very poor home performance and another season's T20 gone
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very poor home performance and another season's T20 gone
Gloucestershire as the away side appeared to pick a bowling line up far better suited to that pitch than we did - they had three spinners, we had one on what seemed a clear pace off the ball pitch to me, but what do I know :shrug:?
The glamorgan 2nd x1 has reached t20 finals day. Squad that includes Joe Cooke, Salter, lukas carey, ruaridh smith, Billy root and callum Taylor .
Shame 1 or 2 them haven't played a bit more for the first x1. Ruaridh Smith has always been one of our best t20 bowlers, surely if he's fit he should be in the side along with neser and hogan. He's a better bowler than weighell or harris
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Originally Posted by chrisp_1927
Yep really poor. Smith was excellent in t20 back in 2018 and it mystifies me why Weighell is preferred to him.
The 2nd XI have just won the T20 Cup
I really hope a few make it into the first x1 tomorrow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland
132 off 69 balls for tom bevan. If he doesn't start tomorrow Maynard has really lost the plot
He won’t be in the squad. It’s already been announced with McIlroy brought in because Neser has covid.Quote:
Originally Posted by chrisp_1927
Maynard is very rigid. He pigeon holes certain players into certain formats and that’s it.
I'm hoping it can be changed, although as you say it is highly unlikely. I think this win by the 2nd x1 certainly vindicates us lot on here who've been moaning about the team composition.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pearcey3
Is it my telly or are Glamorgan really playing on a purple pitch? Whatever colour it is, it looks another poor, slow, low one - I thought T20 cricket was supposed to be all about big hitting and boundaries.
Hampshire 34-2 in the seventh overs with the commentators talking about a par score of about 130.
11/1 off 3. Hmmmmmm
26/2 off 5. Ingram gone cheaply again. We need to review our t20 overseas players next season as we need younger specialists in
Ingram was passed his best three years ago
I know the pitch seems difficult but they don’t look as though they’ve hit a ball in their lives. Painful.
Cooke gone andI suspect our hopes of winning the game
Hugely disappointing. The fielding was poor and yet again the batting weak.
Make some changes Maynard. He is so rigid.
The campaign now looks over.
Something needs to change.
Just scroll through the previous pages on here over a number of years and it’s the same stuff being said every season. Nothing changes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland
Since it’s inception we must have the worst record of all counties in T20. Its difficult to see why anyone would want to go and support the team when they nearly always lose. It’s such a shame because it’s a fine stadium and so enjoyable attending games but serving a consistently losing brand is never going to work.
It needs to start with a review of t20 overseas players. Labuschagne is really a red ball cricketer. He isn’t suited to the short format stuff. Besides he seems barely available to us anyway so I’m not convinced he should return. Neser I think is potentially good enough in t20 as a bowler. Ingram hasn’t produced the goods for 4 or 5 years. Why is he still around?
the club needs a big boot up the rear as the whole mix is sub standard and the responsibility must lie with the management who clearly aren't very good.
Only 1 way hqmpshire should have been able to win that game, that was taking lots of wickets.
No way should they have been able to put us under run rate pressure, but sams innings let that happen. The fact we have harris is pissing me right off. Brought him back because he was our player years ago, he's now keeping good young players out the side.
What message are we sending the good young players who just won the 2nd x1 Cup. Stay and you won't get in the side, but if you go to another team and fail abysmally we wil bring you back and give you a pension.
Piss poor. That game was in the bag and we let it drift out. On the plus side, at least we didn't lose from a position like sussex managed to tonight
I see no one answered my question about the purple pitch - I was being serious when I asked about because the rest of the picture was fine, yet the pitch really was purple. More important was the nature of the pitch - yet another one which seems purposely designed to make the game less of a spectacle. I don’t think people want to see one day games played on pitches like that - i daresay no one would mind too much if they were leading to Glamorgan wins, but I would have had no faith in this batting side reaching the target Surrey set them and two other games out of the three played have been lost feebly.
I can only think that we’re playing our home games on such poor wickets because there’s a feeling that they help drag the opposition down to our level because we’re incapable of reaching the sort of upper range scores (ie 200 plus) that Ingram especially made available to us when he was at his best.
Selection seems strange as well because, clearly we have a good T20 team at second eleven level, yet it seems almost as if we’re playing in one of those tournaments where you pick your squad at the start and then can’t bring anyone else in.
The fielding was well below the standard expected last night and, even allowing for the poor wicket, the way the modest target was approached just did not inspire confidence.
I think some realism is needed because this squad, even with some of the clearly good younger players we have at second team level in it, is not up there with the best in the country, but lessons are not being learned when it comes to the batting especially and the pitches only add to the impression that, in these times where money is so tight, people are being asked to part with quite a bit of it to watch what is a poor product.
i think maynard is the mccarthy of cricket strange they have the same initialsQuote:
Originally Posted by Pearcey3
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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
The pitch did have a purple tinge and it was a terrible track to play on with the ball staying low right from the start. It makes for a poor spectacle.
The thing that disappoints me most is we see the same performances every season. Nothing changes. Our overseas recruitment for t20 has been terrible for the past 4 or 5 seasons. Perhaps we don’t have the resources of some counties but even allowing for that our t20 record is atrocious. With 4 out of 9 counties qualifying for the knock out stages you would hope to get through every other year. Glammy get through to the knock out stages on average once every five years I reckon.
Then red ball cricket. I think Simon Jones was the last Glamorgan player to play at Test level. That’s 17 years ago. Since then we have continuously failed to bring on young talent with the likes of Harris, Maynard and Donald all leaving the county to better themselves. We have been right down there with Derbyshire and Leicestershire as the weakest counties in all of those years
I know we can’t expect to match the richer counties but it does have the feel of an old boy’s club a lot of the time. I rarely hear Maynard criticise sub par performances. I also don’t understand the logic of bringing in the likes of Weighell last season and Harris this time when the likes of Smith and Carey are completely ignored. It all seems a bit random with no long term strategy in place.
That was our last chance really to stay in the mix. Certainly not out of contention, but we're going to need to win a few games on the trot at some stage now. I'm not sure if that is something we are capable of. Next game is an absolute must win
Can’t argue with any of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pearcey3
Back to the four day stuff today as Sussex come to Sophia Gardens with the usual live stream on the club website.