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Post by jonboy on Aug 31, 2014 7:43:56 GMT
Need one of our infamous flatbeds for this one. We should be alright if we can avoid defeat in this one. Batting points will also give us a cushion from being sucked into the relegation scrap. Also, selfishly, because I am hoping to get down for the last day
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Post by hhsussex on Aug 31, 2014 9:10:07 GMT
Need one of our infamous flatbeds for this one. We should be alright if we can avoid defeat in this one. Batting points will also give us a cushion from being sucked into the relegation scrap. Also, selfishly, because I am hoping to get down for the last day What a depressing picture you paint. Is this how you want to remember Sussex cricket throughout the winter: the last day of a tedious trawl through the formalities between a side aiming for mid-table mediocrity and a another doomed to relegation, all played out on a lifeless track with no excitement, no unpredictability, no skills beyond the mundane? That's emphatically not the kind of cricket I enjoy and I hope that Andy Mackay produces another of his juicy wickets and that enough of Lancashire's injured squad are fit so that we can have a proper match. And I'll be there for the final two days, weather and state of the game permitting, and hope to see some good cricket to finish off this unsatisfactory home fixture list. |
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Post by jonboy on Aug 31, 2014 9:30:54 GMT
Need one of our infamous flatbeds for this one. We should be alright if we can avoid defeat in this one. Batting points will also give us a cushion from being sucked into the relegation scrap. Also, selfishly, because I am hoping to get down for the last day What a depressing picture you paint. Is this how you want to remember Sussex cricket throughout the winter: the last day of a tedious trawl through the formalities between a side aiming for mid-table mediocrity and a another doomed to relegation, all played out on a lifeless track with no excitement, no unpredictability, no skills beyond the mundane? That's emphatically not the kind of cricket I enjoy and I hope that Andy Mackay produces another of his juicy wickets and that enough of Lancashire's injured squad are fit so that we can have a proper match. And I'll be there for the final two days, weather and state of the game permitting, and hope to see some good cricket to finish off this unsatisfactory home fixture list. In an ideal world maybe, but from a totally pragmatic point of view, a high scoring draw is probably all we need to safeguard our top division status. Cricket, for better or for worse, has a long history of sides preparing pitches that will give them the best chance of obtaining the result they need, most of the time at the expense of entertainment |
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Post by flashblade on Aug 31, 2014 9:37:53 GMT
What a depressing picture you paint. Is this how you want to remember Sussex cricket throughout the winter: the last day of a tedious trawl through the formalities between a side aiming for mid-table mediocrity and a another doomed to relegation, all played out on a lifeless track with no excitement, no unpredictability, no skills beyond the mundane? That's emphatically not the kind of cricket I enjoy and I hope that Andy Mackay produces another of his juicy wickets and that enough of Lancashire's injured squad are fit so that we can have a proper match. And I'll be there for the final two days, weather and state of the game permitting, and hope to see some good cricket to finish off this unsatisfactory home fixture list. In an ideal world maybe, but from a totally pragmatic point of view, a high scoring draw is probably all we need to safeguard our top division status. Cricket, for better or for worse, has a long history of sides preparing pitches that will give them the best chance of obtaining the result they need, most of the time at the expense of entertainmentSorry, but I watch cricket to be entertained - what other activity would you attend with a view to not being entertained?? There is something wrong with a sport if the only way you can win is by boring your customers. |
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Post by jonboy on Aug 31, 2014 9:44:40 GMT
It's sad, but it's the reality in professional sport these days, it's primarily about winning. In an ideal world it would be about two evenly matched sides playing each other on a pitch that offered something for both bowler and batsmen alike
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Post by flashblade on Aug 31, 2014 10:35:27 GMT
It's sad, but it's the reality in professional sport these days, it's primarily about winning. In an ideal world it would be about two evenly matched sides playing each other on a pitch that offered something for both bowler and batsmen alike Agreed, sadly - so why would you want to watch a 4 day match that you think will be boring? |
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Post by jonboy on Aug 31, 2014 10:38:16 GMT
It's sad, but it's the reality in professional sport these days, it's primarily about winning. In an ideal world it would be about two evenly matched sides playing each other on a pitch that offered something for both bowler and batsmen alike Agreed, sadly - so why would you want to watch a 4 day match that you think will be boring? I suppose because, at the moment, my sole focus is on staying in this division. |
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Post by stickywicket on Aug 31, 2014 15:57:22 GMT
HH remind me when the groundsman produce a juicy wicket, Somerset was it? Why would we want Tredwell if that's your requirement? Does he bowl seam as well?
