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Post by flashblade on Jun 30, 2015 15:46:10 GMT
Perhaps a little too much euphoria last night. Did we really think we could score 600 on a results wicket?  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2015 15:53:41 GMT
If the wicket's so perfect, why all the extras?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2015 16:04:56 GMT
If the wicket's so perfect, why all the extras? Warwicks conceded 6 extras in 164 overs. Sussex have already conceded 38 in 103 overs. Even more frustrating will be if Warwicks score 34 runs from the next six overs and don't lose another wicket, which would mean they will walk away from a draw with ten pts to Sussex's nine. But as they are crawling along at three an over, it's hard to see them doubling the run rate in pursuit of a fourth batting point...the worst kind of wicket , really - a bowler's graveyard but the batsmen seemingly still only able to score at three runs an over... |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2015 17:00:52 GMT
Can we have results wickets back, please?
This could end up 600 plays 550 on first innings and no time for second digs at all.
So Mark Robinson has got what he wished for - a non results wicket. But what's the point? Each side only managed one bowling point apiece, but neither side could get to 350 within 110 overs, leaving both teams with just three batting points each.
That's fewer bonus points than the match on the roundly denounced Arundel pitch last season, when I seem to remember Yorks managed to take 3 bowling pts. The Sussex hierarchy talked about having to give up Arundel if it produced non-result wickets like that. Yet the same people are now celebrating the even worse Edgbaston wicket because it allowed four Sussex batsmen to score meaningless centuries?
As fb said, ZZZZZZZZZZ....
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Post by coverpoint on Jun 30, 2015 17:11:23 GMT
Robinson thinks it is great that four Sussex got centuries and that everyone was talking rubbish. Every dog has it's day and the pitch so flat that Brenda and Keith could get runs on this! Did Robinson have some rose coloured spectacles on during the first half of the season because the opposirion's batsmen outperformed ours more often than not. This is the sort of match which will kill four day cricket. Give me 300 v 300 any day of the week.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2015 17:53:46 GMT
Sussex need to forget about this game and just simply go through the motions tomorrow with the minimum of effort and risk, asking those bowlers who are unlikely to feature in the vital T20 games on Thurs and Friday to do all the work - I guess that's Wells, Burgoyne, Magoffin and Hobden.
If Sussex beat Middx on Thurs they will go top of the southern group. If they then beat Kent on Friday, they will open up a three pt lead at the top. Those who will have a vital part to play in those games - Wright, Nash, Brown, Machan, Robinson and possibly Zaidi - should take it easy tomorrow and be encouraged to develop slight niggles that require susbtitute fieldsmen for as much of the day as possible.
Never thought I'd rate a couple of T20 games more important than a CC fixture. But that's what Warwickshire's horrible no-result wicket has done to us. Pitches like that are far less fit for f/c cricket than grounders' 'spicy' tracks at Hove, in my opinion...
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Post by fraudster on Jun 30, 2015 22:49:04 GMT
Sussex need to forget about this game and just simply go through the motions tomorrow with the minimum of effort and risk, asking those bowlers who are unlikely to feature in the vital T20 games on Thurs and Friday to do all the work - I guess that's Wells, Burgoyne, Magoffin and Hobden. If Sussex beat Middx on Thurs they will go top of the southern group. If they then beat Kent on Friday, they will open up a three pt lead at the top. Those who will have a vital part to play in those games - Wright, Nash, Brown, Machan, Robinson and possibly Zaidi - should take it easy tomorrow and be encouraged to develop slight niggles that require susbtitute fieldsmen for as much of the day as possible. Never thought I'd rate a couple of T20 games more important than a CC fixture. But that's what Warwickshire's horrible no-result wicket has done to us. Pitches like that are far less fit for f/c cricket than grounders' 'spicy' tracks at Hove, in my opinion... No no no no no. Yes as well but no about our attitude. We're 230 odd ahead and we need 15 wickets in a day on a turner, is what we should be saying. Our spinners, Jesus H Lucifer, if any are as good as Beer I'm a serial killer lunatic. WHY IS HE NOT TRUSTED TO PLAY? From Div 2 failures to batsmen turning their arm over, all preferred, what the hell is the crack with Robinson and Beer? I think one of the beauties of county cricket is different tracks - this one is definitely different and just what our PTS batsmen needed. As long as ours is competitive and we learn how to bat on it, it's all good - except for anyone who went to Edgbaston and watched, but that's Warks fault. And on edit HH, you liked my rip-roaring win only speech and also liked BM's guns down and surrender to the inevitable chit-chat - just who exactly are you??? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2015 23:22:33 GMT
It's all about priorities, fraudster. Sussex are not going to take 15 wkts for fewer than 230 runs tomorrow because despite both counties packing their sides with spinners, the pitch ain't turning as predicted - it's just flat and boring and dying. Like the match.
Therefore husband resources for the two games on Thurs and Friday that we can win, which would send us top of the T20 table. Don't risk another key bowler getting injured, don't hurl around the field in weather predicted to hit 30 degrees. Stay as fit and fresh for Thurs and Friday night as possible.
Agree different tracks are all part of the attraction of county cricket. I'd like to leave them uncovered again and see some sticky dogs. But this one is not attractive. It is drab, dull and frumpy and has produced the sort of match which will kill four day cricket.
Thurs night's game from Lord's live on Sky Sports, by the way - shame it clashes with the launch party for the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers Live album across the other side of town at the Saatchi Gallery!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2015 10:37:11 GMT
Geoffrey Dean in The Times this morning on the wicket : "painfully slow and lacking bounce".
Why Warwicks would prepare a wicket like that I don't know - not altruism in helping shell-shocked Sussex batsmen refind their form in a bore draw, I'm sure.
I guess the answer is that the preparation went awry and the Edgbaston groundsman was told to create a turner for Jeetan Patel and Poysden but got it badly wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2015 11:21:29 GMT
What a blessed relief - it is raining at Edgbaston.
Sussex have now gone 67 overs without taking a wicket. In four days we have moved from having a bunch of shell-shocked batsmen to having a posse of shell-shocked bowlers.
Let's pray that it rains for the rest of the day. Oh, and send in the pitch inspectors!
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Post by leedsgull on Jul 1, 2015 12:20:07 GMT
Warwickshire are at home to Yorkshire on Sunday in the Championship. It will be very interesting to see what wicket they produce for that match and also whether the "strongest attack in the country" has more success than the poor bowlers in this farce.
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Post by flashblade on Jul 1, 2015 14:51:50 GMT
I think the captains should put this match out of its misery by shaking hands at teatime.
I won't accept the explanation that they must keep going because they're in the entertainment industry!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2015 15:28:31 GMT
I think the captains should put this match out of its misery by shaking hands at teatime. I won't accept the explanation that they must keep going because they're in the entertainment industry!! Statto's delight, though fb: all 11 Sussex players have now bowled in the Warwicks innings. When did that last happen?  But Sussex hasve taken just one wicket in the last 110 overs!!!  And three wickets in two days!  |
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Post by flashblade on Jul 1, 2015 15:48:05 GMT
Who's keeping wicket whilst Brown's bowling?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2015 15:53:24 GMT
If the pitch is this slow, can't he do both?
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And three wickets in two days! 