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haggishants wrote:There's hope for us yet then this season!

Must be a massive confidence boost - if you can bat like that against Yorkshire you can do it against any side.

st_brendy wrote:Safe to say that this game is going as expected. I haven't even got the heart to hope that we can drag it to a fourth day.

Just game two of the season, and already Jimmy, Dawson, Ervine, Berg, Wood and Topley have picked up injuries.

Make that injury number two for Ervine. Brilliant from him to continue batting on, but if it is a broken finger then it's Topley all over again. The gods really don't like us this season. Benks said last night that we're looking at the loan market in the bowling department - it might be that we also have to look in the batting department too!

st_brendy wrote:

st_brendy wrote:Safe to say that this game is going as expected. I haven't even got the heart to hope that we can drag it to a fourth day.

Just game two of the season, and already Jimmy, Dawson, Ervine, Berg, Wood and Topley have picked up injuries.

Make that injury number two for Ervine. Brilliant from him to continue batting on, but if it is a broken finger then it's Topley all over again. The gods really don't like us this season. Benks said last night that we're looking at the loan market in the bowling department - it might be that we also have to look in the batting department too!

So he was injured before he went out to bat? And still got through to a hundred, can't be that bad surely.

st_brendy wrote:

st_brendy wrote:Safe to say that this game is going as expected. I haven't even got the heart to hope that we can drag it to a fourth day.

Just game two of the season, and already Jimmy, Dawson, Ervine, Berg, Wood and Topley have picked up injuries.

Make that injury number two for Ervine. Brilliant from him to continue batting on, but if it is a broken finger then it's Topley all over again. The gods really don't like us this season. Benks said last night that we're looking at the loan market in the bowling department - it might be that we also have to look in the batting department too!

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budgetmeansbudget wrote:

st_brendy wrote:

st_brendy wrote:Safe to say that this game is going as expected. I haven't even got the heart to hope that we can drag it to a fourth day.

Just game two of the season, and already Jimmy, Dawson, Ervine, Berg, Wood and Topley have picked up injuries.

Make that injury number two for Ervine. Brilliant from him to continue batting on, but if it is a broken finger then it's Topley all over again. The gods really don't like us this season. Benks said last night that we're looking at the loan market in the bowling department - it might be that we also have to look in the batting department too!

So he was injured before he went out to bat? And still got through to a hundred, can't be that bad surely.

He got injured when he was on 20. Hit by a Plunkett short ball. He's having a scan later this week, but there's a chance it's broken. And it's the same hand he broke last season, which put him out for two moths. He spent the next 100 of his runs of his innings not being able to hold the bat properly, which makes it a cracking effort (excuse the pun).

(I'm not sure what his first injury was. He went into the Warks game last week with it. It prevented him from bowling, but didn't affect his batting. Whatever it was was cleared up going into this game).

What is it with these hopeless batting gloves. I can understand a broken finger slightly with balls jarring the finger into the bat handle, but hasn't Topley broken bones around the knuckle area of the hand, where I would have thought the gloves would be at their most effective.

good fightback today. After the pummelling you got in Yorks first innings, to not then capitulate, is of great credit to your boys

Yes, got to be a draw. Ballsy effort from Hants.

Durhamfootman wrote:good fightback today. After the pummelling you got in Yorks first innings, to not then capitulate, is of great credit to your boys

Cheers DFM, with the list of injuries that Brendy has highlighted above, we need a boost. The openers and Will Smith are still a concern.

'they didn't take away our captain, they didn't dock us any points, they let us play at home and gave us most of our England players back, and we still couldn't bowl out Hants'

A fine effort by Hampshire yesterday against a very strong Yorkshire team. If they can somehow hang on until lunch the draw should be a shoe in.

If Yorks take the last two early doors and knock up some quick runs, they might feel they can still win.

Maybe if Yorks declare with enough time to take ten wickets, Hants will win, on what seems to be a good batting pitch without much for the spinners. Surely both sides will be looking at a draw here?

Hants will be for sure, not sure about York's.

After all they are playing at home against the favorites for relegation!

First game of the season though, both teams rusty, coming away without a defeat is ok. Yorks had a tricky start to last season, and they should be able to match that, drawing three of the first five, before winning the next six. Early season though, it does feel like there should be a result.

Alot can happen on the final day of a cricket match.