Glamorgan’s the only game not started yet today - if the BBC forecast proves right, it could be a case of no play today.
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Looks like there might be a start soon, but, unfortunately, Leicestershire have won the toss and stuck us in - David Lloyd is back to open.
We’ll have to stay on tenderpins for another seventeen hours or so - no play today.
Well, the umpires got as far as starting to walk out to the middle to start the game when the rain came down - still don’t know what colour the stumps are.
On for five balls, then off again- 0 for 0 and the stumps are blue.
Glamorgan 54-1 and, after losing almost two days to the weather, every one marches off in bright sunshine at 6.30 - cricket’s its own worst enemy at times.
Can we have more rain please.
58-4
93-7 now. Could lose it in 2 days.
Could Leicestershire declare their first innings on 0/0, bowl at us again, then have a decent target to chase tomorrow?
Hopefully the pitch is a bowlers paradise and this a decent total.
If Leicester did declare their first innings at 0/0 I suppose we'd have no chance at bowling bonus points. Could actually be a clever/cynical move for them to make
Been watching the last twenty minutes and, like yesterday evening,it looks like the usual crap Cardiff wicket (lifeless and slow), that combined with the Aussie ball which goes soft after about thirty overs makes it hard to see how there could be a positive result without the sort of contrivance between captains you don’t tend to get these days.
Neser and Harris turning things around for Glamorgan with a century stand, 200-7.
This kookaburra trial seems very much at odds with the other stated desire for this season of 'encouraging positive cricket'. Could have understood as a 1 off, but 3 games seems mad.
I would have thought the change in points structure this year would have been a good encouragement for captain's agreements to set a game up. But as you say, they just don't seem to be interested in doing it anymore.
The commentators were speculating that, as scoring rates don’t seem so bad with kookaburra ball at other grounds, that the Cardiff pitch exaggerates the effects of the ball. It won’t happen because it would be a pretty low priority for a club where money is tight, but I dig up a few pitches to lay new ones with some pace and bounce that, hopefully, would provide something for the spinners as the game went on.
Durham apart, it’s a very tight division this year with every other club still entertaining hopes of the second promotion place, I don’t you’ll be seeing any declaration games until it gets to the stage where sides have to win to maintain hopes of going up.