2014 Hampshire Thread

[SaintPowelly]

Northants have bowled well as a unit, Middlebrook and Hall below par.

[SaintPowelly]

Pouring it down now.

[Hampshire]

Pouring it down now.

Stopped raining here on the coast about 20 mins ago so hopefully it should clear up there shortly.

[st_brendy]

Got back home from the ground 10 mins ago. If anything, the rain is heavier now. Not a particularly pleasant drive home.

Really can't see play them getting back on, even if the rain clears in the next hour. Outfield will no doubt be too wet.

And a good thing too if we're being honest. 249 was a poor score, and DL will only make things worse. Carberry, Terry, Ervine, Coles all gave their wickets away, caught on the boundary. And that despite Terry and Coles only having four men out, Ervine only having three men out, and Carberry only having two.

Poor shot from Smith too. Just poor all round really. Again.

[DiligentDefence]

Got back home from the ground 10 mins ago. If anything, the rain is heavier now. Not a particularly pleasant drive home.

Really can't see play them getting back on, even if the rain clears in the next hour. Outfield will no doubt be too wet.

And a good thing too if we're being honest. 249 was a poor score, and DL will only make things worse. Carberry, Terry, Ervine, Coles all gave their wickets away, caught on the boundary. And that despite Terry and Coles only having four men out, Ervine only having three men out, and Carberry only having two.

Poor shot from Smith too. Just poor all round really. Again.

Probably still enough for Northants.

[st_brendy]

Abandoned. Called it from almost the moment it started raining. Really couldn't believe that there were so many people happy to hang around and wait and see.

[SaintPowelly]

That was AWFUL, Carbs threw his wicket away...Terry was just poor, dropped on 1, his 1st 6 went millimeters over the fielders head, just looked scratchy barring his 2nd 6 which was well timed.

I could tell Adams would be out LBW before play started, he kept missing the ball when Wheater was giving him throwdowns, Smith managed to get to 39 without a boundary, Northants didn't look like they were particularly bothered with him being there, Bates the least said about, the better.

Ervine is the only batsman who can be forgiven, the powerplay was on, and Smith had just given his wicket away after not scoring, he HAD to go for it.

[Centuryclub]

I see we are continuing to be terrible in the least important competition of the season. Missing the CC big time. When's our next game?

Next CC starts 15 August (Fri!) v Kent at Canterbury.

Let's hope we can regain our CC mojo! We seem to have gone off the boil apart from our T20 Notts victory & no CC in the middle of the summer seemed wrong before this hot spell.

Probably would have seen a few results either way over the last few weeks with the fine weather we've been having. Lets hope it continues because there is nothing worse than long periods of 4 day games being lost to the weather. Its probably getting to that time of the season when some contrived games begin to happen with win bonuses critical.

Huddersfield away tomorrow CC, not the most glamorous start to the season and we got hammered up there last time although it was during our formative weeks in the Championship. Got my tickets for the first home game on the 16th against Brentford.

Yes, we don't want a repeat of our away matches at Huddersfield & Watford early last season? Surprised Flahaven has survived the purge of keepers - perhaps Buchel will get a game with injuries to keepers? Rantie has a lot to prove & Pitman seems to have fallen out of favour - needs quite a lot of management but always likely to get a goal or get a shot on goal.
The cricket season seems to be wimping out with poor form & poor weather. It will be a wrench to get back to cricket for the T20 & final CC matches if poor form & weather persists if B'mth make a good start! Hants seem to have had a good start to the season for once but are now limping to the finish line!

[st_brendy]

Same XI plus a 21 year old seamer called Basil Akram make up tomorrow's 12 man squad.

[SaintPowelly]

Same XI plus a 21 year old seamer called Basil Akram make up tomorrow's 12 man squad.

Is play likely tomorrow ? or enough for a result anyway??

[st_brendy]

Same XI plus a 21 year old seamer called Basil Akram make up tomorrow's 12 man squad.

Is play likely tomorrow ? or enough for a result anyway??

Rain scheduled from mid-morning through to about 8ish.

Even if there's enough time for a ten over aside game, then outfield will no doubt have become too wet to get it dried in time.

[SaintPowelly]

Out of interest Brendy, where do you usually sit when you go ??

[st_brendy]

Out of interest Brendy, where do you usually sit when you go ??

On the pavilion roof, if I can bothered to make it up there. If not, then I vary around the two new stands - depending on a mixture of the position of the pitch and the boundary rope, and where there is easily accessible seating (as I tend to turn up pretty much bang on the start time, not hours in advance).

[st_brendy]

Derby-Essex and Leicester-Northants were both washed out today. It leaves our one-day group as follows:

Yorks (5) 8 pts
Gloucs (5) 7 pts
Derby (5) 6 pts
Essex (5) 6 pts
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Leics (6) 5 pts
Worcs (5) 5 pts
Northants (5) 4 pts
Hants (5) 3 pts
Lancs (5) 2 pts

Assuming tomorrow's game at home to Worcs is the wash-out expected, the most we could get to would be 8 pts. There's every chance that that would see us overtake Northants and Leics, but we'd still need to overtake two others as well. Thankfully, if we did win our final two games, one of those games would be against Essex. So that's at least one slip up which they would have. But they'd still need to slip up at least once more. And Worcs would have to slip in one of their final two games.

8 points might, just might, be enough. I wouldn't be putting any money on it, I think 9 will be needed. But yeah, maybe 8.

[SaintPowelly]

Rain delays the start, as expected.