2016 Hampshire Thread

[budgetmeansbudget]

Fifty partnership up for the eighth wicket, they've barely seen a delivery quicker than 55mph. Is light an issue?

[budgetmeansbudget]

Sooner we get to stumps the better. This has been a poor end to the day.

[captaincolly]

Sooner we get to stumps the better. This has been a poor end to the day.

Richardson has remembered which end of the bat to hold. He's usually good but has had a poor 4 day season this year, would probably not have played had Poynter not been away with Ireland.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Sooner we get to stumps the better. This has been a poor end to the day.

Richardson has remembered which end of the bat to hold. He's usually good but has had a poor 4 day season this year, would probably not have played had Poynter not been away with Ireland.

Thanks for that Captain!

Playing like Richie Richardson against us.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Bad light umpires surely.

[budgetmeansbudget]

We've bowled extra overs today. Can we have some of our deducted points back please?

[captaincolly]

Sooner we get to stumps the better. This has been a poor end to the day.

Richardson has remembered which end of the bat to hold. He's usually good but has had a poor 4 day season this year, would probably not have played had Poynter not been away with Ireland.

Thanks for that Captain!

Playing like Richie Richardson against us.

Pitch should get worse throughout the game so you should get a very useful lead. Would still surprise me if you don't go on and win.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Need early wickets tomorrow, else the lead could be under 100 before we know it.

[st_brendy]

That last session took the gloss off of what has been a great match for us so far. Not so much in terms of Durham now probably avoiding the FO - I doubt we'd have enforced it anyway; batting last on a turning pitch, with the pressure of a run chase to survive hardly sounds appealing, even if that chase is only 120 - but more that our lead continues to be eaten into, and we're now having to go into day three with the match still only in its second innings.

Obviously Warks fighting back excellently against Lancs hasn't been great news for us today either (in fact I would go as far as to suggest that, after Warks finished day one arguably the most likely of the three to go down, they finish day two arguably the least likely of the three to go down).

These two can bat (quite clearly), and Onions has been in decent batting form recently (Rushworth is nothing to comment on though). If you go with a negative viewpoint and say that it takes us a whole session to bowl Durham out tomorrow, and we come away with an 90 run read, then realistically I would suggest that leaves us having to score something like 250 in 60 overs. Declare with a lead of 340, and have five overs at them tomorrow night and then all of day four. Not ideal - 130 overs to bowl them out with a 430 lead would be much nicer than 100 overs to bowl them out with a lead of 340 (which is where we could have been if we're bowled them out tonight) - but still a really good to win from. Not that scoring 250 from 60 overs would be straight forward, however.

[captaincolly]

Rushworth is one of those tailenders who can bat and look ok at times. Obviously though the odds are always in the bowlers favour with him and Onions but they can be irritating and smack a 20 or 30. The half century Onions got the other week was remarkable because it took so many deliveries. I'd have expected any 50 from him to have come quickly.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Where have your positive posts for Hants fans gone Captain?!

[captaincolly]

Where have your positive posts for Hants fans gone Captain?!

Sorry! Chances of Onions getting another big score must be slim so I think you'll be ok. Always a good chance of an early wicket in the morning before the two batsmen get settled.

[Hampshire]

Dawson has apparently cut his hand/finger and has been refused permission to tape it or something along those lines.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Dawson has apparently cut his hand/finger and has been refused permission to tape it or something along those lines.

Refused permission by who?

[budgetmeansbudget]

Pouring with rain here at the moment, wasn't forecasted.

Hope it isn't a similar situation down the road.