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Post by flashblade on Aug 12, 2017 10:51:59 GMT
I thought bag searches at T20/One Day matches, which have been going on for a long time, were to stop the import of excess alcohol. Correct, but I think they're now looking for 'dangerous' stuff in addition to alcohol. I don't believe there's an alcohol restriction at the Eastbourne tennis, but someone may correct me if that's wrong.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Aug 15, 2017 8:52:00 GMT
Winner Takes All Come Friday
_________________________________________ As we move onward into the most important week of the season to date for Sussex CCC, Friday is a "winner takes all" match as they prepare to meet the improving Essex Eagles in their last T20 match of the qualifying round. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/english-twenty20/tablewww.youtube.com/watch?v=iyIOl-s7JTUGlamorgan are already through having won 6 games and only losing 3 with 4 abandoned, so this still leaves 3 QF places up for grabs. Hampshire are favourites to take another, so depending on the results come Thursday when Surrey play Gloucestershire and Essex versus Kent, there should be at least one QF place remaining come Friday. To say it is a must win match for Sussex is the under- statement of the year. A major plus: Sussex have the second best run-rate in the Southern League. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/english-twenty20/fixturesTo add colour to the evening FL game, SKY are attending, and no doubt, all the usual off-field attractions around the County Ground will be in place. It has been a stop start tournament for Sussex, where the team are finding it difficult to find cohesion and consistency. As a format, T20 is all about tight margins and, at times, a large dose of luck, so perhaps, things have not gone as well as hoped. Add to this the injury of Tymal Mills and Luke Wright, Sussex have rarely fielded their strongest side. Meanwhile, the weather is improving for Friday and the club are expecting their biggest crowd of the season. As ground capacity has increased to 6,200 with the additional temporary seating, it would be fitting that a full house cheers on Wright to score 100 and steer Sussex through to a QF place. Two years ago against Essexwww.youtube.com/watch?v=p_18OWa-CYg
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Aug 15, 2017 15:32:39 GMT
The club have just released a 1'.30" Youtube video of the players entering the ground with very dramatic music in the background as they prepare for the 'Winner Takes All' T20 match on Friday evening. twitter.com/SussexCCCSurely, the music below would have been better to scare the living daylights out of the Eagles? A pleasant evening swim off Hove beach! Come on little birdie - where are you? www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWLO4acMTCM
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Post by liquidskin on Aug 15, 2017 19:05:47 GMT
It's not on Sky according to my Sky TV guide Gromit. England v Windies is.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Aug 15, 2017 19:21:23 GMT
Sussex CCC twitter says today the match is on SKY Sports Cricket Channel Wallace.
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Post by liquidskin on Aug 15, 2017 19:40:19 GMT
Not on my guide. Solheim Cup on main event and the Test on the cricket channel, Magoo. Can't see it changing, the Solheim Cup is one of the biggest occasions in whatever sport it is for all I know. I think it's pig racing.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Aug 15, 2017 19:47:30 GMT
ls, NatWest T20 Blast 2️⃣ more #Blast17 games confirmed LIVE on @skycricket:
Thurs 17 Aug - @yorkshireccc v @northantsccc Fri 18 Aug - @sussexccc v @essexcricket
Enough evidence Deputy Dawg? www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Jc_BqotR0
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Post by flashblade on Aug 15, 2017 19:56:37 GMT
Not on my guide. Solheim Cup on main event and the Test on the cricket channel, Magoo. Can't see it changing, the Solheim Cup is one of the biggest occasions in whatever sport it is for all I know. I think it's pig racing. There's a T20 match on the Sky Sports Mix channel according to the Radio Times.
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Post by liquidskin on Aug 15, 2017 20:07:20 GMT
Deputy Dawg? There's no need to be rude.
Well I can't see it. I've never known God almighty, or Sky as it's more commonly known to show a T20 at the same time as an England game. Cricket ain't that good.
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Post by flashblade on Aug 15, 2017 20:14:26 GMT
Deputy Dawg? There's no need to be rude. Well I can't see it. I've never known God almighty, or Sky as it's more commonly known to show a T20 at the same time as an England game. Cricket ain't that good. Sky has so many sports channels now, they have to scrape the barrel occasionally.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Aug 16, 2017 12:08:47 GMT
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Post by theleopard on Aug 16, 2017 12:52:24 GMT
We cannot eliminate all terrorist risks, but we can at least make it more difficult for them. If they knew that bags were not being searched at a big crowd event, it would be very tempting for them. Well in that case why are people's bags not searched: boarding trains and buses, going into the London Underground network and any European metro system, going into any reasonably busy pub or restaurant, going onto any seaside beach and seafront, going into a railway terminus concourse, going into a airport check-in area. All those being crowded places where attacks have been carried out across Europe and elsewhere over the past 40-odd years, while a cricket match hasn't.
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Post by flashblade on Aug 16, 2017 13:16:09 GMT
We cannot eliminate all terrorist risks, but we can at least make it more difficult for them. If they knew that bags were not being searched at a big crowd event, it would be very tempting for them. Well in that case why are people's bags not searched: boarding trains and buses, going into the London Underground network and any European metro system, going into any reasonably busy pub or restaurant, going onto any seaside beach and seafront, going into a railway terminus concourse, going into a airport check-in area. All those being crowded places where attacks have been carried out across Europe and elsewhere over the past 40-odd years, while a cricket match hasn't. All good questions - but most of the places you cite would become unworkable if searches were enforced. It's relatively easy to search those going into a sporting venue via a limited number of entrances, and it doesn't hold up the event itself. Would you stop searching some venues just because some others are deemed impractical to search? BTW, do they search those going into the Amex and other football stadia? Sporting arenas are particularly vulnerable, because spectators are confined to their seats, with bottleneck staircases their only escape route. It would be like shooting fish in a barrel.
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Post by theleopard on Aug 16, 2017 13:37:51 GMT
I can see why they do it - it would be seen as reckless if they didn't.
However, I think searching people at low-key county matches is pointless and unnecessary. And in my experience carried out in such a token manner as to be worthless anyway.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Aug 17, 2017 8:34:03 GMT
His last blog about searches at the Eastbourne International Tennis Tournament caused some controversy on this Blog. Here is another one entitled 'Cricketers with Swag'. puntingaroundtheshires.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/cricketers-with-swag/The Blogger is Ian Bennett, he is a Sussex supporter and follows my Twitter and reads this Forum. I applaud anyone who puts their head above the parapet and writes views that might cause contention. So, thank you Ian for your courage, time and trouble. I have enjoyed reading both your articles on this thread. May you write many more. I would add to your list Ben Stokes whose graphic Phoenix tattoo is 'bling on skin'.
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