County Championship Division 1 Thread 2016

[budgetmeansbudget]

A stubborn ninth wicket partnership building for Warwickshire.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Has the pitch suddenly gone flat at Taunton?

[budgetmeansbudget]

Somerset might avoid a points deduction if the match goes into a third day and with this ninth wicket partnership past fifty.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Hope must still have plenty of hope after that last hour or so.

[backfootpunch]

We need to start sending our batsmen out in reverse order

Our top order are useless

[hopeforthebest]

Hope must still have plenty of hope after that last hour or so.

Wonderful true grit finally on view but I fear it will be one of those glorious failures the British are so good at. One thing we can be certain of is that this game has made sure Ian Bell wont have to worry about terrorism in Bangladesh.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Maybe Warks would have been better served if they had been able to continue, with the game slipping away from Somerset. Starting again has to be a big impediment.

Don't know why it has never struck me how evocative a name Somerset is before.

[captaincolly]

Maybe Warks would have been better served if they had been able to continue, with the game slipping away from Somerset. Starting again has to be a big impediment.

Don't know why it has never struck me how evocative a name Somerset is before.

I agree - on both counts! It is evocative, especially at this late stage of the season but until I read your post I'd never have thought of it that way.
If Warwickshire had been a bit closer to the target they surely would have asked for the extra half hour but having to start again favours the bowling side.

[ianp1970]

Maybe Warks would have been better served if they had been able to continue, with the game slipping away from Somerset. Starting again has to be a big impediment.

Don't know why it has never struck me how evocative a name Somerset is before.

I agree - on both counts! It is evocative, especially at this late stage of the season but until I read your post I'd never have thought of it that way.
If Warwickshire had been a bit closer to the target they surely would have asked for the extra half hour but having to start again favours the bowling side.

Somerset had already taken the extra half-hour, if only Warwickshire could have claimed a second one...

[budgetmeansbudget]

As a Hants supporter I hope Autumnrise can gets these last two Warwickshire wickets.

But if the batters do come through you have to hold your hands up and say bloody well done. Pretty impressive what they've done so far in the context of the match, but if they do get over the finishing line then it will be a miraculous effort.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Plucky effort by Warwickshire, but not quite enough.

[sussexpob]

Wasnt to be

[Aidan11]

4 completed innings and less than 600 runs in the entire match.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Somerset two points off the top for the time being, and will be hoping both Yorkshire and Middxs don't win and the pitch inspector doesn't get on the blower. That ninth wicket partnership may well have saved the latter scenario.

[sussexpob]

Somerset two points off the top for the time being, and will be hoping both Yorkshire and Middxs don't win and the pitch inspector doesn't get on the blower. That ninth wicket partnership may well have saved the latter scenario.

150 runs per innings average and the game over 13 minutes into Day 3..... should be a points deduction, but it will never happen. The pitch inspectors at the ECB are the least predictable humans on Earth.

Hampshire produce a turning wicket that all teams score 300 per innings on...... deduction
Gloucestershire in about 2009 or 2010 produced a wicket where about their first 4 matches didnt contain a total innings past 130..... perfectly acceptable.