*Official* English Domestic Season Thread (2005)

[Scaly piscine]

Those 6 penalty runs Surrey gave away for slow over rate have really made a difference.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Glen Chapple in danger of getting the Gareth Batty Thanks For Coming Award for doing nothing in the match - no bowling, no batting.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Those 6 penalty runs Surrey gave away for slow over rate have really made a difference.

They could be decisive - the difference between 9 off the last over and 15 is more than just 6 runs.

 

[Nate]

Big finish...

 

[Barney Rubble]

Mahmood smashes one off the back foot over long-off (!) for 6 - 56 needed off 24 balls.

Chapple now doing something - bowling.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Another 6 for Ramps off Chapple - this could get very interesting indeed if these two are still there in the last over.....

 

[Nate]

I wonder how Andy will get his other two wickets...

 

[Barney Rubble]

I wonder how Andy will get his other two wickets...

Run outs.

 

[Barney Rubble]

40 needed off 17 balls.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Nnanden - congrats on your 5,000th post buddy!

 

[Barney Rubble]

Mahmood gone for 30 - that's probably it. Jon Batty and Ramps need to swing at EVERYTHING.

 

[Barney Rubble]

36 needed off the last two overs - this wiould be a miracle if they manage it. Two sixes this over makes things very interesting.

 

[andyc]

I wonder how Andy will get his other two wickets...

wooooooo 5000 wooooooo

 

[Barney Rubble]

Ramps bowled by Flintoff, that's it then - and I'm becoming a one-man thread here!

 

[Nate]

Nnanden - congrats on your 5,000th post buddy!

Haha, didn`t even realise. Thanks.

C`mon Symonds! Aussie dominance.

 

[Barney Rubble]

28 needed off the last over - they've done well to push Lancs this far, so there's no shame in losing by 20-odd runs.

Except for Ramps, who ran out the man on whose shoulders his team's chances of winning rested. There's shame for him.

Murtagh bowled by Cork.

 

[Nate]

Give Symonds his overs! Gah!

 

[Barney Rubble]

Somerset v Leicestershire now - predictions, people?

I'm going for Somerset, seeing as they're batting first - I think they'll post a big total, upwards of 170-180, and then their bowlers will just about do enough. Their batting is very, very strong, with some aggressive, talented players in this form of the game - a top five of Smith, Wood, Trescothick, Blackwell, Hildreth is as dangerous as any bar Lancashire's.

 

[Barney Rubble]

On an unrelated subject, check this out - I was looking through some of the 2nd XI Championship games this season, and look who replaced Jim Troughton in Warwickshire's 2nds when he was called up to play for the 1sts midway through a game.......imagine if you were playing for the opposition and you suddenly find yourself facing this guy having not thought he was playing!

http://live.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE...2ND-XI_GLOUCS-2ND-XI_CC-2ND_08-10JUN2005.html

 

[Scaly piscine]

Somerset v Leicestershire now - predictions, people?

I'm going for Somerset, seeing as they're batting first - I think they'll post a big total, upwards of 170-180, and then their bowlers will just about do enough. Their batting is very, very strong, with some aggressive, talented players in this form of the game - a top five of Smith, Wood, Trescothick, Blackwell, Hildreth is as dangerous as any bar Lancashire's.

It's very tough to call, it's prima donna playboys (Somerset) against a bunch of well drilled unknowns (Leicestershire) really.