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Northants 70-3, with all of the wickets to Neser. Northants, having already lost Berg to an injury sustained before he had played any part of the match, have now, sadly, lost Proctor because of a family bereavement, so we only need to take eight wickets to win.
97-4 at lunch thanks to a really daft run out off the last ball of the session.
Northants survived pretty comfortably in the end at 250-5 with the pitch the winner. It seems Cardiff wickets are either so bowler friendly that you need help from the weather to go into the final day or they flatten out into absolute roads - there’s no happy medium.
Just watching the bowling and it is truely is abysmal. Meanwhile Neser isn’t picked again. Maynard hasn’t taken this competition seriously.
Excellent spell by twenty year old Roman Walker, who impresses me every time I see him, of four overs, three for fifteen.
Somerset 101-4 halfway through the fourteenth over.
Yep. He has put more experienced bowlers to shame again.Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Dreadful by Douthwaite.
I really wish the commentators wouldn’t keep on going on about Ingram’s strokeplay. He isn’t worth a place in the side let alone keeping out Neser. Another poor effort tonight using up 3.3 overs for just 19 runs when we need to be scoring at 9 an over.
this is pathetic, should be relegated!
It’s embarrassingl. The bowling was mostly utter dross again with 9 wides and 2 no balls and loads of short stuff and bowling down the leg side. Roman Walker did superbly.
The batting was even worse. We have Ingram back next season. If Maynard continues to play him ahead of Neser I won’t bother.
Somerset have been very professional. Excellent bowling, field placing. I blame the Glammy board for employing a poor coaching team and players who continue failing.
High time Walker was given a chance with the first team. I would rather see him given a chance ahead of Weighell who hasn’t done much at all.
I’d definitely give Walker some four day games in September. As for Weighell, I’ve more faith in him (and I don’t have much!) as a batsman than a bowler - I don’t see what he gives us with the ball that the likes of Smith, Carey, Walker and even Dowthwaite couldn’t.
kYep taking on Weighell when we have Walker, Smith and Carey is very poor. He has a new contract for next season too.Walker and Smith don’t. Nor TVG. Recruitment is poor. Baffled why Ingram is back again next season. He was very poor two seasons ago and has been just as bad this time around. He will be being handsomely paid for not being good enough.
Glammy 184/4. Good innings from Labuschagne, Lloyd and Douthwaite. Ingram the weak link again failing to score at just a run a ball.
Four or five years ago, you could make a case for saying that Ingram was the most feared hitter in the domestic T20 game - he’s thirty six now, but I’m not sure that can fully explain his decline in recent years. Watching him today, you could understand Hampshire keeping him in on purpose.
Hants are winning this at a canter. It just emphasises how poor his performance has been. Dreadful that he played today. There has been no intention of trying out Neser even though it should have been done today. The club should try and come to an agreement with Ingram so that he does not return next season or at the very least make clear he won’t be open the starting line up. It has to be performance related.
Bowling masterclass
100/0 off 7
Maynard should apologise for this campaign.
Quite simply rubbish. Fairplay to Hants for chasing that down within 13.
In T20 this is a new low. It’s been obvious our bowling has been very weak. It’s been obvious that Ingram is a liability. Total incompetence from Maynard to not drop Ingram for Neser. We are likely to finish bottom of the group with Middlesex looking likely to win.
Thank God this campaign is over.
Embarrassingly easy for Hampshire, the other counties they can overtake must have thought oh no when they realised they only had to beat Glamorgan in the last match
I can't believe I wasted a lovely Sunday to watch that utter shite. Glammy are a total disaster with no leadership and Ingram has had a mare of a season. Carlson's batting is reckless, Ingram slowed everything down with a 'Granny like' scoring rate, ok a reasonable total but actually grossly under par on that wicket. As for the bowling where do you start total incompetence to let Hampshire score at that rate. Whoever is coaching that lot needs firing and getting someone decent in. Now watch them screw up in the One Day. Very disappointing for those of us who remember Glammy in their halcyon days.
Saw the first innings and thought it was reasonable, especially as Hants needed to take risks, but I couldn’t believe what I was seeing when I checked the result. Appalling. Were they bowling underarm?
Although I thought the England v Pakistan match at Trent Bridge was great, I'm no big fan on T20 cricket and so am quick to turn to the four day game where Glamorgan have, in my opinion, done well this season while largely playing teams who would be in Division One if the two division format was still in place.
However, I'm wrong to do this really, because T20 and the finance that comes with it is very important in the modern game and it cannot just be dismissed by cricket snobs like me.
The fact is that Glamorgan, after being a pretty competitive team for a good few years, have been awful at this format in recent years - our drop in standards coincides more or less exactly with the decline in Colin Ingram's power and this only goes to show how important he was for us in his pomp.
Much was made of how well Hampshire did to score those runs so quickly yesterday, but the game represented a new low for Glamorgan and offered proof that, although the game looked like a fix at times, no one really believes that, because, deep down, they know we really are as bad as we looked yesterday.
I'd say that we've now reached a stage where a great deal of time needs to be spent on trying to find ways of making us more competitive in this form of the game. With the two overseas players for 2022 already signed up and money tight, it seems to me that short of bringing in some specialist coaches, any improvement has to come from what we have already.
One encouraging thing is that we were the winners of the second eleven T20 tournament last year and so you'd like to think we have some young players who have the potential and ability to become good performers in this format at senior level.
On the batting side, only Labuschagne and, to a lesser degree, Selman showed any consistency. Much has been said about Ingram, but players like Cooke, Root and Carlson (who is a quick scoring player in the four day game) offered little, while Lloyd sometimes did the hard work and then gave his wicket away.
Bowling was something of a disaster, but it shows how bad the batting was that it could be argued that it was our stronger suit. Walker's success when given a chance should have embarrassed some of his seniors, Smith is, potentially a good one day bowler, but is injured so much of the time and Van Der Gugten offered a degree of control much of the time. As for the others, with Sisodiya struggling to match his 2021 performance, spin was very weak, while I'm afraid the likes of Douthwaite (who could be a really important player for us if his bowling could improve, say, fifty per cent) and Weighell were just cannon fodder.
There is no easy way back it seems for Glamorgan, but Neser has to be picked ahead of Ingram next season surely - there was no logic in sticking with Ingram for the last few matches, just what seemed a stubborn insistence that his place in the team was justified on the basis of what he once was. Those days are gone now though, just like Glamorgan's time as a decent T20 side has unless there is a fundamental rethink at Sophia Gardens.
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