Durham Match Thread 2025

[Durhamfootman]

McKinney has nicked off

24-2. He's been trying to score off every ball and was looking quite good, but he'd just inside edged one for 4 and didn't take heed

[Durhamfootman]

we only have 5 batters plus the keeper, so we could have done without losing both openers in the first 6 overs

[Durhamfootman]

playing for an England place, I reckon, rather than the match situation or the pitch

[Durhamfootman]

lots of uneven bounce. A couple have stayed really low and then one reared up in the last over

[Durhamfootman]

I had a feeling we might be 5 down at close of play. I figured one of Rhodes/Ackermann plus Robbo plus a night watchman

we're 4 down Ackermann, Robinson without scoring and there is still an over to for them to get the nightwatchman, who is Blatherwick

[Durhamfootman]

Mathew Waite has 2 for 3 off 6 overs

[Durhamfootman]

the reply couldn't have gone much worse, but equally it's not wholly unexpected either

Blatherwick sees the day out.

we have 4 centurions this season. 1 is out injured and the other 3 are all out for a combined 29 runs. The next best bat (Potts) isn't playing either so that leaves Ben Raine and Graham Clark...... nobody else in the side has any runs this season. We are staring down the barrel atm. That 162 is looking like 50 runs better than a par score, with this uneven bounce. At least we can't be made to follow on

Robbo hasn't scored any runs since about June last year when his form suddenly fell off a cliff. Clearly the rest hasn't done him any good. It's very concerning because prior to that fall off he was very reliable. 0 off 17 his contribution today and still we bat him at 5

[Durhamfootman]

it'll be interesting to see how Cambo puts a positive spin on this last 25 overs

[Durhamfootman]

Robbo is averaging 8.66 this season after 6 innings

[captaincolly]

Robbo is averaging 8.66 this season after 6 innings

And had a poor run at the end of last season.
Sounded like very tricky conditions today bit something special is required tomorrow morning.

[Durhamfootman]

136 ao is a lot closer than I thought when we lost 2 wickets for 3 runs in the first few minutes of the session

26 run deficit and this could be over by lunch tomorrow. Poor, poor way to play cricket

just watch Libby score a ton on this

[Durhamfootman]

Old George top scorer with 31

puts the rest to shame

[Durhamfootman]

Ben McKinney could have made a big score on this pitch, because he looked more comfortable than anyone with this pitch. Trouble is he got carried away and gifted them his wicket, although it was a fine catch low down by Adam Hose

[captaincolly]

Is this pitch up to standard? It could be over inside 2 days at this rate.

[sussexpob]

Is this pitch up to standard? It could be over inside 2 days at this rate.

Comms are saying you basically are never in on this surface, always 10 balls away from getting something unplayable. Seem to be saying 107 is defendable.

Guess Durham just have to whack it and hope. No point trying to play on these surfaces.