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Post by hawke on Sept 9, 2024 10:28:18 GMT
Gosh when I read 11-6 I thought at first it was the hours of play! Hope they don’t abandon the match for a dangerous pitch.
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Post by karma on Sept 9, 2024 12:21:25 GMT
Didn't see that coming!
What is that Boycottism, something like "You can't judge a wicket/game until both teams have batted?"
Clearly.For this, I would have snatched your hand off at 10:30 this morning. It's up to the Yorkshire players to try to bat big, hopefully bat once only and don't blow this chance to bat Leicestershire out of the race AND gain points over Middlesex ( and ) Sussex 🏏
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Post by newby on Sept 9, 2024 13:12:36 GMT
25/2 it could go either way. Good experience for these two I hope they can stand up to it and get us to 30 overs or so to make things easier for those to follow.
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Post by davemorton on Sept 9, 2024 17:13:50 GMT
Batting bonus point! Tatts is top tosser, and top batsman too, and there are those who would have left him out! Proper player, Jonny; gets tough runs.
Good news then, but Middlesex have 3 batting points, so they will most likely catch up 2 on us if both games are drawn, or both won.
Draw? Well, the forecast for tomorrow is poor, and for Wednesday horrendous.
Come on, you ten Yorkies, with dollop of Devon cream.
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Post by newby on Sept 9, 2024 18:16:44 GMT
I'm never satisfied. I originally thought if we could only get to 200, then 250, now, why not 300. Depends on the conditions of course, if we can get them in again in poor batting conditions like this morning that would be great and might make up for falling short of 300.
Really enjoyable day, did anybody try the live-stream I wonder. I do have loads to do to get the house fit to sell, so listening while getting on was the best option for me today. Plenty of other games to keep across too. Saw the wickets on NV play, if that's the camera angles people are paying for then it looked pretty poor. Perhaps there will be some highlights around on YouTube later.
Well done the team bowled and fielded well it seems. Some poor strokes but hey ho.
Leicester dropped at least 3 good chances and let's hope they continue to pay for it.
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Post by karma on Sept 9, 2024 18:47:59 GMT
Batting bonus point! Tatts is top tosser, and top batsman too, and there are those who would have left him out! Proper player, Jonny; gets tough runs. Good news then, but Middlesex have 3 batting points, so they will most likely catch up 2 on us if both games are drawn, or both won. Draw? Well, the forecast for tomorrow is poor, and for Wednesday horrendous. Come on, you ten Yorkies, with dollop of Devon cream. Tatts is made of the 'right stuff' and reinvented himself a few short years ago to make himself less indispensable or more useful, with an extra string to his bow. Well played today. a real captain's innings and under your captaincy I see good teamwork and good team spirit. Don't know what's going to happen when Shan comes back
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Post by newby on Sept 9, 2024 19:25:26 GMT
I'm pretty sure we won't see any more of Shan Masood this season at least. The PCB are having an annual bout of madness and have convened a meeting of coaches and captains, including Shan Masood. He is also very likely to be required to play in the new tournament which covers the rest of our season.
His contract is up with Yorkshire and it will be up to Anthony McGrath, or whoever is in charge, to sort out next seasons overseas.
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Post by davemorton on Sept 9, 2024 19:36:24 GMT
Shan has been fine, a good player (if not necessarily a good captain) who has done his best for us. How much has James Wharton benefited, after batting with him often? James, I am sure, could tell us. But Luxton hasn't benefited, being on the 2s all season.
Would we bring Shan back to help win promotion? Do we actually need him if we have Bairstow, or even Root too? But if we haven't got either, I would suggest we do need Shan's class and experience. Short term, with the prize so near.
And then what? We win promotion, and we need Shan or someone like him in Div 1, many will say. Or we don't get promoted, and we need overseas help to ensure we do next year. Where does it end? And if we keep employing these guys, the Luxton, Vagadia, Kelly, Bennison, etc never gain experience...so we continue to need the overseas, and our youngsters clear off to other Counties, so we need even more imports.
And so it goes...
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Post by hawke on Sept 9, 2024 19:53:29 GMT
Excellent excellent day. Yes well done JT. Sweet and sour about Matthew Fisher’s very good contribution. What might have been…… And going to them. Does anyone know what Surrey and Yorkshire respectively offered him? And of course Middlesex and Sussex both had good days and have more potential batting points, if it comes to that. On byased’s recommendation I haven’t bothered with the weather forecast!
