Reply With QuoteKellaway is a terrific prospect but he needs to curb his attacking instincts.
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Looking good for us at the moment. Second game in a row 10 Surrey batsman have failed, with only Roy chipping in!
Kellaway is a terrific prospect but he needs to curb his attacking instincts.
Thank god smale is out. Was sweating a bit with him there, should finish them off now hopefully. No more collapses please
Glammy doing a C4rdf!
Very disappointing. Only way Surrey should have been able to win this was lots of quick wickets. To be choked out, especially after the fast start is not good. Smale and Ingram have to take the blame for that.
Still in the balance but Surrey got too much for me
Good night nurse
We are blowing this. I didn't understand Kellaway for the second game running. Plenty of runs off the over and then he charged down the wicket and holed out.
Cooke out. We will lose a game we should have won
Glammy were mugged by a smarter team and showed their naivety.
Disappointing to throw that one away last night.
On the plus side, the bowling and fielding were excellent in both games. Really impressed.
Concerns over the top/middle batting order though. Even in the first game we looked on the verge of crumbling before Douthwaite and Tribe managed to put a partnership together.
Given his T20 record I do wonder if Northeast should come back in. Commentators suggesting he's not the kind of person to enjoy being rested.
I'm torn on Northeast coming back. The 'career' Northeast should be first name on our team sheet, the Northeast that has played T20 for Glamorgan can stay well away though! I think my change for next game would be Sam for Smale, get Tribe up top with Sam down at 5 or 6.Originally Posted by FormerlyJohnnyBreadhead
I don't trust Sam at the top of the order, but down at 6, where the game situation makes clear what he needs to do he would be a fantastic asset.
I remember last year’s game going the same way. Looked on course then their far better bowling attack putting us out of the game. That and dreadful catching which has greatly improved apart from a key drop last night. All fine margins. A bit of sense in the batting would have won that game.
Hopefully that game is a good kick up the backside and will turn into a positive. We shouldn't be scared of anyone, but we need to take a look at ourselves and how we go about the game. Essex at home next, a very winnable game!
Some good posts here. It's funny FJB should bring Northeast up, I was wondering about whether he should have played too. As soon as Smale was out I thought 'what would Chrisp have said if Northeast had taken 10 overs to get 26'. I dread to think.
It was a painful watch and we got out thought, as others have said. Those lower run chases can be tricky though. It's a bit like being up against 10 men at football, you feel it should be straightforward but you can easily get in a muddle as to how to go about it. I take Pearcey's point about Kellaway but the no risk strategy wasn't exactly a great success either and left us too much to do in the final overs.
Let's hope the rain holds off on Friday. I'll be looking out for you if Northeast plays, I assume you'll be giving him a standing ovation when he comes out to bat.
Our top order batting has been unreliable in T20 games so far. We were something like 95-8 in the friendly against Wiltshire before Leonard got forty odd late on and we looked like throwing the game away against Middlesex for a while - last night was a bit different as our openers got decent scores, but what followed didn’t offer much - for me, we look too inexperienced in the top six and I’d play Northeast who allowed people to play around him so to speak pretty effectively last season.
Truth is though, Surrey have such strength in depth they should beat us seven times in ten in any format.
I must have got a bit too predictable there! I gave him a standing ovation at Lords last year when he brought us home mind 😂.
I'm very much a believer in being aggressive in T20, especially with a long batting order and I've always thought it quite telling that quite often a team that wins a tournament will have one or 2 of the lowest scores all year or how often one of the top teams from one year can't buy a win the next ( SRH in the IPL for example). The aggressiveness required to win needs to be on the edge of potentially making yourself look very stupid.
If we'd have been shot out for 70 I think I could probably accept that better than being throttled in a small chase
Last night was a big disappointment. At half time I thought we’d win. Interesting reading the thread that no one has mentioned Ingram. I agreed with the choice of not picking Ingram and SN, on the basis that we don’t need the experience of both and if one was to miss it should be SN. Part of the problem with the 2 innings thus far has been that Ingram has simply not turned up. Do we really need them both?
Both Cooke and Ingram are big players for us and both have been scratchy to date. I don't like the batting order at all. Too much pressure on Kellaway. I would go with the following.
Tribe
Smale
Carlson
Ingram
Cooke
Kellaway
I'm surprised Tribe isn't opening for us. Opens in the championship and gets his runs quickly, so it seems such an obvious decision to put him up there. Then again, Surrey have decided to put their best, most explosive and most in form batter in Jason Roy down at 4 tonight. So we're not alone in strange choices
No Northeast in the squad tomorrow so it looks like the same team apart from Leonard or McIlroy in for Kerr.
Good chance of a "Welsh double" tonight.
It's a bit rubbish holding this fixture in Cardiff at the same time as the Wales football game though
There is also the Diamond League in Rome this evening which may reduce the attendance at both the cricket and football.
Pretty comfortable win for Glamorgan- six wickets with an over to spare. Carlson and Smale with a good opening partnership with the former falling just short of a century.
Great win after Tuesday's disapointment
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