***Official*** NatWest Series/Challenge

[FaaipDeOiad]

McGrath restores the order of things. Still, decent cameo by Strauss there.

Flintoff to come now?

 

[Barney Rubble]

Vaughan walks out.....and walks back in again. They're back off.

Can the target be reduced further? That's on the off-chance it does stop raining.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Bah. Looks like the rain's settling in again. Might be it this time I fear.

Looked like the ball that dismissed Strauss sat in the wicket a bit. I had it down as a slower ball, but the speed gun showed it at 82.3mph. Strauss was through with his shot very early.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Amazing how many times when they go off for weather someone has just lost their wicket.

 

[superkingdave]

Can Vaughan not come in if they come back on?

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Can Vaughan not come in if they come back on?

Only way he could would be if he retired his wicket.

 

[Neil Pickup]

And that's more rain. We need 14 more overs for a game, so we'll have to resume before 2145/2150 BST (ie 50-55 minutes)

At a minimum, it'll be 133 to win from 20 - or 96 from 14 @ 6.86

 

[Neil Pickup]

And the covers are coming back off again! More maths on the way...

 

[Legglancer]

And that's more rain. We need 14 more overs for a game, so we'll have to resume before 2145/2150 BST (ie 50-55 minutes)

At a minimum, it'll be 133 to win from 20 - or 96 from 14 @ 6.86

Smarty pants !

 

[Neil Pickup]

Right, resuming at 2120 barring any more rain.

We reckon that'll be 27 overs a side, meaning the target will be revised to 172.

 

[Barney Rubble]

And the covers are coming back off again! More maths on the way...

And they're now going back on again. Bloody hell.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

5 bucks says we've totally messed that up and it's still going to be 33 overs or something.

 

[Neil Pickup]

And the covers are coming back on again... arrgh!

 

[Scaly piscine]

I have to agree with Aggers saying how pointless day/night games are in this country, the games start at 2:30pm when people are still at work, so what's the point?

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

I have to agree with Aggers saying how pointless day/night games are in this country, the games start at 2:30pm when people are still at work, so what's the point?

People go after work? With day games they wouldn't get to go at all, and in fact the after-work crowd is one of the main advantages for day-night games in terms of ticket receipts.

 

[aussie]

goodness i have out of the house for 1/2 an hour and so much has happened.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

I have to agree with Aggers saying how pointless day/night games are in this country, the games start at 2:30pm when people are still at work, so what's the point?

TV companies will get bigger audiences during the night portion of the game. Which means more money for them and more money for the ECB.

 

[Scaly piscine]

TV companies will get bigger audiences during the night portion of the game. Which means more money for them and more money for the ECB.

That'd be the night portion of the game which is usually when the batting team is crumbling with the usually much more favourable bowling conditions. So then the game is over quickly anyway

 

[Scaly piscine]

Looks like England are about to top the table regardless of how many Australia beat Bangladesh by anyways.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Match abandoned, no result. What a flaming anticlimax. Ah well, roll on Saturday.