*Official* English Domestic Season Thread (2005)

[SpaceMonkey]

Adil Rashid from Yorkshire is a very good young leg spinner by all accounts, but wont be playing First Class cricket for a good 3 years yet.

 

[Steulen]

Strauss 13
Trescothick 4
Flintoff 0

Nice day for the England batsmen.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Strauss 13
Trescothick 4
Flintoff 0

Nice day for the England batsmen.

Right, let's select Bilal Shafayat, Darren Maddy, Michael Brown instead...

 

[superkingdave]

joking aside its good to see Bilal get some runs, maybe he can get back on track this year

 

[marc71178]

The Bears continue to do the business with the ball - and that was our major weak area last season...

 

[Pratters]

joking aside its good to see Bilal get some runs, maybe he can get back on track this year

Considering that he was facing the Derbysh. bowling line up, I wouldnt make too much into the runs.

 

[Link]

Considering that he was facing the Derbysh. bowling line up, I wouldnt make too much into the runs.

You can only bat against who your facing... and its not like every time when a batsmen faces a weaker lineup they go and get a hundred. Ive heard this millions of times when it comes to haydens 380

 

[Pratters]

You can only bat against who your facing... and its not like every time when a batsmen faces a weaker lineup they go and get a hundred. Ive heard this millions of times when it comes to haydens 380

Its a good sign Shafayat is getting the runs finally. But I would wait before being happy about them till he scores them against quality opposition.

 

[Link]

Its a good sign Shafayat is getting the runs finally. But I would wait before being happy about them till he scores them against quality opposition.

agreed

 

[wpdavid]

Its a good sign Shafayat is getting the runs finally. But I would wait before being happy about them till he scores them against quality opposition.

Sure. I was interested to see that Shafayat opened the innings today, which I didn't think he'd done previously.

 

[superkingdave]

with his move to Northants this year, thats where he's going to be batting this year, he played there against Leics in the last match and scored 59 and 14.

 

[superkingdave]

Its a good sign Shafayat is getting the runs finally. But I would wait before being happy about them till he scores them against quality opposition.

wait now so were not allowed to be happy about someone scoring runs?, no-one tried to make out he was a world beater or anything, i just said it was good to see him scoring a few runs, he was a forgotten man last year. Are you making a special effort to be annoying at the moment?

 

[Pratters]

wait now so were not allowed to be happy about someone scoring runs?, no-one tried to make out he was a world beater or anything, i just said it was good to see him scoring a few runs, he was a forgotten man last year. Are you making a special effort to be annoying at the moment?

You are entitled to feel annoyed or whatever you feel.

Cheers.

 

[wpdavid]

with his move to Northants this year, thats where he's going to be batting this year, he played there against Leics in the last match and scored 59 and 14.

Maybe the fresh start will help - his career seemed to be going no-where at Notts.

Talking of fresh starts, I was also pleased to see Tudor do well for Essex again today, after having a decent game against Yorkshire last week.

 

[Pratters]

http://www.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/2005/FEB/184041_IND_17FEB2005.html

Interesting to note Ganguly wanted to play county cricket but no county wanted him.

 

[chris.hinton]

Well done to the worcestershire lads on wednesday performance and to get Flintoff out for nothing is brilliant

 

[The Baconator]

Murali's started with for Lancs, 5-69 ATM.

 

[superkingdave]

but Hick is absolutely killing us

 

[superkingdave]

Bell currently 104*, Key 144*, Cook 107* some decent scores

 

[marc71178]

Ian Bell's putting down an early marker this season.

4th innings, 2 half centuries and now a ton.