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Post by jonboy on Apr 27, 2015 9:57:09 GMT
Yes, nice interview. He seems a smart and well-balanced young man as well as obviously being hugely talented. Thanks again to Yorks and Jason Gillespie for seeing it differently! In terms of Sussex, the lad potentially provides the 'balance' in the XI that Mark Robinson was recently talking about. Jordan and Shahzad are bowlers who can bat a bit. Robinson has the potential to be a genuine all-rounder. Sussex have long coveted a bowler who can bat in the top six (that was the aspiration when Zaidi signed, if you remember, and perhaps what it was hoped Piolet could become). Early days but if Ollie continues to progress he could conceivably end up batting at six with Ben Brown at seven. That then allows a fully balanced attack of four seamers and a specialist spinner - and if you have Jordan (depending on how his England career goes) and Shahzad at eight and nine, you have five front line bowlers without saddling the side with a long tail. All we need now is to find that specialist spinner (Tredwell on loan again?) and perhaps another opening batsman if Joyce is doing the job reluctantly and out of duty. Yep, that's pretty much it. Let's not forget Hudson-Prentice as a potential candidate for that role as well. I was torn between a genuine all rounder, or a front line spinner, when considering who might fill our overseas slot when Mags qualifies. Still undecided, but the emergence of young Robinson gives us options. The good news is that Hudson-Prentice has recovered from injury and plays for the seconds today |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2015 10:07:37 GMT
I think we should be careful not to place too much expectation on the young man's shoulders so soon. Yesterday's performance was breathtaking, but he might not be able to maintain that level of achievement! Let's just take it easy before we re-structure the side around him. Which is why I was so carefully conditional in what I wrote : " Early days but if Ollie continues to progress he could conceivably end up batting at six with Ben Brown at seven." |
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Post by hhsussex on Apr 28, 2015 10:42:13 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2015 16:28:50 GMT
Very frustrating when your first innings centurion runs out of partners in the second innings after facing only 8 deliveries!
The tactically flexible batting order should have been flexible enough for him to go in ahead of Shahzad, surely?
Sussex need to decide whether he is a genuine all-rounder - in which case he has to bat higher than nine - or whether yesterday was a fluke, an example of 'beginner's luck' which he is unlikely to repeat any time soon.
In which case he stays at number nine and gets a fabulous batting average by the end of the season based on a record number of not-outs!
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Post by jonboy on May 11, 2015 6:39:57 GMT
What a revelation this guy has been
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Post by hhsussex on May 11, 2015 6:56:15 GMT
What a revelation this guy has been He must have been very tired last night. He will never have bowled more than 20 overs in a day in any match, and he had a weight of responsibility on him after first Shahzad's departure and then Hobden's temporary disintegration. He was lucky with two wickets, one from a long hop, another a hopeful hoick off his last weary delivery, but lucky in the way Botham was to get wickets with bad balls. This is a promising precedent. Borderman, who watched the play with me, has decided that Robinson is one who wears his underpants over his tights.  |
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Post by fraudster on May 11, 2015 20:32:30 GMT
Well he just keeps on giving - didn't get a ton mind, slacker. Great find do far.
Edit: Which is how we say so far in these parts.
Goodbee
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Post by hhsussex on May 25, 2015 5:51:05 GMT
And giving still more. After yesterday's performance the leading averages for First Division bowlers (10 wickets or more) are:
1. Ollie Robinson 82.1-17-288-18-16.00
2. Ajmal Shahzad 107.2-17-393-22-17,86
3. Leach (Worcs) 13 wickets @ 18.23
4.Rushworth (Durham) 32 @ 21.62
5. Harris (Middx) 32 @ 21.81
6. Brooks (Yorkshire) 20 @ 21.95
Just outside the top ten Steve Magoffin has 20 @ 24.30
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Post by jonboy on May 25, 2015 6:52:34 GMT
The emergence of Ollie Robinson has perhaps lessened our need to find an all rounder. Be good to get him further up the order and see just how good a batter he is. I suspect he's technically good enough to be batting higher up the order than both Jordan, and Shahzad. Those two are certainly no mugs with the bat, but Robinson looks as if he could regularly get to three figures. It will be interesting to see what Robbo does now when Mags qualifies. Before, I would have said we needed to bring in an all rounder to balance the side. We still could of course, and I wouldn't turn my nose up at someone like Faulkner as our next overseas. You can never have too many all rounders in the modern game. Maybe Robbo will fancy a spinner, and I know we've already looked at the lad Harmer, although strangely, I don't think he played a seconds game did he? He did appear as 12th man for the firsts, but I'm not sure that he actually played a game. The recent news regarding Tymal Mills will also effect Robbo's thinking. We have Jordan back at the moment, but might Robbo fancy another strike bowler? Robinson now gives us options, and if he can eventually bat at number six, which he certainly has the potential to do, we could even play with five bowlers.
