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Post by newby on Jun 15, 2024 18:54:38 GMT
Was the Birmingham match televised? I searched in vain for it on Sky and YouTube. It was on Sky, they pushed the start back to 19:05.
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Post by newby on Jun 15, 2024 21:10:20 GMT
No result in the game in our group today so Notts and Durham take a point each and stay out of the picture for the moment.
Same 14 man squad for Yorkshire tomorrow. I hope the weather plays ball for what is a double header.
Weather forecast looks half way decent, at least for the afternoon.
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Post by newby on Jun 16, 2024 10:45:47 GMT
Northern Diamonds currently 96/0 from 11.
Just tuned in to see the weather, but if the Vikings are using the same pitch it might be a 200 v 200 job this afternoon.
A fair number of people of people in the ground already.
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Post by karma on Jun 16, 2024 14:02:17 GMT
Good win for the Diamonds on the back of a superb knock of 97 from Armitage.
Sadly the Diamonds are out of this competition but still have more to give.
All too soon they will transfer to Durham but I doubt the support will be that good, from a standing start, and without people travelling from the current heartland
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Post by Hit Wicket on Jun 16, 2024 15:56:07 GMT
I'm so embarrassed.
Is this being shown on Sky?
(I'm new to Sky, accessing it on my phone rather than on tv, so rather than enter a channel number I'm having to search),
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Post by Hit Wicket on Jun 16, 2024 15:59:28 GMT
Found it. On YouTube.
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Post by byased on Jun 16, 2024 16:53:46 GMT
More brainless batting . Probably six wickets thrown up in the air for easy catches. Very poor.
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Post by newby on Jun 16, 2024 17:19:36 GMT
Another poor show.
Leicestershire have a good bowling unit and some careful field placement put us on the back foot when we perhaps should have got more runs while the runs where there to get early doors.
We once again went in a batter short, mainly so we could spread the overs across 6 or 7 bowlers because you don't know what you are going to get from them from one game to the next.
Great opportunity for the overseas to be a hero, he couldn't take it though.
Grrr
Disappointed.
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Post by byased on Jun 16, 2024 17:39:16 GMT
We have batted in the same vein in two games, one batting first then second. Hain showed how to to it on Friday.all we needed were a mix of ones and twos over the last 10 overs today, with some very experienced players at the crease and to come in. It looked a windy day, so why hit the ball up in the air? The shots were pretty awful as well. The term "village" springs to mind
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Post by hawke on Jun 16, 2024 20:04:33 GMT
Oh dear oh dear again. In danger of being also rans again I had intended to go but could not at the last minute so followed it on the BBC site.
Do we need a good overseas seamer? Is it necessary the keeper/batsman role be undertaken by an overseas? Is there a lack of another batter? Shouldn’t Wharton (or Luxton) have been given greater opportunities? Fisher is rarely available and I think Coad, like Patto, is not that effective in this format. The Rafiq affair seems to have cost us TKC and Willey which may well add to the problems. Waite might too have been useful. Is this another season when we are short again? We have tickets for the Lancs match but I am anxious about that one, as ever. Hope I’m very much wrong.
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Post by davemorton on Jun 17, 2024 0:13:43 GMT
We seem to be playing dumb cricket in the T20, as we are in the Champo. We select 4 outstanding batsmen - international class - plus a random South African, who may (or may not) be able to bat, then a blocker opener (Revis) and some hit-and-miss types, and a tail as long as a rat's.
Today, the four good bats collectively scored 97 off 81, leaving 70 (minus extras, of which there were 8) off 39 for the rest - over 10 per over. Include Ferreira in the calculation, and the figures are 119 off 97, leaving 47 off 23.
Surely it is a given, that one of your batsmen has to bat through. There is no point having wickets in hand if the guys in the shed can't actually bat. So once we had lost the first two, why did the next two self-destruct?
