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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jun 1, 2015 8:49:35 GMT
Lucky ol' Somerset supporters. To have an in-form Gayle playing for you is beyond box office - more like a Narnia wardrobe with 6s on it. Even the Australian media picked up on the innings which is rare, although it offered them another dig at English cricket because Somerset still failed to win. They quote Somerset coach Matthew Maynard: "I thought Sam Northeast played a sensational innings, but then the world boss came in and it's different gravy. Words can't explain exactly what we have seen today. He makes it look so easy and strikes the ball so cleanly." The other star of the match Kent skipper Northeast said: "I don't know where to start. It was an incredible game and Chris's innings was one of the best things I have ever seen." www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/chris-gayles-spectacular-hundred-in-vain-for-somerset-20150601-ghdwza.htmlPS: No surprise the poll below the article shows 87% of those voted believe Australia will win the Ashes. I am amazed that 13% voted for England. |
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Post by flashblade on Jun 1, 2015 9:03:17 GMT
Lucky ol' Somerset supporters. To have an in-form Gayle playing for you is beyond box office - more like a Narnia wardrobe with 6s on it. Even the Australian media picked up on the innings which is rare, although it offered them another dig at English cricket because Somerset still failed to win. They quote Somerset coach Matthew Maynard: "I thought Sam Northeast played a sensational innings, but then the world boss came in and it's different gravy. Words can't explain exactly what we have seen today. He makes it look so easy and strikes the ball so cleanly." The other star of the match Kent skipper Northeast said: "I don't know where to start. It was an incredible game and Chris's innings was one of the best things I have ever seen." www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/chris-gayles-spectacular-hundred-in-vain-for-somerset-20150601-ghdwza.htmlPS: No surprise the poll below the article shows 87% of those voted believe Australia will win the Ashes. I am amazed that
13% voted for England.Just bloody minded, tribal, one-eyed, rose-tinted, loyal-at-all-costs patriotism, possibly!  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2015 17:28:34 GMT
Over at Chelmsford, Leics are in danger of winning their first CC game in three seasons. But they will probably find a way of messing it up!
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Post by fraudster on Jun 2, 2015 7:38:35 GMT
Lucky ol' Somerset supporters. To have an in-form Gayle playing for you is beyond box office - more like a Narnia wardrobe with 6s on it. Even the Australian media picked up on the innings which is rare, although it offered them another dig at English cricket because Somerset still failed to win. They quote Somerset coach Matthew Maynard: "I thought Sam Northeast played a sensational innings, but then the world boss came in and it's different gravy. Words can't explain exactly what we have seen today. He makes it look so easy and strikes the ball so cleanly." The other star of the match Kent skipper Northeast said: "I don't know where to start. It was an incredible game and Chris's innings was one of the best things I have ever seen." www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/chris-gayles-spectacular-hundred-in-vain-for-somerset-20150601-ghdwza.htmlPS: No surprise the poll below the article shows 87% of those voted believe Australia will win the Ashes. I am amazed that 13% voted for England. I see absolutely no 'dig' at English cricket in that sentence or throughout the article myself, you spin jockey. Smiley face winking, and with nice hair |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jun 2, 2015 8:51:50 GMT
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Post by hhsussex on Jun 3, 2015 12:08:41 GMT
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jun 4, 2015 8:26:09 GMT
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Post by hhsussex on Jun 4, 2015 8:34:04 GMT
Gurt is as much Sussex as Somerset - I've heard lots of older farm chaps in the Weald talking about Gurt big roots while they'te digging. In fact there was once a whole dialect loosely referred to as Southron that covered rural Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and Dorset and this survived up to the Twenties and Thirties - probably the fathers of these men were the last to speak it regularly. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2015 8:37:47 GMT
I know it's a little further westward ho, but Chris Gayle to have cameo starring role in the next series of Poldark?
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jun 4, 2015 9:23:57 GMT
 See what you mean. A scythe in his hand and Chris would give Aidan Turner and the ladies a mighty WOWzat! |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jun 5, 2015 20:46:14 GMT
An exciting night of T20 Blast including a last ball win for Lancashire against Yorkshire where Buttler was the hero with 71* in 35
balls and Chris Gayle continues his dazzling Somerset innings with 85* to help the county to an easy win over Hampshire. Meanwhile,
Glamorgan beat Middlesex by just 4 runs.
Presently, Chris Gayle has scored 328 runs from 160 balls over 3 innings with an average of 328. This includes 22 fours, 29 sixes
and a strike rate of 183.
WOWzat!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2015 21:20:47 GMT
Gayle has to be the best value-for-money signing in English T20 ever - even if Somerset are paying him £10k per game. Yet there are still jealous and small-minded gradgrinds among the supporters of the counties he demolishes who continue to dismiss him as "just a mercenary".
Not sure Jayawardene and George Bailey put many bums on seats, but Gayle is clearly a stadium filler. And given the way Gayle makes English county bowling look so mediocre, McCullum might well be similarly dominant for Birmingham Bears Mitch Johnson, David Warner, AB De Villiers and Virat Kohli would all have similar impact,too, if any county had the money and the status to sign them.
Which it seems they don't. Whether one likes it or not, it is going to take a high-profile franchised tournament with the number of teams cut in half to attract such players to English cricket.
Elsewhere, I went to Beckenham tonight and saw a master-class from Glos with both bat and ball, as Kent got completely carried away, showing an uncharacteristic Billy Big Boots we-are-top-of-the-league swagger, naively trying to smack every ball out of the park. And I was home in time to see Ice Man Buttler see Lancs home to an extraordinary win.
After tonight's results the good thing from the point of view of Sussex is that despite being in seveth place, they only need to win the two games in hand to go above table-toppers Kent on NRR.
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Post by leedsgull on Jun 10, 2015 5:11:00 GMT
Looks already like a two horse race for the Championship. Durham have a great knack of winning games from unlikely positions but get very few batting bonus points. Yorkshire did not play at all well but beat Middlesex fairly easily in the end. Yorkshire only had three front line bowlers yet still took 20 wickets. They relied on Maxwell & Lyth for spin. The depth of their batting is ultimately what will win them the title I think. Bairstow's not out century in the first innings was the key but he had to be supported at the other end and Patterson and Brooks did so. This tail end support is a regular occurrence.
In the 2nd division it looks like a stroll for Lancashire and Surrey which will make division one extremely competitive next season.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jun 11, 2015 16:29:32 GMT
Greatly disappointed to see the 'Gayle Whirlwind' returning early to the Caribbean due to his 'Immense Workload' but not as disappointed as the Somerset supporters and their hierarchy who expected a longer stay. Even so 4 matches with his last being against Surrey on Friday is enough to prove that Gayle is still "King of the World's T20 Castle" and huge relief for Sussex whom while a home game at Hove might have produced a sell-out with a Gayle appearance, at least Sussex have a chance of winning. As to this 'immense workload' the mind boggles. Presumably, it has something to do with the CPL. Either that or along with his best buddy KP, judging by their tweets, are planning a series of late nights in the Caribbean next week. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/33093164 |
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Post by fraudster on Jun 11, 2015 22:15:54 GMT
One horse race, I reckon. Unusual if it is.
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