Re: 2011 Cricket Season : Thu May 05, 2011 9:46 pm  

flipper wrote:

double ton - good effort.

A super effort to be fair, but it still looks a fragile top order

Re: 2011 Cricket Season : Fri May 06, 2011 2:37 pm  

Lancashire hammer Warwickshire with Keedy and Kerrigan getting the last 8 wickets for just 9 runs between them. Glorious stuff.

[John_D]

Re: 2011 Cricket Season : Sun May 08, 2011 2:17 pm  

Chris Gayle smacked 37 off one over for Bangalore today.

I have not mistyped anything in that previous sentence.

Re: 2011 Cricket Season : Sun May 08, 2011 2:35 pm  

John_D wrote:

Chris Gayle smacked 37 off one over for Bangalore today.

I have not mistyped anything in that previous sentence.

20/20 cricket will be the death of cricket as most fans know and love it.....All it is doing is breeding a generation of players who think smacking every ball out of the ground is the way to 'build' an innings.

In every game I've played this year, I've seen youngsters (16-19year olds) approach their innings with total disregard for anything resembling a defence.....Yes, many have the talent to hit a ball a long way, but none of them have the ability to spend more than 20 minutes at the crease.

Yes, its entertaining to watch the likes of Gayle, but if I wanted to watch glorified slogging, I'd watch baseball.

Re: 2011 Cricket Season : Thu May 12, 2011 11:45 am  

Decent recovery from Yorkshire yesterday, from 7-2 and 99-5 to a current position of 343-9. The depth in the batting line-up is coming in handy with the top order currently looking very wobbly.

Not quite sure why we're still batting though, given the weather forecast is iffy for the next three days.

Re: 2011 Cricket Season : Mon May 16, 2011 9:59 pm  

Looks like we'll have no batting line-up or wicketkeeper for the Roses game this week.

Re: 2011 Cricket Season : Tue May 17, 2011 6:33 am  

Asim wrote:

Looks like we'll have no batting line-up or wicketkeeper for the Roses game this week.

Your bowling attack will render a major batting line-up irrelevant I fear.

Re: 2011 Cricket Season : Tue May 17, 2011 12:08 pm  

Ordsall Quays Red wrote:

Your bowling attack will render a major batting line-up irrelevant I fear.

The one that had 14 overs to take the last two Hampshire wickets on a wearing pitch and couldn't?

I know times is tight financially, but I cannot believe Yorkshire opted to go into this season without bringing in an overseas player to strengthen the batting, even if only on a short-term deal.

Re: 2011 Cricket Season : Tue May 17, 2011 9:31 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

I know times is tight financially, but I cannot believe Yorkshire opted to go into this season without bringing in an overseas player to strengthen the batting, even if only on a short-term deal.

I think the role of the overseas player in the modern county game is overrated. It's so difficult to get a decent one for a significant length of time it hardly seems worth it, and if you sign one for the sake of having one you risk ending up with a real turkey, as Essex seem to have done with Lonwabo Tsotsobe after their moves for Peter Siddle and Tim Southee fell through. How many other counties have got one you'd really want in your own team? I reckon Chaminda Vaas at Northants is probably the best one at the moment pound for pound, and he's 37.

Surrey can usually outbid most counties and we wasted two years looking for an overseas spinner while bringing in various other players on short term deals to little effect. The last overseas player we had who made a real difference was Harbhajan Singh in 2007, although present incumbent Yasir Arafat should at least be available for the whole season and has a decent all round game.

Re: 2011 Cricket Season : Wed May 18, 2011 11:01 am  

No McGrath, Bairstow, Brophy, Shahzad or Bresnan for Yorkshire.

Simon Guy dragged out of retirement to keep wicket, Ashraf, Hannon-Dalby and Ballance into the side.

I predict another innings win for Lancashire within 3 days.