***Official*** English Domestic Season 2009

[TT Boy]

Captain's innings needed, otherwise this is going to be like one of those awful September finals - win toss, win match. The difference here being that Sussex won the toss.

And the wicket looks good.

 

[TT Boy]

Luke Wright wants to push for a test place.

 

[Jarquis]

Everytime I go onto Cricinfo simultaneously Sussex lose a wicket.
1- Zaremba please don't shoot me
2- Wonder if it will work for the Hampshire innings

 

[TT Boy]

Gotta fancy Tahir against Dwanye Smith. One googly and that should be goodnight.

 

[GIMH]

Everytime I go onto Cricinfo simultaneously Sussex lose a wicket.
1- Zaremba please don't shoot me
2- Wonder if it will work for the Hampshire innings

Which county do you follow mate?

 

[TT Boy]

Worst Lord's final I've seen in years. Game was over in the first hour.

 

[zaremba]

Very disappointing result. I kept the faith initially because we showed in 2006 that a small total can be defended. But Hants seemed to bat well - much better than we did - and won it at an absolute canter. Credit to them, etc. Boo hoo.

 

[Pothas]

Great day at Lords (apart from the sunburn), fantastic performance from the three seamers, so few bad balls, gave them very little. Really good to see Tremlett fit and bowling fast, just hope he can keep it up. Did not bat fantastically apart from Carberry (one of the best 30's I have ever seen) but got the job done well, they bowled pretty badly though. I know if was not a great final from a neutral perspective but it was great to see us win another trophy. Also Pothas is great even when he cant even run.

 

[Jarquis]

Which county do you follow mate?

I don't follow any particular county tbh. Just have quite a few players I like to follow.

Sussex were in the first televised county game I ever watched and I fell in love with Mushtaq as well as quite a few other players and whenever I played Cricket 07 I was Sussex.

However, If I'm playing ICC I'm generally Lancashire for no particular reason. Brad Hodge, Keedy and Anderson were quite a lot to do with it actually.

Although the fact I'm from the South-West means that I quite like seeing Somerset do well especially with the likes of Tresco, Hildreth and Kieswetter who are some of the players that I like to follow

 

[fredfertang]

There was a time when a good knock in a one day final got you an international berth - after watching him yesterday I reckon Mike Yardy should replace KP

 

[superkingdave]

WTF is with the camera angle in the Kent - Durham Twenty 20?

 

[S Chanderpaul]

WTF is with the camera angle in the Kent - Durham Twenty 20?

Was about to say the same thing.

It was normal in the first over aswell.

 

[steds]

They're using the crane camera aren't they? Bloody strange.

 

[superkingdave]

Might be because they are doing two games in the same day and don't have the cameras to do both properly

 

[steds]

Pretty sure I saw a replay in Blackwell's over from what would be considered an orthodox camera placing.

 

[stumpski]

How the hell do you get caught at mid-off from a short ball? Not the best of starts to Durham's pursuit of 150.

Probably still 55-45 in their favour though.

 

[stumpski]

Oh my, Warner flew over specially for this game.


Parnell and McLaren bowling to Benkenstein and Coetzer, that's English cricket 2009 vintage for you.

 

[stumpski]

39-6, this could be over before they switch the lights on.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Pretty disappointing from Durham, tbh. Was hoping it'd be a close one. Think I might be red buttoning it soon.

 

[zaremba]

Now I don't want to knock down the England Cricket Feeder System (ie Irish cricket players) but am I alone in wondering about the legitimacy of Boyd Rankin's action?

Oh dear God they just showed a full facial view of Ricky Clarke. It's well before the 9pm watershed, and children may be watching. Someone at Sky will get the sack for that.