*Official* English Domestic Season Thread (2005)

[Nate]

After handy half-centuries to Warne and Tremlett, Hampshire have set Gloucestershire 252 to win. Looks like a good finish in the making.

Warne and Tremmers batted superbly, I hope they can do equally well bowling. Ervine bowled well first innings ( ) but batted below average twice.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Harmo 15-6-23-4. Hope that boosts his confidence a bit

 

[Nate]

Harmo 15-6-23-4. Hope that boosts his confidence a bit

Geez!

*kills Hamps game...*

 

[Nate]

Three of his four wickets are 'bowled'.

 

[twctopcat]

Played on anybody??? Still good effort, nice to see bell weigh in with a few with his sydney barnes-esque deliveries!!

 

[Scaly piscine]

Woohoo, Durham complete the Leicestershire hammering.

 

[wpdavid]

Good ton by Blackwell against a pretty handy attack on what doesn't appear to be a batters paradise. I'd pop him in the 20-20 international game at the rose bowl, could be interesting.

My pet theory with Blackwell is he's batting a couple of places too low in the Somerset order if he is really serious about doing something with his batting. As it is, he's in a comfort zone where he can afford to be a bit hit & miss and, on a good day, enjoy himself against the old ball. A few years ago I really thought he had something, but my impression now is he's happy being a big fish in a small pond rather than pushing himself to make it at international level.

 

[wpdavid]

Played on anybody??? Still good effort, nice to see bell weigh in with a few with his sydney barnes-esque deliveries!!

Yeah, I noticed Bell's figures - and all good players, too. Didn't he get a few in Sri Lanka recently? Nice to see one of our batsmen trying to do something with his bowling.

 

[wpdavid]

Woohoo, Durham complete the Leicestershire hammering.

And quite a performance by the just turned 20 Liam Plunkett. Have you seen much of him SP?

 

[Scaly piscine]

And quite a performance by the just turned 20 Liam Plunkett. Have you seen much of him SP?

Na I haven't seen him, he was OK but nothing brilliant last season when Davies (medium pacer) was taking most of the wickets.

 

[Link]

And quite a performance by the just turned 20 Liam Plunkett. Have you seen much of him SP?

ive seen him before in a under 19 match against south africa.
NB! plunkett to 5 wickets and AB de Villiers scored a 50

 

[jf2001]

southwestcricket.com relaunch

Just given the county cricket site I run a facelift, could be of interest to those on this county cricket thread. All comments welcomed, enjoy....
South West Cricket

 

[Swervy]

Just given the county cricket site I run a facelift, could be of interest to those on this county cricket thread. All comments welcomed, enjoy....
South West Cricket

I see you have a Bothams Diary section on that site...what has it got to do with Botham btw

 

[jf2001]

Botham's Diary

only that the writer is a well known Somerset cricket fan who is a regular on Somerset forums and goes by the pseudonym of Botham.....

what do you think of the website??

 

[superkingdave]

it would be improved by having a link to CW on it

 

[marc71178]

Yeah, I noticed Bell's figures - and all good players, too. Didn't he get a few in Sri Lanka recently? Nice to see one of our batsmen trying to do something with his bowling.

Although ironically our 5 bowler line-up means there's next to no need for it in the International arena!

 

[Langeveldt]

Just given the county cricket site I run a facelift, could be of interest to those on this county cricket thread. All comments welcomed, enjoy....
South West Cricket

Wow, who takes those photos? Amazing

 

[kendall]

seems the rose bowl pitch is the same as ever warne to skitlle out the tale tomorow and take an unlikely victroy thanks to he and tremlets batting

 

[wpdavid]

Although ironically our 5 bowler line-up means there's next to no need for it (Bell's bowling) in the International arena!

Trueish, but it could still be useful on occasions. You know the sort of thing - Jones limping, Harmison all over the place, etc. I still think there's a case for playing six batters ahead of Flintoff against Aus judging by the fragility of our middle order in SA, which would make Bell's bowling even more useful, but I know I'm in a fairly small minority there.

BTW You'll know better than me - what does Bell actually do with the ball? Does he swing it like a rather better version of Butcher, or does he find some decent seam movement?

 

[Swervy]

Yorkshire collapsing big time...hurrahhh