T20 Blast 2024 (Started on 30th May)

[CartyDurham]

At least you have a reserve day.

Surrey get a bye in the event of a no result seemingly.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1814408354782941441

Typical. Never known a competition that doesn’t have the same rules for everyone in domestic cricket

 

[Third_Man]

Hell of a performance by Northants to beat what were at the time the top two sides in the North group in their last two games. **** knows how we still have a negative net run rate though.

I never thought home advantage was that big a deal in the quarter finals, but when did Somerset last play at Wantage Road?

Northants won their last three group games. Beating Durham, Warwickshire and Lancashire in those three games.

I see George Dockrell can be added to old boys reunion at Hove alongside Salt, Wells, Lamb and Simpson. I had missed he has also played for Sussex.

 

[Yeoman]

Loathe to complain as this presumably means that I can watch the streams, however Sky and the ECB have really given up on promoting the Blast, haven’t they? I imagined them corpsing with evil laughter when the Roses match and the London derby were rained off.

 

[CartyDurham]

Trying to remove my posts as they are Spam

 

[Third_Man]

Lamb out for rest of season - surgery on a shoulder - so wont be facing Lancashire in the QF in September.

 

[FBU]

Squads for Tuesday 3 Sept

Durham
Colin Ackermann, Brydon Carse, Graham Clark, Bas de Leede, George Drissell, Daniel Hogg, Michael Jones, Alex Lees*, Ben McKinney, Callum Parkinson, Ben Raine, Ollie Robinson+, Nathan Sowter, Ashton Turner

Surrey
Chris Jordan, Rory Burns, Jordan Clark, Sam Curran, Tom Curran, Laurie Evans, Will Jacks, Tom Lawes, J Overton, Dom Sibley, Cam Steel, Reece Topley, Dan Worrall

 

[chris.hinton]

Hopefully 4 days of good action.

 

[mackembhoy]

Fingers crossed Durham end up with a 100 percent record too.

My first visit to the Oval later

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1830875150578823196

 

[chris.hinton]

Was coming here to post that.. Excellent stuff

 

[Yeoman]

What are people’s thoughts on randomising the T20 groups, as in the one day cup? I would welcome it as it would allow more varied and interesting match-ups, however I appreciate that teams could lose local derbies.

 

[chris.hinton]

What are people’s thoughts on randomising the T20 groups, as in the one day cup? I would welcome it as it would allow more varied and interesting match-ups, however I appreciate that teams could lose local derbies.

I think they can do it for one year but they can have local derbies anyway

 

[Third_Man]

What are people’s thoughts on randomising the T20 groups, as in the one day cup? I would welcome it as it would allow more varied and interesting match-ups, however I appreciate that teams could lose local derbies.

some of the travel is ridiculous at the moment when it is regionalised. Lancs can still be playing Worcestershire one day and Durham the next day.

Would have to look at the schedules in detail to verify but that is what everyone seems to complain about. South Group spreads from Glamorgan to Kent/Essex.

Edit: At a quick glance Lancashire played floodlit game 6.30 start on Friday in Leicester following by 2.30pm start Sunday in Durham and 6.30 start on Friday in Northampton following by 2.30pm start Sunday in Manchester. Probably worse examples.

 

[Third_Man]

Lancs squad: Jennings, Aspinwall, Blatherwick, Boyden, Croft, Dockrell, Hartley, Hurst, Lavelle, Livingstone, Mahmood, Salt, Wells, Wood.

Sussex squad: Alsop, Archer, Carson, Carter, Clark, Coles, Crocombe, Currie, Hudson-Prentice, Hughes, Lenham, Mills (c), Robinson, Simpson (wk), Ward

14 for Lancs: Boyden, Lavelle unlikely to feature plus one of Aspinwall & Blatheriwck to miss out all things being equal. But to my mind why have 7 bowlers (Asp/Blath, Dockrell, Hartley, Livingstone, Mahmood, Wells, Wood). 8 if you include Croft. Should play extra bat and make do with 6 bowling options (Lavelle to play rather than Aspinwall but they wont).

Wells, Salt and Simpson face their original clubs. Dockrell also played for Sussex on loan from Somerset.

