The Cricket Thread

Stop ducking FFS.

 

Jordan nicks the strike and then does this.

 

Just get Whiteley on strike FFS.

 

****ing idiots.

 

Fabulous bowling by De Lange.

 

Thanks to Jordan and Garton, Whiteley hardly saw the strike in those last 10 balls.

 

At least 20 short. And possibly substantially more than that.

 

Brilliant start from Garton.

 

Boom

 

But then gets THE wicket.

 

2 free hits - 2 "wickets".

 

Ouch! That looked painful.

 

If we're only going to give Dawson seven balls, his place in the team has to immediately come into question.

Through absolutely no fault of his own, he's only batted in the middle for two balls (vs Essex a week ago) in about the last month prior to today. Hence he'll be totally under-cooked with the bat, and so I wouldn't be expecting particularly good scores from him. Therefore, it needs to be his bowling which keeps him in the team. And bowling seven balls isn't that.

 

D'Arcy made short work of that!

 

Pre-tournament favourites Southern Brave lose by 9 wickets with 18 balls to spare.

 

Vince, QDK, Davies, Conway, CDG, Whiteley, Garton, Jordan, Archer, Briggs, Mills still looks very tasty to me. With Dawson and Overton as a couple of excellent reserves.

We could look at Waller or Lintott rather than Briggs, if we wouldn't something less conventional. But at least for now, I favour sticking with Briggs' experience.

Being thrashed is never nice, but at least it was to Rockets. Of the other seven, they and Oval easily look the best sides to me. And that's hardly a surprise. When at full strength, Notts and Surrey are probably the two strongest t20 sides. Trent are Notts with added oomph. Oval are Surrey with added oomph.

 

Am I right . Southern Brave only scored off 31 balls ?

 

28 ball 50 for that well-known Welshman Jonny Bairstow, playing away at his home ground.

 

A massive 173-4 for the Welsh Fire, none of whom are actually Welsh, but that’s the biggest score of the Hundred so far by a long way.

 

Plunkett having a shocker. But to be fair to the guy, he's barely bowled for two years.