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Post by hhsussex on Apr 15, 2015 12:36:53 GMT
After beating Hampshire Sussex are joint 2nd with Yorkshire in the First Divison table, with Durham leading by one point. At time of writing Middlesex are doing a Horatius at the Bridge act and may restrict Notts to a draw, but if they do not then Notts will join the leading pack with 21 points. All this with Warwickshire, the most successful side in Championship cricket this century (by a short head from Sussex) yet to play.
Weather forecast is cooler, but still mostly sunny. Hope to see that all the roped-off areas at Hove are once more free to roam, that the Harvey's will flow bountifully, and we will enforce any declaration and win in three days this time!
Oh, and good luck to Worcs and look forward to seeing many of their players.
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Post by jonboy on Apr 16, 2015 12:20:25 GMT
Anyone have any idea who is going to open to cover for Nash? Will they just move Yardy or Joyce up and bring Machan in the middle-order? Can Machan or Finch open? There are a number of options, some discussed in this thread unofficialsussexccc.freeforums.net/post/8435/thread about the current 2ndXI match where Machan and Finch have opened and Zaidi has batted well. Last year Joyce batted very well when opening as cover for Nash when he was recovering from his appendix operation. Yardy wouldn't be a favourite: two cheap dismissals in this match to add to Wells doesn't argue for a strong partnership and that is what we desperately need. Machan might be the answer or we could introduce Zaidi at 6, with fingers crossed that his batting of last September rather than April- June can be reproduced, and have Joyce opening. Maybe move Brown up to six and bring Zaidi in at seven We need to find out whether Brown can bat in the top six, his first innings ton suggests he could. However, his second innings duck, along with the one against the students, might suggest that he's not quite ready. My money's on Zaidi coming in, but batting where, I don't know |
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Post by hhsussex on Apr 17, 2015 15:30:23 GMT
Something to cheer flashblade, from the email just received extolling the delights of the first match of the season:
"To celebrate the new season at Hove, Sussex will be offering FREE tea and coffee to members for the morning session of Day One against Worcestershire.
Sussex will also have its new range of Beer, Cider and Ales on sale, including Harveys being available all around the ground."
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Post by hhsussex on Apr 18, 2015 5:31:12 GMT
Worcestershire's squad is:
Mitchell, Oliver, Fell, Gidman, Kohler-Cadmore, Kervezee, Cox, Andrew, Shantry, Senanayake, Morris, Leach. Kervezee and all-rounder Leach are the additions to the team defeated by Yorkshire, with Moeen Ali of course now headed for the Caribbean.
There are several points of interest: Tom Fell , who scored a reputedly fine hundred against Yorkshire; Jack Shantry, whose medium baced bowling and gutsy batting are rapidly making hin a folk hero; Senanayake, reformed chucker, and notable for running out backing-up batsmen; Kohler-Cadmore, whose schoolboy batting a couple of years ago broke records and who is now intent on building a county career.
For Sussex, the key question is whether the hamstring soreness suffered by Chris Nash has been treatable. If not either Zaidi or Machan could come in with a change at the head of the batting order. If the latter, my preference would be:
Joyce
Wells
Yardy
Cachopa
Wright
Brown
Zaidi
Shahzad
Magoffin
Mills
Hobden
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Post by coverpoint on Apr 18, 2015 8:01:31 GMT
If Nash is out money would be on Machan coming in at 6 with Joyce opening and Cachopa and Wright batting at 4 and 5.
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Post by flashblade on Apr 18, 2015 9:18:14 GMT
Something to cheer flashblade, from the email just received extolling the delights of the first match of the season: "To celebrate the new season at Hove, Sussex will be offering FREE tea and coffee to members for the morning session of Day One against Worcestershire.
Sussex will also have its new range of Beer, Cider and Ales on sale, including Harveys being available all around the ground."That's great news! We were expecting the club to announce details of its 'ale partners' for the coming season - is this still in the pipeline, I wonder? |
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Post by crickettrader on Apr 18, 2015 10:55:38 GMT
HEINEKEN
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Post by hhsussex on Apr 18, 2015 11:10:45 GMT
Something to cheer flashblade, from the email just received extolling the delights of the first match of the season: "To celebrate the new season at Hove, Sussex will be offering FREE tea and coffee to members for the morning session of Day One against Worcestershire.
Sussex will also have its new range of Beer, Cider and Ales on sale, including Harveys being available all around the ground."That's great news! We were expecting the club to announce details of its 'ale partners' for the coming season - is this still in the pipeline, I wonder? I will try and find out tomorrow and post it here. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2015 11:43:51 GMT
That's great news! We were expecting the club to announce details of its 'ale partners' for the coming season - is this still in the pipeline, I wonder? I will try and find out tomorrow and post it here. It was posted on the club website last month and it is a three year deal with Heineken to be "the exclusive supplier to the club of draught and packaged lager and cider" and for the H (®) word to appear on Sussex's T20 Blast shirts. The statement goes on: "The three-year supply agreement means HEINEKEN UK will be the exclusive supplier to the club of draught and packaged lager and cider as well as Sussex’s competition sponsor of the NatWest T20 Blast tournament. Visitors to the 7,000 capacity BrightonandHoveJobs.com County Ground, Hove will now be able to enjoy a range of HEINEKEN’s popular ciders and beers including Foster’s, Amstel, Birra Moretti, Heineken®, Symonds and Bulmers."
