Pro40 League 2006

[adamberry]

Originally Posted by Vrock

He's [Henderson] also a pretty good bat too!

In one-dayers of course, but the problem comes in four-day (proper) cricket. Slogging is by his own admission the only way he can play!

Very pleased with last night's result though, Henderson got the wickets through batsman playing poor shots. Cameron White was an example - tried a slog shot for the umpteenth time and missed one he really ought to have defended, especially given how early in the innings it was.

[adamberry]

Ought to try and revive the thread I suppose...

Went to the floodlit game between Kent and Leicestershire last night...and now I wish I hadn't. It was the most dire game I've watched for ages, Leicestershire seemed distracted by the thought of their Twenty20 Semi at the weekend and Kent are, well, Kent.

It shows how poor the game must have been if Neil Dexter took three wickets, and the Leicestershire tail started at number 6! Very poor value for money I must say.

At least GO Jo managed some runs (40*). Shame about his keeping though.

[Vrock]

Originally Posted by adamberry

At least GO Jo managed some runs (40*). Shame about his keeping though.

Well he'll get back into the England side for his batting, not his keeping, as he's already proved he can keep well at international level.

I'm getting annoyed at the suprely flat pitches on offer in the pro40 league, you know what the ball is going to do and, due to the glue, the pitches are just consistent and it all seems so uneventful at times. Maybe they should pre-water the glued pitches and let the glue bubble up; that would make things interesting.

I think the Twenty20 Cup is the equivalent of the World Cup for Leicestershire, or at least it looks that way.

Glamorgan are playing Durham this evening, Glamorgan need 157 to win from 27 overs, they have a reasonable chance if one major partnership is made.

[adamberry]

The thing with glued pitches is that the pace is sucked out of the pitch as well. Made for interesting discussion with club teammates at the game last night, as we all thought the pitch at our ground was probably a bit livelier than the one used last night.

And glued pitches don't seem to offer as many runs at Canterbury this year: rarely have a team made over 200.

[Collyisamackem]

Well, Durham and Glamorgan tied! James Franklin rescued Glamorgan and remained not out at the end on 60-odd after also taking a couple of wickets. Good game.

[Vrock]

Originally Posted by Collyisamackem

Well, Durham and Glamorgan tied! James Franklin rescued Glamorgan and remained not out at the end on 60-odd after also taking a couple of wickets. Good game.

With two overs left Glamorgan needed 11 runs to win, they would have won before the final ball was bowled had Robert Croft grounded his bat whilst running a single.

Franklin should have been out anyway, when Cherry was run out they hadn't actually crossed over as Franklin was stood still. Cherry simply kept on running when the bails were broken and no appeal was made to go to the third umpire from Durham so it stood.

[Vrock]

Anthony McGrath hit 148, at Taunton so not the hardest place to play, to help Yorkshire to a 16 run victory over Somerset. Not bad going for such a poor one-day side this season, we have the players but just don't seem to be able to get the goods from them consistently.

Hampshire, chasing 238 against Derbyshire, were going nice and easy at 183-3 when a classic English collapse took place with six wickets falling for 54 runs. Luckily Pothas and Taylor were both able to make boundaries off one delivery each.*

D/L games always look funny on the scorecards, especially when Warwickshire made 127 from 28.4 overs before the delays prevent the full overs being played. Northants reached 158-6 to win the match by four wickets, they are another side with plenty of talent but generally struggle to get consistency from all of the players.

*Pothas did also make a single to make his tally of balls faced to two.

[Vrock]

Yorkshire v Worcestershire was the only game this evening:

We batted poorly and, for 30 overs (apart from Kruis), bowled poorly as well.

Good knocks from Vincent (who was struck on the back of the head quite nastily part-way through his innings) and Solanki both played good knocks to, near enough, guarantee the win for the visitors.

[Willow & Stumpy]

Anyone watch Gloucestershire v Hampshire? Great entertainment, Hampshire won in the end though. Saw some lovely hitting from Thornely and Mascarenhas at the death and Chris Tremlett bowled a beauty to make his comeback, rattling Craig Spearman's off-stump with a wonderful nipping back length ball. However Bruce took 4 wickets, Ervine 3 and Warne 2 as Gloucester succumbed for 114.

[Vrock]

The pressure of chasing a good total in a competition where you can't decide whether you should be attacking or defending. 40 overs is a new format but it really is nothing compared to Twenty20 - the stupid buzz it was a longer version in Twenty20 style. More like 50 over game with 5 overs less of middle overs and 5 overs less of slogging at the end.

Still, good bowling from Hants, you're lucky if you win a game with bad bowling. Although no Ian Harvey or Jon Lewis for Gloucestershire and they would have been 16 overs guaranteed.