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Post by donnylad on Sept 9, 2024 20:20:02 GMT
The ball is a kookaburra ........ but it looks like Foxes prepared a green one and then lost the toss. I wasn't able to d look in at the card until around and when I glanced on the phone short form scorecard and all I saw was Yorkshire 73 for 4.
Hmm I thought difficult wicket? Then I saw the start time (10:30 am) and thought possibly not too bad ...... then I saw the line that said "Yorks trail Leics by 23"!!!! At which point I realised what had happened. That put a smile on my face and the close of play card has kept it there.
Tatts ..... is there an award for 'stand in captain of the year'? In fact ... why not make Tatts captain for next season? Coad ... what can we say? Class act and fortunately considered not good enough for England ... thank goodness.
I doubt we will see any more of Shan and that may not be of his doing either if the PCB keep on messing about.
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Post by tykemania on Sept 9, 2024 20:55:57 GMT
Not sure what to make of it having not had sight of the action. The limited Facebook highlights suggest that it was a pitch that had barely been prepared at all, which meant Ben Cox probably earned a year on his contract for having the brains to go hell for leather before he met one with his name on it.
It'd have been nice to shave 25 off their score.
But our innings...go Tatts!
Masood...as Dave said, decent bat, but not the right man to take us forward as skipper. Tatts may be - playing for Yorkshire is clearly the be all and end all for him, he he makes more good decisions than bad ones, to the extent that I suspect as Gale did that he would drop himself if it happened that all of the England players were available at the same time and there just wasn't a spot for him. Part of this is influenced by the fact that we need reinforcements to the seam attack - Coad, Thompson, Hill, Revis, Cliff and the prayer that Milnes might be fit is not enough. If we do go up, we probably need to bring in two bowlers from overseas (Fernando and Fernando perhaps?) especially as McKerr is no longer on our radar.
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Post by byased on Sept 9, 2024 22:12:44 GMT
I note that a wicketkeeper was top score in each innings, I know Tattersall is not keeping in this match, but you know what I mean. Not sure if that has any relevance to batting conditions, reading the conditions, life , the universe, or anything, but just thought it was worth noting.
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Post by davemorton on Sept 9, 2024 23:21:32 GMT
Actually, you can see highlights via the scorecard on the o/s. Click on the 5 wickets in Coad's bowling figures, and it will show you all five in sequence, full-screen and quite decent definition. Similarly Tattersall's 10 fours, or whatever the number was.
The radio commentators, Doidge and his Leics colleague, were at pains to say that the movement was mostly swing, which is nowt to do with the pitch, and that the bounce was fairly even - no rapped fingers, and no grubbers, until Bess got one late on. They did admit they weren't in line.
The pattern of wickets seems to suggest problems when the ball was hard and new, lessening as it got soft. Also the pitch becoming less green as the day wore on. A VERY good toss! Even if the pitch is only a 4/10, that's still four times as good as the Headingley one. (I'll give it 1 mark for being 22 yards long.)
We might need a whole day to bowl them out, and that might be tricky, but my WinViz is somewhere like 80/20/0 for w/d/l.
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Post by davemorton on Sept 10, 2024 7:53:03 GMT
No improvement in the weather forecast this morning and, worryingly, the forecast for Lord's is for drier weather (though not actually dry) over the three days.
We need to get to 300 quickly, if we can, and Tatt's hundred, and get bowling at the buggers. There might be six hours' more play, in total. A draw, with 12 or 13 points, against a 22-point win for Middlesex, would be a major setback.
What's so galling is that we are a better side than them, and we would have won if we had prepared a sensible home pitch last week. Equally, if we had had the p1tch we did get last week, two years ago, at the same stage in the season, we would not have been relegated.
One suspects that YCCC is low priority at Headingley, as the website tends to confirm.
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Post by newby on Sept 10, 2024 7:59:52 GMT
Different forecasts are available of course. On mine it looks like the first session might be o.k though the batting conditions could be poor.
Would it be good captaincy to throw away the possibility of 40 or so more runs and a 2nd batting point, in favour of a last minute declaration and rushing them in to bat at 10:30 on a gloomy morning!
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