Zac Toumazi, Chief Executive of Sussex Cricket, said, “We're delighted to team up with HEINEKEN. We look forward to working with a global brand and delivering our members and supporters a high quality offering when they visit Hove, and I am positive that they, and indeed our non-match day clients, will be pleased with the new range.”Personally, I cannnot agree with Zac that Heineken is "a high quality offering" (and as a well-known man of taste I bet you never drink it yourself, Zac!) and I wouldn't find much to argue with in the description on the Concourse Deadspin website: "Bottled Heineken is almost always skunky-tasting because too much of the branding is based on the green glass, preventing them from doing the smart thing and switching to brown glass that better blocks the UV light that kills beer. And canned and draft versions are almost as bad, suggesting that the skunkiness has become part of the intended flavour profile (I've heard that both Heineken and Corona intentionally light-shock their beers before canning and kegging in order to meet their customers' expectations of ****tiness, but I can't confirm this.) If you can avoid the skunk, you're still left with a thin, watery, too-sweet, over-carbonated beer. "Foster's and Amstel aren't much better, either, although as long as there is Harvey's, one need not worry too much about the filfth coming out of the other taps. But from the Hove ground's annual real ale festival to an exclusive deal with 'orrible Heineken ® is a hell of a long way to fall! |
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Post by hhsussex on Apr 18, 2015 12:50:58 GMT
I will try and find out tomorrow and post it here. It was posted on the club website last month and it is a three year deal with Heineken to be "the exclusive supplier to the club of draught and packaged lager and cider" and for the H (®) word to appear on Sussex's T20 Blast shirts. The statement goes on: "The three-year supply agreement means HEINEKEN UK will be the exclusive supplier to the club of draught and packaged lager and cider as well as Sussex’s competition sponsor of the NatWest T20 Blast tournament. Visitors to the 7,000 capacity BrightonandHoveJobs.com County Ground, Hove will now be able to enjoy a range of HEINEKEN’s popular ciders and beers including Foster’s, Amstel, Birra Moretti, Heineken®, Symonds and Bulmers."
Zac Toumazi, Chief Executive of Sussex Cricket, said, “We're delighted to team up with HEINEKEN. We look forward to working with a global brand and delivering our members and supporters a high quality offering when they visit Hove, and I am positive that they, and indeed our non-match day clients, will be pleased with the new range.”Personally, I cannnot agree with Zac that Heineken is "a high quality offering" (and as a well-known man of taste I bet you never drink it yourself, Zac!) and I wouldn't find much to argue with in the description on the Concourse Deadspin website: "Bottled Heineken is almost always skunky-tasting because too much of the branding is based on the green glass, preventing them from doing the smart thing and switching to brown glass that better blocks the UV light that kills beer. And canned and draft versions are almost as bad, suggesting that the skunkiness has become part of the intended flavour profile (I've heard that both Heineken and Corona intentionally light-shock their beers before canning and kegging in order to meet their customers' expectations of ****tiness, but I can't confirm this.) If you can avoid the skunk, you're still left with a thin, watery, too-sweet, over-carbonated beer. "Foster's and Amstel aren't much better, either, although as long as there is Harvey's, one need not worry too much about the filfth coming out of the other taps. But from the Hove ground's annual real ale festival to an exclusive deal with 'orrible Heineken ® is a hell of a long way to fall! All very true, but you neglected to quote the line at the end of that release, which is the point of flashblade's enquiry, Jon Filby's (partial) assurance, and my response: "Sussex will also be announcing their new ale partners for the 2015 season in due course."
As I read it, the Heineken's deal refers to the Eurofizz and sweet sickly fizzy muck market, and a very big market it is and many people enjoy it. |
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Post by flashblade on Apr 18, 2015 15:45:51 GMT
"As I read it, the Heineken's deal refers to the Eurofizz and sweet sickly fizzy muck market, and a very big market it is and many people enjoy it.
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But most enjoy proper lager . . .
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Post by fraudster on Apr 18, 2015 16:19:19 GMT
I see most of this thread isn't even about the game, stop talking out of your arses you old tarts.
Anywho, same team. If Nash is out, Machan straight in to open. Yardy can bowl as well as Zaidi so no point going down that road. Mind you, if Yardy is as spaced out and sidetracked as someone mentioned then maybe bring Finch in too. I certainly don't think it's a good idea to muck about with the order anyway. If you have to change your whole line up for one player you got problems sisters.
We should batter these boys but HH missed out their best player in his little preview - Andrew. Two out of two I think, tougher challenges to come.
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Post by hhsussex on Apr 19, 2015 6:07:23 GMT
The squad announced here www.sussexcricket.co.uk/news-1/preview-championship-returns-to-hove-as-sussex-entertain-worcestershire is: BC Brown (wkt) C Cachopa ME Hobden EC Joyce (c) MW Machan SJ Magoffin TS Mills CD Nash A Shahzad LWP Wells LJ Wright SAA Zaidi Yardy misses out because of illness, but presumably Nash is recovered from the sore hamstring problem at the end of the Hampshire game - perhaps the squad announcement was delayed so that his fitness could be assessed? Anyway, one option would be to put Machan in directly in place of Yardy at 3. He went in lower down last season but wasn't very consistent, and he has been played higher in the Second XI. The alternative would be to play Zaidi at 7 and move everyone from Brown above up one place. That would give us the slow bowling/over rate control option. |
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Post by twelvegrand on Apr 19, 2015 6:29:13 GMT
I'd prefer 7 batters with Machan at 4 but it's a difficult position. Assuming they won't want to risk Nash too much that takes two of our spin options out leaving Wells as the only fall back.
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Post by jonboy on Apr 19, 2015 7:07:43 GMT
Robbo this morning hinted that we may be without BOTH Nash and Yardy, so presumably then Zaidi and Machan would play
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