The Cricket Thread

We don't need to give them wickets, suicidal run taken there.

 

You cannot have a runout when you're 36-2. Inexcusable.

 

Weatherley can **** off now. Complete liability.

 

Weatherley was a walking wicket....need a big partnership now.

 

He's run out Northeast and then gets out straightaway afterwards. Waste of space.

 

This is just pathetic now. Another thrashing incoming. And we can kiss goodbye to finishing in the top 2. Spineless.

 

This batting line up should not be struggling this much, it needs a decent opening pair to take the pressure off. Now will the decision to strengthen the tail pay off.

 

Somerset must have paid off Weatherley. At least he can't run out Vince now.

 

Probably only time I’ll say this but come on Somerset

 

Failing to get that last wicket against Glouc is looking very costly now.

 

Understandable considering what a force Glos are

 

Vince out minutes before lunch. Really great from the captain that.

 

I can't believe how brittle the batting has become in just 2 games.

 

I can't believe we could put in a worse batting performance from last week.

 

Vince has to move back up to 3. Batting him at 5 has completely backfired. Thought it was a stupid idea in the first place.

 

I don't know any other team who has their best batsman at 5. If we lose a load of early wickets it puts Vince under loads of pressure. At least if he comes in at 3 the run rate will pick up fairly early. What a ludicrous decision. It's ok when the top order scores runs but we're totally screwed if they don't. Vince cannot continue to bat at 5. Drop Weatherley, open with Alsop with Vince at 3.

 

Today, if Vince had come in at 3 the chances are we would have 20-30 more runs on the board.

 

Running out your second best batsman is not too clever either...

 

Weatherley's career is just not kicking on, he has a first class average of only 26 after 38 matches.

 

Well that was a very enjoyable morning’s cricket! A good toss to win, clearly, even if the wicket looked pretty docile for the first hour. For a while it was looking like Vince would be stranded having to watch the tail collapse at the other end, but he solved that problem by chopping a beauty from Overton on.

Didn’t expect us to have picked up 2 bowling points before lunch, I must admit!