Oh dear
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19 wickets in a day. Wow. Should finish tea time tomorrow I guess.
In fairness Glamorgan did almost as well with the ball. Similar picture at other grounds today as well. Good luck to batsman trying to build an innings in these conditions! And we wonder why we can’t find test players to do it? Will always be a ‘freak’ like cook but apart from that it’s all one day players now.
Darren Stevens said that nothing much happened for an hour, but then the ball started moving all over the place - that was the impression I got when I watched about twenty minutes play from about midday onwards, he was beating the bat three or four times an over and when I heard that Glamorgan had made it to lunch without losing a wicket, albeit at a very slow run rate, I thought they had done superbly. I then watched about half an hour of the Kent reply and thought that conditions may have eased a little because, although the bat was still being beaten pretty regularly, the ball was also locating the middle of the bat a lot more than it had been.
As others have said, it's been a strange start to the season - you expect seamers to prosper at this time of the year, but it's been ridiculous this season. As for an explanation, I'd say there are three possible ones - dodgy pitches, high quality bowling and poor batting. Probably the truth is that there has been something of a mixture of those three, but I'd put the last named as the major cause of it - pundits always talk about test matches and four day games "moving forward quickly" these days, but what they really mean is that more wickets have fallen than the bowling and conditions would indicate because so many batsman these days see flashy twenty somethings before they are dismissed having a swish as being acceptable somehow.
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Glammy 167 in front with 4 wickets left. Making a decent go of it anyway. After being bowled out for less than a hundred in the first innings that’s a good effort.
They're 180-6 now in a one innings game - another hundred from the last four wickets would be handy. Murphy is not doing bad as an opener, but the unfortunate run out of Marsh when he was going so well looked like his fault to me and I can't help thinking it may turn out to be the decisive incident of the game.
193 lead with 1 wicket left. It makes Kent score more than they did in their first innings to win so it’s defibitely game on. Considering we were bowled out for 94 it shouldn’t be!
Another good start let’s hope the keep it up
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Leicester 157-7 now after being 67-6
In the end an excellent opening day and its really good to see Selman and Murphy getting the team off to some solid starts this season
82-0 overnight to 178 all out :shrug:
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I've said before, the one day mentality has killed the 'proper' game.
I remember Matthew Maynard in his pomp having every shot in the book and he became a better player when he cut out most of them and concentrated on just a handful.
Perhaps he'd do well to pass this experience on to his players.
The four and five day should be about not giving your wicket away.
Pick the bad ball off as the bowler tries something different.
Simples :shrug:
Glammy we're in a great position to post a big score and force a win.
Game's not over yet mind though Leics have their tails up.
Utter rubbish. Been out all day and just checked the score. For the second time already this season the team have collapsed after an excellent start. Not good enough. Can’t see them winning now having been in complete control after day one.
Despite an incredible innings from De Lange Glammy lose by just three runs. There are some batsmen in this side who need to start performing.
Glamorgan beaten by 3 runs after an incredible effort by the tail Enders almost turned the game around - not good enough yet again though by the so called specialist batsmen.
Depends on your point of view.
I am a cricket fan (includes Glammy) but I also pay a large chunk of community charge and was very disappointed at the decision to not bid for a test match for 6 years.
The staging of Test matches would have brought in huge revenue for the City and the CCC and I am sure played a big part in the council's decision to bail out GCCC.
Doesn't sit right with me TBH :sherlock:
It depends on the test match. If we had an Ashes test or an India test, then yeah sure it would sell out.
Games against Pakistan, West Indies and Sri Lanka would really struggle and end up with the county losing money in the bid (like we did when we hosted a Sri Lanka test).
I always believe a council should back sport, if you look at Sofia Gardens now, the are around the stadium has fantastic facilities around it where many sports play, the facilities around the cricket are used by many community clubs, and host many training events, and functions. It benefits everyone in the area, and in my opinion well worth the expenditure.
I reckon Glamorgan are right to move away from the test arena where we are fighting against grounds with higher capacities and better facilities, and focusing on matches where we will turn a profit and gain a crowd.
Looks like Glamorgan are heading for a trouncing in their first one day game of the season, Gloucs 120-0 off twenty overs, chasing 265 to win after we, criminally, failed to bat the full fifty overs - a typical Glamorgan innings with four scores between 39 and 57, but no kicked on for that truly big score which would have taken us beyond 300.
Another poor effort with Glos winning far too easily.