County Cricket 2017 season

[Aidan11]

I wonder how many have gone to the game already today with no idea that it was a 2pm start and just rolled up thinking it was a normal CC match.

[budgetmeansbudget]

I might be completely wrong but it must be a while since we had nine County Championship games all kicking off at the same time.

[budgetmeansbudget]

13 wickets in the first 40 minutes, pink ball swinging about a touch!

[budgetmeansbudget]

Blimey, Durham 18/5.

[DiligentDefence]

Duckett scores a century in 89 balls, but it can't be a Hundred before lunch as there is no lunch!!

[Aidan11]

What's the interval between the 2nd and 3rd sessions going to be called?

Supper?

[Aidan11]

That loud rumble I can hear isn't thunder. It's WG Grace turning in his grave.

[budgetmeansbudget]

High Tea I understand is the first interval.

Supper I guess is the second.

Very upper middle class, love it.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Well done to Simon Harmer. Another 5-fer, on a first day pitch.

[Durhamfootman]

I thought Harmer was done for the season. I assumed he was an OS, but he must be a kolpak, I suppose

[dan08]

I thought Harmer was done for the season. I assumed he was an OS, but he must be a kolpak, I suppose

Everyone's a Kolpak these days.

[mikesiva]

Chanderpaul!

[Arthur Crabtree]

Samit out for 4.

Hopeless.

[st_brendy]

I thought Harmer was done for the season. I assumed he was an OS, but he must be a kolpak, I suppose

Yeah. It's Wagner who has made way for Amir.

[Alviro Patterson]

Not a fan of this pink ball at all, behaves so much differently to other balls and ruins the balance between bat and ball.

The pink ball just hangs in the air when bowling, almost like a windball. If a pace bowler who bowls remotely short/wide, a batsman will pick him off. The art and craft of spin is affected because the ball gets very little flight. The pink ball is not easy to see when pitched at the wicket, or travelling around 25ft off the ground so fielders are losing sight of the ball rather easily.

Not only the pink ball dulls, but the leather gets blistered at 40 overs old like a cheap tacky £3 Slazenger cork ball from Sports Direct. I've bowled an £8 Kookaburra red ball at 38 overs old in a club cricket match the other Saturday in better condition than those monstrosities.

Hindsight is such a wonderful thing, but maybe England should have organised a Day/Night test against Ireland or Afghanistan instead of playing a round of Day/Night Championship games.