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Post by philh on Apr 12, 2016 16:40:28 GMT
Much improved day today from Sussex - I believe there wasn't a single miss-field all day. Jordan's on IPL comm duty today with 'Ace' Shah. Thankfully he's sitting down so he can get a much deserved rest after bowling the best part of 30 overs in the last two months. Here's a little song for his shattered little soul: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IvxpNTNmzsIt's a good point. Mags trotted out 20+ overs this week while CJ has only bowled a few more over 2 months. |
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Post by philh on Apr 13, 2016 5:36:38 GMT
If only our first game had been at Worcester, we could all still be relaxed about the season ahead. Still, the batting has been flawless so far.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2016 7:24:43 GMT
If only our first game had been at Worcester, we could all still be relaxed about the season ahead. Still, the batting has been flawless so far. Kent not very relaxed about it.On the Kent message board there are apoplectic supporters claiming that a saturated outfield is no different from a sub-standard pitch and Worcs should be docked points. Can't see how that one is going to fly, but I guess we should support it as come the sharp end of the season and the promotion battle, any deduction in Worcs' points tally is more likely to benefit Sussex than Kent! There's one complete Kent dunderhead making an ass of himself by accusing Worcs of "gross negligence" and calling them "a joke club, unfit for purpose". A Worcs chap came back, explained the situation and then pointed out Kent's own record - when Worcs played at Tunbridge Wells two years ago, due to what can only be described as "gross negligence" the covers weren't secured properly and water got under them ensuring vitually three days without any play . I remember it well, as I knew a staff member who rang me at 9am and told me to stay home as the covers had failed overnight and I had to ring/text every Kent supporter I know and tell them to save themselves the journey. No points were deducted, even though it was the pitch not the outfield that was rendered unplayable by an action that was entirely avoidable. Sadly it was thr wrong days that were called off. If day one had been a wash-out we would have been spared the nasty spectacle of Nigel Farage cavorting in the Kent committee tent all day! If you play CC cricket in early April, the chances are that the majority of matches are going to see no result. The only lucky beneficiary of the ridiculously early start this season looks like being Essex. |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Apr 13, 2016 8:46:22 GMT
It's a miracle New Road is even allowed to exist as a first class ground given their regular Noah's Ark catastrophes. The Worcestershire groundsmen do an exceptional job in clearing up after each flood and I am amazed so many home matches go ahead.
If memory serves, they had just a few months to clean up this time around and as, no doubt, the water table is so high beneath the pitch and outfield, any further rain of substance, and problems will ensue.
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Post by hhsussex on Apr 13, 2016 9:00:58 GMT
It's a miracle New Road is even allowed to exist as a first class ground given their regular Noah's Ark catastrophes. The Worcestershire groundsmen do an exceptional job in clearing up after each flood and I am amazed so many home matches go ahead. If memory serves, they had just a few months to clean up this time around and as, no doubt, the water table is so high beneath the pitch and outfield, any further rain of substance, and problems will ensue. The issue that borderman has pointed out as occupying the correspondents on the We Are Kent board - and they all seem to be hydraulics engineers from the intensity and detail of their comments - is that alternative grounds exist where the fixture could have been held. These are Kidderminster and Royal Grammar School Worcester. I think there probably is a case for the new regulation on sub-standard pitches, which we discussed here unofficialsussexccc.freeforums.net/post/16283/thread to apply. I t is the onus of the Home County to ensure that if there is a material likelihood that 72 hours prior to a scheduled match that a venue will be unable to stage any play over the scheduled term of the match due to the prevailing condition of the venue 72 hours prior to the scheduled start of the match (including pitch and/or outfield) then an alternative venue must be identified under playing condition 3.4 and brought to the attention of the visiting County and ECB and made available should playing conditions not improve.............................................................In exceptional circumstances, failure to comply with this playing condition 3.4 may in the sole and absolute and unfettered discretion of the Board result in the deduction of points from a First Class County and the possible award of additional points to another First Class County
Was the problem capable of being assessed 72 hours out and were the alternative grouds capable of being made ready at that stage? |
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Post by jonboy on Apr 13, 2016 9:07:51 GMT
So, we are still unbeaten in 2 first class games
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Post by flashblade on Apr 13, 2016 9:09:30 GMT
no play today - match drawn. Phew!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2016 9:14:17 GMT
According to Worcs, the ground was playable on Thursday but there was torrential rain on Friday, leading to local flooding.As the game was due to start at 11 am on Sunday, that's less than 72 hours.
