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Post by sillymidforties on Sept 12, 2021 15:36:36 GMT
100 for Brown and 100 partnership with Carter. New ball due now.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Sept 14, 2021 11:57:32 GMT
No posts on this thread for Day 2, when Leicestershire ended on 291-2, just 68 runs behind.
Is this a reflection of how supporters feel about the present youngster side, where school classes are fitted around first-class games?
Meanwhile, rain delay for Day 3.
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Post by flashblade on Sept 14, 2021 12:20:55 GMT
No posts on this thread for Day 2, when Leicestershire ended on 291-2, just 68 runs behind. Is this a reflection of how supporters feel about the present youngster side, where school classes are fitted around first-class games? Meanwhile, rain delay for Day 3. It's maybe difficult for us long standing members (should I re-phrase that? No, no-one will notice). If you haven't been to Hove since 2019, and you're now presented with a completely different team, and you're struggling in the 3rd division, and you're hearing about all the 'issues' at the club, it's easy to have gradually become a little detached from SCCC. I accept this maybe just me, so would welcome others' views. PS. I shall be glued to the TV on T20 Finals Day. |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Sept 14, 2021 15:11:37 GMT
Exactly how I feel.
I have been writing up/reviewing this season's Sussex Championship & OD Cup to be posted on WickedCricket later this week,
and the sense of overriding disappointment is all consuming, especially when it could take (if it happens at all) Rob's Masterplan,
five years to bear fruit.
Thank God for the T20 Finals Day on Saturday and Thank God for the emergence and recent success of Southern Brave. This
keeps one sane.
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Post by enoughisenough on Sept 14, 2021 21:35:41 GMT
It seems to me there is a fundamental difference in view between those who are making the decisions on the composition - and the direction of travel - of the Championship team, and probably the majority of the club's supporters.
When Ian Salisbury says "Our job is to produce players for England"... I'm sorry but that is just plain wrong. He isn't employed by the ECB, he's employed by Sussex CCC and the overriding requirement of any professional sports team is to win matches. Producing players for England (which Sussex have done pretty well over the years) should be a by-product of building and maintaining a winning team, and in the current and previous season (albeit a very truncated 2020 season), Sussex have to date won just two 4-day matches. In the 53 years I have been watching and following Sussex I have never seen such an inexperienced team take the field on a regular basis, with the odds heavily stacked against them winning. The management may feel this is a two or three year "project", but no one is going to stick with it that long. Sussex are currently bottom of the county heap and if this were football the management would have been swept aside well before now. We know there are some mitigating factors with regard to players being called up for England - the instant success of Ollie Robinson at international level is something we can all feel pride in - but the way that experienced players are being cast aside or led to feel that there is nothing for them here, and they need to go to other counties for the sake of their careers, is truly depressing. I totally agree with flash blade and Wicked Cricket.
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Post by enoughisenough on Sept 14, 2021 21:38:54 GMT
Just realised my maths isn't as hot as it should be....I've actually been watching Sussex for 63 years, not 53! And the first 10 of those were pretty special....
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Post by ashingtonmartlet on Sept 14, 2021 21:45:35 GMT
And I totally agree with youđź‘Źđź‘Ť
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Post by sponge on Sept 14, 2021 21:59:33 GMT
Let's not be too quick to jetison Salisbury and Kirtley.
They have inherited a disfunctional set of senior pros, but a really talented youth.
The key will be to develop the youth for Sussex (not England).
Brown and Wright are critical for this.
Pay them both extra.
A top notch batting coach will also help.
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Post by ashingtonmartlet on Sept 15, 2021 8:23:48 GMT
I wouldn’t be calling for changes in the coaching staff, but it would be interesting how the decisions to not play Briggs, Evans and Wells last season were reached. Was it just Salisbury’s? Was it Salisbury’s but with a steer from higher up? And is our selection policy this year and last reflective of a stance from above, e.g. we only pick youngsters?
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Post by enoughisenough on Sept 15, 2021 9:28:18 GMT
I agree. I'm not calling for coaching staff changes either. I can't believe Salisbury and Kirtley are making their selections without a steer from management. It would be very interesting to know, as you say, what the rationale was for not playing Briggs, Evans and Wells. I also believe more use could have been made in 4-day cricket of Will Beer this year. This is someone who always gives his all, and we can all remember how in 2019 he did pretty well for a while when used as a makeshift top 3 batsman (can't bring myself to say batter!) in the 4-day team. With the slew of single figure scores from Sussex top order players this season, someone like Will would at least have been likely to hang around and hold an end up.
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Post by joe on Sept 15, 2021 13:05:38 GMT
This is now painful to watch and must be so demoralising for these young bowlers. They are simply not good enough.
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Post by sponge on Sept 15, 2021 13:20:58 GMT
Harmes and his fellow commentator clearly not aware that they could still be heard for a little while between innings. Some seriously worrying comments. Not happy with the runs that Sussex leaked in both this game and the last game.
The opposition scores and lack of wickets says it all.
Let's hope Sussex can bat out for a draw.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Sept 15, 2021 16:53:30 GMT
Unbelievable! A Sussex batting collapse to top the best of them and at 128-8 and only 5 runs behind Leicestershire this is going to be a close shave to even beat Wallace & Gromit. Just realised this is the last wicket stand as Prentice is injured unless they bring him out on a stretcher. Sussex are discovering new even lower rock bottoms, at present. PS: That's it, it's all over, Leicestershire win by an innings and 5 runs. This is so spectacular a defeat that even Rob Andrew must be thinking of resigning. This is beyond humiliation. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/scorecard/ECKO51601 |
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Post by wingman on Sept 15, 2021 16:55:12 GMT
Oh dear
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Post by joe on Sept 15, 2021 17:06:52 GMT
A new low.
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