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I wa# very impressed by Farooqt’s last three overs and I’m still not sure why Douthwaite appears to be regarded as just a one day player these days (albeit he was injured earlier in the season): but there wasn’t much on show to suggest we can carry our red ball improvement into the Blast. Bit too early to jump to firm conclusions yet mind.
I don't understand the approach chasing a score like that. Carlson and kellaway both did exactly what you would expect based on last year. Kellaway was almost a carbon copy, few drives along the ground and his first unconventional shot gets caught. Smale looked rusty, as he did at the start of last year, but he somehow always seems to stay there with wickets falling. I am surprised Cooke is in the team. Douthwaite played a match winning innings, unlucky for him and in some ways a waste of one of his best T20 innings for us.
I was shocked at the crowd for the first day at edgbaston, lunch hit and the playing area was swamped, 4 day cricket has no cut through in Cardiff it seems.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Blue
Cooke got dropped for Horton last season and another low score for him last night. It's a tough one with him because you assume he'll come good at some stage but how long do you give him? Not sure if Smale still keeps wicket but that seems like an option if we wanted to get another batsman in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric Cartman
And talking about wicketkeepers, Derbyshire have made theirs captain for this season's Blast. Not the career path any of us would've expected when he was breaking through here but good luck to him.
https://derbyshireccc.com/2026/02/do...ast%20campaign.
People tend to emphasize Ingram’s age (41 in July), but the fact Cooke turns 40 a week today never gets mentioned. I’ve just Googled forty year old wicketkeepers in first class cricket and was told they’re “remarkably rare” with Alec Stewart, Jack Russell and Adam Gilchrist being examples. However, although Stewart kept on -laying until he was 41, my guess is he only played as a wicket keeper in about two thirds of the games he played. Apparently, Gilchrist was in semi retirement when he played T20 cricket past 40 and Russell retired soon after turning 40.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loramski
Cooke’s been a brilliant servant for Glamorgan and is probably the best batsman out of the wicket keepers we’ve had. Also, I’ve seen little evidence of a decline in his keeping this season, but his batting figures aren’t great. It seems odd that he’s being used in the one day stuff at an age where most wicketkeepers have long since given up the job -Horton is a good keeper and,on current form, Cooke is no better batsman than him, so why not give the veteran a rest for the one day stuff?
Horton (as a batsman) and Hurle in for Ingram and Douthwaite tonight.
Asa Tribe is 88 not out for the Lions.
Douthwaite injury news?Quote:
Originally Posted by Loramski
Glamorgan's twitter says he hasn't recovered in time which isn't too helpful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord Worcester
Well we’ve missed him already!Quote:
Originally Posted by Loramski
Needing 158 to win Gloucestershire currently 12-3 in the 3rd over!
Mind you New Zealand recovered from 11-4 to beat England in the women's T20 today
Robert Croft’s doing my head in.
Message to selfQuote:
Originally Posted by Elwood Blues
Keep quiet until it's all over!!!
Gloucester now 78-3 after nearly 9 overs
Hang on now 78-4 after 9 Hammond just out for 56
Win predictor says 99 per cent Glamorgan and they lose it - useless.
Didn't see it but kept an eye on the score. Really poor final two oversQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
The first ball of the final overs that went for 6 was terrible. The 4 to win was just a fluke
A,win prediction of 99% with so few but runs in a couple of overs is a little ridiculous frankly. How many times have we seen T20 games go to the wire on such occasions even with lower order batsmen in. Most these days are capable of having 2 or 3 good blows even against good bowlers.
That being said it was a disappointing defeat but I would not call them useless overall except for the top order who failed miserably.
[QUOTE=Elwood Blues;5651255]A,win prediction of 99% with so few but runs in a couple of overs is a little ridiculous frankly. How many times have we seen T20 games go to the wire on such occasions even with lower order batsmen in. Most these days are capable of having 2 or 3 good blows even against good bowlers.
That being said it was a disappointing defeat but I would not call them useless overall except for the top order who failed miserably. /QUOTE]
Alright and perhaps a couple of unfortunate loose balls but there are very fine margins with such deliveries.[
The bowling in the last three overs with the Gloucestershire tail needing thirty seven to win was shockingly bad, Cooke butchered a fairly easy run out and there was a simple misfield by Farooqi which cost a run. I said in an earlier post that I could only think of one really memorable T20 game Glamorgan have played, well that might well be two now - even if 99 per cent wasn’t realistic (I think it probably was), that’s a game Glamorgan should be winning nineteen times out of twenty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elwood Blues
Sloppy, careless. very disappointing start.
On reflection I cannot understand why third man was not back on the boundary for the last ball. One or even two runs was not enough and a third man right on the edge would surely have stopped the four.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
I actually missed the easy run out but looking back, yes Cooke should undoubtedly have broken the bails properly.