The bonkers thing is that some Kent supporters seem to think Worcs do it deliberately in order to deny Kent points. The obvious flaw in this logic is that the side which surely suffers most in this is not Kent , who get points for a draw they may well not have secured had play been possible, but Worcs, who are second favourites after Sussex for promotion and would have backed themselves to beat a Kent side lacking its two overseas signings Latham and Rabada, missing Sam Billings and Rob Key and with an invitingly weak bowling attack once Coles and the new ball had been seen off...
Cricket is a game of great uncertainty.But you'd have to say Worcs chances of a full points haul from this game were substantially higher than those of Kent.
Of the three most fancied sides in the division, it looks like Essex will steal a march on both Worcs and Sussex in the opening round...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2016 9:21:30 GMT
no play today - match drawn. Phew! 253 overs lost to the weather in this match. Which rather suggests that Worcs would have gained nothing by switching their game at 24 hours notice to the grammar school or Kidderminster... The villains here are not Worcs or Northants but the ECB for scheduling championship cricket to start on April 10. We never used to start that early and I suspect global warming over the past few years means that we are having wetter winters than ever before - which if anything should mean the start date needs to be pushed back rather than brought forward... |
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Post by hhsussex on Apr 13, 2016 9:25:39 GMT
no play today - match drawn. Phew! Overnight rain, apparently, though the weather today would have been the best of the match  |
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Post by hhsussex on Apr 13, 2016 9:28:49 GMT
no play today - match drawn. Phew! 253 overs lost to the weather in this match. Which rather suggests that Worcs would have gained nothing by switching their game at 24 hours notice to the grammar school or Kidderminster... The villains here are not Worcs or Northants but the ECB for scheduling championship cricket to start on April 10. We never used to start that early and I suspect global warming over the past few years means that we are having wetter winters than ever before - which if anything should mean the start date needs to be pushed back rather than brought forward... Certainly more unpredictable winters and early springs without the former certainties of a couple of months of frost to break up the soil and , as they warm, force up the new grass. We now have belts of rainy , temperate spells mixed with storms, all of which makes it far more difficult to be certain that the pitches are ready. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2016 9:35:27 GMT
253 overs lost to the weather in this match. Which rather suggests that Worcs would have gained nothing by switching their game at 24 hours notice to the grammar school or Kidderminster... The villains here are not Worcs or Northants but the ECB for scheduling championship cricket to start on April 10. We never used to start that early and I suspect global warming over the past few years means that we are having wetter winters than ever before - which if anything should mean the start date needs to be pushed back rather than brought forward... Certainly more unpredictable winters and early springs without the former certainties of a couple of months of frost to break up the soil and , as they warm, force up the new grass. We now have belts of rainy , temperate spells mixed with storms, all of which makes it far more difficult to be certain that the pitches are ready. Spoken like a man who has much experience of tilling the soil (even if only on a relatively small allotment plot) and I'm sure you are right! |
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Post by hhsussex on Apr 13, 2016 9:44:46 GMT
Certainly more unpredictable winters and early springs without the former certainties of a couple of months of frost to break up the soil and , as they warm, force up the new grass. We now have belts of rainy , temperate spells mixed with storms, all of which makes it far more difficult to be certain that the pitches are ready. Spoken like a man who has much experience of tilling the soil (even if only on a relatively small allotment plot) and I'm sure you are right! This thread www.pitchcare.com/message/message/101043 on the groundsmen's message board makes interesting reading. |
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Post by philh on Apr 13, 2016 11:42:02 GMT
Sussex third in the table, which everyone must agree, is respectable - and, funnily enough, my prediction for the end of season table. We just need to tonk the league leaders next week now.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Apr 13, 2016 17:48:55 GMT
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