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Post by byased on Jul 25, 2024 17:06:48 GMT
Yes, looking good. No , perhaps it is Luxton , if he has been there for a while. There was definitely someone around three or four years ago, who I thought had a very poor set up and probably wouldn't make it. Maybe he has changed his style. Anyone else we have let go in the last couple of years?
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Post by byased on Jul 25, 2024 17:10:09 GMT
Ah, a bit of quick research, it was Tom Loten. I assume he has gone. I have been writing Luxton off unfairly all season..
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Post by newby on Jul 25, 2024 17:58:30 GMT
Loten went to Notts, he hasn't pulled up any trees.
An excellent team performance that even D/L couldn't spoil. Very good use of the bowlers by the skipper, keeping Coad going was a no brainer really but he did it. I don't think Coad's due to play all the games but he will be difficult to leave out.
Luxton's batting, Hill's all round ability and Wharton's fielding were all special.
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Post by karma on Jul 25, 2024 19:36:00 GMT
I don't often watch sport on TV but I watched the excellent Livestream performance by Yorkshire. I'm not trying to start a conversation about paying for Livestream but I for one would have paid for being royally entertained . Well done Yorkshire for sticking to the task
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Post by hawke on Jul 26, 2024 6:53:24 GMT
Yes a refreshing change to get this competition off to a good start. Excellent. Both teams obviously lacking several players but seemed a decent crowd with a definite Yorkshire element. Indeed especially well done to Luxton, Hill and Coad. Luxton went to Bradford GS. There is another Luxton playing with Bradford and Bingley CC so probably a brother.
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Post by newby on Jul 26, 2024 7:57:51 GMT
Nice to read a couple of reports of the game written by different people and not just the standard 'ECB reporters network' copy. Perhaps there are a few cricket reporters that base themselves at the Oval for convenience.
Let's hope it doesn't go to the players heads and they can perform equally well at the John Fretwell sporting complex Nettleworth against Notts on Sunday.
I've got nothing against Guildford, or Sedbergh, or Stanley Park, or Rugby School, or even the John Fretwell sporting complex Nettleworth for that matter, but I'm pleased for the players, and the visibility of this competition, that this game was played at the Oval.
Looking at the use of grounds by those hosting 'hundred' teams, Surrey, play 3 of their 4 One day cup games at the Oval, Hampshire play all theirs at Southampton, while most of the other manage to play 2 games at their main ground. I look upon this as a positive move in terms of increasing the prominence of the One day Cup after a couple of seasons of it being almost overlooked.
We of course have two excellent and popular out grounds at Scarborough and at York and with only 4 home games to go round one of them has to suffer in order to get just one game at Headingley.
I think it's something we should look at though for next season to help bring the One day Cup back to centre stage. Though of course without a Lords final it will never regain it's full former status.
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Post by slowleftarmer on Jul 26, 2024 12:45:37 GMT
agree - everyone will always view RL50 as inferior if all games are played at outgrounds while the Hundred team in our region play all home games at the Test match arena in leeds
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Post by newby on Jul 26, 2024 15:25:40 GMT
Two teams, Leicestershire and Somerset have gone for 1400 start times today, I presume to make the most of a Friday fixture and get some early evening drinkers in.
Unfortunately for Leicestershire they were bowled out for 88 runs by Warwickshire so that idea has fallen a bit flat.
Leicestershire, who have brought in a 2nd overseas Test player, Ajinkya Rahane, to join Peter Handscombe, scored 369-6 in their first game against Notts on Wednesday. What a difference a couple of days make.
Kent 187/7 after 42 overs are struggling at Taunton, but the game might stretch into the early evening at least.
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Post by newby on Jul 28, 2024 10:48:55 GMT
Yorkshire unchanged for the game at Mansfield have won the toss and put Notts in on what might be a difficult pitch. Notts 26/3 after 11 overs, all 3 wickets to Ben Coad.
Looks very pleasant with a decent enough crowd.
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Post by davemorton on Jul 28, 2024 11:10:55 GMT
4 wickets for Coad now - or Cod, as the Saffer Notts commentator calls him - and it looks tough going out there. How do we keep up the pressure when Ben has finished his 10? We bowled with a lot of discipline at The Oval, signs that the coaching / match experience is having an effect.
This is the real Ben Coad, 100% back again. I know his stats have always been good, but these last two games he has had the snap of seven or eight years ago.
We still have to bat against Fletcher and Hutton on this thing.
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Post by newby on Jul 28, 2024 11:31:22 GMT
Hameed gone now off the bowling of Leech, all the wickets from the same end.
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Post by davemorton on Jul 28, 2024 13:45:22 GMT
Chasing 210. This is now my default match. Previously I was watching Test Match pictures and listening to County commentary. Could be exciting...and difficult!
And if you missed Mark Wood's spell of reverse swing bowling, make sure you catch the highlights later. Awesome!
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Post by newby on Jul 28, 2024 14:48:06 GMT
These two need to get us close, if they can see off Hutton of course.
Well, maybe not!
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Post by davemorton on Jul 28, 2024 15:25:51 GMT
Our run chase is not quite the triumphal march envisioned.
Well. I did warn you.... 82 for eight, hope lives.
Saffer commentator totally doing my head in.
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Post by donnylad on Jul 28, 2024 18:57:23 GMT
Hutton is Donny born but went to Worksop College (a minor public school) which is on Notts horizon I guess.
Coad at one end and Hutton at the other ......? Mmmm ... might have been nice.
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