Cricket thread

[tom73]

Eh? We had enough runs and nearly bowled them out, arguably ran out of time due to the time lost to rain. as it has been with most of our games this season so far. In the last those 20 odd overs we took 5 or 6 wickets. I was listening to commentary on and off, I think Shan was off the field wasn't he, with Adam taking over as senior pro? the only odd thing I thought was he was taking wickets and then at the death took himself off for Leech.

What is your gripe with Gibson?
At the end of the day the players have to go out and perform or the weather has to stay dry. We were unlucky not to win at Sussex - had Lyth stayed in we were odds on to get over the line.

He just keeps coming up with same excuses after every game even today he come out with. "inability to bowl sides out twice biggest threat to their ambition of becoming a genuine promotion contender in the County Championship". He's said that over and over, he needs to fix it then not pointing out the obvious. At the end of the day his job is to turn out a team that is up to the job it clear is not.
We just keep being a nearly side we simply can't get over the line. We lack the will to win like we once had that rest on a large part with him. Something clearly is not right or working. We can't keep blaming things on the weather or things not going our way. Losing becomes a habit thats hard to break who is going to break it is questionable at the moment.
I really feel for Lyth he played his heart out like always, missing out a being added to very class act list of 100 and 5 wickets in an innings.
Which reads like a who's who of Yorkshire greats.

 

[albion]

Money issues? I found it a bit strange Durham got the Womens franchise, not Yorkshire.

 

[tom73]

Money issues? I found it a bit strange Durham got the Womens franchise, not Yorkshire.

Totally political classic ECB stupidity , they’ve now back tracked after Yorkshire appealed and said they’d pay for it. So much for ECB wanting to advance the women’s game. No other county has put more work in and support for women’s game than Yorkshire it’s got over 300 teams alone.
Other achievements detailed here https://yorkshireccc.com/news/yorkshire-sees-record-rise-in-women-and-girls-playing-cricket/

 

[albion]

Double header at Durham Chester-le-Street this Friday. Good weather forecast too.

 

[T4tomo]

Losing becomes a habit thats hard to break who is going to break it is questionable at the moment.

Except we aren't habitually losing, we're mainly drawing (5/7) weather effected games where we were in strong positions and in the defeat vs Sussex we in the driving seat pretty much all game until we lost 4 wickets in 5 overs to lose.

 

[tom73]

Except we aren't habitually losing, we're mainly drawing (5/7) weather effected games where we were in strong positions and in the defeat vs Sussex we in the driving seat pretty much all game until we lost 4 wickets in 5 overs to lose.

Comes down to the same thing we can't force the wins. We just don't have the fire power or strong enough batting. Add in a side that's more or less down to bare bones. We don't have much slack when injuries come round.

 

[T4tomo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c2xxzx61005o

T20 world cup gets under way at the weekend, opening game in, you guessed it, Texas!

 

[T4tomo]

And the T20 blast gets underway tonight, and England final warm-up game vs Pakistan is on BBC2 live tonight, provided its doesn't get rained off

right on cue dirty great thunder shower has started here, I imagine the Oval will be getting hit by them too

 

[T4tomo]

Good win for England, you can only beat what is put in front of you, but Pakistan looked shabby. They surely must have a better wicket keeper than Azam Khan, fitness issues aside, his glovework was woeful and he appeared clueless against Wood's pace.

Stonking win for Yorks, although Lancashire mullered Durham even more convincingly. Games come thick and fast, teams playing 2 or3 games over the "weekend"

 

[Beebo]

Good win for England, you can only beat what is put in front of you, but Pakistan looked shabby. They surely must have a better wicket keeper than Azam Khan, fitness issues aside, his glovework was woeful and he appeared clueless against Wood's pace.

It does look odd to see someone with that body shape in professional cricket.
would he be there without a famous dad?

 

[AndyRM]

Khan shouldn't be anywhere near the international set up.

Total nepotism.

 

[T4tomo]

Total nepotism.

I think his dad (who was a very good Wicketkeeper batsman) was last a selector in 2015 ....

 

[AndyRM]

I think his dad (who was a very good Wicketkeeper batsman) was last a selector in 2015 ....

I'm sure his influence/persuasion has really waned since...

 

[newts]

Khan shouldn't be anywhere near the international set up.

Total nepotism.

He didn't look particularly good in either discipline last night. His international t20 batting average is a whopping 9.77.

 

[AndyRM]

Been catching up on the T20 World Cup.

Good to see Papua New Guinea give the Windies a scare, they seem very well put together, unlike the Canadians whose bowling against the US was all over the shop.

From what I've read the coverage in the US has been poor to virtually non existent. So much for trying to grow the game there; it's not like it would be difficult to promote the T20 format either.