Reply With Quote32-4, Pujara out to Gorvin’s first ball.
32-5, John Simpson, who used to score stacks against us for Middlesex, bags a pair.
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It does have that humid feel to it today and maybe the ball’s doing a bit - Sussex 32-3, all three wickets to Hamza.Originally Posted by Eric Cartman
32-4, Pujara out to Gorvin’s first ball.
32-5, John Simpson, who used to score stacks against us for Middlesex, bags a pair.
seems the Welsh weather is going to screw things up for Glammy after a hopeful start.
56 runs to win less than 2 hours later, funny old game
Hell of a performance. Wonder if Marnus will have to sit on the bench for his first game or 2 back. Hard to drop Ingram after his season, and Hamza has been good this match.
Didn't think gorvin had a 5 for in him, very nice to see
Hurray, a win 🙂
Wow. 7.5 overs is all it took. Real statement victory. At 41/4 yesterday we were really wobbling. Then when wickets fell quickly after Ingram and Carlson it looked like we might blow our advantage.
But to then put together a couple of good partnerships, followed up by a crushing bowling performance is utterly fantastic. Well done boys! Credit to the groundstaff aswell, for getting a bit of life out of that pitch. Crickets a much better game when the bowlers have something
Great win. A rare event over recent seasons. Taking 20wkts in 3 days on a Sophia Gardens pitch is a positive by itself. Was the Kookaburra ball used?
great win and a big confidence boost, well done Glammy!
No, the Kookaburra was only used for the first two rounds of games and I hope that’s the last we see of it - the ECB’s marketing men seem determined to kill off the county championship and using that ball all of the time would be a big step in that direction,
Another question is if you can get a pitch like that at Sophia Gardens, why have so many in recent years been so bland as to make any result other than a draw impossible? Gorvin’s first ball yesterday bounced much more than it should have done to dismiss Pujara and I wonder if they’re still mindful of that one day game with Hampshire a few years ago that was abandoned because of an unfit pitch?
A really good win though against a team that had made a great start to the season, still not sure about the bowling attack we went into the game with mind - have Dowthwaite and McIlroy been dropped?
Mcillroys been struggling with injuries, not sure about douthwaite. Seems to follow a well worn pattern that douthwaite plays the first few games of a season, then gets moved aside after a few games.
I wonder if some of the pitch woes are related to the amount of cricket that needs to be played on them. With all glamorgans games, Welsh fire men and women. Plus a couple of pitches that are probably set aside for the international games. It may well be that the only way to get them through the season is to make sure a few are complete roads. Degrading during the game to help the bowlers is great, but I suppose if you then can't get it regenerated during days off you end up with a big problem.
Hopefully the pitch we've just played on is a sign of things to come and means they've worked out what they can get away with on those pitches a bit better. I do wonder if we've just had a very good box of balls here mind which played a part aswell, good proud seam or something. The amount of wickets that fell with the new ball throughout the game was unbelievable
Another game at Cardiff for Glamorgan starting today. They play Middlesex who routinely win in the four day game when they play here. The which overseas players to pick problem sees Hamza "rested" as Labuschagne joins Ingram to strengthen the batting, but what on paper looked a very weak bowling line up against Sussex looks even weaker for this match with McElroy presumably coming into the team.
With showers forecast throughout the next four days, perhaps Glamorgan will avoid their customary defeat against Middlesex in Cardiff this time.
Some better news on the bowling front is that Van Der Gugten and Podmore have both played for the seconds this week following their injuries.
Huge call to leave hamza out after Sussex imho
Labuschagne out for 23, Glamorgan 51-1.
What on earth is happening! I'm afraid to reload the page, because everyone I do another bloody wicket has fallen.
They’re playing Middlesex in Cardiff, it always happens.
94-6.
A bit of a recovery from 103-7 to 181-8, but does it mean that the wicket is easing just in time for the start of the Middlesex innings?
Glamorgan’s one day record against Middlesex in Cardiff has been good down the years, but it’s dreadful in the three/four day game. We lash beat them in a Championship match at Sophia Dardens in 1991 and we even lost to them in our 1997 Championship winning season when, from memory, we were bowled out for thirty odd.
For more than half of my life,City found it impossible to beat Bristol City during the regular league season, what is it about certain opposition that turns a sporting team’s legs to jelly and brains to mush? In both of the examples given, the poor runs have lasted decades, so we’re hardly talking about a specific group of players being to blame.
The strangest thing avout our Middlesex phobia is that we have beaten them in London in the years when we’ve struggled in Cardiff. Only a few weeks ago we racked up more than 600 at Lords, but I swear that if the game would have been played on exactly the same wicket in Cardiff, we’d have lost in three days.
If I were Glamorgan, I’d seriously think about switching our next home Championship game with Middlesex to somewhere like Neath, Colwyn Bay or Abergavenny.
How often have we won a county game in Lords? From memory we usually get battered there too with very few exceptions.
Our record v Middlesex in Cardiff is far worse than even I thought it was!
https://glamorgancricket.com/news/gl...%201950%20when
Glamorgan don't have a good record at Lords, but, whereas we've only won once in Cardiff since 1952, we've won four times at Lords in that time, including in 2010 and 2011, and we also beat them at Southgate in 2000.
Chelsea FC, Clapton Orient FC, Fulham FC, Millwall FC, Queens Park Rangers FC and Tottenham Hotspur FC all used to play in Middlesex aswell as Wembley, and White City.
Long way behind. But they’re fighting. Lead 150. Can our aussie and Ingram turn up in the 2nd?
Yes. Lol.
Labuschagne out after scoring a ton. Ingram 101 not out.
107 in front with 5 wickets left. Glamorgan still in it just about?
Shame Cooke is out, he’s not in great form with the bat this season.
Middlesex still favourites, but, barring a late collapse, it’s been Glamorgan’s day.
Tempted fate. 4 late wickets for 60 runs in last 18 overs. Undid a very good day. From 130 behind to 130 in front. From out of it to nearly in it. For me simply not enough. But it would give me huge pleasure if it was. But gutsy day after disastrous day 1.
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