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Yorkshire have made a mess of this.

Still, an ok, old school target.

Now for Klinger to bat the innings and Dent/Howell/Roderick/Jones to score around him

Can't work out why Yorkshire are resting players for a competition they have already won

SaintPowelly wrote:Now for Klinger to bat the innings and Dent/Howell/Roderick/Jones to score around him

Can't work out why Yorkshire are resting players for a competition they have already won

Putting faith in players who have got them this far in the competition which is fair enough.

decent start from Gloucstershire in the chase

cant help but smile when I see the name Roderick , makes me think of the life of brian, "welease wodewick!"

Well, great start. Get Klinger and the game will change.

I find it very hard to criticise Yorkshire. This could have easily have been us taking them on today. And had it been, then it would only have been Lyth and Bairstow that would have worried me. And to be fair to those two, they did score the best part of 140 between them.

I'd have been really, really disappointed to concede 300 to this Yorkshire team. No Root, no Finch/Maxwell/Williamson, no Rashid and Plunkett in the lower order, and one or two first-class-orientated batsmen in their side.

Yes 264 is not the biggest target in the world, and yes given the start which they had, they'd have surely wanted a whole lot more. But that's cricket for you, and in particular that's county cricket for you. Very few county sides can just bring out top-limited-overs-batter after top-limited-overs-batter.

It's about what I'd have expected from this team, and it is still a defendable target - and given that second wicket falling just then, they might yet do just that. Like Lyth and Bairstow for Yorks, Klinger is the massive wicket for Gloucs. We took too long to get rid of him in the QFs, and it cost us.

Will the dismissal of Roderick usher in a collapse for Gloucs?

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Will the dismissal of Roderick usher in a collapse for Gloucs?

Probably.

Or a fall of the house of Gloucs.

westoelad wrote:

SaintPowelly wrote:Now for Klinger to bat the innings and Dent/Howell/Roderick/Jones to score around him

Can't work out why Yorkshire are resting players for a competition they have already won

Putting faith in players who have got them this far in the competition which is fair enough.

I would agree,but they picked Lyth

Howell still to come, no panic yet

Gloucs crusing at the moment, Klinger playing a good hand here

Not sure why Alex Lees is persisting with Steve Patterson, the Gloucestershire batsmen are just picking him off.

captaincolly wrote:

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Will the dismissal of Roderick usher in a collapse for Gloucs?

Probably.

Once again I have been proven wrong. Good job I'm not a betting man.