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Post by hhsussex on Mar 25, 2015 9:33:06 GMT
The first competitive fixture of the season - we lost a non-firstclass version of this match in 2012 up at Leeds with a motley collection of youngsters, of whom Machan topscored with 76. Who will play for us this year? Do Leeds-Bradord have anyone of the class of Luis Reece, now Lancashire, who took 10 wickets in that match, or Joe Leach, now Worcestershire?
Will the sun shine and the wind abate? Will there be sausage and bacon bapas in the pavilion, and will it be coffee or Harveys after the first half-hour?
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Post by flashblade on Mar 25, 2015 10:40:42 GMT
The first competitive fixture of the season - we lost a non-firstclass version of this match in 2012 up at Leeds with a motley collection of youngsters, of whom Machan topscored with 76. Who will play for us this year? Do Leeds-Bradord have anyone of the class of Luis Reece, now Lancashire, who took 10 wickets in that match, or Joe Leach, now Worcestershire? Will the sun shine and the wind abate? Will there be sausage and bacon bapas in the pavilion, and will it be coffee or Harveys after the first half-hour?HHS, picking up on the important part of your post, are you sure that Harveys will still be available? On 18 March, the club said: "Sussex will also be announcing their new ale partners for the 2015 season in due course."  PS - sausage and bacon Espagnol? |
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Post by hhsussex on Mar 25, 2015 11:29:56 GMT
The first competitive fixture of the season - we lost a non-firstclass version of this match in 2012 up at Leeds with a motley collection of youngsters, of whom Machan topscored with 76. Who will play for us this year? Do Leeds-Bradord have anyone of the class of Luis Reece, now Lancashire, who took 10 wickets in that match, or Joe Leach, now Worcestershire? Will the sun shine and the wind abate? Will there be sausage and bacon bapas in the pavilion, and will it be coffee or Harveys after the first half-hour?HHS, picking up on the important part of your post, are you sure that Harveys will still be available? On 18 March, the club said: "Sussex will also be announcing their new ale partners for the 2015 season in due course." PS - sausage and bacon Espagnol? Thank you flashblade for two important points. 1) I don't think either Tony Cottey or Kevin Berry, the Business and Catering managers resposible, would want to run the risk of civil insurrection on a scale far outstripping the 2011 London riots. Think even of 1789, with portly gentlemen of a certain age advancing upon Zac's office, even as the mob approached the hapless Governor of the Bastille. 2) What a splendid idea! Chorizo and jamon serrano.  |
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Post by jonboy on Mar 25, 2015 19:15:09 GMT
I'd like to see us field a similar line up to the one that will start the game against Hampshire. It will be the only time the side will have had a longer form run out. I can understand, perhaps if it were played later in the season, fielding an inexperienced side, but I'd go for as strong a line up as possible next week
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Post by coverpoint on Mar 25, 2015 19:26:07 GMT
I agree under the circumstances and the importance of getting a start in the county championship season we should play our strongest team:
Nash
Wells
Joyce (c)
Cachopa
Wright
Yardy
Brown (+)
Zaidi
Shahzad
Magoffin
Mills
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Post by jonboy on Mar 27, 2015 12:01:16 GMT
Given what we've witnessed in Dubai, I think it's even more important that we field pretty much the side that will take to the field against Hampshire. All our batsmen need time out in the middle
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Post by coverpoint on Apr 1, 2015 17:26:15 GMT
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Post by hhsussex on Apr 1, 2015 18:22:01 GMT
Hobden or Zaidi for the last place. I don't think the slightly weaker batting by playing Shahzad at 8 would be an issue against this standard of opposition if we wanted to look at all 4 fast bowlers who will be doing most of the work this season. There will be rotation, obviously, and specialisation once the T20s begin, but Hatchett and Hudson-Prentice, when fit, should be able to cover. It really does look a mouth-watering prospect and I'm sure Jon Lewis is fully occupied with this squad. Against that we will need Zaidi's bowling - and could still hope for some batting from him - later in the year, and perhaps earlier if we have some leisurely overs from the new fast men. Bowling is clearly a learned skill with him, rather than an innate one, and he probably needs to bowl regularly to get his pivot and his flight in working order. I think this will be our weakness once again, sooner or later. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2015 9:53:42 GMT
All seam attack with no Zaidi. Joyce and Robinson have obviously decided that the students don't like it up 'em!!!
PLanning to go tomorrow if it warms up...
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Post by invicta1977 on Apr 2, 2015 10:16:23 GMT
My pal has come over from Sweden for this one. Talk about chomping at the bit for some cricket.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2015 10:50:11 GMT
Six off his 13th ball of the season and out to the next one is most un-Luke Wells like!
Interesing that Yardy has volunteered for the No 3 spot again. He started out there last season without success,I seem to remember, then got injured and we turned to Hamilton-Brown and then to Joyce. I'd say it is critical that he gets big runs at first-wicket down this season, allowing Joyce to bat at four in a power-house middle-order that also includes Cachopa and Wright...
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Post by hhsussex on Apr 2, 2015 12:05:55 GMT
All seam attack with no Zaidi. Joyce and Robinson have obviously decided that the students don't like it up 'em!!! PLanning to go tomorrow if it warms up... It should be a damn good attack - but the weather is against all these plans, unsurprisingly. The shoures of Aprille sote are forecast from this afternoon through until Sunday. I'll wait for the Worcesteshire game. I would chance it for the Hampshire game but the Aegeas/Rosebwol is a bugger to get to by public transport. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2015 12:35:38 GMT
I was rather hoping that the unlikely figure of Luke Wells had secured the kudos of having hit the first six of the season. But I see Carberry beat him to it, hitting the second ball of the Hants innings over the rope!
And Carbs has ended up on 99 not out at lunch. Not a bad morning's work on the first day back in the office for six months.
It reminds me of an infuriatingly over-talented Aussie named Roger Davies whom I used to play with in a team called Earslwood Strollers. On the first day of the 1997 season, he flew in overnight from Los Angeles (he was Tina Turner's manager and had been supervising some filming she was doing), turned up at 1.30pm having had three hours sleep on the red-eye express, pulled his crumpled whites out of his kit bag, still covered in grasss stains from the previous September, opened the batting and stroked a chanceless century...
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Apr 2, 2015 12:37:38 GMT
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Post by hhsussex on Apr 2, 2015 13:18:49 GMT
Six off his 13th ball of the season and out to the next one is most un-Luke Wells like! Interesing that Yardy has volunteered for the No 3 spot again. He started out there last season without success,I seem to remember, then got injured and we turned to Hamilton-Brown and then to Joyce. I'd say it is critical that he gets big runs at first-wicket down this season, allowing Joyce to bat at four in a power-house middle-order that also includes Cachopa and Wright... Last year Yardy, coming in at No 3, shared in 8 partnerships for the 2nd wicket, producing 315 runs. 5 of those partnerships ended with Yardy's own dismissal. After a brief period when Hamilton-Brown went in No 3, Joyce took over in July and in 11 innings that wicket produced 737 runs. 7 times he went on to share 4th wicket partnerships - notably with Cachopa - and these produced 541 runs. I wish them both well, but the evidence is that Joyce is most successful in that position and goes on to make big runs with No 4: exactly what you want from a No 3. |
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