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Post by flashblade on Mar 23, 2015 9:43:13 GMT
No sign of any play yet on day 2 ??
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2015 11:34:53 GMT
It's raining in the desert. But it's a lovely, if slightly chilly, morning at Lord's!
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Post by sussexbythesea on Mar 23, 2015 12:16:22 GMT
I may be dreaming or mis-reading your message hhsussex, but I recollect having witnessed Derek Underwood scoring 111 against Sussex in Hastings at the old Central Cricket Ground.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2015 12:49:39 GMT
Century for Lyth in the first match of the season.
Hope Cook was suitably impressed and demands him as his opening partner in the West Indies. But why do I have a sinking feeling that they will give the berth to Trott, even though he's never really opened in his entire career?
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Post by hhsussex on Mar 23, 2015 13:42:00 GMT
I may be dreaming or mis-reading your message hhsussex, but I recollect having witnessed Derek Underwood scoring 111 against Sussex in Hastings at the old Central Cricket Ground. Indeed he did, in 1984, and he also played some useful innings for England, notably at Headingley in 1968 when he scored 45 not out off 46 balls. But despite that, he was a genuine rabbit in his early days, and my point of bracketing him with Graham in 1967 - apart from both of them returning marvellous bowling figures - was to show how very bad a batsman Graham was by comparison. |
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Post by invicta1977 on Mar 23, 2015 15:17:35 GMT
Century for Lyth in the first match of the season. final match of the overseas season. |
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Post by hhsussex on Mar 23, 2015 16:34:44 GMT
Century for Lyth in the first match of the season. final match of the overseas season. Annoying, that. For the first couple of years it used be counted in the averages for the English season by Playfair, but it seems to have been thrown into limbo. Last year Monty P was deprived of the recognition for the first five-for of the year. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2015 16:55:46 GMT
The 'four number elevens' strike again as MCC lose their last five wkts for 27 (eight fewer than the last five managed in the first innings).
Mind you, Cook didn't fare much better. Are you sure this game doesn't count in the 2015 domestic statistsics? Because if it does we can say that Cook heads off to to resume the Test captaincy in the West Indies with his season's average on four!
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Post by hhsussex on Mar 24, 2015 17:00:40 GMT
Good start for the mixed Yorkshire 1st/2nd XI team, for the most part, particularly Lyth, and Rashid has some good practice and a bit of form under his belt, whilst Sidebottom is cannier and more dangerous than most of the players who have superseded him in the England team..
For the MCC, not much learnt that we didn't already know: Hildreth can make runs in unimportant matches, Compton is fairly sound, Carberry sparkles and fails to deliver, Onions looks like having another season of injury problems. Riley's figures were promising in the context of the complete innocuousness of the rest of the attack. Dunn looks to have had a shocker but truly fast bowlers can be expensive whilst they are finding their range. I hope that was the case here.
On to the English season proper: gales, lowering clouds, mugs of coffee and several pullovers!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2015 17:44:31 GMT
But even allowing the excellence of Adam Lyth (whose main role in the Windies I still think will be carrying drinks for Jonathan Trott), it all seems a very long way from the sparkling brilliance of Grant Elliott, Brendan McCullum, Trent Boult and A.B. De Villiers earlier today, doesn't it?
The new ECB hierarchy says it wants English cricketers who can become folk heroes, in the way that Compton, Trueman, Botham and Flintoff were. Apart from the fact that all of those players enjoyed a drink and flouted discipline in a manner that would get them KP-style lifetime bans from the Andy Flower-school of Gradgrinds who currently run English cricket, I don't see anyone on the horizon with potential folk hero status, just a bunch of journeymen and automatons who think - have been brainwashed - to believe that "hard work" and "discipline" are substitutes for raw talent and free expression.
We need some cavaliers. All we've got are roundheads.
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Post by invicta1977 on Mar 24, 2015 18:47:22 GMT
Good start for the mixed Yorkshire 1st/2nd XI team, for the most part, particularly Lyth, and Rashid has some good practice and a bit of form under his belt, whilst Sidebottom is cannier and more dangerous than most of the players who have superseded him in the England team.. For the MCC, not much learnt that we didn't already know: Hildreth can make runs in unimportant matches, Compton is fairly sound, Carberry sparkles and fails to deliver, Onions looks like having another season of injury problems. Riley's figures were promising in the context of the complete innocuousness of the rest of the attack. Dunn looks to have had a shocker but truly fast bowlers can be expensive whilst they are finding their range. I hope that was the case here. On to the English season proper: gales, lowering clouds, mugs of coffee and several pullovers! I had the good fortune to be at The Oval last year when Charlie Shreck achieved his maiden f-c fifty. The treatment he handed out to Dunn (16 - 1- 94 - 1) was quite brutal and it seemed that the poor lad was clueless as to how to stem the flow (let alone removing one of county cricket's most notorious bunnies). I see Riley achieved only twice as many runs as wickets....there may still be hope for him. |
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Post by hhsussex on Mar 24, 2015 21:06:14 GMT
Good start for the mixed Yorkshire 1st/2nd XI team, for the most part, particularly Lyth, and Rashid has some good practice and a bit of form under his belt, whilst Sidebottom is cannier and more dangerous than most of the players who have superseded him in the England team.. For the MCC, not much learnt that we didn't already know: Hildreth can make runs in unimportant matches, Compton is fairly sound, Carberry sparkles and fails to deliver, Onions looks like having another season of injury problems. Riley's figures were promising in the context of the complete innocuousness of the rest of the attack. Dunn looks to have had a shocker but truly fast bowlers can be expensive whilst they are finding their range. I hope that was the case here. On to the English season proper: gales, lowering clouds, mugs of coffee and several pullovers! I had the good fortune to be at The Oval last year when Charlie Shreck achieved his maiden f-c fifty. The treatment he handed out to Dunn (16 - 1- 94 - 1) was quite brutal and it seemed that the poor lad was clueless as to how to stem the flow (let alone removing one of county cricket's most notorious bunnies). I see Riley achieved only twice as many runs as wickets....there may still be hope for him. Riley will learn to forget, but it sounds as if Dunn has forgotten to learn. |
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Post by coverpoint on Mar 30, 2015 18:29:01 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2015 18:42:33 GMT
God, I'd forgotten all about Ollie - protege from hhsussex's local club and Sussex youth group cricketer all the way through from under-13s, until he was jettisoned in 2013 after we signed RHB.
But not even Mark Robinson can call it right every time. RHB was a dangerously high risk decision and the odds were always against him getting back on track after what happened to his best mate. But life is about taking risks and it was surely a punt worth taking and we shouldn't blame the coach for it not working out, and should remember that over the same period he got it right over Jordan and Cachopa.
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