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You’d have thought we’d have learnt that Wood can’t bowl at the death from the other 25 times this happened, but no

16 pretty solid overs from us. But Wood's second over and Abbott's fourth had too many low full tosses, whilst Morris' first and Abbott's third were taken apart brutally.

Suggests to me that a better bowling side would have kept that down to 165. And Sussex are a better bowling side.

Assuming that's concussion, that's Rilee out of the Somerset match on Friday. Fortunately that's the only match we play in the five days he will be forced to have off. Unfortunately it's basically a must-win for us.

st_brendy wrote:Assuming that's concussion, that's Rilee out of the Somerset match on Friday. Fortunately that's the only match we play in the five days he will be forced to have off. Unfortunately it's basically a must-win for us.

Hants are currently 1pt away from a qualifying position with 12 games to play! Must win?

westoelad wrote:

st_brendy wrote:Assuming that's concussion, that's Rilee out of the Somerset match on Friday. Fortunately that's the only match we play in the five days he will be forced to have off. Unfortunately it's basically a must-win for us.

Hants are currently 1pt away from a qualifying position with 12 games to play! Must win?

11 games to play after this finishes any moment now. 10 games to play after Friday.

You're not getting out of South group with one point from your first four matches. Especially not in t20, which is such a momentum game. We started slowly in 2016 and 2018 and duly finished in the bottom two on both occasions. Get in a rut, stay in a rut.

last year Sussex had something daft like 4 matches rained off early doors, but won their last 3 to squeak a QF and thrash Durham to book a finals day place

Hants are good enough to replicate that, I would have thought

Durhamfootman wrote:last year Sussex had something daft like 4 matches rained off early doors, but won their last 3 to squeak a QF and thrash Durham to book a finals day place

Hants are good enough to replicate that, I would have thought

Wash-outs still keep your point tally ticking over - and, arguably more importantly, don't hand your rival two valuable points. They also avoid that drop in dressing room morale which defeats can cause.

I had Kent down as the second worst south group team this year (after Glamorgan), and we've already lost to them.

We're playing three no.8s at 6, 7 and 8.

Fantastic win. Lewis having the best week of his life.

After a really poor season to date, Mason has somewhat come alive in the t20.

This is a heck of a collapse from Essex, albeit they are only playing 5 batters.

Comfortable win last night but still think Northeast bats too slowly for T20 cricket

Hampshireboi wrote:Comfortable win last night but still think Northeast bats too slowly for T20 cricket

For me his problem is that he doesn't rotate the strike enough. I don't have any problems with his boundary count - the likes of Root and McKenzie aren't/weren't big boundary scorers either, but are still hugely valuable because they offer that glue. Northeast also offers us that glue - let the other guys do all the fancy stuff around him - but he chews up dot balls in the process. And that is an issue. Needs to improve at finding the gaps to keep those singles ticking over - which the likes of Root and McKenzie are/were genius' at.

not often a side defends 127 in T20

well done!

Durhamfootman wrote:not often a side defends 127 in T20

well done!

The most used of used pitches (although we still should have made 140 - for once we didn't take advantage of the twos on offer due to the big Rose Bowl boundaries).

WC matches, going straight into back-to-back home four day matches, going straight into t20 matches. All whilst it's raining. Groundsmen have no chance to prepare anything.

Like so many other sides though, Glamorgan seem to think that you don't need batsmen below no.5. So once we had them four down...

st_brendy wrote:After a really poor season to date, Mason has somewhat come alive in the t20.

Injured again, just as when he was finally looking good again after his last injury. Do feel sorry for him. Feels like he's one of those sportsmen who will spend more of their career in the physio room than on the pitch.