jim
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Post by jim on Jul 11, 2014 15:57:05 GMT
Pretty confident that the weather will hold- GOSTBS!
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Post by fraudster on Jul 11, 2014 17:18:50 GMT
We need another batter in from previous squads, may as well be Mr Cachopa - he may not be from the motherland but I do like his surname. Anyway, we've been a batter light too long, address it.
Nash
Wright
Wells
Finch
Machan
Cachopa!
Brown
Jordan
Beer
Arafat
Hatchett
BM old stick the esclamation mark is indeed too popular. Sign of the times. Not my time though, despite me being considerably younger, than yuoooo! That was meant to read like that Enfield character by the way.
By the way again, us yoof have changed the spelling of the word to make it cooler - like it or lump it old man.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2014 17:34:29 GMT
Cachopa in, Finch out...
Rather excited about seeing him. But then I'm an excitable chap and I got rather excited about Zaidi's debut!
Nash wins toss, Kent will bat. They've left Riley out and opted for an extra seamer. No surprise given all the rain over the last two days, I guess...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2014 18:51:32 GMT
The way Beer is bowling, it looks like Kent have made a very poor call in dropping Rilety and playing the extra seamer. But we shall see..
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2014 19:09:07 GMT
Can we send Jordan back to England? The worst I have ever seen him bowl. No control. No sense. Absolutely shocking.
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Post by flashblade on Jul 11, 2014 19:26:06 GMT
Can we send Jordan back to England? The worst I have ever seen him bowl. No control. No sense. Absolutely shocking. Looked like post-England complacency? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2014 19:31:24 GMT
Kent got 20 runs too many. But I can't begrudge Alex Blake what could prove to be a match-winning innings. He's a terrific player and I've always liked his aggression, yet his talent is for some reason not rated by Kent supporters, who groan every time they see his name on the team sheet and after every game call for him to be dropped - even though he's Kent's second best batsmen in the T20 after Key.
Game on.
Is there anybody else around this evening , by the way?
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Post by fraudster on Jul 11, 2014 19:35:42 GMT
Can we send Jordan back to England? The worst I have ever seen him bowl. No control. No sense. Absolutely shocking. Yeah, glad that weren't Hatch who went for 24 off an over, would have been fosticated on here, which is a similar point I made on here a while ago - it happens! Damn explanation marks! Beero's in top form, excellent control. Hopefully he's showing enough for the 4-day team. They got more than they should have here really. Our five batters, a wicky and host of bowling all-rounders may have thier work cut out. |
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Post by fraudster on Jul 11, 2014 20:11:44 GMT
Dire batting, especially from Wells - brainless. Into the all-rounders then, not sure an extra batter would have mad much difference tonight. So long QFs.
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Post by flashblade on Jul 11, 2014 20:47:40 GMT
Exciting! Need 17 off last over!!
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Post by mrsdoyle on Jul 11, 2014 20:55:50 GMT
Need a wide
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2014 20:56:24 GMT
A cracking finish that kept the game alive and which we didn't really deserve in a leaden game under leaden skies between two of the poorest T20 sides in the country who have now won just four out of 18 games between them (or two out of 16, if you take out the two games in which they beat each other). It was so dull in the middle overs that Allott and Bopara on Sky Sports commentary spent three overs talking about clay pigeon shooting.
Congratulations to Kent and particularly to Alex Blake ,the one high class performer in the match. But a dismal performance by Sussex. When Kent's ancient talisman, Stevens, has a stinker with bat, ball and drops a dolly off his own bowling, the game should be there for the taking. But Sussex's power play was possibly the most pathetic I've ever seen.
That neither side will make the quarter-finals is entirely just and fair.
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Post by mrsdoyle on Jul 11, 2014 21:00:08 GMT
Well, was planning to go but couldn't get a seat in SW stand and General admission area no good to me as at 5 ft 6 unless I am in the front two rows I can see less than flip all, even though we lost it would have been a good game to watch at the end so all round gutted.
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Post by fraudster on Jul 11, 2014 21:01:51 GMT
Beer shows why he should be ahead of the uselessly out of form Arafat - think again about Arafat as a pinch hitter BM. The lower middle order showing the batters how to do it, with Brown and Jordan also. Not the first time in this comp that, and although it's good to watch and quite common with most teams, it annoys me a bit - why can't the batters perform with the bat if the bowlers can? It's all upstairs. That one's for Wells, who has a lot to learn before he can consider himsef hard done by not to play in this form.
Too many then not enough - textbook.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2014 21:08:40 GMT
- think again about Arafat as a pinch hitter BM. He needs to bat in the power play when there are only two fielders outside the circle. He could not have been worse than the so-called 'proper' batters, who I think only scored two fours in the entire power play. |
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