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Post by newby on Apr 6, 2024 9:45:02 GMT
Some overnight rain it seems, imagine that, looks like another delayed start.
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Post by davemorton on Apr 6, 2024 10:13:31 GMT
Inspection 11.30 according to the o/s blog, which is good to see. The blog, that is, not the wet weather. I got up late, otherwise I would have travelled already. As it is...suck it and see, but I will surely be there today, at some stage, to take some real photos. I got a couple of screen captures yesterday, and the quality of the received pictures is up again from last season.
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Post by newby on Apr 6, 2024 10:50:39 GMT
Next inspection at 13:00 with the players taking lunch at 12:30. They never rush anything so I suspect a 13:30 start is the best we can hope for.
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Post by davemorton on Apr 6, 2024 11:11:29 GMT
Perhaps I won't be bothered after all, when the live feed is such a good alternative. Plus I can watch some rugby too, on the TV, with cricket on desktop. How the world has changed! In this case - actually, in most cases - for the better.
Currently watching Notts v Essex.
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Post by donnylad on Apr 6, 2024 11:18:19 GMT
Wet outfield?? Did not seem to stop the warms ups or the next being erected and batsman and bowlers having a little run out before a spot of lunch. Just where did the water from those plastic covers end up? The livestream only started after all that was cleared away? It looks like the bowler's run ups close to the stumps and the area across the other strips where they drag the covers off. Remind me again where does the water get sloshed off the covers? On the positive side - agree with DM the quality looks very good and the drone is a bonus - lets hope they don't over-use it during the game.
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Post by tbsteve on Apr 6, 2024 11:46:54 GMT
How does it work with Scottish players? I assumed they were just domestic, but cricinfo is listing Scott Currie as overseas as he plays for Scotland. So technically is he an international?
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Post by newby on Apr 6, 2024 14:34:11 GMT
I suppose technically he is an International if he plays for Scotland but he is a UK passport holder as far as his ability to play in the CC is concerned.
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Post by newby on Apr 6, 2024 15:33:47 GMT
Ben Mike making a nuisance of himself with the bat and a big partnership with Scriven is not what we needed. Hopefully the new ball can put a quick end to it.
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Post by donnylad on Apr 6, 2024 15:34:42 GMT
Some flat, leg side 'orrible bowling from Thompson. Mike has swing and it came off.
New ball looks to have a bit more - Kookaburra useless - but now 306 for 8 ..... grr
Now 334 for 9 after an awful lbw decision against Scriven (who batted well) whereas something far more plumb against Mike about 20 runs ago wasn't given.
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Post by hawke on Apr 6, 2024 17:43:25 GMT
oh dear….a man on a mission… with something to prove
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Post by donnylad on Apr 6, 2024 18:00:20 GMT
Yes and he bowled better than I recall seeing at almost anytime last year. But ... Bean was careless and Masood doubly so ... but good for Mike. Lyth and Hill played fine.
Once the heavy roller has worn off the K-ball is rubbish. You get about an hour and then it just goes and allied to relatively flat tracks then these first 2 rounds are likely to be filled with bore batting draws.
The edges of the playing area are very, very wet - especially in front of the new stand ..... hard work with the super-soaker-mopper-upper thing and a strong-ish wind helped get the conditions right to play.
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Post by newby on Apr 6, 2024 18:19:55 GMT
Man on a mission is right and it makes a good story. He did leave of his own accord but I don't think he was made terribly welcome and perhaps that's mainly down to the way he played. Good cricketer in there somewhere.
Two needless wickets though when we should have been on easy street.
Showers forecast for tomorrow but with a gale blowing they shouldn't cause too much of a problem, doesn't make playing or watching cricket much fun though.
Nicely poised, if we can get beyond them you never know, but we can't afford to hang around or lose too many more overs to the weather.
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Post by davemorton on Apr 6, 2024 20:18:51 GMT
I really will try to make it Sunday! I didn't see enough of Ben Mike to form an opinion, apart from his List A four for 40 against Surrey at York - I'll check my notes on Flickr in a minute, to see what I wrote at the time, if anything. He was given a bit of a run in that comp, with the big names missing. Perhaps he batted too low to have much of a chance to impress? Bowling: inconsistent, butisn't that what you get with young players?
I see that in red ball 2nd XI fixtures, his performances included a six for 43 against Durham at Scarborough, and 112 against Surrey at Guildford. Put those alongside his performance today, and perhaps there are a few playing for Yorkshire who have been here years without coming close to that.
I look forward to seeing him tomorrow, against good batsmen on a flat track.
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Post by donnylad on Apr 6, 2024 21:01:43 GMT
The wicket is as dry as dust - and that is what the ground staff were sweeping up between innings - buckets of it.
Mike rode his luck a bit but some of his hits were really well struck. He bowled second change and looked straighter, a bit sharper and doing a bit with the ball. I think with us he spent a lot of time bowling in white ball and against batsmen who knew where and how to hit and didn't have the skills and ideas to limit them. (I won't mention coaching here ...) Looking forward to tomorrow.
BTW to put things in perspective, a bit, Glam 620 off 139 for 3 plays Middx 138 off 51 for 1. It will be interesting to see what Midxx can achieve if they bat for a day and a half.
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Post by newby on Apr 6, 2024 21:34:50 GMT
Adam Lyth passed 12,000 Championship runs in his 43 no today. Another 1000 odd this year would be nice. Well done to him.
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