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Post by Wicked Cricket on Apr 19, 2016 9:07:55 GMT
An excellent debate.
Like fraudy I am a beero fan but each season sounds like a scratched record. Dare I say, the only reason Will is still with the club is because no other county have shown interest in him.
There are various similarities between him and Briggs. Both can bat and field and the two , surely, will play in the T20 and 50 overs malarkey. I was impressed with Briggs batting in the recent friendly.
Delighted to read Jordan is back on county turf. I have been really impressed by Garton. While he may go for a fair few he's a born wicket-taker and so long as can avoid the consistent injuries some youngster seamers gain, Sussex have a mighty impressive bowler for the future. Garton is already a natural replacement for Anyon/Hobden.
This morning is an important one for Sussex and their season. Take the final four wickets for under 300 runs and we have plenty to play for. A long stand and Essex match our 360, then psychologically, a dent in the Sussex confidence so early on, when the batters should have got over 400 in the first innings and five points given the great start from the openers.
As for the tail, in today's style of Championship cricket, they should go down to 9. Shahzad and Briggs can bat and it seems only Garton and Magoffin could be called true tailenders, so I don't understand the criticism. Four seamers are adequate for me. What we lack is a strong all-rounder and while Finch is improving, the club have never, yet, found a replacement for RMJ.
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Post by jonboy on Apr 19, 2016 9:24:19 GMT
An excellent debate. Like fraudy I am a beero fan but each season sounds like a scratched record. Dare I say, the only reason Will is still with the club is because no other county have shown interest in him. There are various similarities between him and Briggs. Both can bat and field and the two , surely, will play in the T20 and 50 overs malarkey. I was impressed with Briggs batting in the recent friendly. Delighted to read Jordan is back on county turf. I have been really impressed by Garton. While he may go for a fair few he's a born wicket-taker and so long as can avoid the consistent injuries some youngster seamers gain, Sussex have a mighty impressive bowler for the future. Garton is already a natural replacement for Anyon/Hobden. This morning is an important one for Sussex and their season. Take the final four wickets for under 300 runs and we have plenty to play for. A long stand and Essex match our 360, then psychologically, a dent in the Sussex confidence so early on, when the batters should have got over 400 in the first innings and five points given the great start from the openers. As for the tail, in today's style of Championship cricket, they should go down to 9. Shahzad and Briggs can bat and it seems only Garton and Magoffin could be called true tailenders, so I don't understand the criticism. Four seamers are adequate for me. What we lack is a strong all-rounder and while Finch is improving, the club have never, yet, found a replacement for RMJ. I think Garton has ambitions as an all rounder, and Ollie too, but yes, at the moment we don't have one Hopefully it is something we can address when we appoint a new overseas for the second half of the season. Imagine how much better our balance would look with someone like Faulkner batting at six |
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Post by jonboy on Apr 19, 2016 12:18:11 GMT
Lunch, and a lead of 51 Probably needed a lead of 100 plus, at this point, if we want to force the issue. Now it might need a tricky declaration, and with their batting line up, including some very big hitters, we can't afford to be too generous
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Post by hhsussex on Apr 19, 2016 12:22:43 GMT
Nice day's cricket with three contrasting sessions. Good to see the two proper openers restored to their right positions after they moved bewilderingly up and down the order under the old regime. Robinson batted nicely, although I'd still rather see Finch at six, Brown at seven and Robinson at eight. Essex look like a well-organised and motivated side. They gifted some early runs but kept at it, even when the scorebopard read 180-0. The last time I saw them at Tunbridge Wells in July last year, they were a shambolic rabble at the fag end of the Grayson era and loked like they didn't want to be there. Silverwood seems to have drilled them into a much sharper unit. Let's hope Davis has the same impact at Sussex (although his predecessor was in attendance and it would be no surprise if he's already missing the f/c game). Two complaints. First, Neil Beck's Books Banished? No sign of him or his stall anywhere on the ground. Secondly, there's a new wifi system involving a Sussex Cricket Retailpower log-in page that demands all sorts of person details, including date of birth. Why they need to know your birthday I've no idea (are the gospel quartet of Jim, Zac, Mark and Luke planning to send me a card?) But there's a drop down menu for you to enter the day, month and year which wouldn't work (at least on my phone, although it let me input all the other info). It then said: "please fill all required fileds" (sic, © Sussex Proofreading) and wouldn't permit me to proceed until I had entered my d.o.b. Which it wouldn't let me do. So no wifi in the ground all day for me. Did anybody else have this problem? |
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Post by hhsussex on Apr 19, 2016 12:28:11 GMT
Re borderman's points above.