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Post by hhsussex on May 25, 2015 7:08:38 GMT
The emergence of Ollie Robinson has perhaps lessened our need to find an all rounder. Be good to get him further up the order and see just how good a batter he is. I suspect he's technically good enough to be batting higher up the order than both Jordan, and Shahzad. Those two are certainly no mugs with the bat, but Robinson looks as if he could regularly get to three figures. It will be interesting to see what Robbo does now when Mags qualifies. Before, I would have said we needed to bring in an all rounder to balance the side. We still could of course, and I wouldn't turn my nose up at someone like Faulkner as our next overseas. You can never have too many all rounders in the modern game. Maybe Robbo will fancy a spinner, and I know we've already looked at the lad Harmer, although strangely, I don't think he played a seconds game did he? He did appear as 12th man for the firsts, but I'm not sure that he actually played a game. The recent news regarding Tymal Mills will also effect Robbo's thinking. We have Jordan back at the moment, but might Robbo fancy another strike bowler? Robinson now gives us options, and if he can eventually bat at number six, which he certainly has the potential to do, we could even play with five bowlers. Some good points here. Firstly I think an early test of Robinson's batting will come today, when we need every run we can make to get a good lead, but we'd probably have to wait to see how he performs on a variety of wickets before thinking of him as a 6 or 7. Jordan is a better bat than he is credited, remembering that 92 he made against Derby in 2013, and Shahzad has looked very comfortable in all his innings so far. Yes, a quality spinner who can bat at least tolerably is the holy grail,although I suspect Mark Robinson's grail would always be yet another seam bowler because he comes from a school that believes you can never have too many seamers. Unless someone emerges a la Ollie from the depths of disgrace in Blankshire's seconds, that means an overseas player and the problem there is that county cricket is in competition with the players on the T20 circuits, from Bangladesh, via the IPL to the Caribbean tournaments, eating up most of our summer. |
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Post by jonboy on May 25, 2015 7:20:59 GMT
The emergence of Ollie Robinson has perhaps lessened our need to find an all rounder. Be good to get him further up the order and see just how good a batter he is. I suspect he's technically good enough to be batting higher up the order than both Jordan, and Shahzad. Those two are certainly no mugs with the bat, but Robinson looks as if he could regularly get to three figures. It will be interesting to see what Robbo does now when Mags qualifies. Before, I would have said we needed to bring in an all rounder to balance the side. We still could of course, and I wouldn't turn my nose up at someone like Faulkner as our next overseas. You can never have too many all rounders in the modern game. Maybe Robbo will fancy a spinner, and I know we've already looked at the lad Harmer, although strangely, I don't think he played a seconds game did he? He did appear as 12th man for the firsts, but I'm not sure that he actually played a game. The recent news regarding Tymal Mills will also effect Robbo's thinking. We have Jordan back at the moment, but might Robbo fancy another strike bowler? Robinson now gives us options, and if he can eventually bat at number six, which he certainly has the potential to do, we could even play with five bowlers. Some good points here. Firstly I think an early test of Robinson's batting will come today, when we need every run we can make to get a good lead, but we'd probably have to wait to see how he performs on a variety of wickets before thinking of him as a 6 or 7. Jordan is a better bat than he is credited, remembering that 92 he made against Derby in 2013, and Shahzad has looked very comfortable in all his innings so far. Yes, a quality spinner who can bat at least tolerably is the holy grail,although I suspect Mark Robinson's grail would always be yet another seam bowler because he comes from a school that believes you can never have too many seamers. Unless someone emerges a la Ollie from the depths of disgrace in Blankshire's seconds, that means an overseas player and the problem there is that county cricket is in competition with the players on the T20 circuits, from Bangladesh, via the IPL to the Caribbean tournaments, eating up most of our summer. I suspect we will see quite a few departures this summer, so there will probably be room for both. If we can find a domestic seamer, then we could look for an overseas twirler, or vice versa of course. Personally, I think there's more to come on the Tredwell story |
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Post by hhsussex on Sept 7, 2015 11:13:55 GMT
Just one week to go for vote for Ollie Robinson as LV Breakthrough player of the year. You could win a bat signed by the England team, and you can opt of receiving marketing information from LV! atheart.lv.com/lv-county-championship-breakthrough-player-award-votingThe competition to Ollie is:  So, obviously, no contest. Go Ollie! You know it makes sense. |
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Post by leedsgull on Sept 27, 2015 9:39:06 GMT
Ollie Robinson has been nominated for the PCA young player of the year award.
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Post by virgs1 on Sept 27, 2015 12:21:43 GMT
Ollie Robinson has been nominated for the PCA young player of the year award. He also won our young player of the year award last night and was drinking out of his trophy  |
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Post by hhsussex on Sept 27, 2015 14:53:01 GMT
Ollie Robinson has been nominated for the PCA young player of the year award. He also won our young player of the year award last night and was drinking out of his trophy That would put a scowl on Dizzy Gillespie's face: living up to his reputation then - good for him! |
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