*Official* English Domestic Season Thread (2005)

[Scaly piscine]

Woohoo 3 figures.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Woohoo 3 figures.

This is a great knock from Benkenstein.

 

[BoyBrumby]

It is. Especially under the circumstances. 134-9 with 4 overs left & I'd say 150+ is certainly defendable on this pitch.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Durham favourites here for me - Plunkett, Killeen, Noffke, Benkenstein and Collingwood will fancy defending 147 (Benks 90).

Alex Loudon must be regretting those two spills.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Durham favourites here for me - Plunkett, Killeen, Noffke, Benkenstein and Collingwood will fancy defending 147 (Benks 90).

Alex Loudon must be regretting those two spills.

Hmm some nice odds around if they are indeed favourites.

I see a certain Gillespie hairstylealike went for 0-86 off 9 overs...

 

[aussie]

Good - you lose Freddie, we lose Gilo.

that will even up the clash a little bit. But if Symo gets going well........ Warwickshire are doomed.

 

[marc71178]

Because Warwickshire's bowling attack is mediocre.

Hmm, Streak, Brown, Pretorius, Carter (in OD) - I'd take that lot over a lot of attacks.

 

[marc71178]

It is. Especially under the circumstances. 134-9 with 4 overs left & I'd say 150+ is certainly defendable on this pitch.

Evidentially not

Annoyed we let them get so many, but cruising home with more than 10 overs to spare isn't too bad.

 

[marc71178]

Trouble for Warwickshire - I did wonder why Streak didn't complete his stint yesterday afternoon, but he got injured trying to complete the hat-trick.

He's in as a specialist bat, and with world-class Rikki in the Surrey side, I'm worried.

 

[superkingdave]

Lancashire off to a decent start against Derbyshire 57-0 (Loye 53* off 23 balls) (4.4 overs)

 

[superkingdave]

Trouble for Warwickshire - I did wonder why Streak didn't complete his stint yesterday afternoon, but he got injured trying to complete the hat-trick.

He's in as a specialist bat, and with world-class Rikki in the Surrey side, I'm worried.

He didnt attempt the hattrick, he got the second off his last ball then didn't come back

 

[marc71178]

Oh right - I'm going by what they said on 5 Live Sports Extra.

 

[marc71178]

Lancashire off to a decent start against Derbyshire 57-0 (Loye 53* off 23 balls) (4.4 overs)

Stuart Law's being overshadowed somewhat!

 

[Barney Rubble]

Ian Blackwell 3.2-0-12-3 so far for Somerset, who are restricting Northants fairly well. Jamie Hildreth's bowling seems to be fairly useful in Twenty20 - another fairly economical spell of 4-0-24-0 from him today.

 

[superkingdave]

Ant Botha bowled extremely well for Derbyshire, but par is about 180

 

[Barney Rubble]

Ant Botha bowled extremely well for Derbyshire, but par is about 180

According to Cricinfo, Jonathan Moss has bowled 5 overs in that game - what the hell? Another Cricinfo classic, methinks.

 

[superkingdave]

yeah, he only bowled 4, but they hit 3 sixes off his last over so i guess he'd prefer to have only bowled 3

190 is a decent target, with the bowlers at our disposal we should be able to defend it but there is some cloud around

 

[Scaly piscine]

According to Cricinfo, Jonathan Moss has bowled 5 overs in that game - what the hell? Another Cricinfo classic, methinks.

Does that quite often, interesting that there were no extras in the Lancashire innings.

 

[superkingdave]

there should have been at least one wide but the umpire didn't seem interested

 

[Barney Rubble]

For anyone who doesn't know, I just discovered you can listen to any of today's games via local radio if you go on the BBC Sport website. Listening to the Somerset-Northants game myself - it's pretty well poised I think.