a superb win and well done Glammy.
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a superb win and well done Glammy.
Chris Cooke has been an outstanding player for the club. A very long serving player. Batted and kept wicket superbly.
Absolutely faultless behind the stumps today, really sharp. His batting was special too, yes. The bowler he hit three sixes in a row off was running to field on the boundary at the start of the 19th over, hoping not to get noticed, but the captain called him back to bowl at Cooke again. Kellaway spoiled the fun by running three off the first ball and not giving the strike back but the damage had been done by then anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pearcey3
Excellent win. I like the idea of sticking Smale and Bevan in early. Even if it doesn't quite come off, the three coming in after should be able to turn it around like today.
Three of the bowlers were terrific . I thought Chris Sole was having a Scott Boswell style meltdown in his second over though, it was a painful watch. Good captaincy to bring him back on at the end, hopefully it was just a one-off.
The fielding was pretty much faultless. The youngsters gave it some extra energy and the catching was sound. Essex weren't able to run quick ones and twos like we were (Rossington doesn't help himself there though).
Good performance all round and a good watch. The weather held and it was an entertaining game. Go Glammy (sorry, I mean Glamorgan CCC, of course).
Totally agree re Bevan and Smale (I'd add carlson in there aswell). Get out there with only one intention, that being to score as quickly as possible. We've got the 3 behind then in Cooke , Ingram and Marnus who are more than capable of picking us up if they all get out quickly. Posted earlier on Facebook that it's quite satisfying to see the top 3 win us the game against Sussex and now the middle 3 stand up to give us a score against Essex. It's a real vindication of the license given to the lads at the top.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loramski
After watching Kellaway and sole I was wondering what kind of form prem is in, and what ruaridh smith is up to this year 🤣
I feel a bit sorry for Kellaway (same as Tom Bevan earlier in the season) in that it must be hard coming from 2nd XI cricket to bowl at players like Rossington and Walter. I was saying to TOBW the other day on here that you don't get the same chances to gain experience that you do in football. No sub appearances or League Cup ties to acclimatise yourself to the higher level. Just straight in there, sink or swim. Some of the upcoming one-day Cup games would be handy earlier in the season to give fringe players a run-out.Quote:
Originally Posted by chrisp_1927
Fair play to Glamorgan for not just giving the three lads a game but giving them some responsibility too; up the order for Smale and Bevan, opening the bowling for Kellaway. Getting tonked around is surely part of the learning curve for any spinner. We got away with it today so no real harm done but if we need a result against Somerset and Carlson throws the ball to Kellaway to bowl at Smeed and Banton then I might doubt his sanity.
Yeah, hopefully lesson learnt for Carlson there aswell. Especially against someone like rossington, great hitter but doesn't always get his foot moving well, a part time offie to start with must have looked like Christmas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loramski
Definitely a big step up between 2nd x1 and first team. I think that's what has impressed me so much up Smale. Not just his results(which have been great), but the way he's gone about things. Right from his first game he's come out with the intention of imposing himself on the opposition and just playing his natural game. To look at him, you'd never guess he was just starting out.
Think Kellaway was always going to bowl one of the first two overs after he only went for five or six in that role at Sussex - he wa sperhaps the best thing about over fifty over campaign last season, so I'm pleased to see him being given a chance now, but I still think we're a front line seam bowler down in all forms of cricket this year.
It was a good display yesterday. Thought 182 was decent until they started their good partnership but very good turnaround late on.
Yes according to the wasp calculations at one time Essex was 87% to win the matchQuote:
Originally Posted by Dave Blue
I wasn't aware how much he'd bowled in the 50 over stuff last year. 55 overs, got 13 wickets and went at less than six an over. He got a four day game off the back of it but that didn't go to plan.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
https://www.skysports.com/watch/vide...er-three-balls
It just comes so late in the season that youngsters haven't really got a chance to build on that run of games. Kellaway's had to wait 10 months to bowl again for the first team and while Sussex let him off the hook, yesterday felt like an accident waiting to happen. The second over in particular. No criticism of his selection though, or of him or Carlson. Good to see the trust shown in him. Hopefully he'll be a better player for the experience.
80/1 available in a few places on us to win the blast (most places around 33/1). Decent price I think. Top 2 sides Surrey and Sussex both play nearly all of our top 4 rivals in the run in. Sussex could deal a big blow to Hampshire tonight
Gloucester lost to Middlesex tonight but Essex beat Kent. The weather doesn't look great for our game with Middlesex tomorrow, Somerset play Surrey.Quote:
Originally Posted by chrisp_1927
We play at Gloucester on Sunday then at Kent on Tuesday (on Sky) before finishing at home to Somerset on Friday.
Latest table here
https://www.google.com/search?q=t20+...tzv;st;fp;1;;;
Anyone heard of Henry Hurle who’s been included in the Glamorgan squad for the next two T20 matches?
If Glamorgan can win tonight, and Surrey beat Somerset, it'll make things very interesting. Would be nice to have something on the final game of the Group.
Fifith successive game without Ingram and Northeast in the same line-up. No coincidence by all accounts...
