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not really just poor batting, rolled over and given up
Just when you think the game of cricket can't make itself any more ridiculous. The spectacle of the Worcestershire morons running around and bowling part time spinners with 9 down, just to get on track with over rate. I'd fine them for bringing the game into disrepute if it was up to me. Absolutely pathetic
It’s been a pitch where it tends to be very hard to bat on the first morning, but, unlike Cardiff which can be similar before flattening out, Worcester’s pitch is a results one. If Worcestershire go up, they will have been helped by playing on a wicket which helps the bowler a lot more than the likes of Cardiff, Bristol and Derby. It looks like we let them score a hundred more than they should have on the first day.Originally Posted by Harry Lime
dunno which team is more depressing to watch, Glammy or City?
It’s been a superb innings by Billy Root though.
Root managed it ok which doesn't say much as to the ability of his comrades!
Thanks for that, I'm way out of touch.
First innings aside, they would have taken a chase of 260 to win before the game started surely?
Why couldn't someone, anyone, just have stuck with him!
They had 2 days to get this total. No risk required whatsoever. It defies belief.
I was just answering a question about the Worcestershire wicket and the fact is it’s an easier pitch to win, and lose, games on than Cardiff.
I agree that Root’s contribution makes the rest of the team look bad, but Worcestershire scored less than us in their second innings, so it was definitely an awkward wicket to bat on. I think our batting line up might be better than Worcestershire’s, but they had a much better bowling attack than us - our attack is weak with no spinners who would get into other sides purely on their bowling ability and our best bowler was injured for much of this game.
Yes I think so (despite what I said about the Worcester wicket we scored over 300 to win there last season). It seems to me that pitches have changed a bit in recent years - whereas it used to be that they would gradually get worse and spinners would come into their own in the second innings, you often see wickets become slower and lower by the day now and they’re no use to any bowler on day four. There was a game at Derby this season where we managed to make them follow on, but their openers then batted throughout the final day without being parted.
Yeah, good effort by him.
Glamorgan going all round the park against Yorkshire today. WithVan Der Gugten presumably missing the game with the injury he picked up last week, I’m struggling to think of too many weaker bowling attacks the county have fielded than the one for this game. Is someone had me back in April that Glamorgan would finish the season with McIlroy as their best bowler and most likely wicket taker, I would have looked at them with pity, but that’s what’s happened - Yorkshire 234-2.
19for2 in response to Yorkshire 500 all out.😩
Another limp end to a season. Can't Glammy get sponsored by Viagra.
Good effort from the batsmen today, especially Byrom and Northeast.
Another draw.
Even the Yorkshire wicketkeeper had a bowl towards the end.
The Sophia Gardens road/wicket comes out on top yet again.
I’d rather it be like a road to give us a chance of a draw than have to bat on something that we would be out for 90.
Who’s asking for wickets like that? All I’d like to see is a pitch that is a more even balance between bat and ball and doesn’t get harder to take wickets as the game goes on. Glamorgan may have lost more by playing on better wickets than Cardiff, but they would have won more as well and there also might have been some watchable fourth days.
maynard leaving
Good article about someone who has been one of Glamorgan’s great figures of the last half a century. Unfortunately, the one signing we made last winter turned out to be a pretty spectacular flop in a side that needed all of the bowling resources it could get once Neser left.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/66797881
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/63075996
Not holding back is he?
Tom cullen "glamorgan cronyism must end".
Jobs for the boys.
Even if what he says is true, criticism from someone who has left any sporting team after never really establishing themselves in the starting line up can be dismissed as sour grapes.
That said, maybe it is time to look outside of former players with the next coaching appointment - the last two "outsider" coaches I can think of are Duncan Fletcher and Matthew Mott, so it's not as if they've made bad choices when they've looked beyond Wales.
No but then again comments like this can surely only come from someone now out of the set up. Plus as he says we have debated in this very thread why the likes of hogan, selman and David Lloyd have left the county on their own accord. Perhaps there is something in it?
Also not like he's trying to get Maynard out of a job (if he said it while Maynard was in post his motivations could be questioned more perhaps) as all the people are leaving anyway so it's a perfect opportunity to act like a professional club and not just find another ex player.
The glamorgan chairman doesn't exactly deny it!
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