The Cricket Thread

Yes it was the same story as usual today. Wheatley could really do with a score now but I feel a bit for Stoneman. He got a cracking delivery and the WIndies bowlers look fairly toothless now.

 

Hampshire website currently states that Crane has not been released by England for tomorrow. I would take that with a slight pinch of salt - very rarely this season has the website actually got the squad correct, and England might yet change their mind.

 

England 260-2 Root on 127; Cook on 105.

Very odd watching a Test Match so late.

 

This game will finish not long after it gets really dark....most of the match will be played in difficult twilight.

 

Yorkshire 220-1 off 16.3 Lythe 129 off 60. Some crazy hitting

 

But at the same time, Northants bowlers aren't bowling to their fields at all. Time and time again Yorkshire are able to hit the ball to parts of the boundary where there isn't a fielder in sight.

 

150 for Lyth.

 

Still very entertaining none the less.

 

Root bowled on 137. Batsmen have been showing signs of discombobulation under the lights....add in tiredness and you get loss of concentration. Oh....and the bowler may have had something to do with it.


Going to be tough for Malan.

 

Northants going like a train in response. 61-0 after 3.4 overs.

 

Whatever Yorks and Northants can do, Essex can do better.

 

I wish the West Indies would sort themselves out .

 

Given that Hants and Glamrgan are through, I'd like to see Sussx and Kent join them in the qfs. I don't think Middlesex have done enough to go through.

 

Isn't the problem that American sports now dominate the Caribbean? Young West Indians are more likely to play basketball than cricket.

 

That's interesting , I did not know that , it's just a real shame IMHO . They were BRILLIANT .

 

It's exactly this. Was talking to my wife's Jamaican cousins about this just last week.

 

School kids in the Caribbean should be shown videos of the glory days of the 1970's and 80's. Clive Lloyd, Viv Richards, Gordon Greenidge, and later on Brian Lara, and then the bowlers who ripped apart the rest of the world: Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Malcolm Marshall and co.

I would finish the daily brainwashing session with Sir Garfield Sobers scoring 6 sixes in an over against Glamorgan in the John Player Sunday League in 1968 (sorry Helen!)

 

Just to take the analogy a stage further, perhaps youngsters in Scotland should be shown footage of great Scottish footballers - Kenny Dalglish, Paul McStay, Jimmy Johnstone, Graeme Souness, Denis Law, Duncan Ferguson, Jim Baxter.

 

Going back slightly, Rohan Kanhai, Sonny Ramadin, Lance Gibbs, Wes Hall. Adding to list of greats Desmond Haynes, Joel Garner, Ambrose, Richardson, Courtney Walsh, Wayne Daniel.

 

Malan gone for 65. Now 449-4.