(Hurle hasn't done much playing for the 2nd XI, but is only 19. Doubt he'll play tonight)
https://glamorgancricket.com/squad-profile/henry-hurleQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
That's interesting, wonder what went on there?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ger27
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Originally Posted by Loramski
Just started to rain. Not looking good for tonight's game.
The way they’ve started this evening think it would have been better if it carried on raining!
Yep. I'd take the abandonment right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Corleone
Isn’t the definition of madness to keep repeating it and expecting something different? Catching practice.
All the good work in the past two performances thrown away with braindead batting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Blue
That's t20 effectively over for another season.
Waited 2 hours in the drizzle to watch that!
You’ve summed it up. Absolutely inept. Every wicket self inflicted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pearcey3
Glammy take being shit to a new level!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Blue
I'm switching off!
Bugger! Poor performance, but the 10 overs is a bit of a lottery I suppose. A frustrating season, where 'we threw it away' has probably been the case a lot more times than 'we were outclassed'.
You can’t lose matches like Surrey and Gloucestershire and expect to qualify. We weren’t good enough in the T20, don’t look good enough in the four day game and probably won’t be good enough in the 50 over game - we’ve lost two very good fast medium bowlers in the last two seasons and have not replaced them, our team isn’t well balanced enough.
I think the lack of a good strike bowler is clear in the 4 day form . Harris has stepped up better than I thought he would, but he isn't a Hogan or a Neser.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Wouldn't be surprised to see us do well in the 50 over tournament again though.
If the speed guns on the coverage of the four day games are correct, then I’d say that this season James Harris has been bowling at the sort of speeds which may have got him into the England side ten years ago when he was regarded as one of the best young prospects in the game. Harris was told he had to find a bit more pace when he was a regular in England Lions squads and consequently rather lost his way.Quote:
Originally Posted by chrisp_1927
However, Ive been surprised to see how many county seam bowlers are consistently below 80 mph by the speed gun, yet Harris has often been shown as bowling in the 83/86 mph range. In the game with Sussex that we won in Cardiff this season, the commentators were very excited at how quickly the West Indian Seales was bowling, yet the speed gun showed Harris hitting similar speeds to the ones Seales was reaching.
Really surprised me aswell, because his action seems so easy and smooth. Very impressive to be generating that level of pace. Bit of a shame he hasn't managed to keep the movement he used to generate I suppose.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
The regular cricket this year does seem to have done him wonders aswell. Hopefully he has a bit of an Indian summer to his career over the next few years. Combined with one or 2 new pacemen to complement him and timm
Definitely. We've been competitive in most games, frustrating is the word.Quote:
Originally Posted by chrisp_1927
Last night was odd. We successfully attacked Sussex and Essex last weekend, no reason not to do it again in a 10 over game. With fours hard to come by on a very wet outfield then the aerial route was the logical choice but we struggled to clear the ropes. Was that simply bad batting or would the conditions have had a say in that? Hard to understand how all our big hitters suddenly lost their power on the same night. Labuschagne and Kellaway tried to get cute but that didn't work either. I always think of wet conditions making it hard for bowlers and fielders but batting didn't seem that easy either. Maybe we just made it look like that.
Van der Gugten nearly got du Plooy a couple of times early on but his second over was costly. Even then the heads didn't drop, there seemed to be a belief we were still in it. The fielding was sharp and the crowd started to get behind the team as it came down to ten off seven balls and then four off four. It always felt like we needed snookers but I didn't think 88 was that far off a decent total. The nine wickets had meant nine dot balls though and that was crucial.
That's sport for you. One thing that did strike me was that having seen City get slated last season for being negative and not having a go it was a bit ironic to come on here and find Glamorgan getting slated for exactly the opposite.
I’m probably one of the guilty ones you refer to. There’s being positive and there’s being stupid. The boundaries were out and clearly needed a hell of a thump to clear. We seemed to want to hit every ball out of the ground, doable or not. It was kamikaze stuff. Middlesex learned from our shambles and largely kept it on the deck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loramski
Where Ingram was trying to hit a six was pretty ambitious but most of the others were reasonable. Carlson and certainly Cooke should've been able to hit a straight six but both fell short. Yet when Middlesex got to needing 10 off 7, Hollman comfortably cleared the ropes playing the same shot. Probably just executed it better but I wondered if the conditions had made it more difficult earlier on somehow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Blue
Talking about the conditions, the catching was excellent considering. Most of Middlesex's were simple enough but the ones Carlson and Labuschagne took were stunning. Mind you, Marnus wouldn't have been having any more kids if he hadn't caught his one so that probably sharpened his reflexes a bit.
McIlroy bowling like a �� again.
Well, this is good.
This sort of thing needs an inquest. The coach should walk.
Pathetic! A b1oody disgrace to the badge and some very sub standard cricket. Professionals ffs!
It’s hardly the sort of thing that dispels talks about splits in the dressing room is it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Blue
Even by Glamorgans very low standards today is taking it to even deeper depths - what a pathetic effort