We will have to agree to differ on the winviz. It should have certainly been quite high, but I have seen too many games decided by the odd run from similar positions ( both ways) especially in more recent years, to agree that it was 99% .
But it was certainly a game we should have won
looking at the table i suppose one good thing in losing two games they were both close so the run rate is not so bad
Is the right answer I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elwood Blues
A real sickener last night but there wasn't any booing or abuse aimed at the players that I was aware of (I'm sure the usual nutters were out on social media though), they gave everything and fell to their knees at the end. We got beaten by a complete fluke off the last ball, it wasn't for want of trying. If Taylor had straight driven it for six like Shaw did for them a couple of years back then that's a bit different, they got lucky this time.
Of course we could have been more clinical at the end but the momentum had been shifting all through the game and it shifted one last time just when it really mattered. Hurle was excellent, Crane too, we held our catches. The top order was poor again (what was Smale thinking) but it's not like there weren't any positives, useless is way too harsh.
When Farooqi bowled that yorker in the final overs the commentators said thats why your overseas players get paid the money they do. Yes, but the first 2 deliveries, including the 6, were awful. He shouldn't have allowed them to get in a position to score 4 to win off the final ball.
I feel sorry for Carlson. There must have been times when he was tempted to bring Farooqi back on, especially when Hammond and then Jack Taylor were taking the game away from us, but he held his nerve.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
He got Kellaway's overs out the way fairly cheaply and must've crossed his fingers throwing the ball to the erratic Leonard for the 17th but when that went well it was the perfect scenario for him. Nearly forty needed off the last three overs, two wickets left, with Farooqi bowling two and van der Gugten one. What could go wrong?
Exactly, it’s all very well saying the winning four was a fluke, but, with no third man in, your overseas quick bowler should not be bowling a ball that can be nicked down to that area. I thought, after a poor first over, Farooqi was very good on Friday, but his last two overs last night were rubbish to be franksnd Van Der Gugten, so reliable in the four day game, has had a bit of a look of cannon fodder to him in the first two T20 games.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
Useless isn’t harsh when talking about the team with, probably, the worst record out of the counties since the T20 format was introduced over twenty years ago. The 99 per cent win ratio figure was probably fair for other counties, but not for a side with such a poor recent record of closing out games in the T20 format. Glamorgan had Gloucestershire 121-8 with three overs left - it’s one thing conceding thirty seven runs off eighteen balls to specialist batsmen, but this was to a youngster making his way in the game and a bowler with a T20 average of 8.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loramski
Glammy did incredibly well to make it a game first of all. I don't think 99% was realistic at all, all cricketers can hit a big ball now and basically 2 sixes from Glos put them back ahead of the pace. 12.33 an over is very doable if you take 12 off two balls! I thought Glos actually made harder work of it than they needed to after that last 6 but you saw in both innings, it got much harder to take wickets in the latter part of both innings.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Also, what a great game. A superb advert for the Blast which is way better than the crisp tournament, even if the boundaries at SG are ridiculous
I'm not arguing with our historical record, or that we should've closed the game out, I'm just saying that useless feels like a knee-jerk reaction when you've lost to an edge off the last ball. If he'd got a thinner edge and Cooke had caught it would the performance still have been useless? If we'd been beaten heavily, as looked likely at times, how are we describing that?Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Asa Tribe has got his hundred for the Lions. He's dug in there, fair play.
Agree with all of that. Obviously the end was a blow but it was a great game, yes. Really competitive and it ebbed and flowed throughout.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa
on another note asa tribe has got another century for england lions :thumbup:
I’m not saying it wasn’t a great game, but that was because Glamorgan turned what should have been a pretty routine win into a very exciting defeat .because of their ineptitude.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loramski
One thing I’ll admit to getting wrong having having watched a few minutes of today’s Sky game, there’s no way Glamorgan’s are the worst team in anyT20 tournament that Middlesex are playing in.
I was just about to post exactly the same. Middlesex look woeful and I don’t think that pink kit helps either!!Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Out for 135.Quote:
Originally Posted by poc
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/...s/cp3p8d88xgjo
:thumbup: surely they cant ignore him nowQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
The 2 Durham openers are rightly ahead of him at the moment, but all he can do is keep playing well and keep reminding them he's not far behind.Quote:
Originally Posted by poc
The 99% would have been ridiculous for most sides.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Yorkshire were 139-8 earlier, needing 56 off the last 27 balls to beat Derbyshire and they got home with four balls to spare.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elwood Blues
An interview with Asa Tribe here, done during the Lions game. Rob Key has been talking to him, things are looking positive. I was hoping Key had told him he's completed the Lions now so can go and play T20 for Glamorgan but it doesn't get mentioned.
https://glamorgancricket.com/news/as...-lions-innings
Talking of T20, any news on Nathan McAndrew? He's due to play for us on Friday but I haven't seen that confirmed.
He was supposed to play for us last week as well, so not sure what's going on there. Injured?Quote:
Originally Posted by Loramski