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Post by longstop on Jul 21, 2018 16:27:02 GMT
Having squeaked past bottom placed Gloucestershire on Thursday with 27 runs to spare, we now face bottom placed Glamorgan at home as Gloucestershire deservedly earned enough bonus points to move up one place. The narrow win at Cheltenham reminded us that there are no easy games if a couple of opposition batsmen get going.
Glamorgan have only won one of their seven games and lost four. Their only win came against Gloucestershire in the first match of the season. Since then, their County Championship form has been poor with a hefty defeat to Northamptonshire in their last outing before the T20 games.
Usman Khawaja is the top scorer for Glamorgan in the CC games with 401 runs at an average of 66.83. Timm van der Gugten is their top wicket taker with 26 wickets at 18.85 while Michael Hogan has picked up 24 wickets. Generally, Glamorgan’s problem has been failing to score enough runs which can be seen from the meagre 8 batting points they have collected.
Although Sussex have won their last two County Championship games against Glamorgan, they have been close games. At Colwyn Bay last year, Ollie Robinson and Danny Briggs scored 32 for the last wicket of the second innings, culminating with a huge six from Ollie Robinson, to win by one wicket. The previous season, a narrow win at Cardiff was secured thanks Ben Brown guiding us home with Danny Briggs and George Garton as partners as we recovered from 156 for 7 to 236 for 8 to win by 2 wickets.
The fixture is a day/night match played with a pink ball. The pink ball has brought some low scores, often caused by early wickets falling. It’s a chance for Sussex to get into a promotion places and keeping an eye on the scores between Kent v Leicestershire and Middlesex v Warwickshire may be irresistible. Can Sussex win three County Championship games in a row? We will see.
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Post by longstop on Jul 21, 2018 16:29:37 GMT
Team news - Wright is "rested" for this one, so the squad of 13 is:
Brown (capt)
Archer
Beer
Briggs
Burgess
Finch
Haines
Jordan
Rawlins
Robinson
Salt
Wells
Wiese
Glamorgan
Brown
Selman
Khawaja
Murphy
Cooke
Carlson
Lawlor
Salter
Carey
Smith
van der Gugten
Hogan (capt).
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Post by coverpoint on Jul 21, 2018 18:00:25 GMT
I would expect the following eleven to take the field for Sussex. Wells Salt Haines Finch Burgess Brown (c, wk) Wiese Jordan Robinson Archer Briggs I would expect the following eleven to take the field for Glamorgan: Brown Selman Khawaja Murphy Carlson
Cooke (wk)
Salter Smith Carey Hogan (capt) van der Gugten |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jul 21, 2018 21:29:39 GMT
After collecting 70 extras against Gloucestershire, one hopes Sussex are able to temper their generosity of giving runs to opposing teams.
Their previous highest total was at Edgbaston in the opening Championship match where in the first innings the tally stood at 50.
Luckily, the draw arose without the need for a second Warwickshire bat. The third highest of this season was against Kent away at
33, a game they lost. Others include Leicestershire (31) and Middlesex (24).
My question is: What is the average extras total for Division 2? I would suggest without having to do exhaustive research, between
10 and 15 runs for both innings.
Last season was no different. Sussex during September 2017, for example, saw Durham (51), Notts (27) and Derbyshire (their highest
of last season) at 62 extras.
If only the Sussex bowlers could significantly decrease their average tally, then the side have every opportunity of successfully chasing
promotion. At present and on various occasions, the batsmen are going into bat already at a disadvantage. As Geoffrey Howe famously
said during his resignation speech, "It’s rather like sending our opening batsmen to the crease only for them to find that before the first
ball is bowled, their bats have been broken..."
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Post by hhsussex on Jul 22, 2018 6:32:30 GMT
After collecting 70 extras against Gloucestershire, one hopes Sussex are able to temper their generosity of giving runs to opposing teams. Their previous highest total was at Edgbaston in the opening Championship match where in the first innings the tally stood at 50. Luckily, the draw arose without the need for a second Warwickshire bat. The third highest of this season was against Kent away at 33, a game they lost. Others include Leicestershire (31) and Middlesex (24). My question is: What is the average extras total for Division 2? I would suggest without having to do exhaustive research, between
10 and 15 runs for both innings.
Last season was no different. Sussex during September 2017, for example, saw Durham (51), Notts (27) and Derbyshire (their highest of last season) at 62 extras. If only the Sussex bowlers could significantly decrease their average tally, then the side have every opportunity of successfully chasing promotion. At present and on various occasions, the batsmen are going into bat already at a disadvantage. As Geoffrey Howe famously said during his resignation speech, "It’s rather like sending our opening batsmen to the crease only for them to find that before the first ball is bowled, their bats have been broken..." I haven't looked at the figures for this season, but when I did my analysis for the 2016 season I recorded all of the counties, 1st and 2nd division and there was very little difference, save for outliers between the two. In the first Division bowling sides gave away 5.8% of runs scored as extras outliers Hants 7.0%, Middx 4.9%) and in Division two the average was 6.2% (outliers Sussex 8.6%, Derbys 4/6%). What that amounts to in runs depends on the number of innings and will vary a little according to state of pitch, strength of opposition batting etc. For Sussex that year it was 27 runs per innings, based on 24 innings bowling for 649 runs conceded out of a total of 7584. |
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Post by hhsussex on Jul 22, 2018 12:51:43 GMT
Team news - Wright is "rested" for this one, so the squad of 13 is: Brown (capt) Archer Beer Briggs Burgess Finch Haines Jordan Rawlins Robinson Salt Wells Wiese Glamorgan Brown Selman Khawaja Murphy Cooke Carlson Lawlor Salter Carey Smith van der Gugten Hogan (capt). Haines for Wright, the obvious choice, and Sussex won the toss and will bat. Interesting that half of the matches in today's round have resulted in lunctime scores of 4 to 7 wickets down, without obvious spin penetration. Could it be that the pitches are so starved of water that they just aren't coping with the amount of use already this season, and if so, what will happen after a day or two's play? This looks more and more like a bowler's season to be on top.
