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Post by davemorton on Apr 5, 2024 7:45:07 GMT
8.30am – Good morning from Headingley, where it is dry and bright overhead at present but very wet under foot. There has seemingly been a significant amount of overnight rain.
The ground staff are currently taking the covers off and blotting around the edge of the square. Honestly, it would be a major shock if we started on time at 11am. Fingers crossed, we see something later on in the day.
[from the official site 'blog']
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Post by newby on Apr 5, 2024 8:03:57 GMT
I was watching the Football from Elland Rd last night and it was certainly lashing it down so it's no surprise. Perhaps they can get it dried out for a start after lunch.
The forecast looks mostly helpful but with some possible showers, a heavy one of those at the wrong time could be terminal.
If they manage to get going everywhere else but struggle at Headingley that might concentrate minds and the chairman might be asking questions.
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Post by davemorton on Apr 5, 2024 10:08:06 GMT
Currently watching action from Edgbaston, where Worcs are batting. Aussie woman commentating, who sounds exactly like Dame Edna, but not as funny. I may move to Lord's...
Update: now watching Middlesex v Glam, with two former Yorks players at the crease, Billy Root and Sam Northeast, after whom a stand was named. The Aussie woman first said that English County cricket reminded her of Aussie clubs, then her male commentator described how Rushworth was putting 'sand' down to secure his footing. Time to leave.
First wicket of the season has gone down at Lord's. No play today at Derby, 12 noon start at Trent Bridge.
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Post by karma on Apr 5, 2024 11:01:45 GMT
Further inspection at 1.10, lunch being taken.
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Post by newby on Apr 5, 2024 12:38:57 GMT
Sounds like a classic nearly but not quite kind of day. I hope there is some cricket for those attending but it's getting late.
Two very green umpires too so they may not be prepared to make the big call as they have on other grounds.
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Post by newby on Apr 5, 2024 13:53:53 GMT
Chance of some play I am hearing, providing it doesn't rain anymore.
Live stream looks promising with players out warming up etc. It's pretty boring, but I tried watching the other live streams and they are driving me crackers.
3.40 Well done all concerned if it comes off.
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Post by davemorton on Apr 5, 2024 14:22:56 GMT
Not worth driving across for what will be only a few overs, even if it doesn't rain again, but any play they can get today helps shape the game later on.
46 overs, they're saying, and we're bowling. If the other games are a guide, we will see medium pace bowling on a turgid pitch with a dead Australian ball, no pace, no seam, no swing, no spin. That's cricket in early April. It will still better to watch than someone slogging 270 in 20 overs.
Perhaps it will be different at Headingley, 80 all out will do. I'll be there tomorrow, provided....etc, etc..
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Post by newby on Apr 5, 2024 14:24:54 GMT
Yorkshire won the toss and have inserted Leicestershire.
Maximum 46 overs possible.
Revis and Wharton left out of the 13.
Yorkshire: Lyth, Bean, Masood, Hill, Brook, Tattersall, Thompson, Fisher, Milnes, Coad, Moriarty.
Leicestershire, Rishi Patel, Marcus Harris, Louis Kimber, Lewis Hill(c), Peter Handscomb, Rehan Ahmed, Ben Cox(wk), Ben Mike, Tom Scriven, Scott Currie, Matt Salisbury
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Post by davemorton on Apr 5, 2024 15:38:08 GMT
Wicket for Matt Milnes, after a decent start by the Yorkshire bowlers. Attachments:
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Post by newby on Apr 5, 2024 16:44:00 GMT
96/2 at the moment, welcome wicket and a good catch by Finlay Bean to dismiss Kimber.
No demons in the wicket despite the damp weather. It would have been a brave decision to do anything put them in, given the conditions, but batting appears to be Leicestershire's stronger suit, certainly with the team they have picked today. If we can have them 4 down tonight we will have done well.
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Post by donnylad on Apr 5, 2024 18:17:13 GMT
... and what do we know about cricket?
The 4th/5th seamer nips in with 3 for not a lot and the recently purchased sla gets a very handy one at the end. 3 for 25 off 9 ..... I'd take that every week.
I really think that in the right circumstances/conditions Hill is worth his place as a seamer - we have seen him do this sort of thing before.
Could be an interesting morning tomorrow!
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Post by hawke on Apr 5, 2024 18:53:27 GMT
Yes, was it Dave M, praised Hill's bowling recently. A more than decent session for those worthy folk who attended. I think Revis is unfortunate to be left out but a seamer it was to be.
Edwards I suppose is a hard wicket bowler but the CC is not likely to be played on that many. Therefore seems an odd signing. Moriarty, born in Surrey, but raised in South Africa I think, might actually be considered another overseas signing.... I like Bess and am disappointed for him. I'm not sure why we have two spinners, certainly not for the CC of April/May and Sept. But he came on and got a wicket. In terms of finance can we justify Edwards and Moriarty? Well we have them and let's see. Perhaps they will add to the side in either the T20 or 50 over comps, Moriarty more likely than Edwards..
Well done the groundstaff. Seems our fears about drainage were not realised today.
Oh I read that the CEO Stephen Vaughan is serving out his notice. I had not seen that before.
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Post by davemorton on Apr 5, 2024 21:24:55 GMT
For two years I have been saying that Hill is one of our best seamers. I thought they all bowled well today: Coad, Fisher, Milnes, yes, but Jordan Thompson also, who looked bouncy, when last two seasons he has appeared knackered - probably because the first three have all been injured all the time, and he has been doing three men's work.
Then Hill came on with his little Patto's and changed the game. I could not see how we were ever going to get Harris out, but he did. It's simple, as old as cricket, join the dots (an expression not quite so old). What do they say nowadays? Three maidens, and you get a wicket. There's truth in it.
We lost the plot a bit in the last hour. Good bowling change, and perhaps good selection, the Moriarty. The coaches will have been watching all the bowlers and, perhaps, they picked the spinner for whom it's 'coming out nicely'. He really did look nice and relaxed. He's a smoother bowler than Bess.
Leics will feel they failed to build on good starts. I reckon we are just that one final wicket ahead. I am relieved they have no Wright, but before we face the bowling we've got to take 5 more wickets, which won't be easy.
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Post by hawke on Apr 6, 2024 5:34:42 GMT
Indeed about Thompson. With 2 Aussie batsmen Leics are a proposition with the bat. Re Moriarty/Bess I just like Bess as an all rounder and dont like the idea of him hanging around whilst cricket is being played as he was at Somerset with Leach. ( Is Leach fit? ). Yes the coaches see them in practice and Moriarty took wickets v Durham.
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Post by newby on Apr 6, 2024 8:28:04 GMT
I hadn't realised they were using the Aussie ball in the first two rounds, a pointless exercise in my view, perhaps Kookaburra are providing the balls for free with an eye to world cricket ball domination.
Looks a better day, though a trifle windy so they might get 104 overs in. In a perfect world Leicestershire would be bowling about 70 of them.
I think we've all become fond of Bess and of course Revis and would like them to play every game, but difficult decisions have to be made, team before self as they say.
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