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Re: Durham Match Thread 2024
Posted:
Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:39 pm
by Durhamfootman
190-7
bad light stops play
Re: Durham Match Thread 2024
Posted:
Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:53 pm
by Durhamfootman
Uni declare overnight, so I'm guessing we've come to an arrangement, where we bat quickly and then try to bowl the Uni out. Good to see that we are still treating this as a match to win, rather than going through the motions to give everyone a go
Jones dismissed early for 0, replaced by Bas at 3 who got yorked straight away. I noticed that Ollie Gibson only bowled 2 overs yesterday and I watched those 2 overs. He was walking uncomfortably back to his mark, although it didn't seem to overly affect his run in. Maybe there was something tightening up on him and we didn't want to risk anything
Raine in at 4
what's the target do we think..... 300 and 2 sessions to try and bowl them out?
Re: Durham Match Thread 2024
Posted:
Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:13 pm
by Durhamfootman
Uni are coached by Melvyn Betts, seemingly (who surprisingly is still only 49).
he'll be very happy with his team, I'm sure
Re: Durham Match Thread 2024
Posted:
Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:23 pm
by Durhamfootman
Sam Martin Jenkins comes on and gets McKinney straight away. He might be a nephew of RMJ but not certain of that
Coggers at 5
Re: Durham Match Thread 2024
Posted:
Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:56 pm
by Durhamfootman
50 for Raine
92-4 lead by 252
Re: Durham Match Thread 2024
Posted:
Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:05 pm
by Durhamfootman
lead is 276 at lunch
will we declare or have a thrash?
Re: Durham Match Thread 2024
Posted:
Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:56 pm
by Durhamfootman
declared. target is 277
Pottsy straight in 7-1
Re: Durham Match Thread 2024
Posted:
Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:57 pm
by Durhamfootman
I'm back from the school run and the students are 98-5 at tea. 5-2-4-3 for George D.
For that last wicket, he kept changing sides every couple of balls and ended up turning one through the gate. Looked like intelligent cricket to me.
Re: Durham Match Thread 2024
Posted:
Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:30 pm
by Durhamfootman
gone dark now and the umpires have told us we can only bowl spin. This happened mid over, so had the bizarre sight of Coggers steaming in for 4 balls of the over and then bowling a couple of offies off 2 paces
Ackers gets a bowl and George has a 4th
Re: Durham Match Thread 2024
Posted:
Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:50 pm
by Durhamfootman
bad light ends the game early
Having bowled so well, George went for a few later on. I'm guessing that this might have been his chance for a maiden first class 5fer, so maybe, with time running out, he was trying a bit too hard. He ended up with 4-34, but he was on 4-15 at one point. Still, he looked the part and took 7 of the 13 wickets to fall in the match
Re: Durham Match Thread 2024
Posted:
Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:07 pm
by Durhamfootman
Seemingly, Bedders was having a net today, so he's back
Re: Durham Match Thread 2024
Posted:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:34 pm
by Durhamfootman
Hampshire first up for the season
Of course, I've recently been reminded of what exactly that means.......
Mo Abbas, who bowled us out twice in about 5 overs when he first played for Leics
and duh, duh, durrrrr...... Keith bloody 'first i'll take 5 fer for hardly any runs, then I'll hit you for 150 runs, and I'll finish off with another 5 fer' Barker
eek!
I'd forgotten about both of them
Re: Durham Match Thread 2024
Posted:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:43 pm
by Durhamfootman
then again, I've had a look at our last meetings in 2016. We beat Warks away with KB scoring 10 and 6 and taking no wickets in either innings and then we drew at home, Barker 3fer, 43 runs and then 1fer
so maybe I'm being unduly pessimistic
and he's 37 now, so *modded* him!
Re: Durham Match Thread 2024
Posted:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:44 pm
by Durhamfootman
Abbas will still be a handful, I reckon
Re: Durham Match Thread 2024
Posted:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:57 pm
by captaincolly
Durhamfootman wrote:Abbas will still be a handful, I reckon
Could be carnage. Very difficult start but I guess that's division one. I may be pessimistic too but am already thinking how important the games against Worcestershire and Kent could be.