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[the other bob wilson]

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That was dismal. Northants knocked off over 340 on this pitch a few days ago. We look miles short.

It did seem to be turning a fair bit for Zaib, so if Salter and Ingram bowl well (think Carlson will give himself a few overs as well) you never know and we may have a chance because there was something for the new ball bowlers as well for a while, but it’s a very quick outfield and we look about fifty short of a par score to me.

[Pearcey3]

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It did seem to be turning a fair bit for Zaib, so if Salter and Ingram bowl well (think Carlson will give himself a few overs as well) you never know and we may have a chance because there was something for the new ball bowlers as well for a while, but it’s a very quick outfield and we look about fifty short of a par score to me.

Make that 150 short

[the other bob wilson]

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Make that 150 short

Yeah, all of the good work of the Derby win is being undone - getting close to the time to concentrate on the four day game.

[Don Corleone]

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This is a real hammering!!

[the other bob wilson]

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Defeat by six wickets - four wickets late on for Carlson.

[the other bob wilson]

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Welsh Fire chucked it away again - useless.

[chrisp_1927]

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Absolutely gutted. Had 11/4 on Brum to win and hit most 4s and most 6s. Pretorius nutted me on the final ball .

What a joke the welsh fire are. Birmingham didn't really turn up. They absolutely imploded with the bat, all down to stupid shots by batsman. The useless Welsh fire bowling attack still let them get to 130. As for the batting. Yet another bottle job by David Miller. They had that game won, just needed to show some balls and finish it instead of patting singles.

[Father Dougal]

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Absolutely gutted. Had 11/4 on Brum to win and hit most 4s and most 6s. Pretorius nutted me on the final ball .

What a joke the welsh fire are. Birmingham didn't really turn up. They absolutely imploded with the bat, all down to stupid shots by batsman. The useless Welsh fire bowling attack still let them get to 130. As for the batting. Yet another bottle job by David Miller. They had that game won, just needed to show some balls and finish it instead of patting singles.

Al the Birmingham big plauers failed and welsh fire still messed it up. 13 from 10 balls becomes 9 fron 1 needed. Elite cricketers they are not. Schoolboy stuff

Welsh fire given the same budget as everyone else and end up with josh cobb as captain. Who picked these players? I remember seeing mark walllace at the auction picking them and Maynard is assistant coach. Doesnt bode well!

[the other bob wilson]

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You look at those two teams player for player and there are far more stars in the Birmingham team. I know Bairstow’s made himself unavailable, but the squad looks the weakest by some distance in the competition on paper - someone seriously messed up at the auction.

[chrisp_1927]

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Al the Birmingham big plauers failed and welsh fire still messed it up. 13 from 10 balls becomes 10 from 2 needed. Elite cricketers they are not. Schoolboy stuff

Welsh fire given the same budget as everyone else and end up with josh cobb as captain. Who picked these players? I remember seeing mark walllace at the auction picking them and Maynard is assistant coach. Doesnt bode well!

I was thinking similar. Maynard in the dugout. Cobb captain, a bloke who probably shouldn't have a hundred contract at all. It does come down to culture a lot I think. The Maynard style would be 'stay out there til the end David miller, don't do anything silly and and bring us home '. Then you open up the possibility of a couple of tight overs and a result like this. Any team with a decent culture would really attack with 23 needed off 20. Get it done, boost the run rate and don't give them a chance of sneaking back into the game.

Same moronic culture that saw Sam northeast being asked to stick around and play sensible for the first half of our T20 campaign

[Father Dougal]

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You look at those two teams player for player and there are far more stars in the Birmingham team. I know Bairstow’s made himself unavailable, but the squad looks the weakest by some distance in the competition on paper - someone seriously messed up at the auction.

Mark wallace was definitely in the auction and was boasting about the cutting edge data they had used to select this squad. Last year was awful but its going to be 8 defeats this year.

[Father Dougal]

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You look at those two teams player for player and there are far more stars in the Birmingham team. I know Bairstow’s made himself unavailable, but the squad looks the weakest by some distance in the competition on paper - someone seriously messed up at the auction.

Well mark wallaxce is welsh fire team manager and he explains his picks here

The Hundred: 'The money's a difficult one to work out' - Welsh Fire boss Wallace - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/cricket/60996666

[the other bob wilson]

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Well mark wallaxce is welsh fire team manager and he explains his picks here

The Hundred: 'The money's a difficult one to work out' - Welsh Fire boss Wallace - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/cricket/60996666

The squad was mediocre last season and a lot of them are back this time, so I assume there was not as much money available for the auction as in 2021. Clarke, whose signing I can understand to some extent, now has two ducks in three innings and although he’s a talent is still like too many in the team - good county players with little or no experience of international level cricket. Zampa is a good one day international bowler and Miller has a lot of white ball caps for South Africa (although you’d never have guessed it last night), but it looks like a bottom of the table squad. and it’s playing like one - also, there’s no cricketing advantage at all to them playing at home because they handle the poor Cardiff pitches worse than their opponents do.

[Dave Blue]

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It’s a far weaker squad than last year and that was poor enough. I had to Google have the team. If Fire couldn’t close out that match there is no chance in hell in winning any of them.

[Pearcey3]

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Why has Carlson taken off a spinner and brought Harris back on when our seam attack is being hammered all over the place?