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Hampshire wrote:Forecast has just changed for Saturday to allow it to rain for the whole of our semi only...

Aaaah! See what u mean on bbc website. Hopefully early enough to change. Don't want it murky with Anderson playing either.....

I'd rather not see our SF reduced to some sort of 8 over aside thrash. All or nothing please. But then again, it would limit what damage Buttler could potentially do.

Furthermore, from a selfish perspective, I'll be at St Mary's during our SF, so a washed out SF followed by a washed out final would suit me down to the ground!

Kabir returned to Lancs' team today, following injury, so he should be fine to line up against us on Saturday.

Wait, Lancs are taking a SEVENTEEN man squad with them for Saturday?

How many matches do they think they might be playing?!

Flintoff is one if the 17, by the way.

st_brendy wrote:I'd rather not see our SF reduced to some sort of 8 over aside thrash. All or nothing please. But then again, it would limit what damage Buttler could potentially do.

Furthermore, from a selfish perspective, I'll be at St Mary's during our SF, so a washed out SF followed by a washed out final would suit me down to the ground!

Kabir returned to Lancs' team today, following injury, so he should be fine to line up against us on Saturday.

Football in August......it's just not right!

st_brendy wrote: I'll be at St Mary's during our SF, so a washed out SF followed by a washed out final would suit me down to the ground!

Me too, first time I've been in about 4 years.

Imagine if Junaid Khan was still here, a potential bowling lineup of :

Khan
Anderson
Flintoff
Ali
Parry

No matter how unfit the players are, I would still hate to come up against a bowling line up like that!

the accuweather website suggests a light shower between 6 & 7 , I guess its going to be a bit like Cardiff was in 2012 , peeing down in parts of Cardiff bone dry in others.

Still if it does it'll give Jesters a chance to find me for his beer

Any news on Smith for tommorow?

Anyone else realise that Oliver Robinson, recently sacked by Yorkshire with immediate effect for 'numerous acts of unprofessional behaviour' is now playing for our 2nd xi...

Hampshire wrote:Anyone else realise that Oliver Robinson, recently sacked by Yorkshire with immediate effect for 'numerous acts of unprofessional behaviour' is now playing for our 2nd xi...

Yes-I believe it was on Matt Coles recommendation. Has Paul Farbrace got friends or influence at Hants?

mark the hawk wrote:the accuweather website suggests a light shower between 6 & 7 , I guess its going to be a bit like Cardiff was in 2012 , peeing down in parts of Cardiff bone dry in others.

Still if it does it'll give Jesters a chance to find me for his beer

Don't forget your wallet!

Good luck for finals day!

Hampshire wrote:Anyone else realise that Oliver Robinson, recently sacked by Yorkshire with immediate effect for 'numerous acts of unprofessional behaviour' is now playing for our 2nd xi...

Yes. He played for us when we played Sri Lanka A just over a week ago.

captaincolly wrote:Good luck for finals day!

Thank you.

Whilst it is our fifth Finals Day in a row, it is arguably the one where we least deserve to win it. Even in 2010, when we also had a dodgy group stage and were lucky to get through in the end, we at least finished that group stage fairly strongly (a bit like Warks this season) and then powered our way through.

Somerset, Glamorgan and even Middlesex all came to our place this season and won, whilst Gloucs and Sussex were both exceptionally close to taking the points away with them. And yet out of those five, only Glamorgan were good enough to qualify for the QFs.

Eight overs of spin went for 2-56.

Twelve overs of seam went for 2-137.

Promising signs that for us, although obviously four overs from Dernbach within those seam overs does distort things somewhat.