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Post by slowleftarmer on Apr 19, 2024 9:56:53 GMT
I'm sorry but after 2 games, one of which was heavily rain affected, I struggle to see any need to rest and rotate our seam bowlers.
You pick your best bowlers in game 3 surely, and even more so now they can use a Dukes ball after flogging a dead horse trying to get wickets with the Kookaburra.
I know Milnes and Fisher have both had injuries in the past, but both are a million times better than Edwards. Its not the Aussie lads fault he is here, but we seem to again feel the need to back external signings ahead of home grown talent
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Post by newby on Apr 19, 2024 10:02:06 GMT
All will be revealed, or not, slight niggles for Milnes and Fisher perhaps! Or are we looking at another Lords road and it's a case of wearing out a couple of other bowlers and keeping those two fit for Headingley where we can to some extent control the surface.
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Post by newby on Apr 19, 2024 10:43:14 GMT
Watching cricket on the live-stream does have the advantage of being able to turn the heating up. It looks blooming cold down in London for the quite healthy looking crowd, shame about the rain.
I hope the weather bucks up over the weekend as forecast.
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Post by newby on Apr 19, 2024 11:36:52 GMT
Very early lunch at Lords, play to resume at 13:10, looks like a long afternoon session.
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Post by slowleftarmer on Apr 19, 2024 12:53:12 GMT
now starting at 2
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Post by davemorton on Apr 19, 2024 14:03:51 GMT
This bloody Duke ball. The batsmen don't stand a chance, until we bowl with it.
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Post by newby on Apr 19, 2024 16:15:43 GMT
Is it the Dukes ball or is it the overhead conditions, or is it the pitch.
Could be touch of all three, 11 wickets so far, another 5 or 6 wickets today would be ideal.
I think the ECB should revisit the old no toss rule again with the visiting team given the option.
Perhaps we would have some support from Lancashire, currently 72/6 having been put in by Essex.
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Post by tykemania on Apr 19, 2024 18:21:11 GMT
Just home from the 'Ome of Cricket. All in all, a frustrating day where we performed patchily, and everything that could go against us did.
First, conditions. No two ways about it, this was a very good toss to win. Not because of any negligence by the groundstaff, I hasten to add in response to Newby's comment about the toss rules - it was simply the case that there was rain around overnight, and a lot of cloud cover through the day.
Strangely, we dominated the 35 minutes to the first rain break - an odd quirk of the Dukes is that it doesn't really swing for the first dozen or so, and our three left handers played some very nice shots to keep the board ticking along. Lyth, I thought, was unlucky with his decision, though I am never sure with Adam whether that is partially influenced by the fact that he clearly never thinks he is out!
Second piece of bad luck - the umpires took them off in spotting rain at this point, which was a shame as the wind was up making bowling tough. They then stayed off for two and a half hours, probably 30 minutes longer than necessary, by which time the wind was down to a gentle breeze and conditions had settled to a humid murk ideal for bowling. Lest this seem to be all about us, Middlesex did make good use of the conditions, and caught their catches, save one off Hill.
Bean was shaken up a bit by Helm's extra gas and played on. Root was clearly worried about his head position and followed a nothing ball. Brook to be fair got one that did plenty and a good catch, and the Masood LBW didn't get up at all. Hill's later dismissal also kept curiously low for a day one pitch.
When they batted, not so much - the skies were a bit better, and we didn't really get to the stage where it was ready to swing lavishly. The two wickets were good balls - Thommo followed his with one that turned Holden 90 degrees as well - but there were a lot of four balls. Edwards, who I was seeing live for the first time, is a long way short of the standard of our main seamers; there are too many moving parts to his action, which means there appears to be significant drop offs in his pace, although the odd one does come through with wheels. Fisher didn't seem to warm up, so I wonder if there was an injury concern there.
Have a good night guys!
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Post by donnylad on Apr 19, 2024 20:01:48 GMT
Thanks TM for that report - I was trying to work out the conditions at HD and I suspected that there was a bit of overhead. I suspect that Fisher (who was definitely not a happy bunny on Monda) and Milnes may well have niggling injuries.
Let's hope we can get at them early tomorrow.
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Post by newby on Apr 19, 2024 20:56:52 GMT
Yes thanks TM. I was really glad they came back on after the last break in play, they say be careful what you wish for, it looked easy for Stoneman and Du plooy.
Hopefully there may be a little bit in the pitch early doors and we can get a chance at the middle order. It could well turn out that we find ourselves quite a long way behind on first innings so the Test players may get another chance which they need to take.
Looking forward to at least two days without any interruptions by the weather.
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Post by hawke on Apr 19, 2024 21:30:32 GMT
thanks TM very interesting report
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Post by hawke on Apr 20, 2024 6:32:45 GMT
Middlesex obviously have the advantage but 2 innings matches can be turned round.
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Post by newby on Apr 20, 2024 7:11:09 GMT
Difficult to predict what might happen today. We may be on the wrong end of the overhead conditions, thought to be pretty crucial at Lords.
If we can restrict them to 300 or so then I'll be hopeful we can indeed turn it around with a big second innings.
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Post by davemorton on Apr 20, 2024 7:37:17 GMT
Whatever they get, we will have to top by 100 to set them 250 in the 4th innings...and 250 will not be nearly enough if the Lord's pitch flattens out, as it normally does.
Unless we can bowl them out this morning, near enough, we're toast. Awful toss to lose, but we didn't actually show very much heart for the fight.
Update: Good first half hour, three valuable wickets (but we do need to get du Plooy, and that right soon). Tommo swinging it, the real Coad has returned to replace yesterday's impostor, and the old man is grabbing them at second slip.
Come on Yorkshire! Let's turn 116 for five into 150 all out, just like the old days.
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Post by davemorton on Apr 20, 2024 11:00:49 GMT
Got him! Du Plooy out, b Coad 51, six down. De Caires in, looking forward to seeing him (for a few minutes). Attachments:
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