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Hat-trick for Matt Coles.

Must've been nice to see Brendon roll back the years tonight.

The Professor wrote:23 thousand at the Surrey game....again another sign that this tournament isn't dead and buried.

47 people at the Riverside tonight

this tournament is definitely dead and buried

Apparently KP has come to the crease with a runner (having picked up an injury in the previous match). And presumably he again won't field.

I'm sorry, that is disgraceful. If you get injured during a game, OK. But can't be allowed a helping hand if you come into the game with an injury. Either suck it up and get by with your injury, or don't play.

OK, sounds like he came out for one delivery, and then called for the runner. But the point stands. It is clearly still the same injury.

The irony of KP saying he can get in England's test team, playing left handed and with no pads.

gawd bless the poor old Norty's

done off the DL T20 distortion

While many bemoan the use of DSL in T20 cricket I think today's game was lost by Northamptonshire rather than by the elements.

Cricket is a game of strategy and, although it's shortest format is less reliant on it, it should have played a factor here. Northamptonshire were sitting pretty on 107-1 at the midpoint and you didn't need to be Michael Fish to see that the game was unlikely to reach its climax. Despite this Northants just continued on the well beaten T20 path; go big and value run scoring at the expense of losing wickets...irregardless of the effect it would have on the DSL total.

Derek Pringle has said this week that Test cricket batting has succumbed to the allure of the bash, crash, wallop stuff we see in the shortest forms but this is an example of how it should have worked the other way. Northamptonshire could have kept their wickets and given themselves a chance but they threw it away.

The Professor wrote:While many bemoan the use of DSL in T20 cricket I think today's game was lost by Northamptonshire rather than by the elements.

Cricket is a game of strategy and, although it's shortest format is less reliant on it, it should have played a factor here. Northamptonshire were sitting pretty on 107-1 at the midpoint and you didn't need to be Michael Fish to see that the game was unlikely to reach its climax. Despite this Northants just continued on the well beaten T20 path; go big and value run scoring at the expense of losing wickets...irregardless of the effect it would have on the DSL total.

Derek Pringle has said this week that Test cricket batting has succumbed to the allure of the bash, crash, wallop stuff we see in the shortest forms but this is an example of how it should have worked the other way. Northamptonshire could have kept their wickets and given themselves a chance but they threw it away.

Is that right?

I was under the impression that if the team batting first uses all of their overs, then number of wickets lost has no impact on the opposition's DL score.

IE: if you score 180 all out in 20 overs, it doesn't matter if you were 100-0 or 25-5 off the first 5 overs, you still reach 180

ianp1970 wrote:

The Professor wrote:While many bemoan the use of DSL in T20 cricket I think today's game was lost by Northamptonshire rather than by the elements.

Cricket is a game of strategy and, although it's shortest format is less reliant on it, it should have played a factor here. Northamptonshire were sitting pretty on 107-1 at the midpoint and you didn't need to be Michael Fish to see that the game was unlikely to reach its climax. Despite this Northants just continued on the well beaten T20 path; go big and value run scoring at the expense of losing wickets...irregardless of the effect it would have on the DSL total.

Derek Pringle has said this week that Test cricket batting has succumbed to the allure of the bash, crash, wallop stuff we see in the shortest forms but this is an example of how it should have worked the other way. Northamptonshire could have kept their wickets and given themselves a chance but they threw it away.

Is that right?

I was under the impression that if the team batting first uses all of their overs, then number of wickets lost has no impact on the opposition's DL score.

IE: if you score 180 all out in 20 overs, it doesn't matter if you were 100-0 or 25-5 off the first 5 overs, you still reach 180

that's what I thought too.

D/L tie at Hove today.

Ross Whiteley hit 6 sixes in an over today and his team still got thrashed!

This is why it is dopey ecb don't televise all blast games.
Not a fan of the new t20 comp but that will be a guaranteed success because all games live plus on BBC.
You only need to look at the women World Cup to see how Crucial having all games televised helps big up the tournament.
Half the people wouldn't know what happens in the blast.

bhaveshgor wrote:This is why it is dopey ecb don't televise all blast games.
Not a fan of the new t20 comp but that will be a guaranteed success because all games live plus on BBC.
You only need to look at the women World Cup to see how Crucial having all games televised helps big up the tournament.
Half the people wouldn't know what happens in the blast.

Have there have been Blast games broadcast alongside WCWC before today? If so, maybe this is a precursor of things to come with Sky having named rather than numbered channels...

I was a bit surprised sky couldn't accomodate a T20 game on one of the general sport channels. They could have also just used the red button.

It was right though that the Womens World Cup final took precedence.