if Glammy were the company i'd worked for there'd be a lot of sackings based on recent performances. worse than watching City! completely unacceptable but nobody has the balls to deal with it. nice ground shame about the team!
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if Glammy were the company i'd worked for there'd be a lot of sackings based on recent performances. worse than watching City! completely unacceptable but nobody has the balls to deal with it. nice ground shame about the team!
feeble management, need some decent coaches and not some poundland cheapies. serial underachievers. so many parallels to City.
I can't knock them too much for tonight. Selection was right, balance was right, smale will be a gem. It just went tits up. I think qualification may well end up on 'if we'd have won one of the games in which Alleyne picked 4 bowlers'.
That was something we had control over and facked up. But we're still in it now, win 2 or 3 of the last 3 matches and we qualify. Carlson and Timm were unbelievably good tonight, simply amazing partnership
Cooke was unlucky to be fair, it was an unbelievable catch to get him out. He could've easily got the 20 or 30 extra runs we needed to make it a really competitive score. That catch goes down or Root's sticks then it could've been game on. Frustrating. Decent and spirited performance overall though.
Good question this. We're only ahead of Middlesex and Derbyshire for games won overall.
There's a table here (at the bottom of the page) on where teams have finished up each season, only us and Derbyshire haven't made a final yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T20_Blast
One more quick thing. The BBC report on the game says
'as Harry Styles took to the stage down the road at the Principality Stadium, Somerset's chase of 171 was only going in one direction'
Excellent stuff and definitely the kind of thing TOBW should be looking to introduce into his match reports for next season. He's got a couple of months to work on some popular culture material now, I'll be looking forward to seeing the results come August.
Absolute madness in the Surrey Middlesex game. Surrey put up 252. Middlesex 128/1 after 9.5 overs in reply
Can't believe what I've just watched. They won it with 4 balls to spare. Not a bad way to break out of a slump. Good for us aswell. Surrey now play Somerset and Essex to round out their season. Their run rate should help them but there's every chance that one of Surrey or Essex could now fail to get another point . If Essex win games then it will be at the expense of other teams in the mix. Could get very tight for top 4
I was listening to the otherwise very good Wisden podcast yesterday and, as usual with them, the discussion on the county game was centred on Surrey and/or Essex/ It became another Surrey love in with one of them saying how he'd watched the T20 game with Glamorgan and, although they had a few injuries, the gulf between the teams was a chasm. He wasn't particularly having a go at Glamorgan just using them to find another way to say how great the current Surrey squad are.
While there's no denying that Surrey are a very strong side in all formats of the game, they should always be given all of the advantages they have over most other counties. Throughout my lifetime, there's always been a bit of vulnerability to them though and last night's ridiculous defeat says it all, as in the next game after they played Glamorgan, they lose to a side with a hundred per cent losing record that broke the records for the best ever run chase in the competition's history - honestly, I would have rated Middlesex something like a 10,000 to 1 shot during the interval between innings'!
incedible game last night it was hard to believe when they showed the comparison at the end of the power play middlesex were 21 runs ahead if i remembered right you are right about the love in with surrey sky were the same last night
I'm guessing Surrey get a good deal rent wise on the oval that underpins their financial muscle. Always thought Middlesex would be in a good financial position, until I saw an article on their rental terms. Was around 16k a day and 30% of ticket income. So playing at Lords is more of a millstone for them than a money maker
Glamorgan about to announce legspinner Mitchell Swepson as a replacement for Neser. Lesson not learnt from choosing Patel as Neser's replacement... clear to all that a pace bowler would be more valuable.
With Salter and Sisodiya out of contract at the end of the season, makes you wonder what the future is for one (or both) of them.
A few years ago, a quality leg spinner in a dry summer, so far, would have been a good signing to play on the Cardiff pitch, but in recent seasons there’s not been much in it for spinners and the wicket has shown a tendency to become slower and lower as the game goes on.
You’d think Swepson could make an impact in the Championship if the rain stays away, but he could do with some help from the Cardiff groundsman.
Do this lot practice their fielding. Dreadful.
Someone tell Fletcher you.can’t bat out for a draw in T20.
This will be another very poor defeat. The difference between the fielding of the two sides has been stark. Sussex have fielded superbly. Glammy’s was amateur hour stuff.
pathetic! amateurish performance from a 'dog's breakfast' of a side.
Feel like that game should have finished 40 minutes ago, after Glamorgan based down 110. We've Handed them run after run in the field. Followed by Fletcher turning out a Northeast special.
One of my grievances with T20 cricket is that, quite often the outcome becomes obvious far too early in the game. There are exceptions obviously, but in 5 of tonights games, the team batting second lost (we were the smallest losing margin of the 5). There were just 2 successful run chases with 1 match abandoned. For a format that's supposed to deliver excitement, more often than not matches seem to drift towards an obvious result, early on in the 2nd innings.
To be fair to Fletcher, he improved his scoring rate later in his innings to the extent that he scored quick enough for us to have won if only someone could have stayed with him - the problem as I saw it was that he was taking so long to play himself into some sort of form that he put people like Northeast and Cooke under unnecessary pressure.
Back to the four day stuff today with another game against Sussex. The only one of our injured players to return is Bevan who I suppose may open - Swepson is the only overseas player included.
Not a great first day!
An hour played this morning and Sussexhave added just eleven runs while losing three wickets.
Looks like the kookaburra is doing a bit on our pitch. Could end up with a very handy first innings lead in a low scoring game.
Edward Bevan was appreciating the nature of the cricket today and so one of the other commentators christened it Bev ball. With just 184 runs scored from a full days play, it certainly wasn’t Baz ball, but Glamorgan are on top with a lead of 85 with all of their second innings wickets left on a pitch where batsmen are really struggling to time the ball - the question is will the weather have the final word because the forecast for the next couple of days isn’t great.
With weather looking dodgy I had hoped we’d press on this evening. Why do cricketers think runs scored in the morning are more valuable than the evening? An opportunity missed.
I haven't seen particularly ominous forecasts for the next couple of days. I'd say we look in a very healthy position at the moment
pretty slow going stuff this. theres potential rain around tomorrow you'd think they'd try to move the score along a little.
66 runs and 2 wickets in session 1, more zzzzball than bazball i guess.
watching Glammy second innings and a shame the openers were on the back foot and we've still got injuries to key players. currently lead by 169 and Carlson and Northeast in which will be a key partnership.
Carlson provides some much needed acceleration with 59 off 50 balls, Glamorgan 221-4 with Northeast on 61, so 260 on with my concern being that it’s looking an increasingly easy pitch to defend on.
Not watched Glamorgan ccc in decades...since the days of Gilbert Parkhouse/Jim Pressdee et al!! But have been this afternoon...actually really good to watch a good tactical match instead of headlining test matches!
Mind you...the commentators are pretty woeful....
Ned to throw the bat a bit.......and get Sussex in for 20 overs....w