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Post by philh on Sept 3, 2015 15:32:03 GMT
1 for 1 - D'Oliveira lbw to Magoffin
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Post by hhsussex on Sept 3, 2015 16:22:32 GMT
40-2 looks a lot more comfortable.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2015 16:28:46 GMT
Match figures so far:
Luke Wells 2-17
Saeed Ajmal 0 - 114
I believe 'lol' is the appropriate acronym!
on edit:
we can now add Zaidi match figures so far of 2-23...
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Post by hhsussex on Sept 3, 2015 16:45:27 GMT
13 catches in 4 matches for Jordan. Plus the wickets. Plus the match-winning 6 off the final ball against Warwickshire. I'm still surprised that he wasn't recalled for the one-day squad even if we have to accept he's probably just short of Test standard. Thank goodness we still have him - and pray that nothing happens to Woakes that causes Bayliss and Farbrace to look in his direction until after the Somerset game.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2015 16:45:14 GMT
If Sussex pull this off it will be their first win in 15 matches. The last victory came in the T20 on July 10.
And I hate to point this out, but it is being achieved without Ed Joyce, who last captained Sussex to victory way back in May.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2015 16:47:06 GMT
Match figures so far: Luke Wells 2-17 Saeed Ajmal 0 - 114 I believe 'lol' is the appropriate acronym! on edit: we can now add Zaidi match figures so far of 2-23... And I'm guessing Wells and Zaidi are only bowling so that the umpires don't take them off for bad light? |
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Post by fraudster on Sept 3, 2015 18:29:45 GMT
Milky toast?
Great win this, great win. All down to balance you know. This was a game for big players to step up - they duly have. We could add three players to this side to make us even stronger for the next game in Hatchett, Joyce and Beer but I won't hold my breath, otherwise I will die, largely because the game is next week.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2015 18:47:44 GMT
We could add three players to this side to make us even stronger for the next game We could subtract three players and a team of eight would probably still be good for Somerset who seem to be in freefall. But yeah, special dispensation from the ECB to play 14 when we go to Headingley might almost even things up against the Yorkies! |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Sept 3, 2015 19:22:31 GMT
Sussex CCC are a bonkers team.
For the last three years the cycle has been the same. Speed out of the traps like a greyhound on amphetamines. Then spend the
next three months in the doldrums. Finally, call on a warren of magic rabbits who pop up like a funfair sideshow.
The performances against Yorkshire and now Worcestershire present a completely different side. Should they be called Yorksex,
perhaps, where the sex element makes viagra dim in comparison.
Well done to Captain Marvel Wright. His highest ever 1st class score. Well done to Brown who being dropped from the OD games
has helped him discover his true potential. Well done to Nash for retiring hurt yesterday, only to return today to taunt the Worcestershire
bowlers. And well done to Mark Robinson for achieving the annual deal with the Sussex alchemist for the end of the season. Magic
rabbits or no magic rabbits, the hat is flowing with abundance.
Why do Sussex usually only perform when their backs are against the wall? Is this some perverse Churchillian bravado only accounted for
at Hove.
What ever spell the Brighton alchemist has weaved may it continue.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2015 19:45:52 GMT
You been on the magic mushrooms again, s&f?
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Post by hhsussex on Sept 4, 2015 7:45:45 GMT
Sussex CCC are a bonkers team. For the last three years the cycle has been the same. Speed out of the traps like a greyhound on amphetamines. Then spend the next three months in the doldrums. Finally, call on a warren of magic rabbits who pop up like a funfair sideshow. The performances against Yorkshire and now Worcestershire present a completely different side. Should they be called Yorksex, perhaps, where the sex element makes viagra dim in comparison. Well done to Captain Marvel Wright. His highest ever 1st class score. Well done to Brown who being dropped from the OD games has helped him discover his true potential. Well done to Nash for retiring hurt yesterday, only to return today to taunt the Worcestershire bowlers. And well done to Mark Robinson for achieving the annual deal with the Sussex alchemist for the end of the season. Magic rabbits or no magic rabbits, the hat is flowing with abundance. Why do Sussex usually only perform when their backs are against the wall? Is this some perverse Churchillian bravado only accounted for at Hove. What ever spell the Brighton alchemist has weaved may it continue. fluffy, this isn't about alchemy. What you have described in your opening para is an organisation that makes the same mistakes year after year and fails to learn from them. So far it has had just about enough resilience and resources to compensate for those errors but the cost and drain on resources increases year by year . That is a description of a failed organisation. I can't agree with your congratulations to a manager who presides over this mess. If Sussex are lucky enough to escape relegation this year - and we probably need to beat Somerset to be really sure of that - then we must start learning from the lessons of failure. The first thing will be to bring in a new management team that doesn't carry a weight of sentimental history around it's shoulders that hampers it from taking progressive action. |
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Post by jonboy on Sept 4, 2015 8:07:23 GMT
I think it's hard to compare this season, with any of the previous, because the circumstances have been so unique. It may appear that the season has a familiar pattern to it, but such was the decimation of our bowling resources, that not many sides would have coped. Maybe we could have been a bit more proactive earlier on, in reinforcing the depleted seam department, I don't know, but bringing in young Robbo on a short term contract, hardly compensated for the loss of Jordan, Mills, Shahzad, Anyon and Hatchett. Where, I suppose comparisons could be made, was in our collective batting. Yes we lost Prior, but the batting did not generally have to suffer the same injury concerns, as the bowling Despite good individual stats from two or three, collectively the batting under performed again.
However, in recent games, the batting has shown a resolve not seen at Sussex for a long while, so finally the penny may have dropped. It's my opinion that, if the batters had played to their potential earlier in the season, we wouldn't have been in this situation. Bat like this for the remaining games, and with the returning Jordan bolstering the bowling, we have a chance of avoiding the drop. That is something I thought was most unlikely a few weeks ago.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2015 8:30:10 GMT
bringing in young Robbo on a short term contract, hardly compensated for the loss of Jordan, Mills, Shahzad, Anyon and Hatchett. But in a way it almost did. He's taken more wickets than we might have expected from Anyon, Hatchett and Mills combined. Jordan we didn't really 'lose' as we didn't expect to be seeing much of him, anyway. In a paradoxical way , his injury has benefited Sussex in that otherwise he would now be off with England's one day squad instead of bowling Sussex to victory at Worcester. The major loss in my book was Shahzad because if he could have kept up the dynamite start he had, then the season might have been substantially different. For what it's worth, I think the fast bowling injury crisis was used as an excuse to cover for other shortcomings (Joyce's loss of form, Wells' lack of advancement, Cachopa's collapse, Nash & Yardy seemingly out of sorts) and banging on endlessly about it backfired in that it led to a demoralised team wallowing in self-pity so that eventually even Mark Robinson was forced to admit that heads had dropped and players were "feeling sorry for themsleves". |
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Post by howardh on Sept 4, 2015 11:31:07 GMT
Jordan strikes. Six down. Four to go. Come on, lads!!!
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Post by hhsussex on Sept 4, 2015 11:31:01 GMT
6 down at lunchtime, and although a stoppage for rain this morning, plenty of time left to finish it this afternoon. Jordan's impact has been immense, and has compensated for the obvious fatigue of Magoffin and Robinson. The latter hasn't bowled this morning and I haven't been listening to commentary - does anyone know if he's all right or just resting those sore shins he was reporting around the time of the Notts game at Horsham?
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