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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2016 15:33:41 GMT
Record second-wicket partnership for Sussex is 385.
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Post by hhsussex on May 9, 2016 15:37:28 GMT
351-1...12 overs for 49 runs and maximum points.
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Post by leedsmartlet on May 9, 2016 15:42:03 GMT
Wish I hadn't driven up today to watch this. With the weather forecast so poor the next 2 days I was anticipating us going very hard for 2 sessions and declaring at tea. There is clearly zero desire to win this game so heading back home. Shocking stuff, it's the last time I make a trip this year , why should I be arsed to make any effort if the management either don't have clue about how whether affects cricket games or simply can't be arsed to win. Welcome to the forum pipster1. Strong views but you've got people talking. Anyone else watching today - thinking perhaps of leedsmartlet - who can shed any light on the scoring rate and the pitch? Unfortunately I'm back at work today. Those comments do seems extremely harsh given our performance, the weather forecast may be frustrating be we seem to be doing all we can. If the poster is not enjoying this match (glorious weather and a great performance), I would suggest he go and watch another sport. |
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2016 15:45:52 GMT
Yes a three hundred partnership doesn't exactly amount to dereliction of duty.
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Post by hhsussex on May 9, 2016 15:46:03 GMT
Welcome to the forum pipster1. Strong views but you've got people talking. Anyone else watching today - thinking perhaps of leedsmartlet - who can shed any light on the scoring rate and the pitch? Unfortunately I'm back at work today. Those comments do seems extremely harsh given our performance, the weather forecast may be frustrating be we seem to be doing all we can. If the poster is not enjoying this match (glorious weather and a great performance), I would suggest he go and watch another sport. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. The stepping up through the gears that Joyce, and Wells too, have done since lunch has been first measured then headlong and I'm sure pipster1 is probably having second, third and fourth thoughts. Certainly it seems to be a very different game than the last time I watched Sussex v Derby, and saw a very laboured innings by Wells in a match that was about as miserable as anything I can recall. |
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2016 15:49:22 GMT
Root and Bairstow about to break record for fourth wicket.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2016 16:00:56 GMT
Ed's career best is 231.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2016 16:08:34 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2016 16:12:56 GMT
Brian Lara, who are you?
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Post by timbo1988 on May 9, 2016 17:20:58 GMT
Welcome to the forum pipster1. Strong views but you've got people talking. Anyone else watching today - thinking perhaps of leedsmartlet - who can shed any light on the scoring rate and the pitch? Unfortunately I'm back at work today. Those comments do seems extremely harsh given our performance, the weather forecast may be frustrating be we seem to be doing all we can. If the poster is not enjoying this match (glorious weather and a great performance), I would suggest he go and watch another sport. I was there yesterday but would add! The pitch is not easy to bat on, even yesterday there were balls rising up off a length and the Physio was called 3 times in Derbyshire's innings! Not easy to score quickly when the ball is varying in bounce! The outfield is slow, and Nash middled a few extra cover drives yesterday which didn't reach the boundary! Also what if the forecast changes? We needed to get into a position to dominate the game and have done that! Continue to score positively and Derbyshire will be batting again soon with a big deficit! I think the posters comments are very harsh! |
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Post by pipster1 on May 9, 2016 17:21:22 GMT
Having signed up to the forum to vent my anger with the morning session I thought I'd something proactive and spoke to a few of the staff. I let them know how upset I was with the morning session and suggested they put their foot down. The afternoon session was a joy to watch but it should have been the morning session that was like that given our superb position. To have a chance of winning the game we had to declare by tea maybe with 350 or 400 depending on how well things went. As it it we've made 450 in a cantor depite wasting a session and now we still haven't declared.
Great knocks by Joyce and Wells after lunch. Just as shame about the tactics guys . With the amount of rain passing through the UK we needed them 4 down at least tonight. Hopefully the rain will all miss and the cloudy conditions aid our attack.
Whittingham is fine to bowl , was just cramp which is understandable on debut.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2016 18:47:57 GMT
Sounds like a fab innings by Joyce; before the start of the season skybet had him as favourite to be the season's leading runscorer in the championship.
I don't wish to be a Jeremiah but before we get too euphoric let's remember that there are loads of big-scoring sides in div two. Worcs declared at 456-6 today and Kent tonight sit on 304-3. Essex's batting is frightening with Napier, a genuine all-rounder, at nine.
Leics are reborn and made almost 500 v Sussex. Northants have passed 470 twice. Glos concluded last season with a score of more than 550 and started this season with a score of 563 - and Klinger hasn't even arrived yet. Derbyshire, despite their inept batting in th current game,scored 444 earlier this season. Even Glamorgan- already looking like they will compete with Northants as potential wooden-spoonists- have passed 400 twice.
The stats are that there have been 14 scores of more than 400 in div two so far this season - and Sussex was the last of the nine counties to pass that milestone today.
The county that gets out of this division will be the one with the best bowling attack. That's why before the season started I firmly believed Sussex - with Jordan, Magoffin, Shahzad,Ollie Robinson and Mark Robinson's final roll of the dice in Danny Briggs - were favourites.
How ironic, then, that our best bowling performance of the season in this match came without Jordan, Shahzad or Briggs. It's a funny old game!
Weather looks like it will prevent Sussex forcing a win that on the strong evidence of the first two days would have been deserved - and that will mean only one win in the last 15 CC matches. But the players can go to Worcs next weekend in good heart and the club should stick with the same XI, unless Wright is fit, in which case Finch will hasve to drop out.
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Post by jonboy on May 9, 2016 20:24:50 GMT
Just nice to reflect on a good day for Sussex, for a change
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Post by fraudster on May 9, 2016 20:57:23 GMT
Interesting. Having been told Briggs was an essential member of the side and was expected to play every single match, after three games he's been replaced by a batsman - which is frankly what figures of 3-306 deserve. We now have the four man attack many of us were advocating, although it's very short on experience with both Hatchett and Whittingham in the side and Robinson in only his second season. A surprising decision to bat under the circs? We can be glad that Davis is prepared to re-evaluate and not be so rigid, finally. Credit to him for that too, eventually. No, well done to him. The eleven threw up a couple of surprises but he's got it right - at last. I just can't help myself. That's more like it anywho. Wickets, runs, drops, no-balls, you can't have it all your own way. The balance is right, given the squad. We'd all like five proper bowlers but not at the expense of the team. The performances of Hatchett, Garton and Whittingham so far are very pleasing and may offer the opportunity to rest senior bowlers without the use of a holding bowler, but through actual rest - including Mags I'd hope. Garton was only rested because of his age but they'll want him back in. Can't really drop the Axe Man and Whittingham could be even more impressive over the next two days. Who knows but those options are good and should be used. I don't think the weather is gonna be so bad over the two days. We need to declare now, or after toast and coffee at least and we'll get time to win the game over two days of on and off cricket. Wednesday will be better. Trust the Fraud. I know what new bloke means but a first thing thrust would have been a little premature for me. Congrats to Joyce and Wells too. And Machan at five, yes I think so. Great stuff. |
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Post by coverpoint on May 9, 2016 23:40:49 GMT
With the weather in mind I wish we had declared when Joyce was out and had half an hour bowling at them tonight.
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