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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2015 9:43:00 GMT
I was hoping that the England team would be announced at 10.30 and Jordan could have been sent down the motorway in time to play for Sussex this evening. But the delayed start due to rain means teams have not been announced, so they will keep him hanging around, just in case Anderson or Broad 'does a McGrath' and steps on a ball and twists an ankle in the warm-ups.
Middx in spectacular form last night and brutally stomped all over Kent, so should be a cracking match.
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Post by virgs1 on May 29, 2015 13:12:22 GMT
Will be a tough game tonight hopefully we can get another win on the board. More cartwheelers from Ty will come in handy!
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Post by jim on May 29, 2015 15:12:32 GMT
Now sunny and blowy - warm clothes needed for tonight!!
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2015 17:53:20 GMT
Six bowlers but no Ben Brown. Explain.
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Post by jonboy on May 29, 2015 18:02:27 GMT
Yeah, not sure Yardy is a number six in this format
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Post by coverpoint on May 29, 2015 19:20:54 GMT
Where are Brown and Machan? Why on earth did Yardy open the bowling? That idea not only needs to be consigned to the dustbin but to be burnt too!
Brave effort with the bat by Wright and Jordan.
WTF is Yardy batting at 11? He should be in ahead of Beer, Robinson, Piolet and Mills. You could argue he should have come at 5 instead of Finch.
Abbott has been the difference between the two teams. 16 dot balls and five wickets is amazing and he should get the man of the match award not Malan.
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Post by coverpoint on May 29, 2015 19:23:22 GMT
To be fair to Robbo, muscle strain/pull/tear is not an exact science. One can only estimate a recovery time which can have many variables dependent on many factors. I hope we haven't lost Jordan to drinks duties. 6 weeks and a few days is a huge difference. |
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Post by mrsdoyle on May 29, 2015 20:49:07 GMT
Run rate up to 56 now, looking pretty tricky.
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Post by flashblade on May 29, 2015 21:07:35 GMT
Looking forward to hearing from anyone who was at the match.
After Middlesex's great innings, I thought we did well to lose by only 42 runs. The scoreboard pressure was enormous, and told in the end.
I'm puzzled about Yardy's involvement in this match - how fit is he? Coming in at no 11, he was fit enough to hit two 4s and a 6 off 9 balls. Should he have come in ahead of the tailenders?
How big a crowd was there?
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2015 21:29:11 GMT
Middx are on fire, as they showed last night, too. In just over 24 hours, they've scored 446 runs in 40 overs.
Getting a bit worried about Sussex's middle order. Cachopa and Finch across both competitions this season have just 338 runs in 21 innings at an avge of 16.
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Post by jonboy on May 29, 2015 22:09:47 GMT
I'm of the mind, that we just don't have the personnel to be successful in this completion. Only Luke Wright, the stand out performer, can be classed as a genuine T20 specialist. That's specialist as in, he excels in this competition, not merely because it's the only format he plays. Jayawardene is obviously quality, and Yardy and Beer can usually be relied on to keep it tight in the middle overs. We don't have specialist death bowlers, as such, but three from Shahzad, Mills, Jordan and young Robinson, should be able to do a job. Never four though, I just don't see the logic of playing four seamers in T20. We could probably do with another spinner in there. Tredwell would have been perfect, 12 overs from him, Beer and Yardy, would strangle most sides. It's the batting where we lack any sort of impetus, Wright apart, and, in my opinion, we missed a trick by having Magoffin as our second overseas T20. We should have let him concentrate on the Championship and brought in another big hitter to give the middle order a bit of oomph. Fair enough, we're missing Prior, who was probably originally earmarked for that role. However, it was fairly clear that Prior wouldn't be around for the first half of the season, and we needed to bring someone in to do that role. Is it too late? I don't know, other counties manage to get replacements fairly easily, so if we still see ourselves as challengers for a place on finals day, then why not get someone in.
