: Tue Sep 01, 2009 7:17 pm  

Old Trafford really pulling out the stops to ensure Test Match cricket doesn't return to Manchester. Leaking covers? Why couldn't that small area be covered properly? And we complain about the professionalism (or lack of) of the RFL

[Matt_Horton]

: Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:16 am  

To defend the Lancashire ground staff the amount of rain that fell yesterday afternoon was immense. It caused flash floods in areas around Manchester.

They were up against it from when that happened unfortunately and it proved to be the case.

: Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:47 am  

Oldham Rhino wrote:

To defend the Lancashire ground staff the amount of rain that fell yesterday afternoon was immense. It caused flash floods in areas around Manchester.

They were up against it from when that happened unfortunately and it proved to be the case.

So why was 98% of the ground fine and only a problem in two certain areas that should have been protected by the covers? The drainage seemed to work fine on the ground but somehow water leaked where it should not have. Won't do their chances of getting International cricket back much good.

: Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:09 am  

Hopefully a nice timely reminder to the ECB of the folly of relying on too much T20 to rake in the cash.

: Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:25 am  

tiger2000 wrote:

Match Abondoned...what a farce, 98% playable according to the Sky Commentators.

Bumble must have been in the 2% then because he said on the radio this morning that the umpires were right to abandon.

: Wed Sep 02, 2009 12:59 pm  

PAUL M wrote:

Won't do their chances of getting International cricket back much good.

We've got one of the ODI's against Australia next summer (if it doesn't monsoon it down for 3 solid days again) and Headingley doesn't seem to have been damaged too much from its farcical rained off match earlier in the season so here's hoping OT isn't neither.

: Wed Sep 02, 2009 8:15 pm  

Mightily peed off that last night was called off and yet today wasn't. Can't have the 300 old gits that turned up upset can we.

: Wed Sep 02, 2009 8:17 pm  

Conroy wrote:

Mightily peed off that last night was called off and yet today wasn't. Can't have the 300 old gits that turned up upset can we.

Interesting how they can't start a 20/20 game at 8pm with blue sky, but can start a championship game at 10.45am the next day using the same wicket/run ups after overnight rain.

: Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:39 am  

Does anybody really care about this series?

When the Ashes were on I either had Test Match special on or had the bbc desktop ticker, people at work would be messaging each other when wickets fall etc. None of this stuff goes on when its one day internationals, there are so many that winning or losing one doesn't mean anything, there's always another in a couple of days. Even winning or losing a series doesn't mean anything, I think we went down under a few years back and won a one day tournament but everybody regarded the tour as a disaster.

I'm not one of these stubborn people who refuses to acknowledge one day cricket because its not "real cricket", in the 90s I went to loads of one day finals with Lancashire, I actually thought it was a good set up in the old days when there weren't that many ODIs, you had the Texaco Trophy 3 game series as a warm up to the Tests, that was a good way of getting you into it. But playing a ODI series after the tests have finished.....especially the Ashes....who cares?

: Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:14 am  

Conroy wrote:

Mightily peed off that last night was called off and yet today wasn't. Can't have the 300 old gits that turned up upset can we.

County Championship > Twenty20