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AllegedlyOriginally Posted by poc
Good to see Asa Tribe making runs as Glamorgan have been set a massive 478 at Notts. He’s 59 not out with us 83-1 as play is suspended through rain. Actually, just watching the Forest game and Alan Smith was saying there was sleet or hail coming down.
Day 3 finished with Glammy 132\2, Tribe on 82. Decent enough but need a big innings from him if we're going to get anything out of this game.
Decent effort today, especially from Tribe but will be amazed if we survive a full day tomorrow
Agreed, I was hoping for a bit more help from the weather, but the forecast is for it to be dry all day in Nottingham.
The fat lady is about to sing!
Until Crane came in, no Glamorgan batsman had managed more than 25 apart from Tribe. Still early days, but the opinion that our four day batting is weaker than last season is beginning to look justified - Byrom couldn’t get in the side last season and yet he’s opening now, there’s nothing in Zain Ul Hassan’s career so far to suggest he can bat in the top three of a First Division team and Dickson is a step down from Northeast in the four day game at least.
The bowling has options. The batting already looks a worry. Unlucky to lose kellaway.
Kellaway was a big loss. The team dipped without him at the back end of last season
It's going to be a long season in Division one
Glamorgan 91-4 at lunch. Surprised they opted to bat on winning the toss as that score suggests it’s a typical modern day Cardiff wicket whereby ~the team batting first concedes a pretty big first innings lead and often ends up losing. I’ve not watched any of this morning’s play, so don’t know what the pitch is like, maybe they’re expecting it to break up and favour spin in the fourth innings?
Byron and ul Hussain both failed yet again, they were not good enough in Div 2 as openers so not sure why it was thought they would be effective in Div 1
150-4 now
Dickson getting some runs for the first time.
Just about to post this. Neither is good enough. It really is a problem. An ongoing excellent 8th wicket stand has brought us back into this at 327/7.
334-7 at the close, 90s for Carlson and Dickson and Crane is closing in on his half century. It looks a flat wicket now mind.
403-8 at the moment with Crane on his highest ever 2st class score of 79
Out stumped for 99. Gutted for him.
Saw a clip of a podcast earlier with 'experts' picking their XI for the 1st Test.
Michael Vaughan didnt want to play James Rew at opener so moved Bethel to open with Joe Root batting at 3, which everyone else hated. Bumble picked both Asa Tribe and Mason Crane in his.
Can this thread be moved to the alternative threads. It's very annoying
Why is it annoying???
??Glammy is a mainstay thread of this messageboard
This will get more traffic over the summer than the yet-to-start World Cup thread
fixed
No, it’s the cricket season. Don’t click on it if you are not interested.
Glamorgan saved yesterday's game comfortably in the end, but, three games in and it's hard to see how and where the wins are coming from. The pitch for the Leicestershire game was of the type that gives the four day game a bad name - I was hoping we'd move on a bit from. Sophia Gardens roads, but that was as bad as we've had in years, I think I'm right in saying that, after seven wickets fell on the first day, there were only four per day after that, so not even twenty wickets fell during g four full days play.
Despite us never being in danger of losing, there was still time for Byrom and Ul Hassan to fail again - the latter is particularly frustrating because he isn't dismissed really cheaply too often, but he scores so slowly that he has serious trouble getting past, say, thirty, this is a failing he's had throughout his time as a first team player at glamorgan and he's been here long enough now for me to think he's never going to kick on from his present level.
So, two out of our first three are turning in figures that are a serious problem for a side wanting to stay in the First Division, while the batting as a whole is scoring its runs a lot more slowly that they were doing in the Second Division - we've got pretty big totals in both of our first innings at Cardiff so far, but it's taken so long for us to score them as our scoring rate drops lower and lower the longer we bat.
I think Hadley has done okay so far - he's been a pretty consistent wicket taker and Crane has shown that he can take wickets at First Division level if there is a bit in the pitch for him, while Van Der Gugten is still a quality performer, but the bowling cupboard looks pretty bare apart from that.
Hopefully, Kellaway will be back against Hampshire on Friday which will give the team more batting and bowling depth, but we should be scouring the loan market for a top order batsman and a better third seam bowler than we have at present.
Fair summary after 3 games. Cricket in div 1 was always going to be hard enough without being 2 down before you start. Unfair pressure on tribe and Carlson in particular for me, although Carlson has stood up very well thus far. Nice to see Dickson get runs - can he keep it going at potentially bat at 3?
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