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Post by nemmo on May 29, 2015 22:42:52 GMT
Looking forward to hearing from anyone who was at the match. After Middlesex's great innings, I thought we did well to lose by only 42 runs. The scoreboard pressure was enormous, and told in the end. I'm puzzled about Yardy's involvement in this match - how fit is he? Coming in at no 11, he was fit enough to hit two 4s and a 6 off 9 balls. Should he have come in ahead of the tailenders? How big a crowd was there? The crowd at the match was excellent. I couldn't see many free seats. Yardy at 11 was rather odd. Initially I thought he was injured but he certainly didn't bat that way. Middlesex batting was excellent. The main difference between the two sides was the quality of bowling. While Stirling and Malan were great they didn't really take any risks which was a combination of freebies and not bowling to the field that was set. I've seen far worse bowling from Sussex but the main issue seemed to be that gaps were far too easily found because the wrong balls for the situation were used. Beer dropped Stirling early on when perhaps Cachopa should have taken it. Middlesex bowling was excellent (Apart from that spinner who got a solitary over), Abbot especially. It was really noticeable how many shots they stopped close in because the bowling was in the right area. All of the top order but Wright were dismissed playing loose shots. Feel a little sorry for Cachopa who seemed to be hitting it well before he was caught on the boundary. Shot of the night for me was Malan's beautiful cover drive into hospitality for 6. Wright's kitchen sink throw 4 and late-late cut should get honourable mentions. If we want to seriously pose a threat this year we ideally need Shahzad back and more big contributions from the top order. |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2015 8:23:38 GMT
Where are Brown and Machan? Why on earth did Yardy open the bowling? That idea not only needs to be consigned to the dustbin but to be burnt too! Brave effort with the bat by Wright and Jordan. WTF is Yardy batting at 11? He should be in ahead of Beer, Robinson, Piolet and Mills. You could argue he should have come at 5 instead of Finch. Abbott has been the difference between the two teams. 16 dot balls and five wickets is amazing and he should get the man of the match award not Malan. Yardy's first over went for four and was probably our most economical of the evening! |
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Post by jonfilby on May 30, 2015 9:53:12 GMT
Where are Brown and Machan? Why on earth did Yardy open the bowling? That idea not only needs to be consigned to the dustbin but to be burnt too! Brave effort with the bat by Wright and Jordan. WTF is Yardy batting at 11? He should be in ahead of Beer, Robinson, Piolet and Mills. You could argue he should have come at 5 instead of Finch. Abbott has been the difference between the two teams. 16 dot balls and five wickets is amazing and he should get the man of the match award not Malan. Yardy's first over went for four and was probably our most economical of the evening! Stonewall, what are you doing coming on here and letting facts get in the way of gratuitous criticism. |
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Post by jonfilby on May 30, 2015 9:58:54 GMT
HH - you are a lovely man and post so eruditely on here. I just assume that, when you read Jim's very helpful post about Mike Yardy's injury, you missed out his second word.
There is no conspiracy, its not unhelpful....... the original prognosis was 6 weeks. Since the forum on Monday, that has changed and Mike will indeed have a fitness test ahead of the game tomorrow. Happy days.
Jon, have you considered what damage the club medical advisors could wreak to the economy, if applied on a national scale? "That's a nasty strain: I'm going to sign you off for 6 weeks, but don't worry you'll be all right to play cricket next Friday". Entire industries would cease to operate, the pharmacies would be emptied, the sickness benefit claims would rocket and the deficit be doubled overnight. Meanwhile the streets are thronged with the over-enthgisiastically diagnosed, keen to pursue their new-found fitness, cycling, hurdling, sprinting, leaping everywhere. Seriously, I'm obviously delighted that a key, and well-loved player, may be ready to play much sooner than anticipated, but doesn't that cast just a tiny scintilla of doubt over some of Mark's pronouncements? When he says Shahzad is two weeks away from playing (and when he said it, it was already two weeks after it was originally announced it would be 6 days), should we now prepare to see him play in Nottingham? Will we have a half a dozen fit seamers queueing up in the nets ready to displace the young pretenders Hobden and Robinson? Yes - it does cast some doubt on any pronouncements about injuries but that is the, non-conspiratorial, nature of such pronouncements.
I doubt that either Hobden or Robinson will be replaced by anybody - I very much hope they are amongst the first names on our increasingly exciting teamsheet.
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