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Post by newby on Jun 18, 2024 7:43:32 GMT
A bit early I know but walking past the ground the other day I went to see if there were any changes.
The place looked an absolute picture with nobody there but the groundsman. I did take a few photo's but the files are too big and I'm too much of a luddite to reduce them.
Quite a lot of the seating seems to have been replaced and other areas scrubbed off.
Like everywhere else it's been awfully wet for the last week but the next 14 days or so look much better.
Hope the forecast is right this time.
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Post by newby on Jun 18, 2024 9:08:06 GMT
Found a picture, they've tidied up the scruffy bit by the main scoreboard and Trafalgar road end the same. Attachments:
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Post by davemorton on Jun 18, 2024 9:28:27 GMT
Can't wait! Three visits this summer to t' best cricket ground in t' world - 2 Champo matches and 3 more days for 2 50-over matches - 10 days of cricket.
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Post by newby on Jun 19, 2024 9:24:50 GMT
I think we lose Joe Root after the Roses game and not sure about the injury status of a few bowlers.
Possible/likely XI: Lyth, Bean, Masood, Wharton, Hill, Tattersall, Bess, Thompson, Coad, Fernando, Moriarty.
I'm presuming Fish will have had another setback. If not he comes in for Thompson or Moriarty.
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Post by davemorton on Jun 19, 2024 10:44:27 GMT
You're determined to leave Revis out, Newby! He and Fernando were our best bowlers in the first innings at Northampton. Which was not saying much, but Rev is 10 mph quicker than everyone else, and Scarborough is not a pudding, usually. Lyth seemed to be our best in the second innings, so perhaps Lyth and Moriarty to spin? But Bess also has the all-rounder qualities.
Lyth, Bean, Revis, Masood, Luxton, Hill, Tattersall, Bess or Thompson, Coad (if fit), Leech or Moriarty, Fernando.
[Hill or Revis interchangeable in the order; and I've always thought Luxton a better player than Wharton, though a 5, where James is a 1, 2 or 3. Good players, both. Good fielding group, whoever we pick.]
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Post by slowleftarmer on Jun 19, 2024 10:45:13 GMT
so to prepare for the test series coming up someone plays a load of T20 and then when a 4 day game comes along with a red ball he is wrapped up in cotton wool again despite the first test not starting til mid July and while some of his team mates are still at the T20 World Cup.
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Post by davemorton on Jun 19, 2024 12:28:23 GMT
so to prepare for the test series coming up someone plays a load of T20 and then when a 4 day game comes along with a red ball he is wrapped up in cotton wool again despite the first test not starting til mid July and while some of his team mates are still at the T20 World Cup. That seems a fair summary, if indeed Root isn't made available, or doesn't wish to play, whichever. Given that he has been playing in the T20, the former is more likely. Key factor. A Kent misery guts with delusions of adequacy. I presume McCullum is not in England.
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Post by slowleftarmer on Jun 19, 2024 12:32:56 GMT
Well there are the Euros on, its coming up to Wimbledon and free tickets in the Royal Box and its close to the Open golf.... lots for our cricketers to be interested in....
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Post by davemorton on Jun 19, 2024 12:59:44 GMT
Well there are the Euros on, its coming up to Wimbledon and free tickets in the Royal Box and its close to the Open golf.... lots for our cricketers to be interested in.... Very true. The megastars of cricket are wealthy men. Your Herbert and your Leonard may have had to work every day to keep the wolf from the door, but the Joe and the Jonny are of the leisured classes, if they want to be. And they're in demand, they're 'commodities', celebs, cool people to be seen with. Shudders.
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Post by newby on Jun 19, 2024 14:47:46 GMT
I'm sorry, I hate to leave him out but with only 4 wickets at 77.00 from 4 games in the Championship, and 50 odd runs from the same number, Matthew Revis is starting to make Matthew Waite look like a megastar allrounder.
It's all very well getting him in your 13 man squad with an if, and a couple of or's, but when push comes to shove he isn't 'currently' playing well enough to make the XI.
That's In my view of course.
Luxton for Wharton, I'd be happy with that.
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Post by tykemania on Jun 19, 2024 17:25:41 GMT
One change I would like to see is for Masood to drop down to four to seperate the younger/less experienced names in the order. Whilst long term my gut says Luxton is the better bet, Wharton deserves a run to prove himself, and I would be minded to stick with Revis if at all possible because he is only 22 and improving all the time. Its tough to know who to leave out but if Lyth is happy to bowl a decent stint, I think on this occasion it would be Bess.
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Post by newby on Jun 19, 2024 20:08:55 GMT
It's to be hoped that whoever plays, Luxton or Wharton, and Bean too for that matter, can step up now the security blanket of Root and Brook has been removed. It's been great having them, and if Root wanted to do one more game I wouldn't mind.
But now it's up to them, we are thin on experience and will be for the rest of the season, whoever plays needs to take on the responsibility of keeping the runs coming to keep us competitive.
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Post by newby on Jun 22, 2024 9:20:15 GMT
No Masood, due to concussion issues, and Ben Coad not yet fit to play is the bad news from the match preview. No mention of Fisher, which I assume means they couldn't get him fit either.
New possible XI: Lyth, Bean, Wharton, Luxton, Hill, Tattersall (c & wk) Bess, Revis, Thompson, Fernando, Moriarty.
We are going to need an awful lot to go our way to get a win.
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Post by tykemania on Jun 22, 2024 9:40:55 GMT
I wonder if there has been any temptation to discuss with Malan whether he wants to play some red ball cricket...
Not that I don't like the idea of seeing how our youngers players do mind...
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Post by newby on Jun 22, 2024 13:42:47 GMT
Sad to hear that the current Gloucestershire President and former player David (Syd) Lawrence has been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease.
MND seems to take people in different ways and I hope his prognosis is at the less severe end.
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