 

[The Brian Hardie Stance]

This looks a struggle for Durham. No let up as far as Surrey bowling options to come in at them.

 

[Third_Man]

This looks a struggle for Durham. No let up as far as Surrey bowling options to come in at them.

Options yes, but they decide to go with 5 bowlers bowling 4 overs each. Jordan Clark, Jacks and Overton did not bowl.

Far too many times Lancashire have used 7 bowlers and it's been hard to conclude that the captain forgot someone and under bowled them for only say 3 overs for 18 and even the top strike bowler might only have bowled three overs. Sides only need 6 bowlers to cover someone having a bad day - not 8 as per Surrey today.

 

[FBU]

Lancs squad: Jennings, Aspinwall, Blatherwick, Boyden, Croft, Dockrell, Hartley, Hurst, Lavelle, Livingstone, Mahmood, Salt, Wells, Wood.

Sussex squad: Alsop, Archer, Carson, Carter, Clark, Coles, Crocombe, Currie, Hudson-Prentice, Hughes, Lenham, Mills (c), Robinson, Simpson (wk), Ward

14 for Lancs: Boyden, Lavelle unlikely to feature plus one of Aspinwall & Blatheriwck to miss out all things being equal. But to my mind why have 7 bowlers (Asp/Blath, Dockrell, Hartley, Livingstone, Mahmood, Wells, Wood). 8 if you include Croft. Should play extra bat and make do with 6 bowling options (Lavelle to play rather than Aspinwall but they wont).

Wells, Salt and Simpson face their original clubs. Dockrell also played for Sussex on loan from Somerset.

I think it will be Salt, Jennings, Wells, Livingstone, Hurst, Croft, Dockrell, Hartley, Wood, Mahmood, Aspinall
v
Archer, Mills, Currie, Robinson, Coles, Lenham

 

[Chin Music]

Options yes, but they decide to go with 5 bowlers bowling 4 overs each. Jordan Clark, Jacks and Overton did not bowl.

Far too many times Lancashire have used 7 bowlers and it's been hard to conclude that the captain forgot someone and under bowled them for only say 3 overs for 18 and even the top strike bowler might only have bowled three overs. Sides only need 6 bowlers to cover someone having a bad day - not 8 as per Surrey today.

I thought Jordan's use of himself was preposterous. He bowled 2 poor overs to start off with and then didn't try and change things up. He was laughable in his last couple and nigh-on single handedly made the game competitive, including a front foot no-ball off his last scheduled ball. The free hit was scooped/flipped for 4, giving Durham 6 more runs than they might have had alone. Ok, I'm exaggerating a bit as messrs de Leede and Jones do deserve credit for taking advantage, but for a guy who has been a t20 specialist for donkeys years, he was useless last night.

 

[Molehill]

Lancs squad: Jennings, Aspinwall, Blatherwick, Boyden, Croft, Dockrell, Hartley, Hurst, Lavelle, Livingstone, Mahmood, Salt, Wells, Wood.

Sussex squad: Alsop, Archer, Carson, Carter, Clark, Coles, Crocombe, Currie, Hudson-Prentice, Hughes, Lenham, Mills (c), Robinson, Simpson (wk), Ward

14 for Lancs: Boyden, Lavelle unlikely to feature plus one of Aspinwall & Blatheriwck to miss out all things being equal. But to my mind why have 7 bowlers (Asp/Blath, Dockrell, Hartley, Livingstone, Mahmood, Wells, Wood). 8 if you include Croft. Should play extra bat and make do with 6 bowling options (Lavelle to play rather than Aspinwall but they wont).

Wells, Salt and Simpson face their original clubs. Dockrell also played for Sussex on loan from Somerset.

Sussex will almost certainly do the same, there will definitely be 7 bowling options. The batting will rely heavily on Hughes and Alsop. It's so daft that these games occur so far on from the group stages, McAndrew will be a big miss.

If Lamb had played there'd be another against his old club.

 

[The Brian Hardie Stance]

Lancs soon will be able to concentrate on their relegation battle.

 

[Third_Man]

Lancs soon will be able to concentrate on their relegation battle.

Livingstone top scoring maybe Lancashire should select him more often.