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Post by tykemania on May 17, 2024 9:57:29 GMT
I did not see us going in with Root as our main spinner!
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Post by newby on May 17, 2024 10:47:18 GMT
Would have thought the point of playing Leech is that he would have taken the new ball.
Bad drop by Root hasn't helped.
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Post by donnylad on May 17, 2024 11:33:55 GMT
Just got back from shopping - nice team selection Newby!!
Thompson going for 7 an over all but ........ why not Leech first up? That is a puzzle. If Leech had had say 4 early overs then it might have given him some confidence. However he has just come on for Coad. Mr Hill nips in again ....2 for 11 off 4. I'll say it again this lad is potentially the best prospect we have at the moment.
Playing 1 spinner does make some sense here - I would have selected Bess (for the batting as well) - maybe there was a deal to be done to get Joe Lad to play and hence a (better) batsman and a very reasonable spinner instead of Bess?
Leech looks quicker today I racell today and has found a bit in the pitch and just had Tatts catch Pujara off a jaffa!! 91 for 4!
Foot on neck time don't give owe away lads!
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Post by Hit Wicket on May 17, 2024 14:12:54 GMT
I had Sussex down to win Division 2. Currently they look incapable of winning a game of Snap. A weird division, this.
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Post by slowleftarmer on May 17, 2024 15:44:06 GMT
14 wickets before tea on day 1. not sight nor sound of a spinner, the stumps not yet hit for a wicket and batters nicking off at will.
As Fred used to say "tha' bats got more edges than a broken piss pot!"
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Post by newby on May 17, 2024 15:55:34 GMT
Looks like a results pitch, what that result might be is anyone's guess at the moment. A good partnership this session would be ideal.
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Post by donnylad on May 17, 2024 17:32:04 GMT
Probably is a result pitch but it is the sort of pitch that will have Wrong Key foaming at the mouth.
Something along the lines of "Grubby little medium pacers making the ball move. Wonderful batsmen (like what I was) getting out rather than just standing there and hitting through everything and amass enormous scores. Oh - and one of those horrible Duke ball things being used."
Perhaps the p***ock will realise that a good batsman (Mr J Root) can play on this and score 67 at 76 runs per hundred without Bazballing.
Key never was a good batsman and Joe Lad is one.
A result pitch for sure .... but which way? Could be all over tomorrow afternoon?
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Post by newby on May 17, 2024 18:54:03 GMT
Well it isn't much but it's a lead and hopefully with more to add in the morning or whenever they get started if the weather intervenes.
I'd rather be in ours shoes than there's thanks mainly to Joe Roots contribution. We will have to wait and see if his 67 was the decisive innings in the match or if someone can better it. Sod's law the pitch will flatten out tomorrow.
Enjoyable stuff though.
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Post by tykemania on May 17, 2024 19:00:03 GMT
I'm not sure I like the pitch - not least because the missus had agreed to a Sunday in Hove and I don't imagine there will be more than knockings left at that stage. I have no issues with a reasonable level of sportiness in the surface, this one has been inexplicably challenging given my friend who lives two minutes from the ground reports ten solid days of excellent weather.
Anyway, from the live feed (as seen between calls etc at work) Thommo tried too hard to bowl magic balls early doors, otherwise there may have been a two figure total. Coad was quality, Leech does look to have a fourth gear when he wants it and Hill is a decent bowler when there is even a little bit in the surface. For completeness, the lad Coles looks a proper player.
Having moved home, our innings started fitfully. Robinson may be unfit, but he has some decent skills, and we were under the cosh. It helps when you have the best batsman in the world in your side though, and Joe looked serene, until triggered late in the day by an umpire who seemed to realise that triggering the best batsman in the world was his 15 minutes. Wharton impressed me, at least as good as Coles who has England A recognition.
We're in a position that will be determined by the first hour. If Tommo, Revis, Coad and Leech can play a few shots, the wicket is such that a lead of even 75 would be a major challenge for the opposition.
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Post by hawke on May 17, 2024 22:00:24 GMT
I saw bits and pieces when resting from gardening and hedging. The pitch was not quite as green as my garden but I’m sure I saw tinges. It was too bowler friendly but that is much much better than too batter friendly as something to watch. Do Sussex have the nerve to prepare that because they are not on Test match rotas?
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Post by newby on May 18, 2024 7:52:10 GMT
I don't think it's an exact science and while Sussex may have wanted to aid their perceived match winning bowler, Ollie Robinson, against a strong batting line-up they've over cooked it so even part-time bowlers can't help taking wickets.
They seem to have done the same thing at the Oval, which is a Test ground of course and where 17 wickets also went down yesterday.
I feel anything could happen when they restart today, hopefully we can get the lead up to nearer 100 than to 50 but we might need a big dollop of luck to achieve that.
There is the heavy roller of course and perhaps pre-start they might take some more grass off and it will play completely differently.
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Post by donnylad on May 18, 2024 9:08:17 GMT
I happened to see then last wicket of their innings and the groundstaff working on the pitch.
As usual - massive dust cloud in the crease area - two dustpan fulls at one end and a ot blown away in the breeze.
On came the heavy roller and the difference in the appearance of the pitch was instantly noticeable - it looked 2 different colours as the roller moved up and down; one rolled, one unrolled.
The ball still nipped around though when we batted. Root got a rough one I think.
There are tracks where just short of quick can get a lot out of them and this looks like one of those. A 50 run lead could be vital. I do hope there is play!
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Post by newby on May 18, 2024 9:29:18 GMT
Delayed start almost certainly at Hove, I expect them to get on sometime today if the forecast is to be believed. If not Sunday and Monday look very nice.
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Post by donnylad on May 18, 2024 9:32:37 GMT
PS In my newspaper of choice this morning there are .... two whole columns - headed Vitality County Championship.
The top half of each are covered by a picture of Stokes bowling.
There are approx. 300 words about cricket and just over half of those are lyrical garbage about the Himalaya, and a hot dog seller and Stokes.
The cricket championship gets about 100.
Yorkshire get one line - 'Yorkshire rattled through Sussex', 4 words. Sick note quick bowler Archer gets 2 lines, 'Joffra Archer meanwhile was bowling for Sussex second XI' - 9 words.
Those statements also give an idea when this piece was penned.
Had it been a bit later it would surely have been all about Archer hitting a Kent 2's batter on the head and then having him caught. Five overs 1 for 11 and Buttler says "It's a huge encouragement for him to be back and see him ready to play,"
We are approaching the middle of the season and this is what we see in the press. Is there any wonder that people see cricket as a declining activity??
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Post by newby on May 18, 2024 16:45:27 GMT
Yorkshire are chipping away and those in attendance should be in for a treat tomorrow. Batting seems a little bit easier now, let's hope that continues.
200 plus might be nervy but should be well within the compass of this batting line-up. Hopefully it's more like 150.
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