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County Cricket 2025

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chunkyshanhawk53 said:
Big runs for Foakes again ;)
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An impressive knock but then the pace and pitch he's been able to play it wouldn't be possible in the test arena.

He'd have been a class keeper for us in the era of Jones/Read/Foster/Ambrose. Just unfortunate in the era he plays he's obsolete for England.

Still think him batting up the order in India wouldn't have been a bad idea. Pointless him at 7 tbh.
 
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mackembhoy said:
An impressive knock but then the pace and pitch he's been able to play it wouldn't be possible in the test arena.

He'd have been a class keeper for us in the era of Jones/Read/Foster/Ambrose. Just unfortunate in the era he plays he's obsolete for England.

Still think him batting up the order in India wouldn't have been a bad idea. Pointless him at 7 tbh.
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I think he’s massively overrated like

He takes a catch down the leg side and people go on like he’s the second coming of Christ.
 
MustardAndOnions said:
Aye he’s done nothing since leaving

Still ridiculous that he felt the need to leave mind
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that first season he had a really good year, him and Hannon-Dalby took over 100 wickets between them, but think he missed nearly all of last season and looks set to miss this first round before the blast starts, sure this is the last year of the deal he signed at warwickshire too

I know a couple of lads at sacriston who know him well, plenty rumours as to what happened, mostly seem to be it was personal matters as to why he left and little bit of a fall out with Franklin, wanted to play more whiteball apparently

i was told when Campbell came in he asked who swung the ball white the most, The answer was Rushy but he left just a few months earlier
 
Sillypoint said:
that first season he had a really good year, him and Hannon-Dalby took over 100 wickets between them, but think he missed nearly all of last season and looks set to miss this first round before the blast starts, sure this is the last year of the deal he signed at warwickshire too

I know a couple of lads at sacriston who know him well, plenty rumours as to what happened, mostly seem to be it was personal matters as to why he left and little bit of a fall out with Franklin, wanted to play more whiteball apparently

i was told when Campbell came in he asked who swung the ball white the most, The answer was Rushy but he left just a few months earlier
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I forgot that and I also forgot the family stuff yeah, my bad.
 
chunkyshanhawk53 said:
3 50s already this season including a 92*

Big was probably an exaggeration
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He's done well this year.

Think some context to the current game is needed though. 18 players batted in first two innings, 3 scored 150+, 4 have scored 100+, 7 have scored 50 or more. Its still a good knock but clearly a wicket for scoring high runs.
 
Been some really bad cricket wickets in sone county games lately.

The IPL sometimes gets rightly criticized for been too batting friendly when 230 plays 220.

But wickets like the Durham Hants and Warks Surrey games deserve a lot of criticism, 4 days of cricket and a positive result unlikely from more or less day 1 terrible for the 4 day game.
 
Turner the Cat said:
If Yorkshire vs Essex is a draw today with Essex still needing 200+ to win and only 1 wicket left then Yorkshire really only have themselves to blame.

Still think there should be more incentives for a win in the points system.
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Absolutely, the points system should be heavily weighted to encourage teams to go for a win.

Teams are far too risk averse and either bat on too long because of that or wait until individual players reach a landmark when they should be declaring earlier imo
 
Voice of fair play said:
Absolutely, the points system should be heavily weighted to encourage teams to go for a win.

Teams are far too risk averse and either bat on too long because of that or wait until individual players reach a landmark when they should be declaring earlier imo
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It worked well back in 2023 when it was only 5 points for the draw as you saw a lot more teams go for a win, all the talk was they wanted to mirror the Stokes positive cricket mindset. But for some bizarre reason the ECB only kept that for a year and decided to put it back up to 8 points.
 
wednesday1957 said:
Bairstow being a prime example in this game...Really didn;t need to bat for 70 odd.....did he?
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Absolutely not of course he didn’t they had more than enough runs and definitely should have declared earlier,
I genuinely don’t think enough is made of it and captains escape criticism as traditionally it’s seen as batting teams out of the game.

The focus when you in a strong position is or should be to win the game yourselves
 
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SuperSub said:
There was no need to set Essex over 500, anything in the 350-375 range would have been enough to give themselves another session to bowl them out and likely Essex wouldn't have been in blocking mode from ball one.
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After his shithouse tactics at Durham I for one is delighted that he fucked it up
 
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