***Official*** English Domestic Season 2008

[Langeveldt]

Here's a tip for the worst current specialist bowler in county cricket.. Mike Munday.. Absolutely diabolical at best..

 

[open365]

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?

Yeh, second one was a decent delivery.

First one, well, it could have been the flipper?

He used to play for my club a few years back, and the amount of variations he could bowl was ridiculous for a 20 year old part time leg spinner.

 

[Richard]

Ah, his Lancashire connections are a little while older then are they?

Yeah the 2nd wicket was an OK-ish ball, but there was nothing remarkable about it. Prior should never have missed it.

The 1st was just an out-and-out Long-Hop that fortunately for the bowler kept low.

 

[Richard]

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.

I guess simply because Bell needs a score far more badly than Pietersen does.

 

[aussie]

Encouraging stuff from Jones hopefully this is the start of solid injury free run.

 

[GIMH]

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.

Sorry, I misunderstood your post.

Well, tbf, Lancs and Yorks take up the bulk of the north under old county boundaries. Well maybe not the bulk but a massive portion.

 

[Manee]

Encouraging stuff from Jones hopefully this is the start of solid injury free run.

I recently read an interview from Jones in The Wisden Cricketer (IIRC) and he stated that he is feeling very fit.

 

[Prince EWS]

Haha, odds on Jones's return series being the Ashes and him doing the same bloody thing as last time?

 

[GIMH]

Yeah, been spreading those thoughts all round the office this week

 

[aussie]

That would be pretty amazing no doubt. If his fitness is that good though i be taking him to India this winter.

 

[GIMH]

You'll be taking him personally?

 

[Prince EWS]

Yeah, been spreading those thoughts all round the office this week

As much as it'd suck from an Australian POV, it'd be a great cricketing story. Especially if he got injured right after that series and retired or something.

 

[GIMH]

I'm tipping him to be unlucky in the first Test, get overshadowed in the second, bowl brilliantly in the first dig in the third but get cramps towards the end, have a blinder in the first innings in the fourth but do his ankle in, thus leading an average county cricketer to run out Ponting in the second innings and then miss the fifth for someone who will make a few runs and henceforth receive an MBE. Now that would be a great cricket story.

 

[Prince EWS]

I'm tipping him to be unlucky in the first Test, get overshadowed in the second, bowl brilliantly in the first dig in the third but get cramps towards the end, have a blinder in the first innings in the fourth but do his ankle in, thus leading an average county cricketer to run out Ponting in the second innings and then miss the fifth for someone who will make a few runs and henceforth receive an MBE. Now that would be a great cricket story.

Well yeah, that was kind of my point. If you take that and add..

"His next series will be some four years later against the same opposition, having watched helplessly injured as he England lost the Ashes abroad. He'll have another stellar series, leading the English attack and contributing to the re-gaining of the Ashes, then fade away with yet another injury and retire six months later without playing another Test."

.. then it'll really be a great cricketing story.

Again though, pretty dire from a purely Australian POV.

 

[Matteh]

I guess simply because Bell needs a score far more badly than Pietersen does.

A double century would take care of that you'd imagine.

 

[GIMH]

Let's hope this is the start of a good run for Bell. If he can score a few tons against the Saffies, we will do them. He tends to score tons when we win, can only think of one in a losing cause, away to Pakistan, in fact that may well have been a draw. I am sure there are others but I can't remember.

 

[Richard]

Haha, odds on Jones's return series being the Ashes and him doing the same bloody thing as last time?

I hope, if he's going to come back, it'll happen before that.

Honestly, I wouldn't rule-out the possibility of him playing at some point in the upcoming four-Test series against SA. I still reckon it's less likely than more

Sheeysh, everyone at Glamorgan is sick as. Imagine giving a player 2 years to get better, then seeing him leave just as all seems lost... and things starting to go right immediately he leaves.

Glamorgan could've done with his astonishingly penetrative bowling so far this season. Mind, who couldn't?

 

[GIMH]

From what I've read, he wouldn't have bowled as well at Glamorgan.

 

[Richard]

Can't see anything that could have caused that.

I suppose New Road wickets seem to have been pretty helpful to bowlers this year, but even so, the county you're playing for won't change how well you bowl, even if it might do something to your effectiveness.

 

[GIMH]

Of course it will. He was demotivated at Glamorgan. This has a huge impact on anyone in any form of life.