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[Loramski]

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The comments reflected the frustration people felt having witnessed probably the worst fielding display by a Glamorgan team in many years. Felt like a very good opportunity lost to beat a very good side.

Hoping for a decent crowd today given the weather - should be good down there.

Yeah, perfect for cricket today. It's always good down there, I've never felt I've wasted an afternoon or evening watching a 20/20, win or lose. If anyone's at a loose end later on I'd recommend going down (I'm not offering refunds if they don't enjoy it though)

I'm not Glamorgan's version of DML, there's always a place for criticism and gallows humour on here. We are where we are though, TOBW summed up the present situation perfectly, I think, and we have to accept that. I'm sure Taffy Blue thinks his grumpy old man schtick is hard hitting and hilarious but it jars a bit on here and I felt he dragged you and chrisp down to his level on Friday. No problem but it's a good thread this one, I wouldn't want it turning out like City ones where people feel they have to post something scathing or else they'll get labelled a happy-clapper.

The odd thing about the dropped catches, for me, was that they came in a decent enough fielding display otherwise. Plenty of energy and enthusiasm, runs saved (as Dave Blue said) and everyone encouraging each other. It was the same last season, I remember Billy Root dropping Will Smeed (never a good idea) and we had Sussex in trouble until someone dropped Shadab Khan, he went on to get eighty-odd and we lost that too. Feels a bit like City and penalty taking. Hopefully it'll pass soon, it's really going to hurt us if it doesn't.

Onwards and upwards. Enjoy the game.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Frustrating defeat yesterday. We were competitive throughout and even with the selection backfiring, the dropped catches and Ingram struggling to get going we still only lost by 19 runs so positives to take from it. I've literally no idea where posters were seeing 'rabbits in the headlights', 'way off the mark', 'totally outplayed', 'bloody joke', 'comedy show', 'shambles', toxic', 'rubbish', 'beyond pathetic' etc. Maybe they think we need the City match thread vibe on here? I'd beg to differ but each to their own, I guess.

Back in action at home against Sussex tomorrow at 2.30, hopefully we can hold our catches and get a win.

I think we were always chasing after their innings and left things a bit late to mount a serious challenge to their total, but it wasn't as bad as some were making out.

[chrisp_1927]

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Yeah, perfect for cricket today. It's always good down there, I've never felt I've wasted an afternoon or evening watching a 20/20, win or lose. If anyone's at a loose end later on I'd recommend going down (I'm not offering refunds if they don't enjoy it though)

I'm not Glamorgan's version of DML, there's always a place for criticism and gallows humour on here. We are where we are though, TOBW summed up the present situation perfectly, I think, and we have to accept that. I'm sure Taffy Blue thinks his grumpy old man schtick is hard hitting and hilarious but it jars a bit on here and I felt he dragged you and chrisp down to his level on Friday. No problem but it's a good thread this one, I wouldn't want it turning out like City ones where people feel they have to post something scathing or else they'll get labelled a happy-clapper.

The odd thing about the dropped catches, for me, was that they came in a decent enough fielding display otherwise. Plenty of energy and enthusiasm, runs saved (as Dave Blue said) and everyone encouraging each other. It was the same last season, I remember Billy Root dropping Will Smeed (never a good idea) and we had Sussex in trouble until someone dropped Shadab Khan, he went on to get eighty-odd and we lost that too. Feels a bit like City and penalty taking. Hopefully it'll pass soon, it's really going to hurt us if it doesn't.

Onwards and upwards. Enjoy the game.

I've got to be honest, I saw a bowling display that was good enough to skittle a strong batting side for 130, unfortunately backed up by all those 'catches'. The Friday night beers may well have amplified things, but I can't remember feeling that frustrated watching a game for a long time

As for my northeast frustration, it was maybe worded a bit strongly. But I'm so frustrated with the bloke. He's probably in the top 15 English T20 batsman, and his T20 record before joining us was great. But in games that count for us he just never seems to be able to match a decent score with a decent strike rate. Until today! So hoping that's an omen for the future .

Mind you saying that, I think we made a mistake today not having Marnus in the top 3(ideally opening). He scores more runs, and scores then quicker than anyone else we have.

Hoping we've got enough to defend, but certainly could have done with the extra 20 it looked like we'd get

[chrisp_1927]

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Spinners are on fire, and the outfielders hands seem to have loosened/warmed up a bit. Looks like the first 2 points are almost in the bag, just need to close it out

[the other bob wilson]

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Didn’t see much of the Glamorgan innings, but they’ve.bowled and fielded very well - this is going to be a pretty easy win by the standards of this competition.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Didn’t see much of the Glamorgan innings, but they’ve.bowled and fielded very well - this is going to be a pretty easy win by the standards of this competition.

Sussex need 46 from the final over. Could be tricky.

[Taffy Blue in Berkshire]

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well it was a win but not a brilliant batting performance and Marnus not used effectively. I hope there's a good review behind the scenes. much better in the field. did Sussex lose it rather than we won it?

[Dave Blue]

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well it was a win but not a brilliant batting performance and Marnus not used effectively. I hope there's a good review behind the scenes. much better in the field. did Sussex lose it rather than we won it?

Unless my memory serves me badly we generally struggle to get 160 at Sophia so it wasn’t too bad. Bowling was a lot better but Sussex aren’t Surrey.

