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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2016 14:25:56 GMT
Just the 27 extra so far. Glad we've got a grip on this aspect of the game.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2016 15:52:47 GMT
Two excellent strikes in consecutive balls from Archer, the second the in-form Westley. Without Bopara or Ryder there could be a good opportunity for Sussex to make deep inroads. What constitutes 'deep inroads' for a Sussex side these days - bowling a side out for under 600? |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Aug 4, 2016 16:07:55 GMT
This match is becoming a familiar story. Opposition bat first on flat wicket and score around 450. Sussex go in and are out for 240. They follow
on and manage to gain a draw with some thanks to the weather and garner 7 points.
Please, can we see an end to that script at Colchester thanks to the Barbadian arrows.
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Post by joe on Aug 4, 2016 16:16:15 GMT
Chris Jordan should be dominating this seam attack but he's falling more and more behind the young bowlers. No wickets with the new ball, going at over 4 an over with 3 no balls and a a wide. And as I write Archer gets his third!
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Post by hhsussex on Aug 4, 2016 16:57:24 GMT
Two excellent strikes in consecutive balls from Archer, the second the in-form Westley. Without Bopara or Ryder there could be a good opportunity for Sussex to make deep inroads. What constitutes 'deep inroads' for a Sussex side these days - bowling a side out for under 600? Sorry that I came across as so determinedly optimistic, stonewall. Next time I won't bother with the qualifications of "could be" or "opportunity", I'll just go all out for it and give you a really good target for exercising your remarkable talent for sarcasm  |
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Post by coverpoint on Aug 4, 2016 17:02:29 GMT
Are we going to bowl Jordan until he takes a wicket?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2016 17:09:16 GMT
What constitutes 'deep inroads' for a Sussex side these days - bowling a side out for under 600? Sorry that I came across as so determinedly optimistic, stonewall. Next time I won't bother with the qualifications of "could be" or "opportunity", I'll just go all out for it and give you a really good target for exercising your remarkable talent for sarcasm It's worth pointing out that I am desperate for a turnaround in our fortunes but the underperformance of the current squad is relentless. |
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Post by coverpoint on Aug 4, 2016 17:14:27 GMT
What a load of rubbish from Jordan! It doesn't help when the opposition has 12 players and you have 10!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2016 18:39:43 GMT
mathematically we can still go up the club will say. However, we will need to beat the five teams above us in our remaining seven games which won't be easy Won't be easy??? You're having a laugh. It's not even in the realms of feasibility. It looks like there will be results at Swansea and Canterbury, weather permitting , and Sussex will not win at Colchester, so by this weekend one of Glam or Northants will probably have overtaken Sussex, who will be in 7th (16th) place. Anyone who even talks of promotion is burying their head deep in the sand. Or at least in the pebbles on Hove beach. Have you had a look at Sussex's CC bowling stats? Magoffin has 25 wkts. Mediocre by his standards and his strike rate is poor (roughly a wicket every 12 overs) and more than half of his wickets are tailenders rather than top order batsmen. Briggs has taken just ten (half of those in one innings when he mopped up the Kent tail at Tunbridge Wells). They've cost him 64 runs apiece with a strike rate of a wicket every 22 overs. Jordan has one CC wkt at an avge of 200. For whatever reason, what is a decent attack (on paper) has forgotten how to take wickets. Sadly the recruitment of Jofra Archer and David Wiese is not going to be sufficient to start bowling sides out... |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2016 19:41:52 GMT
Finch having a scan and may take no further part in the match?
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Post by fraudster on Aug 4, 2016 20:00:45 GMT
No Whittingham? The easy one to drop. I like Archer in but Mags and Briggs, no. We might win a game or two when we stop being cowards. That's twice we've dropped our best bowler because he's the easy option. The sooner Whittingham, Garton and Archer are bowling together the better.
I suspect not a single person on here would have picked this or any side Sussex have put out this season in the CC. Pretty sure I haven't. Are we all wrong? Somebody's seriously wrong and the answer to who that is can be established with a glance at the table or at every scorecard.
Puzzled and p****d off as usual with Sussex's leadership and direction.
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Post by coverpoint on Aug 4, 2016 20:14:28 GMT
I agree that with us effectively without any chance of getting promoted we should be playing Archer, Garton and Whittingham. Could Garton and Whittingham do any worse than Briggs and Jordan neither of whom took a wicket today?
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Post by flashblade on Aug 4, 2016 20:31:28 GMT
Are Jordan and Magoffin un-droppable?
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Post by joe on Aug 5, 2016 6:36:23 GMT
Apart from the game at Tunbridge Wells when Briggs took 5 wickets mopping up the tail, can anyone remember a game where the senior bowlers took more wickets than the youngsters this season? There aren't many. Garton, Archer and Whittingham have all been the wicket takers in the games they've played in. Why can't the coach/captain see that? Surely it's common sense to pick your in form players if you want to win games? How many more chances are Jordan, Nash, Wright etc going to get? They are losing us games!
Flash is right, the senior players are un-droppable which is madness. What do they talk about at the post match analysis? How unlucky Nash was to get out, how Jordan was SO close to getting a wicket that they deserve another go?
Wake up!
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Post by hhsussex on Aug 5, 2016 6:53:13 GMT
Meanwhile the essexoutfielder message board has numerous comments like this one "It's easily the weakest batting line up we've put out this season" and this "still a long way to go, a position of strength has become one of par I think now. I think Essex will be very lucky to get 360 let alone 400 the way napes and the tail have been although moore can hit a bit from memory, can't he? I can see jordan contributing by whipping the tail out" and they conclude that they have done pretty well and might get one more batting point.
Interesting to see how the grass is greener, though in the case of the Colchester wicket I don't think it is all that verdant. Scores of 300+ seem to have been common there, even amongst club cricket this season. As soft and fluffy wrote "This match is becoming a familiar story. Opposition bat first on flat wicket and score around 450. Sussex go in and are out for 240. They follow on and manage to gain a draw with some thanks to the weather and garner 7 points."
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