Notice read out on Tannoy this morning and at lunch that Neil is unwell and that it is hoped he will be back later this summer. Hope so too and that Sussex will find simewhere suitable fir him to sell his books because he is part of the best, most valuable tradution of Sussex cricket and a great contributor to the worth of a day at the cricket.
Second I had similar pribkems with wifi yesterday am and complained and after lunch got a connection and today appears to be ok as well.
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Post by hhsussex on Apr 19, 2016 12:29:54 GMT
Grr I hate using this touch phone: pribkems are of course problems in the old Mid Sussex dialect:)
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Post by philh on Apr 19, 2016 13:57:25 GMT
Observation: Sussex had Salt as a substitute fielder yesterday. Today, Pepper is subbing for Essex. With Cook on the field, it's becoming like Masterchef.
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Post by fraudster on Apr 19, 2016 14:18:04 GMT
The criticism S&F is less about your 8 9 10 and 11 and more about 7 - if Robinson is a 7 then fair enough but everybody else's, and ours last season, is capable of several tons per season.
My point isn't really about Beer or Briggs, it's about game-plan. Give Briggs a good run, fine, but don't use him as a holding bowler in a five man attack. It is a waste of him, the seamers and a batting position and it's a massive flaw in our set-up, massive. We are effectively taking time out of the game from day one while worrying about our seamers, if we use Briggs this way. The use of Briggs is defensive and the worrying is negative. And all this in a division we are favourites to win.
Show me a winning side that worries and wastes time in any walk of life if you can - you will have pribkems doing so.
In the meantime Nash and Machan are playing positively and Briggs can be better judged tomorrow on a day 4 track. Let him attack.
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Post by fraudster on Apr 19, 2016 15:24:17 GMT
We are in a strong position at tea, yum yum, so we really need to push home this advantage. No *****ing about today Luke Wells, we cannot afford it. Prove how hard you can hit that ball, or let somebody else.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2016 16:13:55 GMT
We are in a strong position at tea, yum yum, so we really need to push home this advantage. No *****ing about today Luke Wells, we cannot afford it. Prove how hard you can hit that ball, or let somebody else. That's that decided then. Only who did you have in mind to come in and play the role? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2016 16:27:08 GMT
And at 209-5, we are into the tail and instead of Sussex looking to set a declaration, Essex are looking to bowl us out with only Nash standing in their way.
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Post by jonboy on Apr 19, 2016 16:31:59 GMT
Although another decent score from young Robbo, might give some weight to his claim of wanting to be a genuine all rounder
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2016 16:38:21 GMT
Although another decent score from young Robbo, might give some weight to his claim of wanting to be a genuine all rounder Sadly not. At 231-7, Essex probably favourites to win the day four run chase... |
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Post by jonboy on Apr 19, 2016 16:45:47 GMT
Although another decent score from young Robbo, might give some weight to his claim of wanting to be a genuine all rounder Sadly not. At 231-7, Essex probably favourites to win the day four run chase... They would be in my book too, but they are up against the divisions best attack |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2016 16:48:23 GMT
Sadly not. At 231-7, Essex probably favourites to win the day four run chase... They would be in my book too, but they are up against the divisions best attack 232-8. Could all be down to whether Cook can get used to batting in his new helmet! |
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