Another shambolic failure by the top of the order.
Also, are we the only team who doesn't have an overseas T20 player - Shahid Afridi for Hampshire tonight, 4-20. :shrug:
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Another shambolic failure by the top of the order.
Also, are we the only team who doesn't have an overseas T20 player - Shahid Afridi for Hampshire tonight, 4-20. :shrug:
I feel sorry for Lloyd. He has been in hopeless form for a year now. He should be nowhere near the side. Hampshire were off to a flier whilst we lost two wickets in the first over. It's a sorry state of affairs. May not bother with the Somerset game next Saturday. No overseas player either. Any idea what the attendance was tonight? Doubt if it was more than 3000.
Surprisingly, the attendance was actually 6300.
Good crowd in but as expected the visitors played all the cricket and you wonder how many will keep returning. In their first few overs Hants whacked it all over the ground whereas we treated every delivery like an unexploded grenade. They won by 22 runs, it was just never a competitive match. Unfortunately I've got a T20 season ticket but there's always the bar.
Some good stuff from Bailey, McManus and Vince from Hants, but also from Wagg.
He was the only one to stack the spinners and use his feet. Very disappointed in how placid our batsmen were with the spin. It's simple at Sofia.
Use your feet get down the pitch and hit hard and straight to the short boundaries.
Still enjoyed a couple of hours with my son and there's always a pleasant atmosphere at the cricket. A laid back contrast to the stress of the footy in a few weeks
Will go to as many as I can - win or lose
Pretty much sums up my thoughts aswell.
I've been taking my son on and off for about 4 or 5 years now. He thinks he's seen us win once!
Can't see the crowds staying as high as last night's attendance either- think it was boosted by the £10 offer and they'll struggle to sell as many at £15+
You are making me feel guilty Tim. Like you I take my lads and enjoy doing so. We will turn up next Saturday night. I just feel a bit disillusioned with the complete lack of direction at the club. We know Glammy are never going to match the best sides but we are going backwards.
I think that Lawnmower has summed it up nicely there.
We all have to accept that Glamorgan are and will remain poor for a while yet.
However, it remains a pleasant way to welcome the weekend, family friendly and a way to support and generate interest in local sport.
The stuff that has us tearing out hair out is back shortly so let's make the most of this gentle interlude.
7/2 off 3.4 overs against Sussex. Says it all.
Lloyd made 3 off 13 balls. It's not his fault he is being picked but it's gone on too long now. I gather after the Cheltenham debacle the players had a football training session. I have no idea whether that's true but they should be working their arses off to improve.
Is that true, football training session? So the management think that fitness is the issue here?
I'd have had them all in the nets for the whole two days missed working on their techniques. It's cricket skills they need to brush up on ffs, batsmen and bowler alike!
Not sure how many are down there today but those who are don't go just for the cricket that's for sure
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Mac. I read it on the Glamorgan cricket messageboard. I hope it's not true because as you say they should be in the bloody nets. Now 132/2 with 5 overs to go. Ingram and Rudolph doing well after such a poor start. We need 200 especially with Wright and Nash opening for Sussex.
198/3 in the end. Ingram 101 not out and a good innings from Cooke. Great recovery after another dreadful start. However Wright and Nash can destroy the opposition so they need to out quickly
I've slagged our batsmen off all season, and rightly so, but Colin Ingram is one of the best limited overs batsmen out there - cracking knock, 101 off 47.
Let's hope the bowlers can get us over the line. :thumbup:
Sussex 97/3'off 11. Wright is still in. If he stays until the end we lose. Need to get him out.
Wright gone!!
This is Glammy but Shirley.....
Glammy win by 18 runs. Brilliant from Ingram. It's got to the stage where he might as well open the innings with Rudolph as we lose the first wicket almost immediately anyway.
Hopefully we can have some good weather and a decent crowd for Somerest next Saturday night. It will be good to drive to the game without all that Friday night traffic.
I switched the commentary on to hear Edward Bevan saying Sussex needed thirty four to win when they really needed ten less than that and then he said that's gone for six, only for Wright to be caught a second or two later.
Famous last words, but I think Glamorgan are a middling one day side and so I'd expect them to finish their normal fourth or fifth in this group, but I reckon there isn't a worse batting or spin bowling team in the four day game than us.
Well done glammy especially Ingram
Bevan should have been pensioned off years ago (if he should ever have had the job in the first place). It's embarrassing to listen to him.
Well done Glammy though.
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Did a bit better in the afternoon game, the whole team did. You picked the wrong one to watch.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engin...h/1090479.html
I was looking to see how Meschede was doing, surprised he hasn't been involved in the first couple of 20/20 games.
Absolutely none of my business but how come you don't watch the first team's 20/20 games?
One of the people I watched the game with rang me the following day to say Glamorgan had won the second game - he said that the difference was that they had got Wheater out pretty cheaply in the second game, whereas he had smashed a very quick eighty odd (including four sixes in consecutive balls from Lawlor) first time around.
Can't say how true it is, but the gossip about Meschede at St. Fagans was that he had a falling out with Robert Croft.
Can't afford to go to first team 20/20 matches, but I'd probably go to Championship matches before them if I had the money.
Somebody mentioned last week about the engineered finish that Sussex and Worcester came up with which virtually stopped us from being promoted.I can remember that but how long ago was it?
I mentioned it - it was seven years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_C...p#Division_Two
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engin...ch/435540.html
Note the bowling figures
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Seems like Sussex had plenty of strength in depth in the bowling department back then.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to prove a contrived result in cricket but that looks like they are just taking the piss.
Somerset didn't put much of a fight against us mind when we won the county championship back in '97 to foil Kent (was it?).
Not right but it happens.
We can't afford T20 oversees player yet bankrupt Durham can
http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-c...y/1111075.html
What's the weather like in Cardiff at the moment? Looking at heading down later but won't bother if it's raining.
Yep it was Kent.
I remember our final game that season against an appalling Derbyshire side. The rain wrecked the game. Even then Glammy set Derbyshire a very generous target as they had to force the win. Derbyshire were set something like 160 off 55 overs and were in all sorts of trouble and batted out for a draw. We were robbed that season and it cost Matt Maynard his job. If we had gone up he would still have been coach and who knows maybe Tom Maynard would still be with us.