Bob Willis Trophy thread

[The Professor]

Essex already have Harmer and Porter.....but Cook is showing his muscle in the BWT of late too.

3 wickets today to add to his 5 v Kent.

[Durhamfootman]

25 wickets for Stevens at 16's

he's 44!

[Durhamfootman]

match abandoned at Bristol after an absent Northants squad player tests positive after being around the team 48 hours earlier

I wonder how this will affect the Vitality Dribble?

[The Professor]

25 wickets for Stevens at 16's

he's 44!

Darren Stevens is older than:

Andrew Strauss
Matthew Hoggard
Andrew Flintoff
Steve Harmison
Simon Jones
Geraint Jones
Graeme Smith
Paul Collingwood
Makhaya Ntini
Kumar Sangakkara
Mahela Jayawardene
Brett Lee
Daniel Vettori
Virender Sehwag
Zaheer Khan
Ramnaresh Sarwan

[captaincolly]

match abandoned at Bristol after an absent Northants squad player tests positive after being around the team 48 hours earlier

I wonder how this will affect the Vitality Dribble?

Will be interesting to see how that pans out. It's just as well neither of the teams are in contention for the Bob Willis Trophy.

[westoelad]

Yes but they're the leaders in their group of the vitality blast. Northants players will have to isolate so tricky introduction for Watmore.

[Arthur Crabtree]

25 wickets for Stevens at 16's

he's 44!

Darren Stevens is older than:


Daniel Vettori

Very surprising.

Probably some way to go though to be the oldest to play in the CC.

[sussexpob]

Probably some way to go though to be the oldest to play in the CC.

We used to do a pub quiz in Brighton back in the day where the winners got a stab at an impossibly hard question for a shot at a rolled over jackpot, which often went unclaimed for months on end and ended up being a very sizeable win. One week we won, and got the question 'what was the highest age of a county cricketer to the nearest 2 years'. Being the only cricket fan in the group, my friends rather bizarrely expected me to be able to know it off hand, and were not to happy when I didnt. I guessed Grace must have been around 60, so went for that and got it wrong.

Even to this day if I say anything about cricket to them, I hear one name in response along with 'you cost us two grand'....... Rev Reginald Moss, who was 57 (one bloody year off getting it right) when he played for Worcestershire v Gloucestershire in the 1920s. The story goes that he was a gifted cricketer who played for Oxford in his youth, but he was also a talented athlete in track and field, and turned down a cricketing career for one in athletics. When Worcestershire over 35 years later had a lot of unavailable players he was invited to play a CC game once again. He got out cheaply twice and was never picked again.

So Stevens has a long way to go.

Ironically, the only time cricket knowledge has come to my aid in a pub quiz was not exactly helpful either; at University we once drew a quiz against another team, and the tie breaker was 'to the nearest 1000, how many test runs did Sunil Gavasker score'. We were disqualified for cheating when I wrote 10,122 as the answer. Even in an era pre-Iphones the quiz master refused to believe any one on Earth could get the answer right, and gave the prize to the other team. We were permanently barred from entering the quiz again.

[sussexpob]

The oldest FC player was over 70 believe it or not. But a lot of games back in the day were designated FC when they would nowadays not be. Grace for instance played FC games for about 9 years after CC, for London County, who played friendlies against other teams.

I dont know the guys name, but a Commonwealth XI was sent to India to play a tour after Independence as a goodwill tour type thing. They played in Bombay against a team featuring the then head of the Government, who by memory was 75 ish. He batted at 11 and was bowled out both innings for nothing, but then again I wouldnt have expected an amateur pensioner to last long vs Jim Laker at his prime.

He gets a first class record for it though.

[Durhamfootman]

Worcs have collapsed from 123-1 to 200 all out against Somerset

[Durhamfootman]

Hants are recovering after subsiding to 23-5 . Now 87-5 and a lead of 108

[Arthur Crabtree]

Essex going to win before lunch on day three.

[Durhamfootman]

Bell closing in on his second half century of his final match

If it wasn't Glamorgan, he might be thinking about reversing his decision

[Durhamfootman]

a 100 run 8th wicket stand drags Derby back into their game with Lancs

[Arthur Crabtree]

Yorkshire must have a chance of winning here if there's not any more rain.