On edit: If those assumptions are true, it could be that the decision not to go for additional batsmen but to pack the side with all-rounders may be a very smart move indeed, though I don't think Gillespie can have fully anticipated the stalling of the Jetstream and its effects on English wickets!
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jul 22, 2018 14:16:38 GMT
He may have just missed his 50 today but delighted for Phil Salt. This last month has seen a transformation in his batting. Finally, he's
beginning to believe in himself, although there is still some way to go. Personally, he is the most exciting and naturally talented Sussex
batsman to come through the ranks since... I can't remember and while a classic rough diamond, as Yardy and Gillespie continue to hone
and shine his star potential, I believe there are great things to come.
Sussex: 77-1 (Salt out caught for 48)
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Post by philh on Jul 22, 2018 18:02:13 GMT
A disappointing second session. From 114 for 1 at lunch we scored 26 runs and lost 3 wickets in the first hour after lunch. Three batsmen departed to loose shots in the second session but Brown and Jordan have steadied the ship.
I’ve not heard one person speak in favour of these day/night affairs.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jul 22, 2018 18:58:16 GMT
The ECB need to try out new ideas and the floodlight pink ball is a brave one. Last season it was the cold and damp weather which was used as the excuse for it not working. This time around the weather is warm, sunny and pleasant, but still the public are showing little interest in the concept as Adrian Harms bemoans how disappointing the small crowd in the ground is given we are not even at 8pm, yet, and there is still up to 90 minutes left in the day. Perhaps, the ECB should just accept there is not enough interest in this format and move on? This is Championship cricket, for goodness sake.  |
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Post by flashblade on Jul 22, 2018 19:05:36 GMT
The ECB need to try out new ideas and the floodlight pink ball is a brave one. Last season it was the cold and damp weather which was used as the excuse for it not working. This time around the weather is warm, sunny and pleasant, but still the public are showing little interest in the concept as Adrian Harms bemoans how disappointing the small crowd in the ground is given we are not even at 8pm, yet, and there is still up to 90 minutes left in the day. Perhaps, the ECB should just accept there is not enough interest in this format and move on? This is Championship cricket, for goodness sake. The ECB always knows best. It's the stupid cricket fans who've got it wrong . . . Perhaps it should be aimed at the mums and kids?  |
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Post by coverpoint on Jul 22, 2018 19:21:19 GMT
The ECB need to try out new ideas and the floodlight pink ball is a brave one. Last season it was the cold and damp weather which was used as the excuse for it not working. This time around the weather is warm, sunny and pleasant, but still the public are showing little interest in the concept as Adrian Harms bemoans how disappointing the small crowd in the ground is given we are not even at 8pm, yet, and there is still up to 90 minutes left in the day. Perhaps, the ECB should just accept there is not enough interest in this format and move on? This is Championship cricket, for goodness sake.
No one wants day night championship cricket. How long before the ECB realise this?
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Post by deepfineleg on Jul 23, 2018 6:55:18 GMT
There seemed to be a general exodus at the second interval, a natural time to end an afternoon's cricket watching. It was somewhat surreal watching the latter overs under floodlights in a near silent ground.
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Post by kevininnessupersub on Jul 23, 2018 9:25:00 GMT
Another ECB idea to finish County Championship cricket.
Shall be interesting how many people turn up today and if any corporate boxes are sold.
The match itself is evenly placed, thought Glamorgan stuck to their task very well.
In the afternoon session Sussex gave their wickets away.
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Post by philh on Jul 23, 2018 10:13:33 GMT
Based on the exodus at the second interval, the day/night offering is poor value. Whereas people often wander in between 11 and 12 and get 5-6 hours of cricket, it seems many opted for four hours or less if they wandered in after 2. Playing on a Sunday evening under floodlights was strange. I don't think any T20 games take place on a Sunday evening, so why would a County Championship work? I'm not expected a mass influx either at 5.30pm tonight as workers rush from their office to see the last 2 or 3 hours. Maybe, a 10 ball over to end the day would bring the crowds in.
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Post by flashblade on Jul 23, 2018 10:33:16 GMT
Based on the exodus at the second interval, the day/night offering is poor value. Whereas people often wander in between 11 and 12 and get 5-6 hours of cricket, it seems many opted for four hours or less if they wandered in after 2. Playing on a Sunday evening under floodlights was strange. I don't think any T20 games take place on a Sunday evening, so why would a County Championship work? I'm not expected a mass influx either at 5.30pm tonight as workers rush from their office to see the last 2 or 3 hours. Maybe, a 10 ball over to end the day would bring the crowds in.Well, at least it should bring the 'mums and kids' flocking in. |
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