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Post by newby on Sept 12, 2024 14:07:39 GMT
Lancashire duly lost, but luckily for them Notts managed one of their familiar collapses and folded quickly too.
It looks very like a battle between them in their final fixtures to decide who joins Kent in Division 2 next season. They don't meet unfortunately so no straight shoot out.
Surrey look likely to hold out for a draw at Taunton, which suits them very nicely.
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Post by donnylad on Sept 12, 2024 14:15:20 GMT
Come on Gloucester!
23 to win with 4 wickets left ....... any results that mean out closest rivals lose/don't win works for me. However it looks as if Gloucs have no option but to go for it with around 30 overs maybe left in the day. . . . horrible bit of poor fielding = 4 runs . ... now 13 to win . . . . . . . and another poor effort 4 runs . . 3 to win, 2, ... and a boundary off de Caires!!
Whatever those Gloucester lads are drinking I hope someone buys them several!!
Price (TJ) and Zafar ....!!
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Post by Capybara on Sept 12, 2024 14:23:19 GMT
And there you are ...
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Post by newby on Sept 12, 2024 14:24:01 GMT
Never in doubt well done Gloucestershire. I'll be backing them for T20 finals day on Saturday now.
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Post by davemorton on Sept 12, 2024 14:27:59 GMT
Miles Hammond may have played the best innings for Yorkshire this season by any man in an 88 shirt.
Then a wobble, but the all-round depth of Gloucs did the job. We may not have a foot in Division 1, but a toenail, perhaps? That crap pitch at Headingley remains our biggest hurdle, unless we can win in Cardiff, then it won't matter.
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Post by newby on Sept 12, 2024 15:59:50 GMT
Next week: Glamorgan v Yorkshire at Cardiff: Gloucestershire v Sussex at Bristol: Derbyshire v Middlesex at Derby.
I like excitement as much as the next man but if it's done and dusted by next Friday I'll be happy.
Elsewhere, after a lull in the game it's built up at Taunton again, 11 wickets in the match so far for Vaughan junior. 101/8 with about 8 overs left, viewing figures are climbing.
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Post by newby on Sept 12, 2024 16:31:40 GMT
About 3 minutes left and Jack Leach got the final wicket. What a game of cricket.
Last game standing at Canterbury, Hants need 143 to win from 9 overs, not very many close fielders.
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Post by davemorton on Sept 12, 2024 16:32:43 GMT
Somerset do it! I've not laughed so much since Arthur Scargill punched Margaret Thatcher on the nose. Okay, he didn't so that, but you can always dream. Attachments:
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Post by hawke on Sept 12, 2024 16:43:20 GMT
Sweet and sour as with Yorks-Leics Matthew Fisher Som / Surrey Archie Vaughan
Terrific for Somerset and most of us CC fans, great tense finish, but oh Michael is your son that good…….
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Post by davemorton on Sept 12, 2024 22:27:41 GMT
Did the commentator at Taunton really say there were 20,000 watching the live feed?
I really hope they win it, starting by hammering Lancs next week, a real double whammy. The Somerset players need to use their bat gauge before the next game.
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Post by hawke on Sept 13, 2024 5:43:15 GMT
yes that would be very good for the game
wondering if MV guided his son away from YCCC because of the claims made against him
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Post by hawke on Sept 13, 2024 5:51:20 GMT
Completely forgot to congratulate Gloucestershire! Great result for us obviously. They turned the match round against my expectation. Well done!!!!!! Great great boost for us. Perked us all up immensely.
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Post by karma on Sept 13, 2024 6:40:46 GMT
With hindsight it seems to me that Middlesex mis-calculated with the agreement with Gloucestershire and then made a fist of getting a competitive total. Gloucester bowled well then batted magnificently to complete their victory and reveal Middlesex's egg covered face.
I'd like to think that the same rain and cricket gods, who conspired to bring about a series of unlikely events in the last games of Yorkshire's relegation season, came together again to put that right.
Result: Yorkshire move above Middlesex. However if they think it's all over .....
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Post by newby on Sept 13, 2024 6:56:06 GMT
I think the Archie Vaughan thing is purely a matter of logistics. He first joined a county set-up in Cheshire aged 10 because that's where they lived. Moving to Millfield school at 15 he quite naturally joined the local Somerset set-up down there. So he has never actually been in the Yorkshire pathway having left Sheffield at age 10.
Funny conversation on the live stream with a women cricketers/apprentice commentator speculation on Archie Vaughan wearing number 66 on his shirt. They came up with some weird ideas including footballer Trent Alexander Arnold and a couple of others. For some reason it never clicked that he's from Sheffield and his cricketing hero is Joe Root.
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Post by davemorton on Sept 13, 2024 7:27:53 GMT
I doubt there was any agreement / collusion in this case. Gloucs had nothing to lose in any case (except the match), and then Middlesex bottled it with the bat. How generous they might have been with the declaration, we will never know. Archie Bailey - completely new to me, f-c debut, only just turned 19 - did most damage, but this is a good attack, with Singh-Dame, Akhter and fit-again Gohar.
Good batting side, too, with Akhter (who scored 70 at Scarborough) not even needed at 9.
There's something dismal about Middlesex, who play at echoing, empty Lord's, in a huge city where no one is interested in them. Contrast Surrey! But, as you say, Karma, it's a long way from being all over. Middlesex travel to Derby next Tuesday, where they will surely win, weather permitting, and then to Hove to play already-promoted* Sussex.
*Sussex need 12 points from two matches, assuming Middlesex get two maximums - which they won't. But they might well get two wins, in which case two bore draws (i.e. high scoring ones) might just do it for us. We need one win, actually, and definitely no defeat. Under competition rules, Middlesex would win any conceivable tie-break, should points totals be equal.
We can't afford any penalties, over-rate or over-sized bats.
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