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Post by newby on Sept 8, 2024 9:53:37 GMT
Increasingly, it's looking a dead duck, weatherwise. If I have to pay to watch online, well travel alone roundtrip would cost £25 - £30 even at Suzuki 55 miles/gallon. Or I could just listen, free, on the Beeb. Not a problem, and I could watch Somerset v Surrey as a bonus. Absolutely and there's always Durham v Lancashire, Sussex v Glamorgan and Middlesex v Gloucestershire to keep track of, all of which I'm sure will all have sessions of interest for us.
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Post by newby on Sept 8, 2024 12:01:52 GMT
13 man squad named for the trip to Grace Road. Lyth, Bean, Wharton, Luxton, Bairstow, Hill, Tattersall, Thompson, Bess, Moriarty, Cliff, Fisher. Coad.
Delicate decision, just one spinner I think and then it could be between Fisher and Cliff. O.G intimated that Cliff was bowling well in practice, we'll see.
Shan Masood is ruled out for just this one game, though it depends if he makes the cut in the Pakistan 50 over competition squads, we will know tomorrow if we've seen the last of him.
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Post by byased on Sept 8, 2024 14:24:26 GMT
I am going to go on the Tuesday with my brother as we missed Scarborough this year. I don't do weather forecasts, think they are a waste of time, apart from a few hours before on the day. BBC site is rubbish in my opinion, having had plans disrupted by others who use it and change plans days in advance (tennis matches called off etc), only for the sun to shine all day. You can have a laugh at my expense on Tuesday if it rains all day.
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Post by karma on Sept 8, 2024 15:22:25 GMT
I am going to go on the Tuesday with my brother as we missed Scarborough this year. I don't do weather forecasts, think they are a waste of time, apart from a few hours before on the day. BBC site is rubbish in my opinion, having had plans disrupted by others who use it and change plans days in advance (tennis matches called off etc), only for the sun to shine all day. You can have a laugh at my expense on Tuesday if it rains all day. I won't laugh at your positive attitude and never-say-die approach to weather forecasting byased . I did manage to get to Scarborough and on the final Saturday as i walked into the ground it started raining. I knew Scarborough footy were at home at 3:00 that day to a team local to my home and I often see,( Farsley). So I thought if the rain continued I'd go and watch that game, Fortunately though it didn't , Yorkshire cricket soon started playing and it was a fabulous game to watc. Maybe the Seadogs on another day. As it is i only live a few minutes away from Headingley and often set off in the pouring rain to watch Yorkshire play later that morning .
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Post by newby on Sept 8, 2024 15:28:35 GMT
Best of luck, I hope you get plenty of cricket perhaps even a full day.
I think I'm getting to rely on the weather forecast probably too much as my circumstances change.
I think as I've grown older I'm using it as an excuse not to do things rather than the other way round.
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Post by donnylad on Sept 8, 2024 15:34:10 GMT
No, I had not quite lost it Colleagues although the fleshpots of Sheringham did divert me somewhat. Hull - the bowler not the city - is a tall lad, he has little radar and he is not that quick. I image the ECB bowling fitness coaches will ruin him by trying to make him run in faster ... and faster ... and well we have seen that before. I would suggest the coaches look to see how many 6 foot 7 inch 100 m sprinters and javelin throwers there are around before they get at the lad.
On the weather front (see what I did there?) ..... ! The Beeb ditched its decades long association with the Met Office in 2018 after being compelled by government to do so. Cheapest is best and now they get data from some bunch of dillards called the Meteo group 'after an open competition'.
There are 4 or 5 models for forecasting and each weather forecasting crew use their own choice of model based on cost and availability of data and if they want to produce 'spot forecasts' or 'general trends'. Meteo and the Met Office use different models - the Met Office uses essentially high definition grids about 2 km square and composites them into a general forecast that is general accurate across the small areas Meteo use seaweed and pine cones which is why the general forecasts on the BBC now have little resemblance to the actual weather and are often contradictory.
