by Durhamfootman » Sun Aug 24, 2025 9:47 pm
the other thing that struck me as odd.... for all that scoring was tough early on, Bamber struggled to adjust his line from left hander to right hander and Robbo spanked him to the boundary 3 times. The reason I was cross with Robbo giving it away stupidly was that I was pretty sure that Bamber was going to be pulled from the attack at the end of that over because he was bowling some rubbish from the lumley end, whilst OHD was giving nothing away at all from the Finchale end. Once Bamber had 2 left handers to work with, he switched around the wicket permanently and was instantly more threatening and more accurate, yet at no stage did we think to bring Ackers in early to make the bowler change his lines, so he dominated the batting. The wicket of Robbo kept Bamber in the attack and it looked as though they were going to bowl him out in one spell. Rhodes nicked his first ball just past the despairing dive of 1st slip, hit anything straight confidently to the legside, then edged another between keeper and first slip. Keeper didn't move for some reason and 1st slip could only tip the ball away for 4 to long stop. Then they bounced him and he top edged his pull just safe between 3 running fielders, so they tried it again and he gave it away immediately. Gay was on one when he top edged to long leg, only to see Bamber spill it, but after some scratching around he did it again and holed out
we nearly doubled our score in the last 14 overs and Warks did something similar, so I can't help but feel that our impatience with the bat cost us that game. Both sides had an opener that batted pretty much right through, but we had to wait until Raine to give ours some support, whereas Barnard got a couple of partners able to stay with him
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