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Post by hhsussex on May 11, 2014 14:54:59 GMT
BB figures versus Durham in the Championship (as of now)
Innings15 Not outs 5 Runs 471 Average 47.10 Highest Score 76no (2012) 4 50s
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Post by fraudster on May 13, 2014 17:47:02 GMT
What a cracking score. This homie has really advanced year on year. Congrats to Brownie, hope he keeps it up.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Mar 5, 2015 12:28:26 GMT
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Post by hhsussex on Mar 5, 2015 13:50:09 GMT
The Finch deal is interesting. As the Argus report noted, he made a very good score against Glamorgan in the 50 overs game last year, but has failed to push on since his under-19 days in other games. This year he should get plenty of opportunities with competition for batting places in both first-class and one-day games with both Prior and Hamilton-Brown out of the picture. I hope he makes it. |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Mar 5, 2015 14:17:38 GMT
It is exciting to view the 2015 Sussex team. Apart from a top class spinner, we have the strongest squad since the previous
winning decade. We are strong enough now to compete in all three formats, especially if we attract a top O/S T20 player.
Perhaps, given the changing nature of the Championship, a top spinner isn't required anymore?
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Post by hhsussex on Mar 5, 2015 15:52:16 GMT
It is exciting to view the 2015 Sussex team. Apart from a top class spinner, we have the strongest squad since the previous winning decade. We are strong enough now to compete in all three formats, especially if we attract a top O/S T20 player. Perhaps, given the changing nature of the Championship, a top spinner isn't required anymore? No. Durham could win with a joke spinner because they had prepared their wickets with bowling strength in mind (or developed bowlers to suit their pitches, it comes to the same thing) much as Notts did in the 80s with Eddie Hemmings rolling the ball as effortfully as his own body rolled around the field. Those are very great exceptions and we have a world-class grounds team under Andy Mackay here and James Askew at Horsham who have developed excellent cricket wickets to suit all kinds of bowling. We need a spinner, and the Championship is the poorer without that element. We may get by with Zaidi and Nash, but I think we will not have a complete side until we find a spinner of class. |
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Post by coverpoint on Mar 5, 2015 20:05:40 GMT
Fantastic news.
As winning the championship without a proper spinner Durham, Notts and Yorkshire have done so.
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Post by leedsgull on Mar 5, 2015 20:18:41 GMT
I think to say Yorkshire won the title without a "proper" spinner is a bit harsh on Rashid. I doubt he has the mental capacity to be effective at Test level but he has 375 first class wickets.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2015 7:38:06 GMT
It is exciting to view the 2015 Sussex team. Apart from a top class spinner, we have the strongest squad since the previous winning decade. We are strong enough now to compete in all three formats, especially if we attract a top O/S T20 player. Perhaps, given the changing nature of the Championship, a top spinner isn't required anymore?I know that's the line you got from your interview with Jon Lewis, s&f. But we wouldn't have beaten Warwicks at Horsham last season without Tredwell and an endless diet of seam is also going to lose a lot of points for slow over rates. And what about Worcs, who were promoted last season solely due to Saeed Ajmal or Warwicks, who would have been flirting with relegation without Patel's wickets? Lewis totally destroyed his credibility in your interview with him by citing Lancashire as an example of a county winning the LVCC without a spinner, seemingly unaware that Kerrigan and Keedy had contributed something like 85 wkts to Lancs' 2011 title campaign. England may place far too much emphasis on stats. But it seems that Sussex's bowling coach ignores them completely!!! btw, I see Lewis isn't going back to Glos as deputy coach and the job has gone to his old team mate Ian Harvey, which seems like a top appointment for them (and good news for Sussex, too). A leadership team of Dawson, Harvey, Klinger and Geriant Jones could be very successful in bringing on what looks like a promising bunch of youngsters and Glos might surprise a few people this season by pushing Lancs, Surrey and Essex at the top of div two rather than propping it up with Glam, Kent and Leics. |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Mar 6, 2015 10:19:07 GMT
Bm,
This season will be fascinating to see if, as Jon Lewis and others say, that spinners are not crucial for Championship success anymore.
Sussex are preparing themselves for a serious assault on the trophy, so we can but wait. Zaidi, Nash, Yardy and perhaps even Beer
must take at least 50 to 60 wickets between themselves. I await with bated breath!
Mark Robinson enjoys his risk-taking and this is yet another Example.
Personally, I would use a lot more of Yardy's skills, presuming he is fully recovered from last summer's crippling injury. Imho, he is
very underused in championship cricket.
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Post by hhsussex on Jan 20, 2017 15:17:57 GMT
Surprising that there has been no revival of this thread for nearly two years, although Ben Brown's varied performances keeping and batting have been much commented on elsewhere. A very good and welcome coaching innovation is his one to one mentoring and practice sessions with Matt Prior this winter, illustrated in this interview with both men www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDElPkzkA0wAs both players acknowledge, it is very rare for a keeper to get specialised coaching of any kind, and although Prior plays down the skills development part of his role, it is revealing that Brown talks about the way that the keeper is always expected to perform and not allowed to go through a period of poor form. There is a massive exposure and consistent expectation raised on a keeper in any side, let alone for Brown to perform in all three formats, without a keeping deputy, and simultaneously is expected to be one of the side's leading batsmen. Small wonder that his keeping form has dipped a little, and it is very much to the credit of all the coaching team at Sussex that they brought Prior in. |
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Post by smithers2 on Jan 20, 2017 17:04:41 GMT
Agree with the sentiment here, he could have a really important part to play for us in the upcoming 2017 season.
However one note of caution..... what on Earth are we going to do if he gets injured or becomes subject to ill-health (God forbid!)
Who is our reserve keeper? |
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Post by fraudster on Jan 20, 2017 22:17:57 GMT
Smithers there's a rocket in my pocket.
There were four priority positions at the club as far as I'm concerned - batiing coach, spinner (good spinner), all-rounder and keeper. The only one of those four I would have thought you may possibly by-pass was all-rounder. That's the only one we've got. Although there's confusion regarding which Kolpak is fulfilling that role.
Brown's been brilliant, he had a lot thrown at him last season. A simple answer - we will be and deserve to be f****d if Brown gets injured.
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Post by coverpoint on Jan 21, 2017 9:43:11 GMT
Agree with the sentiment here, he could have a really important part to play for us in the upcoming 2017 season.
However one note of caution..... what on Earth are we going to do if he gets injured or becomes subject to ill-health (God forbid!)
Who is our reserve keeper? Couldn't agree more about Ben and with Callum Jackson available I would snap him up without any hesitation. Joe Billings has enormous potential but is still very young. |
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Post by flashblade on Jan 21, 2017 10:19:44 GMT
Agree with the sentiment here, he could have a really important part to play for us in the upcoming 2017 season.
However one note of caution..... what on Earth are we going to do if he gets injured or becomes subject to ill-health (God forbid!)
Who is our reserve keeper? Couldn't agree more about Ben and with Callum Jackson available I would snap him up without any hesitation. Joe Billings has enormous potential but is still very young. Does/will Joe Billings keep for the 2nds? |
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