I'd call up the Horsham groundman for advice on producing a proper cricket wicket!
Can't have a turning wicket can we, they'll have Kerrigan and Parry. We'll play Tredwell and 4 seamers! Plus the opening pair of Wells and Nash?
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Post by wally on Aug 31, 2014 16:35:46 GMT
Might they not have Anderson and buttler too?
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Post by hhsussex on Aug 31, 2014 17:58:26 GMT
HH remind me when the groundsman produce a juicy wicket, Somerset was it? Why would we want Tredwell if that's your requirement? Does he bowl seam as well? I'd call up the Horsham groundman for advice on producing a proper cricket wicket! Can't have a turning wicket can we, they'll have Kerrigan and Parry. We'll play Tredwell and 4 seamers! Plus the opening pair of Wells and Nash? I haven't a clue what to respond to in your obviously spiteful but otherwise confused post. Perhaps its the fact that Andy Mackay has been gradually working on turning the soulless strips at Hove into much more interesting, cricket-playing wickets over the last two years. One example was the Northants game and at that time I reported on his lunchtime tutorial on the difficulties he'd faced and on his close working with the Horsham groundsman. As to Tredwell, turning wickets and something I've haven't quite worked out about Wells and Nash......I'm sure you know what you mean, but it didn't have any bearing on what I wrote, or indeed on my response to jonboy, who wanted a flat, lifeless strip that would help us "avoid defeat". Anyway, I hope we can agree on something I did write: that I hope that we can have some proper (i.e. allround, good) cricket and a good match to finish off what hasn't been a very satisfactory home fixture list. |
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Post by grandavefan on Sept 1, 2014 8:15:36 GMT
HH, so sensitive, a little leg pulling was how I read it.
I too think the wickets at Hove lifeless and think the groundsman says too much. Why, previous have had less time to prepare better wickets. And mostly I suspect on direction from the coach?
As for Nash & Wells, I think SW includes them as bowlers but I think you know that.
My own complaint is the wickets do not allow go positive cricket. The Horsham wicket had it all. Experts in this field have acknowledeged this. Why can't Hove be the same?
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Post by wally on Sept 4, 2014 15:27:07 GMT
Tredwell back for the last three games ....according to Hollis.
Will await insiders further comment on what this implies.
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Post by jonboy on Sept 5, 2014 6:48:07 GMT
My 12 now for this one would be....
Nash
Wells
Wright
Joyce
Cachopa
Yardy
Brown
Tredwell
Jordan
Magoffin
Hatchett
Hobden
Really would like to see us try Wright at three, and stiffen the lower order batting by easing Yardy back in at six. If it was the other way around, then fair enough, it's by far our best twelve of the season
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Post by jonboy on Sept 5, 2014 8:26:02 GMT
Damn, need a new 12th man then
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Post by jonboy on Sept 5, 2014 10:28:40 GMT
My 12 now for this one would be.... Nash Wells Wright Joyce Cachopa Yardy Brown Tredwell Jordan Magoffin Hatchett Hobden Really would like to see us try Wright at three, and stiffen the lower order batting by easing Yardy back in at six. If it was the other way around, then fair enough, it's by far our best twelve of the season Though I say it myself, that actually looks a decent championship line up. Add a quality seamer to that next season and we'd surely be back in business |
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