Cricket

[summerisle]

Only Lancs could grind out and scrape a draw from such a commanding position

That’s a Division 1 lineup, but a coach that would struggle in the northern prem

Wouldn't say the bowling is first division standard, same as last year. Back up bowlers not good enough, and an inability to finish of the tail.

 

[Connor]

Wouldn't say the bowling is first division standard, same as last year. Back up bowlers not good enough, and an inability to finish of the tail.

Bailey
Anderson
Mahmood
Phillip
Hartley

Should have enough to get you through Div 1, Nevermind Div 2

 

[summerisle]

Bailey
Anderson
Mahmood
Phillip
Hartley

Should have enough to get you through Div 1, Nevermind Div 2

Mahmood doesn't play 4 day cricket anymore. Hartley has a bowling average of 39.80 and taken five wickets in domestic cricket once.
Anderson's out for at least a month, now injury prone.
Phillip is leaving in July.
Not exactly stellar, is it ?

 

[summerisle]

 

[summerisle]

Good signing this.

 

[summerisle]

Lancashire won the toss, and put Northants in, currently 70-2. Anderson Phillip, playing his first match has taken a wicket.

 

[Ivo]

Lancashire won the toss, and put Northants in, currently 70-2. Anderson Phillip, playing his first match has taken a wicket.

Glorious day, sun cracking the flags with the weather expected to worsen after tomorrow... We'll have a bowl!

 

[summerisle]

Glorious day, sun cracking the flags with the weather expected to worsen after tomorrow... We'll have a bowl!

Same as the Middlesex match. Doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the batting. Thought Phillip bowled well this morning, nippy with a great yorker.

 

[Ivo]

Apparently we were favourites to go straight back up...

Easy batting today with things getting more difficult probably from tomorrow afternoon. Great decision to put them in to bat...

 

[summerisle]

Early wicket, 372-6.



Although I don't normally agree with 'honours', well deserved.

James Anderson: England's all-time leading Test wicket-taker to get knighthood

England's all-time leading Test wicket-taker James Anderson is to be given a knighthood for services to cricket.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[summerisle]

Putting them in seems weirder and weirder. Lunch 454-7.

 

[summerisle]

Northants 496 all out, Lancashire 11-0.

 

[Ivo]

Apologies for going on about it, but still can't believe we won the toss and didn't have a bat.

 

[PITA]

The most boring sport imaginable. How’s this thread got to 1077 pages?

You might like it when you grow up.

 

[summerisle]

Tea : 30-1, a long, long way to go to avoid defeat.