So we have batsmen and don't pick them - surely Luxton, Hill and Bean should be in - and we have a host of bowlers (Root and Lyth unused) hoping that perhaps one of them might come off on the day. On-loan Currie was so much better, and faster, than any seamer on our books, that it was frightening.
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Post by newby on Jun 17, 2024 7:47:49 GMT
Whereas there was some excuse at Edgbaston with those batting feeling we didn't have enough runs there was no such excuse yesterday when we had a total to chase.
Plan A is that Lyth and Malan get 80% of the runs and we should be alright, there is no plan B. We do need another batter, be that Luxton or Wharton.
If we have a bowling plan that consists of giving the Captain 7 bowling options and seeing how they bowl on the day, then no way should Moriarty or Thompson have had their full allocation yesterday. I do feel some sympathy for Moriarty having to bowl so many overs in the power play. It's not going to work more than once in a blue moon.
Having brought in McKerr, with the coach talking of extending his stay, then he has to be trusted to bowl 2 overs up front, we probably need Cliff in too to do the same.
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Post by karma on Jun 17, 2024 17:46:18 GMT
For those attending the Roses T20 on Thursday, you need to have a booked numbered seat (for members too) . You also need a numbered paper ticket incl barcode or access might be denied
Gates open from 4:00pm , there's some ⚽️ from Europe @5:00pm on a big screen before the 🏏 , I think from 7:15pm, but check - Sky Sports are broadcasting the game unfortunately
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Post by hawke on Jun 17, 2024 20:05:01 GMT
For those attending the Roses T20 on Thursday, you need to have a booked numbered seat (for members too) . You also need a numbered paper ticket incl barcode or access might be denied Gates open from 4:00pm , there's some ⚽️ from Europe @5:00pm on a big screen before the 🏏 , I think from 7:15pm, but check - Sky Sports are broadcasting the game unfortunately oh I will check that.. I had presumed a barcode on your phone would suffice
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Post by karma on Jun 18, 2024 7:10:22 GMT
For those attending the Roses T20 on Thursday, you need to have a booked numbered seat (for members too) . You also need a numbered paper ticket incl barcode or access might be denied Gates open from 4:00pm , there's some ⚽️ from Europe @5:00pm on a big screen before the 🏏 , I think from 7:15pm, but check - Sky Sports are broadcasting the game unfortunately oh I will check that. I had presumed a barcode on your phone would suffice That might work sincerely hope so but I don't know. Or there might be long queues. I'm a Luddite , I embrace technology but only if I have to and only after if I've pursued every other avenue and I've met a brick wall which stops me doing what I want. Somebody elsewhere denied I was a Luddite as I have and use an internet based phone , laptop, kindle, MP3 player , I've never ever created a word document and if I book anything on-line I immediately print tickets, confirmation e-mail etc. ( doesn't need a battery or internet connection .My phone is more likely to be stolen than my paper ticket) I have a friend who is a Yorkshire member but lives in Lancashire ,he told me about tickets he bought via his 'phone for cricket at Old Trafford. On the day of the match there was a queue a 'mile long' for over an hour as there were local internet access problems .I don't pretend to understand this. All I know , as a Yorkshire Member I used my Yorkshire account and my laptop to register for my usual seat (NE Upper) for the Roses game and the paper ticket with barcode duly arrived in the post and which I'll take on Thursday to gain access. Whether by magic, smoke and mirrors or whatever, whether it will be duplicated on my phone I don't know or need to know. I do know when I use my bus pass and sit down I'll be followed and kept waiting by people who are searching on their phones for tickets. Before the Roses game I'll probably go into Cafe Nero for coffee and read a newspaper . A couple of years ago the gentleman in the queue at the coffee shop said 'Can I use my phone (to pay)?" Which he did ,I won't tell you what I thought about him but I was willing it not to work .When I tried it ie asking if I could use my watch , nothing happened, we had a laugh and I had to use the different technology of contactless card, but I had cash as a back-up.
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