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Post by joe on Sept 18, 2016 8:48:41 GMT
So, the final game of the season is upon us, a season we probably would rather forget.
There is rumour of this game being a day/nighter played with a pink ball. Quite who will still be at the ground at 8pm on a chilly Sept evening I don't know but I think the ECB see this as a chance to try it out in a game with no consequential result.
No Joyce, Wright, Machan, Finch, Whittingham, Wiese or Garton. Hopefully Wells will be over his eye infection and will play.
My best guess at a team:
Nash
Hudson-Prentice
Wells
Salt
Brown ( c, wkt )
Robinson
Jordan
Archer
Briggs
Sakande
Magoffin
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Post by hhsussex on Sept 18, 2016 10:05:56 GMT
So, the final game of the season is upon us, a season we probably would rather forget.
There is rumour of this game being a day/nighter played with a pink ball. Quite who will still be at the ground at 8pm on a chilly Sept evening I don't know but I think the ECB see this as a chance to try it out in a game with no consequential result. No Joyce, Wright, Machan, Finch, Whittingham, Wiese or Garton. Hopefully Wells will be over his eye infection and will play. My best guess at a team: Nash Hudson-Prentice Wells Salt Brown ( c, wkt ) Robinson Jordan Archer Briggs Sakande Magoffin I had heard that the trial game was going to be Glamorgan and Leicestershire, but agree both about the inconsequentiality of the game and the lack of any audience to observe the half-hearted play. What is wrong with Wiese now? If he isn't fit or available then your suggested team is all that they could choose from, except for Cachopa or Beer. |
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Post by leedsgull on Sept 18, 2016 10:07:06 GMT
This pink ball stuff is nonsense. What can they possibly learn from playing in September with all the dew/mist etc? As I recall the last match played at Kent was heartily disliked by the players. As to the poor spectators silly enough to sit around at 8 o,clock ....
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Post by joe on Sept 18, 2016 10:08:03 GMT
Wiese has gone back to SA.
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Post by hhsussex on Sept 18, 2016 10:08:56 GMT
Wiese has gone back to SA. Oh, bye bye then.  |
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Post by hhsussex on Sept 18, 2016 10:11:45 GMT
This pink ball stuff is nonsense. What can they possibly learn from playing in September with all the dew/mist etc? As I recall the last match played at Kent was heartily disliked by the players. As to the poor spectators silly enough to sit around at 8 o,clock .... Nothing. But there is determination to try it out in a Test in the next year or two and they want to be able to say "yes, we have trialled it in county cricket and none of the players were killed because they couldn't see the ball", or something of the kind. When they do it in a Test they will market a big dinner hospitality package and make even more money with even less of the actual contest being watched. |
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Post by joe on Sept 18, 2016 10:13:52 GMT
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Post by hhsussex on Sept 18, 2016 10:18:12 GMT
Thanks, I had missed that. |
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Post by hhsussex on Sept 19, 2016 10:41:56 GMT
The Gloucester squad www.gloscricket.co.uk/17120-2/ includes a teenage wicketkeeper-batsman, James Bracy, and coach Richards Dwason doesn't "..see the final match of the season as a dead game". He also thinks that Sussex have some dangerous batsmen. Hope so. Payne is back to partner Miles in the Glos attack, and if Norwell doesn't come to any more mischief they ought to be a stronger bowling unit tham at Hove. Roderick (c), Dent, Marshall, Bracey, Hankins, Mustard, J.Taylor, Miles, Payne, Norwell, M.Taylor, Shaw. |
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Post by joe on Sept 19, 2016 12:45:15 GMT
Perhaps we'll see Rawlings play in this one?
Interestingly he's 19 years old and only 4 months younger than Garton.
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Post by joe on Sept 19, 2016 13:37:46 GMT
We have a squad:
Archer
Briggs
Brown
Haines
Hudson-Prentice
Jordan
Magoffin
Nash
Rawlings
Robinson
Salt
Sakande
Wells.
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Post by joe on Sept 19, 2016 14:11:54 GMT
I would assume that means farewell to Cachopa if two rookies are brought into the squad ahead of him?
He had a golden year in 2014 and looked a fantastic signing at the time, unfortunately for him and for Sussex that promise hasn't been fulfilled. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but extending his contract until 2017 may now cost the club to pay off his final year.
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Post by hhsussex on Sept 19, 2016 14:16:44 GMT
Perhaps we'll see Rawlings play in this one? Interestingly he's 19 years old and only 4 months younger than Garton. Good call joe, and a better squad. Briggs/Rawlings to contest one place I suppose, and Haines or H-P for the other. |
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Post by joe on Sept 19, 2016 14:26:20 GMT
And no mention of it being a day/night game on the Sussex website.
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Post by hhsussex on Sept 19, 2016 14:47:50 GMT
And no mention of it being a day/night game on the Sussex website. Nor is there mention on the Leics website for their match with Glamorgan, so perhaps the ECB have become convinced by both clubs that it isn't practical, at least at this time of year. Hope so. |
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