Durhamfootman wrote:not as bad as earlier though
I might risk it
Even spending 3 hours sitting under a brolly has got to be better than endless Brexit bollix in Westminster dominating the telly all night
westoelad wrote:Durhamfootman wrote:not as bad as earlier though
I might risk it
Even spending 3 hours sitting under a brolly has got to be better than endless Brexit bollix in Westminster dominating the telly all night
You don't enjoy farces, D/F?
Very sparse crowd, corporate boxes in particular, as I watch from the warmth of my own corporate box, i.e. living room. Beard of Essex looks about 12 year old!
westoelad wrote:Bunny on commentary - being very complimentary about everything Durham. Says Lancys only filled 3 free coaches.
Durhamfootman wrote:me and the captain looked in amazement at each other when, with 23 to defend, Vilas decided to give Livingstone the penultimate over... 3 sixes and 22 runs later Essex needed 1 to win off the last over.
Bopara hit 4 sixes in a handful of balls (3 of them in 3 balls), and sixes have been as rare as hens teeth at the Riverside this season. 2 of the sixes were palmed over by fielders attempting to take the catch
shame for the Lanky's because they had the game in the bag with 13 balls to go and 29 still required. It looked for most of the match as though Davies and Vilas had held their nerve to get them to a winning total.
Delport was completely brainless. Essex were easily ahead on D/L and the rain was just starting to fall, so he tried to flog a six and got caught on the boundary which put them behind on D/L with the rain falling, so the next guy in tried to take 2 to get them back ahead of D/L and was brilliantly run out by a direct hit from Bohannon from halfway out and with only one stump to aim at. The umpires took them off the field and brought them back on again before the Lancashire fielders had managed to get off ( the covers were brought on, driven around the ground, and taken off again without stopping). If that had been it for the night, Essex would have gone from being something like 8 runs ahead on D/L to losing the game in 3 balls.
That Bopara innings at the death is exactly what we haven't been able to do all season.... maybe even forever..... I wonder if he's fed up of living darn sarf?
westoelad wrote:Hopps should be awarded a complimentary FTECB badge for that article.
As he points out though, Lancs should have foreseen this possibility and kicked up a stink when the provisional fixtures were released. Or were they reticent to upset FTECB with test match allocation at stake?
Didn't think there was anything like 2000 there!
Durhamfootman wrote:seems very unlikely. not only were they not swiping, but no-one had one of those clicker things either. I would have guessed the size of the crowd as being in the hundreds rather than the thousands.
as far as the fixture clash goes.I have no idea why sky would even want to be covering the QF's at the same time that most of their resources were engaged somewhere else. We could have been back on the CC this week and finished our season before the Aussie season started.... or at the very least they could have discarded the stupid idea of having a solitary round of CC slap bang in the middle of the Dribble and played the QF's last week when there was no test cricket
But then I am very dim, of course. I am unlikely to see the very obvious advantages to the long term health/integrity of the game by setting the fixtures this way.
Durhamfootman wrote:seems very unlikely. not only were they not swiping, but no-one had one of those clicker things either. I would have guessed the size of the crowd as being in the hundreds rather than the thousands.
as far as the fixture clash goes.I have no idea why sky would even want to be covering the QF's at the same time that most of their resources were engaged somewhere else. We could have been back on the CC this week and finished our season before the Aussie season started.... or at the very least they could have discarded the stupid idea of having a solitary round of CC slap bang in the middle of the Dribble and played the QF's last week when there was no test cricket
But then I am very dim, of course. I am unlikely to see the very obvious advantages to the long term health/integrity of the game by setting the fixtures this way.
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