Hampshire 2017 thread

[haggishants]

This last wicket stand is going to be painful.

[budgetmeansbudget]

This game is going to be inside two days, regardless of who wins.

Wawrickshire should get a points deduction for a dodgy pitch!

You just know that the tenth wicket will put on a few with Bell hitting out. Not that it will probably make much difference.

[st_brendy]

This last wicket stand is going to be painful.

We're setting a fairly normal field to Bell, rather than about eight men on the boundary. Quite annoying.

[st_brendy]

This last wicket stand is going to be painful.

We're setting a fairly normal field to Bell, rather than about eight men on the boundary. Quite annoying.

Changed it for this over. Now we've got seven out on the rope.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Didn't think it could get any worse.......

[budgetmeansbudget]

Right, positive mindset, this pitch has clearly turned into a road and we're going to stroll this run chase.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Positive mindset gone, this tenth wicket partnership just sums up how bad we have been in the past week.

Momentum swing will once again ensure our batting lineup is blown away.

Pathetic embarrassing hopeless cowardly inept fvcking shite.

[st_brendy]

If you take the assumption that we weren't going to chase down the score even without this last wicket partnership, then this is actually a positive. It's increasing the chances of the match not finishing today, thereby keeping open the slither of a chance that the overnight rain once again washes out the outfield all day tomorrow.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Straw clutching!

I thought this was the worst batting line up in the league, but I couldn't see Edwards or Crane doing what Sidearse is doing right now.

[budgetmeansbudget]

It's this partnership which will destroy our batting, taking away any slight hope, and demoralising the dressing room. They will struggle to bat out today after this.

[st_brendy]

It's this partnership which will destroy our batting, taking away any slight hope, and demoralising the dressing room. They will struggle to bat out today after this.

Similar to Essex last week. I'm sure they had hope before Wagner came out and they put on that 9th wicket.

Not that I'm blaming the bowlers, mind. Batsmen are allowed to score runs, especially someone like Ian Bell. It's our problem that the confidence of our batters is so brittle, that something like this can destroy them.

[budgetmeansbudget]

That's exactly it, plus their bowlers will be gaining massive confidence from these late order runs and will be running in with maximum adrenaline pumping.

[st_brendy]

259 to survive. About 200 more than I'd have confidence in.

[haggishants]

259 to win.

Take your places in the Last Chance Saloon!

[Hampshireboi]

Big scores for Adams and Ervine incoming

Slight flurry of late wickets but will chase it about 7 wickets down.