The Cricket Thread

[Tredman]

It is, very impressive and actually quite emotional.

 

[Sniffer]

A ton and a hat trick on the same day for Tom Price for Gloucestershire against the Pears. It might be the first time it’s happened in first class cricket.

Tom Price hits ton and takes hat-trick on same day

Tom Price makes 'surreal' cricket history with a maiden century and a hat-trick on the same day for Gloucestershire against Worcestershire.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Wilf Wolf]

A ton and a hat trick on the same day for Tom Price for Gloucestershire against the Pears. It might be the first time it’s happened in first class cricket.

Tom Price hits ton and takes hat-trick on same day

Tom Price makes 'surreal' cricket history with a maiden century and a hat-trick on the same day for Gloucestershire against Worcestershire.

www.bbc.co.uk

According to Radio 4 news this morning it is.

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

Worcestershire are an odd team that seem to be feeling the effects of several years cost cutting. Lurch from the sublime to the ridiculous in a week. Have a squad that contains older heads that are on their downward career trajectory [who were never quite top level in their pomp], youngsters on the way up [who will never quite be top level I doubt] and a World Class overseas pro that somehow seems to score tons for fun for Pakistan and yet struggles to hit it off the square for the mighty Pears.
In a story all too familiar in cricket at any level, the good youngsters seem to have to move on to get national recognition and players needing to find another club/franchise for the summer Hundred can't help either.

Early days but...

Thrash Derbyshire in the season opener and then capitulate against Durham the week afterwards. This time around have Gloucs 8-4 and then 45-7 but will still probably be 100 adrift at the halfway stage.

 

[Sniffer]

Strauss has left the ECB.

From the Gruniiad.

The announcement came on the day it emerged that the men’s Hundred could be abandoned in favour of a new Twenty20 competition, with the ECB said to be concerned the new format has failed to catch on internationally and was not as appealing to the cream of international talent as the widely played alternative.

Who would have thought that pissing about with something that was successful wouldn’t work?

 

[Sniffer]

Crawley scored just 11 in two innings against Middlesex.

 

[Tony Towner]

Strauss has left the ECB.

From the Gruniiad.

The announcement came on the day it emerged that the men’s Hundred could be abandoned in favour of a new Twenty20 competition, with the ECB said to be concerned the new format has failed to catch on internationally and was not as appealing to the cream of international talent as the widely played alternative.

Who would have thought that pissing about with something that was successful wouldn’t work?

The failure and Covid did play a part in the first season was to attract the cream of International talent. Once that failed to happen and they saw subsequently it wasn't up to much then all you are left with is a competition watched largely by people on the piss with no real association to the teams involved

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Warks heading for an innings defeat at home. In itself not great but Surrey didn't even make 300.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

England Watch - April 2023 (Selected)

Batting

B Foakes 218 runs @ 109.00
S Hain 299 runs @ 99.00
K Jennings 378 runs @ 94.50
B Carse 249 runs @ 83.00
O Pope 272 runs @ 68.00
B Compton 377 runs @ 62.83
B Duckett 349 runs @ 58.17
J Vince 231 runs @ 57.75
J Bohannon 280 runs @ 56.00
M Critchley 222 runs @ 55.50
R Ahmed 218 runs @ 54.50
T Abell 206 runs @ 51.50
D Lawrence 196 runs @ 49.00
B Coad 46 runs @ 46.00
J Leach 88 runs @ 44.00
D Malan 174 runs @ 43.50
A Lees 257 runs @ 42.83
J Smith 166 runs @ 41.50
Z Crawley 287 runs @ 41.00
H Hameed 217 runs @ 36.17
R Yates 144 runs @ 36.00
D Sibley 141 runs @ 35.25
R Burns 168 runs @ 33.60
T Haines 149 runs @ 29.80

Bowling

M Critchley 2 wickets @ 8.00
S Cook 10 wickets @ 14.50
J Porter 13 wickets @ 19.15
J Anderson 11 wickets @ 20.45
S Broad 9 wickets @ 22.44
B Coad 9 wickets @ 23.56
L Dawson 1 wicket @ 26.00
C Woakes 5 wickets @ 26.20
M Potts 16 wickets @ 26.88
B Carse 11 wickets @ 28.82
J Carson 7 wickets @ 33.43
O Stone 3 wickets @ 35.67
D Bess 9 wickets @ 35.89
M Fisher 3 wickets @ 37.00
M Parkinson 7 wickets @ 41.71
J Leach 7 wickets @ 45.71
R Ahmed 6 wickets @ 46.33
T Haines 1 wicket @ 51.00
G Garton 1 wicket @ 64.00
C Overton 2 wickets @ 74.50
O Robinson 1 wicket @ 81.00

 

[Sniffer]

Steve Smith playing for Sussex today.

 

[Carrotdude]

4-26 from 6 overs for Robinson this morning.

Tbf Smith will smash us regardless of practice against a div 2 attack

 

[Dinowolf]

Jonny Bairstow back today

 

[Tony Towner]

I'd have him open in the Ashes. It's not perfect, but gets rid of Crawley and keeps Foakes

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

It's trying to turn a circle into a square whatever you do.

I don't think he'll open, nor do I think Stokes will (that has been mooted by some if he can't bowl much/at all).

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

4-26 from 6 overs for Robinson this morning.

7-59 in the end

 

[Tony Towner]

It's Div 2 where Henry Brookes has just took 6-20

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Some cunt of an IPL owner chatting shit about binning 50 over game and reducing test cricket to short tournaments in set windows so that more franchise cricket can be played as it is “what young people in India want”.

Politely, fuck off, and then fuck off some more.

 

[Tredman]

I do wonder if we will end up with test cricket played by second rate players.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I wonder if we might tell the BCCI to get fucked.

 

[Tony Towner]

IPL owners are buying up franchises in other countries and looking to give players full time contracts. That'll be a given for the likes of Pollard, Gayle, Bravo etc who are already players for hire. The danger to English cricket is what happens if they offer someone like Harry Brook £10mpa? The ECB won't be able to compete. I can see the compromise being certain months when it's agreed they'll be no Test cricket worldwide. We've already written August off in this country because of our own stupid tournament