[chrisp_1927]

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well it was a win but not a brilliant batting performance and Marnus not used effectively. I hope there's a good review behind the scenes. much better in the field. did Sussex lose it rather than we won it?

Agree with you about the use of Marnus. We seem to be going with an IPL inspired long batting lineup. I think that can work, but only if the batters are used effectively and all buy into an attacking philosophy. Leaving the best batter til 6 is a waste.
This game did remind me of the old adage 'don't judge the pitch until both sides have batted on it' . Our what looked like par total actually looked like a well above par one after both sides had batted. Pitch really seemed to take turn, so I think we'd done well to put that 180 odd up.

Surrey smashed Somerset aswell today, by 57 runs to go 3 from 3. So it was a good side in good form we lost to on Friday. Doesn't make the self inflicted manner of the defeat any less frustrating, but I think it certainly shows that we've got the talent to compete with anyone. Quite liked the promotion of Cooke to 3, with a licence to hit. It was an aggressive move with the intent of getting the score moving quickly. Didn't fully pay off but was certainly the right idea and good to see.

[the other bob wilson]

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Maybe Glamorgan can get the wickets to suit three leg spinners at Cardiff, but they’re going to need a better balanced ream for away games I’d have thought.

That said, it was good to see McIlroy looking more like the 2023 version of him yesterday.

[Loramski]

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I'm not up to speed with all this but, as far as I can make out, the story about Essex being charged with historic racism offences

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1145804/essex-charged-systematic-racism-alleged

might have a knock-on effect for Glamorgan in the T20 Blast. Yorkshire were docked four points last season for similar offences.

It's tough for us in the South Group. Four can go through but not only were Surrey, Essex, Somerset and Hampshire the four semi-finalists last season, they're also the current top four in the County Championship First Division. Essex have already lost two T20 games this season and a points deduction would open the group up further. It wouldn't be easy even if Essex do drop out of the reckoning, Kent are rated higher than us by the bookies with Sussex and Gloucester seen at our level, but it would improve our chances of qualification.

[chrisp_1927]

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I'm not up to speed with all this but, as far as I can make out, the story about Essex being charged with historic racism offences

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1145804/essex-charged-systematic-racism-alleged

might have a knock-on effect for Glamorgan in the T20 Blast. Yorkshire were docked four points last season for similar offences.

It's tough for us in the South Group. Four can go through but not only were Surrey, Essex, Somerset and Hampshire the four semi-finalists last season, they're also the current top four in the County Championship First Division. Essex have already lost two T20 games this season and a points deduction would open the group up further. It wouldn't be easy even if Essex do drop out of the reckoning, Kent are rated higher than us by the bookies with Sussex and Gloucester seen at our level, but it would improve our chances of qualification.

A deduction for Essex and Surrey winning all their games would make it easier for us to go through, as it would for every other side in the group.

I don't see us a weak side though. There's a T20 world cup on at the moment, which has shorn the tournament of a lot of overseas players. We've got 2 absolute stars as overseas. We've got the strongest top 6 in the tournament (in my very humble opinion). In our 2 games we've battered Surrey(but blew it with fielding) and then battered Sussex.

I don't think we need to be too concerned about the rest, if we play well we will win enough games to qualify. I really don't see us as the 'plucky underdogs' that some seem to. We're a good T20 side, and with the T20 world cup lessening the player pool, I think this is probably our best chance in years to really make a mark

[Loramski]

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A deduction for Essex and Surrey winning all their games would make it easier for us to go through, as it would for every other side in the group.

I don't see us a weak side though. There's a T20 world cup on at the moment, which has shorn the tournament of a lot of overseas players. We've got 2 absolute stars as overseas. We've got the strongest top 6 in the tournament (in my very humble opinion). In our 2 games we've battered Surrey(but blew it with fielding) and then battered Sussex.

I don't think we need to be too concerned about the rest, if we play well we will win enough games to qualify. I really don't see us as the 'plucky underdogs' that some seem to. We're a good T20 side, and with the T20 world cup lessening the player pool, I think this is probably our best chance in years to really make a mark

I hope you're right but T20 is so unpredictable. We've had two games so far, McIlroy went at 12 an over in the first, 4 an over in the second. The spare bowlers went for 51 in the first but Labuschagne and Ingram bowled 4 overs for 24 in the second. Labuschagne was our top scorer in the first but got bowled first ball in the second. We dropped crucial catches in the first but held everything in the second. Hard to know where we are for now.

The batting should see us trouble the best teams at some point, the bowling might mean we're going to take a couple of shellackings too. We need to take care of business against the weaker sides and hope we can get the wind in our sails against the big boys. We play Essex, Hampshire and Somerset after our trip to Lords tomorrow, the table should be starting to take shape by next Friday.

[Dave Blue]

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A Surrey fan at our game said we would batter the others in our league with our line up. It’s a very strong batting team I must say.

[the other bob wilson]

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A Surrey fan at our game said we would batter the others in our league with our line up. It’s a very strong batting team I must say.

So, let’s either play Bevan at the top of the order or leave him out for a specialist bowler - I know James Harris can go for a lot of runs in limited overs cricket, but I’d prefer to see him in for one of the batters.