Now 137/5 with a lot of work to do. Rudolph out for another duck. He is a waste of a place. Selman doing really well again. It looks like we now have a decent opener. We need to get to 300.
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Selman carried his bat - 122 out of 236 in another feeble batting performance which gives Northants a great chance of their first win of the season.
Northants are now 225 ahead with 6 wickets in hand so the best we can hope for is that Glammy bat out for a draw.
With the exception of Ingram and Selman the bating is hopeless at the moment.
You lot should be relieved you're not Somerset or Durham fans, what a mental day!
Not trying to get too far ahead of myself here...but how do tickets for T20 Finals Day work?
I see that most of the tickets have gone already (probably to the people of the Birmingham area). Are there a set of tickets kept back for each team who makes it, for them to distribute? Or is it all open for everyone?
If there's none reserved for the finalists, then Glamorgan fans are likely to get 0 tickets (if we make it), as the other 3 finalists will know on Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday that their team will be there.
When Surrey went there a few years ago there was an allocation, not sure how many though.
GLAMMY 18-4 :shrug:
Hmmm 5 down now.
The last time I had a go at Rudolph he hit 50 and carried us to narrow victory at Colwyn Bay!
I'm going to stick know my neck out here and say drop him period, Thursday too.
Partly because if I say that then our fortune could change but mainly because we limped over the line to qualify in the T20 in spite of JR not because of him.
Let's try and salvage something from the season while we can.
Losing at home to bottom side Northants is embarrassing and I'm afraid the weather won't save us this time.
We need a tail ender, probably two, who can hit a ton, like other teams seem to do against us :hehe:
74-7
80-9
95 all out. Embarrassing
Yep totally unacceptable. Northants were bottom and missing seven players. I can't see us beating Yorkshire next week with so many players in such poor form. I would be happy to see Rudolph dropped on Thursday but we both know it won't happen. He is a bloody hindrance.
What a match Gloucester V Durham it had everything, Durham win, Gloucester all out in last over 19 runs short.
It's up to GLAMMY to be the only southern team on finals day
Hope you lot at the game are enjoying it :hehe::hehe::hehe:
What a depressing evening.
Very quiet here and from the previous dozen posts hardly surprising.
Men against boys!
Big crowd, good atmosphere, poor performance (again!)
Ingram only shining light.
Looks like I made the right choice though eh?
Not a great night for Welsh sport :cry:
Embarrassing all around tonight...
At least I don't have to shell out for Finals Day tickets...and our City fans don't have to travel to Scunthorpe...(those are the only positives I've scraped together in the last 30 mins.)
Just got home. As I feared our hopelessly out of form batsmen would not be up to it but even by their standards that was embarrassing. Thank God for 'feed the snake'
Season over.
Pathetic, woeful display and that squad needs a good clean out and a new captain.
Mark Wallace is now for the glue factory with a few others not far behind.
That display will cost the club dearly as a lot of people won't pay good money to watch that shite.
Hope my golf at Llanishen is better in the morning!
didn't even manage to find one of the hats they were giving away.
At least I managed to sneak a bottle of wine in.
I think Hugh Morris needs to have that difficult conversation with Rudolph. It will hinder the club if Rudolph is there again next season.
There are also players who perhaps need to be offloaded including Cosker and Salter. The latter has been a huge disappointment having promised so much 3/4 years ago.
I have been a big Mark Wallace fan. Top man and a great keeper over the years. His batting is now very scratchy though. Cooke was his obvious replacement but with his back problems it may well be that he cannot keep wicket again.
The likes of Donald and Lloyd show promise but are both really struggling at the moment. They will need to be a lot more consistent next season if they want to progress.
Wagg and Meschede have been very disappointing in T20 and one day cricket. Neither take many wickets in the four day stuff.
I hope Tait doesn't come back. No surprise that he was no better than the rest of the bowling attack in stark contrast to Steyn. Once Steyn left and Cooke was injured the performance level in the shorter formats dropped off a cliff.
So another poor season. This will surprise no one.
Glamorgan were unlucky that their reward for a very good qualifying campaign was a quarter final against the best team in the country and they did very well to peg the total they had to chase back after it looked like Yorkshire would be getting something like 220. However, the truth is that I gave up on the game as soon as Yorkshire got to 150, because Glamorgan are just not good enough with the bat to chase anything more than that against any half way decent attack.
In fact, having been bowled out for less than a hundred in our last two innings, I'm probably being about fifty runs too generous there. The season's not been a disaster, but we have been over reliant on batsmen number six to ten for ages now and I'm not convinced that any of the young spinners who've played for the first team lately will be good enough to sustain a long career in the game - with Ingram now just a one day batsmen it seems, Wallace being used in a position well above his current batting level, Cooke's future as wicketkeeper uncertain and our so called best batsman having a truly woeful campaign, we look a very brittle outfit indeed.
Having switched back and for between the cricket and football all evening it couldn't have been worse if City had played Yorkshire and Glamorgan had popped over to play Rovers. Glamorgans display was embarrassing to say the least, while we are in for a long incredibly yawn fest of a winter having seen the bluebirds performance last night.