*Official* English Domestic Season Thread (2005)

[aussie]

yeah im really surprised that they collapsed, its usually a complete road - we'll take the win though, especially since Essex lost and Durham and Yorkshi*e drew, it sets us up well, if we take the last wicket of course

yep

 

[Nate]

Jaques got 160-odd. He really is something special.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Jaques got 160-odd. He really is something special.

On a track where Tim Bresnan made 58 not out...

 

[Swervy]

yippeeee..I think Lancs are in second place now

 

[aussie]

yippeeee..I think Lancs are in second place now

yep great win just now lets hope this is the start of some conistency for the remainder of the season....

 

[Magrat Garlick]

yippeeee..I think Lancs are in second place now

Yep, trailing Durham by seven points.

 

[superkingdave]

with a game in hand

 

[shaka]

Lancashire had guts to enforce the follow on

 

[Barney Rubble]

Ian Blackwell smashed another half a dozen sixes today, 88 off 53 for him. He is in remarkably good form for a slogger. Hope Fletcher's at least paying attention.

 

[aussie]

Ian Blackwell smashed another half a dozen sixes today, 88 off 53 for him. He is in remarkably good form for a slogger. Hope Fletcher's at least paying attention.

i'd say if he keeps it up he should be picked for the ODI's vs PAK & hopefully he comes good.....

 

[Barney Rubble]

i'd say if he keeps it up he should be picked for the ODI's vs PAK & hopefully he comes good.....

Problem is, who would he replace? i.e., what would the team be? Perhaps:

Trescothick
Strauss
Vaughan
Pietersen
Flintoff
Blackwell
Collingwood
G Jones
Giles
Harmison
S Jones

 

[aussie]

Problem is, who would he replace? i.e., what would the team be?

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Probably Gilo in a team of:

tres
Strauss'
Vaughan
KP
Freddie
Colly
Blackie
G.Jonesy
Dazzler (if he isn't picked Tremlett of Anderson)
Harmy
Welch Wrecker

 

[Barney Rubble]

`
Probably Gilo in a team of:

tres
Strauss'
Vaughan
KP
Freddie
Colly
Blackie
G.Jonesy
Dazzler (if he isn't picked Tremlett of Anderson)
Harmy
Welch Wrecker

You'd keep Goughie? He was shocking this summer, and there's a case for the extra spinner in Pakistan and India. Gilo needs to stay IMHO.

 

[aussie]

well Essex have won the T/sport league with Kaneria & middlebrook playing major roles in tying the hants down.....

 

[Neil Pickup]

Ian Blackwell smashed another half a dozen sixes today, 88 off 53 for him. He is in remarkably good form for a slogger. Hope Fletcher's at least paying attention.

Hope he isn't.

 

[aussie]

You'd keep Goughie? He was shocking this summer, and there's a case for the extra spinner in Pakistan and India. Gilo needs to stay IMHO.

i wouldn't keep him but ya never know what the selectors will do but thinking about it yea Blackwell & Gilo could play together with Harmy & Jones opening, Freddie 1st change & u have Colly's seamers along with Gilo & Blackie spinning it so their is blackwell's place

 

[Barney Rubble]

Hope he isn't.

Well, it could be worse Neil - Matt Wood could have scored another 290-odd........

 

[Chubb]

I think Alex Loudon might get a call-up for the tour squad. He bats, bowls attacking offspin and apparently has a doosra.

 

[Barney Rubble]

I think Alex Loudon might get a call-up for the tour squad. He bats, bowls attacking offspin and apparently has a doosra.

If he does have a doosra, he doesn't bowl it very well - FC bowling average of over 40.

 

[Chubb]

I saw him in a match on sky and apparently (I wasn't watching at the time) he bowled one, but he's only just developed it to the point where he bowls it in a match. Even without the Doosra he bowled an attacking line, and he was Warks top scorer too. He's a total toff, head boy at Eton, full name Alexander Guy Rushworth Loudon (his brother is called Hugo), parents with literal millions, but he is a good player.