We used to use Meteo forecasts when we visited France regularly but they were so awful we sought out the Met Office to know if we would need our parapluies or not.
Accuweather is reasonable but the site is long winded and littered with adverts.
Expect 4 days like yesterday at the Oval ... and I will not go on about the rubbish being purveyed there.
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Post by davemorton on Sept 8, 2024 16:44:15 GMT
Why would you use anything but the Met Office for weather predictions? I must admit I has assumed the BBC would use them, and what do the military use, where it could be life and death?
As of now, 5.30pm Sunday, the Met Office has it:
Monday: wet morning probably (60%), then getting sunny and dry, but not warm, for the rest of the day. Tuesday: wetter than Monday until afternoon, though improving, and cold (14, feels like 11). Wednesday: even worse, 80-90% rain and even colder. Thursday: drier but still cold.
It's autumn, folks, and when we should have been watching cricket under blue skies, the ECB wreckers decreed that our grounds be empty until after dark.
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Post by tykemania on Sept 8, 2024 17:13:32 GMT
Hull - the bowler not the city - is a tall lad, he has little radar and he is not that quick. I image the ECB bowling fitness coaches will ruin him by trying to make him run in faster ... and faster ... and well we have seen that before. I would suggest the coaches look to see how many 6 foot 7 inch 100 m sprinters and javelin throwers there are around before they get at the lad. Hull reminds me, apart from bowling t'other way round, of a young Steven Finn. I remember playing Finn when he was at Langleybury and around 18-19; he clearly thought he was quick, and probably was for club cricket unless, as I was, you had experience facing something a bit quicker, in which case the ball lollipopped up nicely to be hit. Aged 23 I spoke to him on an autumn evening on the nursery ground, at which point his casual invitation to have a knock was met with a clear "no thanks". Then the coaches got hold of him and the rest is a tragedy. Hull is clearly not ready for Test cricket yet. Could be blossom like Finn? I'd like to think its at least possible, but the same will happen and the coaches and biomech people will mess him up!
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Post by newby on Sept 8, 2024 17:38:43 GMT
Leicestershire 13 man squad: Ahmed, Budinger, Cox+, Currie, Holland, Hill*, Kimber, Patel, Rahane, Scriven, Trevaskis, Wood, Wright.
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Post by byased on Sept 8, 2024 18:42:29 GMT
I was listening to TMS for a few minutes in the car yesterday. One commentator said they would continue to call him Josh Hull, although his full name is actually Joshua Upon Hull. Mildly amusing I thought.
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Post by slowleftarmer on Sept 9, 2024 7:01:58 GMT
Hull reminds me of Mitchell Starc more than Steven Finn. But without the quality yet. Give the lad time, teach him how to catch and keep him fit. We all know the best attacks are balanced and need a left arm seamer in them.
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Post by newby on Sept 9, 2024 9:20:02 GMT
Good start winning the toss let's hope Tatts has read the pitch and conditions correctly.
Cliff and Moriarty are the two left out so an outing for the less spotted Matthew Fisher. I can understand other views but I think it's the right decision to play him if he is fit and obviously impressing in practice.
Leicestershire have left out Budinger and Wood.
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Post by davemorton on Sept 9, 2024 10:10:51 GMT
It's a score draw! Leics 3 for 3, and a bonus point already. I'm listening on radio and watching a muted Test on TV.
Make that 3 for 4, in the 9th over! We go from one ridiculous extreme to the other, with these pitches.
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Post by slowleftarmer on Sept 9, 2024 10:14:32 GMT
what ball is it this week?
Just as well you didnt go Dave..... you would not have had time to take photos of all the wickets!
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Post by newby on Sept 9, 2024 10:26:35 GMT
11-6, good decision Tatts. I'd feel sorry for them if they were playing at our place but it's their pitch. They may yet get a score but I think we have a good chance of at least 3 bowling points. Batting points may be more problematic.
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