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Post by ketmandid on Jul 18, 2014 19:19:03 GMT
I was surprised that I could not see a thread for this game. Maybe a statement of how the interest in this years T20 has waned with our performances.
Hants look to be getting away from us again with Hatchett just going for 19 in the penultimate over and Mags to bowl the last. I see Beer only bowled one over but Nash bowled 4 quite cheaply, I hope Beer is OK as has been a star this year so strange to only bowl one.
177-3 after 20
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 19:36:22 GMT
It was all going OK umtil the final two overs of the Hants innings.
Gamorgan look out of the game v Essex and Somerset are unlikely to chasse down Kent's 195-6, whch are the two results we need to go our way.
That left Sussex the simple (!) task of beating Hants to stay in the running until the last day. At 143 with only two overs to go it looked like 160-ish which would have been get-able. 178 looks daunting.
That said, 33-0 from three is a good start to the chase!
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Post by mrsdoyle on Jul 18, 2014 19:43:17 GMT
I was surprised that I could not see a thread for this game. Maybe a statement of how the interest in this years T20 has waned with our performances.
Hants look to be getting away from us again with Hatchett just going for 19 in the penultimate over and Mags to bowl the last. I see Beer only bowled one over but Nash bowled 4 quite cheaply, I hope Beer is OK as has been a star this year so strange to only bowl one.
177-3 after 20
Story of last year's effort, seamers leaked runs, Beer came on and stemmed the tide yet never got to bowl his full allocation.
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Post by ketmandid on Jul 18, 2014 19:49:27 GMT
You feel it is one (or both of) the openers who are going to have to score the majority of the runs to give us a pleasant surprise.
You just know that Hants will get something sneaky going at some time in the game. Have we ever beaten them in T20?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 19:54:38 GMT
You feel it is one (or both of) the openers who are going to have to score the majority of the runs to give us a pleasant surprise. Well they are doing the job brilliantly so far - 61-o from the first five. 116 from 15 overs with ten wkts intact SHOULD be a doddle. But this is Sussex. It's all gone our way elsewhwere tonight - Somerset and Glamorgan are both on the point of defeat. Come on Sussex. We can do this (but Nash bowled as I write - or 'right' as the Argus headliner writers would have it. Time for Cachopa to celebrate his contract by scoring a quickfire fifty!)
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Post by ketmandid on Jul 18, 2014 20:03:53 GMT
You feel it is one (or both of) the openers who are going to have to score the majority of the runs to give us a pleasant surprise. Well they are doing the job brilliantly so far - 61-o from the first five. 116 from 15 overs with ten wkts intact SHOULD be a doddle. But this is Sussex. It's all gone our way elsewhwere tonight - Somerset and Glamorgan are both on the point of defeat. Come on Sussex. We can do this (but Nash bowled as I write - or 'right' as the Argus headliner writers would have it. Time for Cachopa to celebrate his contract by scoring a quickfire fifty!) I get this feeling that we no longer celebrate the cult of goat mouth but I guess you did put 'But this is Sussex' so I think you were OK with the first one but you definitely got Cachopa out. Where did Zaidi come from - I did not realise he was playing and coming in at 4, has Robinson seen that the other games are going our way and we may yet sneak into 4th qualifying place. But then there were the comments on the Horsham thread where Robbo seems to not know what he is going to say next (about the T20 chances??). And before I can post Z has gone with a three ball 1
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Post by ketmandid on Jul 18, 2014 20:06:41 GMT
If I remember right it was Will destroyer Smith who killed off any chances we had against Hants in the return earlier this season. But to be fair the two wickets in the previous two overs had given him a good start - off to walk the dog, I wonder if they'll still be rebuilding or the whole thing will have come tumbling down by the time I return
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Post by hhsussex on Jul 18, 2014 20:07:24 GMT
Of course we still celebrate our ancestral rites
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 20:16:18 GMT
Yeah I know, but I did add "But this is Sussex".
Zaidi at four? Robinson really has lost the plot.
Such a shame if this goes wrong, because Essex have thrashed Glamorgan and Somerset have lost in farcial conditions to Kent. I was just watching it on TV and with Kent ahead on D/L , the chief executive Clifford walked on to the pitch in the middle of an over and ordered the umpires to take the players off the pich because he said Kent were turning off the floodlights because it was too windy.
I've never, ever seen a chief exec walk on the pitch before and order the players off. Would he have done it if Kent were behind on D/L? Well, is the ayatollah a Muslim and is KP a "total cnut"? With that kind of brassneck, perhaps Clifford is making a bid for David Collier's job at the ECB.
Quite extraordinary behaviour - and another reason why English cricket really should be played in daylight hours and not under floodlights. The official line is now that the players went off for "bad light". To my 'but this is Sussex' comment let us add 'only at Kent'.
Meanwhile Sussex are tottering at 122-6. But while Wright is there, is there is still a sliver of hope?
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Post by hhsussex on Jul 18, 2014 20:19:45 GMT
just watching it on TV and with Kent ahead on D/L , the chief executive Clifford walked on to the pitch in the middle of an over and ordered the umpires to take the players off the pich because he said Kent were turning off the floodlights because it was too windy. Swantonism lives, and its spiritual home is Canterbridgeoaks.
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Post by coverpoint on Jul 18, 2014 20:27:25 GMT
It's our ground and we're come off if we want to!
As for Sussex why didn't Beer bowl more than one over? Surely a change of ends was worth a try.
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Post by ketmandid on Jul 18, 2014 20:29:59 GMT
ANd now it is 7 - I made it back to see that it was demolition and no attempt to rebuild only to get out. Take a single, let Wright take the chances but no singles just pressure built and chaos - Poor Luke, what more can you do, just needed some common sense at the other end.
Wow - just looking at the scoreboard and it is total carnage, 4, 1, 6, 0, 0, 0, 2 (no at the moment) They must be wetting themselves at the rossbowl
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Post by flashblade on Jul 18, 2014 20:33:08 GMT
Well, looking at the scorecard, we certainly managed to get all our ducks in a row.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 20:33:21 GMT
It's our ground and we're come off if we want to! Why didn't Toumasi think of that when Sussex were ahead on D/L? Hopeless! Luke into the 90s. He's perfectly capable of meeting the target by smacking 40 from the last four overs . But only Mags, Liddle and Hatchett to stay with him...
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Post by ketmandid on Jul 18, 2014 20:36:59 GMT
I just hope he gets the hundred and it now shows how important those runs in the last two were (but Hants did have the wickets in hand). Hants bowled lots of slower bowlers, Sussex only Nash (and for not many) and Beer just the one, Ziadi in as a batter??? Surely there must be a better batter somewhere?
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