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Yorkshire v Durham : CC September 24


columbo70 said:
Got to question the coaches and captains approach to this innings?? To go out and bat super negatively is a bizarre way to go on....it effects the team mentally and just encourages this kind of collapse
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Must have been a change of tactics ( which wouldnt have suited us ) cos Campbell said the only way Durham play is to try and win the game / score quickly
 
bedlington mackem said:
Must have been a change of tactics ( which wouldnt have suited us ) cos Campbell said the only way Durham play is to try and win the game / score quickly
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It wouldn’t have made sense to try to win the game from the 11am position as that would have required potentially suicidal declaration batting. But there is still a balance to be struck. Runs in that situation are double bubble. They keep the fielding side at bay and, once you get ahead, they eat up the time that you have to bat for by making them use some of it as well. Even before he was out, I was profoundly worried at the way Lees had got becalmed. The best way to bat the day out for the draw is to score runs when the ball demands it.

The whole thing was too pathetic for small margins about tactics to have made a difference though. I’m not usually of the “they were all shit” persuasion when it comes to sport. Good days and bad days are part of the territory. It was Hampshire’s equally bad day yesterday that let us in. But I’m going to make an exception to that rule today. They were all shit.
 
Fleagle said:
It wouldn’t have made sense to try to win the game from the 11am position as that would have required potentially suicidal declaration batting. But there is still a balance to be struck. Runs in that situation are double bubble. They keep the fielding side at bay and, once you get ahead, they eat up the time that you have to bat for by making them use some of it as well. Even before he was out, I was profoundly worried at the way Lees had got becalmed. The best way to bat the day out for the draw is to score runs when the ball demands it.

The whole thing was too pathetic for small margins about tactics to have made a difference though. I’m not usually of the “they were all shit” persuasion when it comes to sport. Good days and bad days are part of the territory. It was Hampshire’s equally bad day yesterday that let us in. But I’m going to make an exception to that rule today. They were all shit.
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Yes,the expression is "play cricket" - you play the bowling on merit but Durham have a very capable and proven top 7, perhaps only McKinney not fully proven. Shot selection today was unbelievable from such talented players. It's been apparent for a long time that confidence has been eroded. Clearly Campbell is going nowhere and above neither North or Bostock are answerable to anyone. Bottom line is-this club is knackered - end of.
 
Brian Lander
Russell Inglis
Steve Atkinson
George March
Steve Greensword
Neil Riddell
Derek Soakell
Alan Old
Stuart Wilkinson
Peter Crane
Bobby Cole
Alec Johnson
Arthur Austin
Jack Iley
Alan Reed
Class of 73
Your boys have taken one helluva of a beating
 
In the interview Campbell seemed to agree with the interviewer that trying to block in the second innings only brings back the pressure on yourselves. So where did that come from? Lees? Cos it feels very trad. Yorkshire.
 
Cornsay62 said:
Brian Lander
Russell Inglis
Steve Atkinson
George March
Steve Greensword
Neil Riddell
Derek Soakell
Alan Old
Stuart Wilkinson
Peter Crane
Bobby Cole
Alec Johnson
Arthur Austin
Jack Iley
Alan Reed
Class of 73
Your boys have taken one helluva of a beating
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Taken you 50 years to get revenge😀.
Sad fact is that Durham is no longer identifiable as a team of "our boys" I e. local lads.
Hence the lack of bottle.
 
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Both my kids football team lost, followed by an absolute spineless collapse from Durham and then to top the day of I hit a pheasant when driving. What a shit day
 
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Cornsay62 said:
Brian Lander
Russell Inglis
Steve Atkinson
George March
Steve Greensword
Neil Riddell
Derek Soakell
Alan Old
Stuart Wilkinson
Peter Crane
Bobby Cole
Alec Johnson
Arthur Austin
Jack Iley
Alan Reed
Class of 73
Your boys have taken one helluva of a beating
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Not forgetting
David Harvey
Paul Reaney
Trevor Cherry
Billy Bremner
Paul Madeley
Norman Hunter
Peter Lorimer
Allan Clarke
Mick Jones
Johnny Giles
Eddie Gray
Terry Yorath
Don Revie
and Les Cocker
Those boys took a hell of a beating in 1973...
 
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