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Post by ketmandid on Jul 25, 2014 18:35:42 GMT
Wright 38 off 16, surely not the same as last week when he scored 100 and no one supported him.
Westley scored a 100 with good support and they get 225
Luke cannot do it on his own
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Post by ketmandid on Jul 25, 2014 18:40:12 GMT
Just looked at our team and we have no batting support for Luke.
The team that is playing tonight is not likely to score above 180 let alone get anywhere near 225
If Wright and Nash are out cheaply then 140 tops - not a great batting team and from the Essex score not a great bowling team (although to be fair Essex have been good this season - lots of power in their batting line up).
I like the comments above that we need an overseas batter and not one of these old bowling pros who turn it on once it a while.
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Post by ketmandid on Jul 25, 2014 18:58:22 GMT
Just adding that we had Parnell as well and he did not have much success either.
We need better batters (I know, been there before)
Not trying to be a goat mouth but has anyone ever scored consecutive 100s in T20 games? Still a way to go for Lukey (which happens to be the name of my daughter's cat, she said he was not named after Mr Wright but she has got one of his actual CC shirts which he very generously threw to her from the balcony a few years back ......).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2014 19:03:14 GMT
Brown at six. Says it all. Might not be needed? This is a phenomenal innings by Wright. |
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Post by ketmandid on Jul 25, 2014 19:12:09 GMT
Machan has played the supporting role brilliantly, 32 off 20 taking mostly singles but with a couple of sixes to keep the pressure on Essex and off Wright.
I hope that they win with Machan there to the end as it would be huge game for him.
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Post by ketmandid on Jul 25, 2014 19:14:47 GMT
Might not be needed? This is a phenomenal innings by Wright. Fantastic. What's the individual record in T20? Didn't McCullum get 150 in one of the first IPLs and I think Gayle got a big one as well - so not enough left for Luke, let's not count the chickens just yet |
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Post by ketmandid on Jul 25, 2014 19:23:02 GMT
Wow - Wright on 146 with 10 wanted off two overs and Machan had the sense to play a dot to the last ball of an over to give Luke the Strike
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2014 19:26:01 GMT
Wright has scored the highest individual innings in English T20 - and fitting that he did it off the bowling of Napier, the former record holder. I think it is the third highest ever, after Gayle and McCullum.
And the highest ever winning chase in T20 anywhere in the world.
Lawnmower - I told you not to worry about Brown batting at six because he wouldn't be needed!
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Post by doug on Jul 25, 2014 19:26:16 GMT
Sussex win
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2014 19:43:06 GMT
Can we rock up late to every game?
And good to see Sussex off-spinner Tredwell helping Kent over the line by dismissing KP when he was well set and looked like seeing Surrey home. On a serious note, the struggling Riley was dropped from the Kent side today and it is looking more and more likely Kent will not want to release Tredders to Sussex for another month as he is reinstated as Kent's first-choiice spinner in all forms.
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Post by jonboy on Jul 26, 2014 0:37:28 GMT
Just got in but I had this feeling I'd come home to a Sussex win Amazing performance from the boys, and what can you say about Luke Wright. He has matured into a proper batsman who scores big hundreds A mention too for young Machan who played the supporting role to perfection.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2014 6:38:01 GMT
Robinson talks about 'narrow margins' and he's right.
Cast you mind back to the Swalec on May 30. Glamorgan are 143-5 and need 36 from 21 balls.Liddle goes for 14 in the penultimate over and then Darren Sammy scrmables the winning run from Arafat on the last ball of the 20th.
One run difference and Sussex not Glamorgan would now be in the quarter-finals. The margins don't get any narrower than that...
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Post by jonboy on Jul 26, 2014 7:06:30 GMT
That's true BM, but in not many of those narrow defeats did Sussex ever look like winning them This looks a very different Sussex side Something has changed, maybe they have finally cast aside the stigma of the match fixing, but they look like the old Sussex again. The way they had dominated Warwickshire in the last match from start to finish. Had they even taken half of those missed chances, they'd probably have beaten a very strong Warwickshire side by an innings. As I said, I left the house last night with Sussex thirty odd for two, but was not surprised at all to come home and find we'd triumphed in such spectacular fashion. We have some momentum now, and that should give us hope that we can do well for the rest of the season, particularly in the new 50 over comp.
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Post by coverpoint on Jul 26, 2014 9:18:09 GMT
Exceptional batting performance from Luke Wright with good support from Machan.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2014 10:34:33 GMT
BM other games too they should have won. Gloucester home and away, Kent home, even Hants away. Fine margins most down to batting at the top order.
Glad Machan has learnt from the previous week.
Wright looking England potential in ALL Formats as a batter.
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