 28. Having had a previous career-best of 2-17, and a sum-total of 26 wickets in 191 matches.

Odds on him not bowling again this season?

I've seen him bowl before - he really isn't the worst. 5/28 flatters him though I'm sure.

 

[Richard]

I've seen him bowl several times and I've long been surprised he doesn't bowl more, all career - and obviously I now hope he'll bowl rather more this season. For two reasons: one, I don't want him ending the season with an average of 6; two, James Tredwell is crap and if van Jaarsveld can do the spin duties they can hopefully do away with him and play all their high-calibre seamers (Yasir, Azhar, Saggers, Joseph, McLaren).

Nonetheless, at 34 years of age taking your first five-for having a previous best of a two-for in your 192nd game, is absolutely and totally remarkable!

 

[Spitfires_Fan]

He really is showing up Tredwell. Figures of 2/32 from 13 aren't bad out of context but when you consider he's being comprehensively outbowled by a part timer and got a duck batting at 3, Tredders isn't exactly shining.

Jarre, however, is a superstar.

 

[Richard]

Aye, he ain't bad.

Real shame he never had much of a Test career, particularly given he played at the same time as the likes of McKenzie (when he was batting in his proper position), Dippenaar et al who hardly set The World on fire.

PS, gotta love the way Flintoff and Prior are described as "ex-team-mates" despite the fact they never played a Test together.

 

[Richard]

215 for Bell, before he falls to... Hamish Marshall. Annoying after making that many. Just 288 balls too. That should dispell whatever lingering doubts there were about his Test place. Trott on 87* AWS too, hopefully he can make that a century of his own. He's had a good season but still only 1 century so far before this game. Hope Jamie Troughton can get some too.

Paul Nixon and Claude Henderson have restored Leicestershire's respectibility against Worcs, for whom Simon Jones has only (so far) taken 2-60.

A 55* (off 73) from ten Doeschate to add to his first-innings 118, before, typically, Graham Wagg is gifted a couple of late-innings wickets.

At Hove the match is suspended as the bowler's foothold is repaired having got an unacceptably deep chasm.

And Darren Gough has smashed 34 from 23 to give Yorkshire a tiny, outside chance of victory against Durham, for whom Plunkett has been gifted another 3-for, to end with 6-119 on comeback. Even with Hoggard grabbing a couple of early wickets, still exceptionally unlikely to do anything but lose with Durham chasing 111. Poor performance against a patently inferior side.

 

[steds]

Dire Prior forgets he has a bat.

 

[Manee]

Dire Prior forgets he has a bat.

That is just silly. Imo, he got the two mixed up

 

[Richard]

FFS, bowlers like du Plessis annoy me. How on Earth is it possible to get 2-6 off 4 overs as match-figures midway though the game?

The front-liners have slogged it out all game (0-76 off 28 from Flintoff) then some pie-chucker gets brought on for a tiny number of overs and gets gifted 2 wickets.

Makes you sick, it really does. Either bowl the bugger more or don't bowl him at all IMO.

 

[stumpski]

Enjoyed that interview with Alec Stewart - the Gaffer on good form there.

Haven't caught any of the game on Sky as I've been taking advantage of a day off to soak up some rays in the garden (and seem to have turned rather a violent shade of lobster pink as a result) but I would back Sussex to make the game safe with the weather predicted to turn tomorrow. As for what's been going on at The Oval, well I don't understand what's been going off out there. 258 to win and 59-3, surely Saqqers can outbowl Van Jaarsveld?

 

[Richard]

Enjoyed that interview with Alec Stewart - the Gaffer on good form there.

Aye, loved the comment about Colville's career prospects. Sheer brilliance.

Haven't caught any of the game on Sky as I've been taking advantage of a day off to soak up some rays in the garden

Sun-bathing instead of watching cricket. Just can't fathom it.

 

[open365]

FFS, bowlers like du Plessis annoy me. How on Earth is it possible to get 2-6 off 4 overs as match-figures midway though the game?

The front-liners have slogged it out all game (0-76 off 28 from Flintoff) then some pie-chucker gets brought on for a tiny number of overs and gets gifted 2 wickets.

Makes you sick, it really does. Either bowl the bugger more or don't bowl him at all IMO.

Plesis isn't a pie chucker by any means, I don't know why he doesn't get bowled more, but he has better bowling stats than many other full time leg spinners, he may not look like it but I think he definitely has all round potential.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Durham do the double over Yorkshi*e. Good stuff.

 

[Richard]

Plesis isn't a pie chucker by any means, I don't know why he doesn't get bowled more, but he has better bowling stats than many other full time leg spinners, he may not look like it but I think he definitely has all round potential.

Well the 2 wickets he's got this game have both come from pies. I'm sure he does have a bit of potential as a bowler - which simply makes it more baffling that he hasn't bowled more this season.

 

[stumpski]

Just out of interest, why is Bell playing and not Pietersen? Didn't they both play in all the ODIs? Poor KP, five one-day games in 15 days - he must be shattered.

 

[stumpski]

Sun-bathing instead of watching cricket. Just can't fathom it.

I was reading two cricket books though - can't get away from it completely.

 

[Manee]

Well the 2 wickets he's got this game have both come from pies. I'm sure he does have a bit of potential as a bowler - which simply makes it more baffling that he hasn't bowled more this season.

His second wicket, the LBW was a good length ball pitching if off, wasn't it?