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Post by slowleftarmer on Jun 25, 2024 6:52:01 GMT
we have to enforce the follow on as if not we bat and then have to make a timely declaration that we never get right and the 4th day could then end up being a dull day for everyone as Gloucts dig in for survival on a track that might get better to bat on.
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Post by newby on Jun 25, 2024 7:11:54 GMT
We need the 3 wickets first of course. It's warm and overcast this morning, a bowlers day you would expect but the cloud may well burn off before start of play.
Providing we can get the 3 remaining wickets pretty quickly I think it's better that the bowlers face a tough day today with the chance of success, rather than a tough day tomorrow, possibly watching time and ideas run out once again.
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Post by donnylad on Jun 25, 2024 7:47:14 GMT
Get 3 wickets : check the tide tables : enforce the follow on :then another bowling effort like today.
It sounds easy but the bat again and declare leaves the game in their hands. This way we do the work, take the wickets and then knock off any surplus.
Coo - sounds like an easy game this cricket???
PS Bye Bye Aussie Bye Bye, Bye Bye, Bye Bye Aussie Bye Bye.
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Post by newby on Jun 25, 2024 9:33:47 GMT
High tide not during playing hours today. Might help going out early doors and then coming in for the last hour or so.
Setting off now, hoping for a 3 day finish, ever the optimist.
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Post by slowleftarmer on Jun 25, 2024 10:50:51 GMT
well done McKerr and Tommo with the wickets this morning but Revis looked absolutely lethal in his spell.
Follow on surely as bowlers still should be fresh enough?
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Post by tykemania on Jun 25, 2024 10:54:08 GMT
They have, and so they should - if nothing else, it forces Gloucestershire to make the running in the game rather than stonewalling.
Revis has looked, as you say, lethal - not as quick as he was yesterday but getting appreciable movement away from the right hander. I couldn't tell from the livestream but given the age of the ball, was that reverse swing? If so, I doubt we will have him for too many more years.
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Post by donnylad on Jun 25, 2024 14:03:50 GMT
It must be my birthday ...... I just hope the work I have been doing isn't full of mistakes.
OK Second divisions, maybe not the best of opposition .. but Fernando has decent yorker, Revis was hitting low 80s, we caught like bucket grabs ... Bess and Lyth ... catch of the season - get a look if you can - 27.3 overs.
And Thommo has just seen off van Buren!!
They are minus 177 for 5 ... ... and I note that Tatts is skipper ... I always said there is only one person on the pitch who really sees what the bowler is doing.
Stuff the work Livestream for me! Apparently there are now 371 people watching the YouTube stream ... 30 more than 3 minutes ago! .. . word gets round there are 1300+ watching now ... less one her because my Livestream link packed up before tea. Hastening to relocate it!
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Post by newby on Jun 25, 2024 17:16:43 GMT
Well there it is a win, a very good win with an innings to spare. The bowlers have worked well between them and got the job done but all hail the opening partnership of Adam Lyth and Finlay Bean upon which this victory is based.
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Post by donnylad on Jun 25, 2024 18:18:54 GMT
Too right Newby - they set up that win.
Now if the footballers can ...... no, don't go there!
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Post by slowleftarmer on Jun 26, 2024 9:44:24 GMT
no they can't....
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Post by davemorton on Jun 26, 2024 19:30:11 GMT
I have just got home from Scarborough, having enjoyed a half day on the beach, thanks to the lads.
My thoughts on the match. Sent in on a green tinged pitch, we could have been bowled out in a couple of hours by a useful attack. Singh Dale is quick. Lyth and Bean had a bit of luck, but didn't need much. This was a brilliant partnership, lovely to watch, on a pitch that encouraged strokes as well as giving the bowlers a chance. Lyth scored 60 to Bean's 30, a ratio that was reversed, so they both reached 100 more or less together. Bean's greater hitting power then saw him take the lead. They might have batted all day. As it was they had to settle for beating Hobbs & Sutcliffe at Scarborough, and Holmes & Sutcliffe against Gloucs.
With the score 287, Bean played a loose drive, and Lyth went down the pitch to give him a bollocking!
There was still something there for the bowlers - and throughout - as Yorkshire lost 7 wickets before lunch on day 2. Hill batted with style and authority, and Thompson smashed it everywhere. I reckon Yorkshire's score was 150 over par.
Then the bowling! Frankly unrecognisable from the trundly rubbish of earlier games. How much were our bowlers inspired by being given a chance? The two newcomers Fernando and McKerr both added a dimension, both excellent. Thompson came roaring in like the Tommo of old, could have been Jack Brooks, with pace and an attacking length. Revis and Hill were both outstanding; George probably got more out of the pitch than anyone, especially on day 3.
The acid test came when Bancroft and Charlesworth were together at the start and going along at above 3 per over. We then 'joined up the dots' for 6 or 7 overs, bringing them down to under 2.5, and then the wicket fell. Though they reached almost 100 for one, they never got away from us, nor did they threaten to score quickly enough to have any chance of winning. It did look a bit drawish, I must admit.
But when the wickets began to fall, they fell in a heap. Huge sigh of relief when we enforced the follow-on. We all thought Tattersall's captaincy was on an altogether higher plane than Masood's has been. Perceptive fielding positions, frequent bowling changes, and always a fresh bowler on hand. He made good use of Bess, too, better than the bare stats would suggest.
We won the game when the Gloucs 2nd innings collapsed in the middle (losing six for 56). Highlight of the game and possibly the whole season was Lyth's catch to dismiss Bracey off Fernando. A GOAT of a slip catch. Not even Phil Sharpe in all his glory took one better than this.
Final grumpy thought. If a club groundstaff, with modest resources and equipment, and little manpower, can produce a pitch like this - and they do it every year, just about - why does Headingley produce a stodgy strip of suet that is hell for bowlers and boring for batsmen and spectators? Does anyone in charge at YCCC think this is important? Or even relevant?
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Post by davemorton on Jun 26, 2024 20:00:05 GMT
Lyth's catch, captured from video. Bracey was trying to pull Fernando, so the slips would be expecting the ball to go to leg. Sometimes the ball will lob from top-edge and body high towards the slips, but this one seems to have taken the under-edge or toe-end, and gone downwards VERY QUICKLY. What Lyth did is impossible, actually, for a human being. Attachments:
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Post by hawke on Jun 26, 2024 20:10:47 GMT
Very interesting report Dave. Especially about Tattersall. Yes that catch was scarcely believable. Indeed so many positives.
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