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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2014 11:47:02 GMT
Cracking last day at Colchester - what a fantastic advert for outground cricket. The wicket has helped the bowlers - six spinners used in the match - but in terms of enertainment, it's a much better wicket than the dead tracks at many main county grounds.
Coles having great fun smiting fours and sixes, but causing apoplexy among the commentators for the way he keeps trying to reverse sweep Panesar. They've accused him of playing "casino cricket". Nice phrase which I don't think I'd heard before.
Let's hope Horsham can provide similar outground excitement next week.
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Post by hhsussex on Jul 16, 2014 13:30:38 GMT
Cracking last day at Colchester - what a fantastic advert for outground cricket. The wicket has helped the bowlers - six spinners used in the match - but in terms of enertainment, it's a much better wicket than the dead tracks at many main county grounds. Coles having great fun smiting fours and sixes, but causing apoplexy among the commentators for the way he keeps trying to reverse sweep Panesar. They've accused him of playing "casino cricket". Nice phrase which I don't think I'd heard before. Let's hope Horsham can provide similar outground excitement next week. Briggs looks to be winning the battle of the fourth-day spinner comfortably: 4-29 in 7 overs as Essex falter at 61-5. A great prospect when he started he is said to be another whose white-ball skills have increased in the same ratio as his ability to spin the red ball has declined. Not necessarily a problem that he doesn't spin the ball, as another famous Hampshire slow left armer, Peter Sainsbury ,who died this week, found, but if he doesn't flight it either then his utility is pretty limited. I hope this performance shows that he can re-find that skill as he certainly has the big-match temperament. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2014 14:37:21 GMT
Cracking last day at Colchester - what a fantastic advert for outground cricket. The wicket has helped the bowlers - six spinners used in the match - but in terms of enertainment, it's a much better wicket than the dead tracks at many main county grounds. Coles having great fun smiting fours and sixes, but causing apoplexy among the commentators for the way he keeps trying to reverse sweep Panesar. They've accused him of playing "casino cricket". Nice phrase which I don't think I'd heard before. Let's hope Horsham can provide similar outground excitement next week. Briggs looks to be winning the battle of the fourth-day spinner comfortably: 4-29 in 7 overs as Essex falter at 61-5. A great prospect when he started he is said to be another whose white-ball skills have increased in the same ratio as his ability to spin the red ball has declined. Not necessarily a problem that he doesn't spin the ball, as another famous Hampshire slow left armer, Peter Sainsbury ,who died this week, found, but if he doesn't flight it either then his utility is pretty limited. I hope this performance shows that he can re-find that skill as he certainly has the big-match temperament. Great win by Essex. And in the end Dawson ends up with better figures than Briggs... |
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Post by hhsussex on Jul 16, 2014 15:23:10 GMT
Briggs looks to be winning the battle of the fourth-day spinner comfortably: 4-29 in 7 overs as Essex falter at 61-5. A great prospect when he started he is said to be another whose white-ball skills have increased in the same ratio as his ability to spin the red ball has declined. Not necessarily a problem that he doesn't spin the ball, as another famous Hampshire slow left armer, Peter Sainsbury ,who died this week, found, but if he doesn't flight it either then his utility is pretty limited. I hope this performance shows that he can re-find that skill as he certainly has the big-match temperament. Great win by Essex. And in the end Dawson ends up with better figures than Briggs... Let's have some more wickets like this, and some more last day scrambles. They may not produce perfect technical batting performances, but they're a lot of fun to watch and players learn so much from being involved in them, especially spinners. What might have become of Briggs, and Dawson whose bowling has languished recently, if they had played in this kind of match regularly, and of course, if their captain, and coach/manager/director/figurehead trusted them and said to get on with the job. |
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