[John_D]

Re: 2011 Cricket Season : Thu Apr 28, 2011 10:31 am  

Ordsall Quays Red wrote:

Who is actually number 1 keeper at Yorkshire this season, Brophy or Bairstow?

Bairstow. And rightly so. The kid is a real talent, even if he does bear an uncanny resemblance to Todd Flanders.

Re: 2011 Cricket Season : Thu Apr 28, 2011 10:33 am  

John_D wrote:

Bairstow. And rightly so. The kid is a real talent, even if he does bear an uncanny resemblance to Todd Flanders.

I saw him a few times last season when he wasn't keeping and he's a right gobby so and so isnt he?? I suppose you need that, especially being a keeper!
Do you think keeping and batting fairly high up the order will work for him?

[John_D]

Re: 2011 Cricket Season : Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:04 pm  

Ordsall Quays Red wrote:

I saw him a few times last season when he wasn't keeping and he's a right gobby so and so isnt he??

Aren't all keepers? Annoying, lying gits the lot of em*.

Ordsall Quays Red wrote:

Do you think keeping and batting fairly high up the order will work for him?

At the moment, there's no choice. Mind, he has looked solid with the bat so far when the rest of the top order has failed miserably. He is a good batsman in his own right - seeing him launch one out of Trent Bridge last season was a bit special - and it doesn't seem to faze him having to combine the roles. If he was opening, I'd have an issue, but not playing him at four or five.





* - except Kumar Sangakkara who is a total gentleman.

Re: 2011 Cricket Season : Fri Apr 29, 2011 10:56 am  

Good start for Lancs this morning. Sussex started on 147-0 and are now 186-4.

Re: 2011 Cricket Season : Fri Apr 29, 2011 12:00 pm  

Sussex now 5 down and still 70 behind....Come on Lancs and come on the weather, play fair for once....

Re: 2011 Cricket Season : Fri Apr 29, 2011 3:43 pm  

A frustrating innings by Naved Arif (a career high 66 n.o. at the moment) looks more likely to scupper Lancs than the weather today. Annoyingly Monty Panesar's hung around with him for 11 overs!

[John_D]

Re: 2011 Cricket Season : Wed May 04, 2011 7:04 pm  

Yorkshire lose again. The Borren avatar stays.

Re: 2011 Cricket Season : Thu May 05, 2011 12:02 pm  

Feeble batting performance by Yorkshire against a mediocre Derbyshire attack.

Better effort in the Championship game over the four sessions at Trent Bridge mind. Career best for Joe Root, falling five short of a hundred, and a maiden first class century for Jonny Bairstow.

Yorkshire 383-8 just before lunch on day two.

Re: 2011 Cricket Season : Thu May 05, 2011 9:17 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

Feeble batting performance by Yorkshire against a mediocre Derbyshire attack.

Better effort in the Championship game over the four sessions at Trent Bridge mind. Career best for Joe Root, falling five short of a hundred, and a maiden first class century for Jonny Bairstow.

Yorkshire 383-8 just before lunch on day two.

Yorkshire look at least 2 batters short of being a good side to me. Fair play to the ones they have who are doing a decent job of holding it together.

A couple of injuries and poor form and I feel I might get a phone call though.

Re: 2011 Cricket Season : Thu May 05, 2011 9:39 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

Feeble batting performance by Yorkshire against a mediocre Derbyshire attack.

Better effort in the Championship game over the four sessions at Trent Bridge mind. Career best for Joe Root, falling five short of a hundred, and a maiden first class century for Jonny Bairstow.

Yorkshire 383-8 just before lunch on day two.

double ton - good effort.