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[chrisp_1927]

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Neser is bowling absolute rockets. Don't switch off just yet

[Pearcey3]

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Match drawn. Excellent effort and performance. There smly wasn’t enough in the pitch.

[the other bob wilson]

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Glamorgan have played the league leaders twice now and been the better side on both occasions - we’ve definitely got a chance of a top two finish, but we need to get our recruitment for the closing games of the season right.

[Taffy Blue in Berkshire]

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Match drawn. Excellent effort and performance. There smly wasn’t enough in the pitch.

Sophia Gardens wickets are a bit iffy and lifeless. Neser didn't get his deserved rewards.

[the other bob wilson]

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Sophia Gardens wickets are a bit iffy and lifeless. Neser didn't get his deserved rewards.

Agreed, the pitches at Cardiff have been a problem for some time, in fact there are plenty around the country that just do not wear and tend to get easier to bat on as the game goes on. The Notts game was played in mostly hot, sunny conditions on a pitch that didn't havea great deal of moisture in it on day one - time was, that would be a recipe for the pitch to start to crumble or even disintegrate as the game went on and the spinners would come into their own in the second half of the contest, but it doesn't happen any more at most grounds - for whatever reason, pitches don't deteriorate like they used to and that makes for less of a spectacle in my book.

[Rontomuk]

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Agreed, the pitches at Cardiff have been a problem for some time, in fact there are plenty around the country that just do not wear and tend to get easier to bat on as the game goes on. The Notts game was played in mostly hot, sunny conditions on a pitch that didn't havea great deal of moisture in it on day one - time was, that would be a recipe for the pitch to start to crumble or even disintegrate as the game went on and the spinners would come into their own in the second half of the contest, but it doesn't happen any more at most grounds - for whatever reason, pitches don't deteriorate like they used to and that makes for less of a spectacle in my book.

Heard in the commentary that they have to now make a pitch last the four days and the commentator said it is ruining it for spinners, did not know myself there was such a rule.

[chrisp_1927]

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Good effort, pitch did look very flat. Would also be fair to say that the spinners on display probably weren't the highest quality in terms of wicket taking ability. Talk that we may be getting ravi ashwin in as one of the replacements when Ingram/neser leave, think he'd be a very good signing.

Still think we are going into matches a bowler light at the moment. If timm does come back next game I hope it's in place of a batsman

[Pearcey3]

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Ashwin would be a cracking signing. Van Der Gugten will be a decent option when Neser returns to Aus.

[the other bob wilson]

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Ashwin would be a cracking signing. Van Der Gugten will be a decent option when Neser returns to Aus.

Even Ashwin would struggle to get much out of that pitch yesterday though

[Pearcey3]

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Even Ashwin would struggle to get much out of that pitch yesterday though

True but he would be a big upgrade on Salter

[the other bob wilson]

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True but he would be a big upgrade on Salter

Fair enough and he’d be great to have coming in around nos. 6 to 8.

[the other bob wilson]

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There’s a women’s fifty over game between England and South Africa taking place this afternoon at Leicester where it’s expected to reach 37 degrees. The good news for Glamorgan is that their match with Leicestershire has been put back a day to Wednesday because of today’s game - the forecast for Leicester tomorrow is for the temperature in Leicester to reach 40 degrees.

[the other bob wilson]

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Ben Stokes retires from fifty over one day international cricket.

[the other bob wilson]

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Looks a very, very flat pitch at Leicester, the home side are 32-0 and I’ve not seen a ball beat the bat yet.

[poc]

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if its anything like the one the women played on you could bat forever