Durham-Mackem41
Midfield
Great stuff this grind them into the dust then bowl them out hopefully.
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CC : Durham v Lancashire
- Thread starter The Red Telephone
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Aidan11
Striker
MustardAndOnions
Winger
Aye, he won’t play much
The Red Telephone
Striker
200 partnership and 2nd batting point.
smoker
Striker
Glad he won fuck all since leaving.
Lancs trying to rough Bedders up and getting slapped.
Just mentioned. Assumed it was the Dukes considering the movement Raine got.
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Durham-Mackem41
Midfield
Was great this morning Bumble and Thorpe
mackembhoy
Striker
To be honest I don't normally like the x is the best. As it's subjective and comparing teams from different eras is hard, as Benks and Diva were obviously massively successful for us and mostly if not all in Division One. In a better era for CC than perhaps it is now.
Whereas Bedders been pretty much our best batsman in what has been up until 2023 been a poor side.
Here is his stats anyway. Very much impressive, even the full season where he didn't score 1000 runs he still averaged 47!
| Season | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | BF | HS | Ave | SR | 100 | 50 | 0 | 4s | 6s |
| 2024 | 9* | 15 | 2 | 1077 | 1451 | 151* | 82.84 | 74.22 | 6 | 2 | - | 124 | 19 |
| 2023 | 14 | 19 | 1 | 1019 | 1322 | 156 | 56.61 | 77.08 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 106 | 17 |
| 2022 | 12 | 17 | 3 | 664 | 959 | 191 | 47.42 | 69.23 | 2 | 2 | - | 77 | 6 |
| 2021 | 13 | 20 | 3 | 1029 | 1718 | 257 | 60.52 | 59.89 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 124 | 8 |
| 2020 | 5 | 8 | - | 253 | 453 | 96 | 31.62 | 55.84 | - | 2 | - | 31 | 2 |
smoker
Striker
Ash is good value. Sad I missed that.
You’ve probably just listed my top 3.
I’d have Bedders top in terms of quality and how pleasing on the eye he is. There are others who’ve done more for the county, had a bigger impact.
The logic is totally flawed, that’s all. None of the players who they want to ‘get better facing it and bowling with it’ are actually playing in the games it’s being used in.
Then there are massive issues with how it has performed in English conditions versus how it behaves elsewhere. I’d argue that the conditions in the likes of Australia are far more important to come to terms with than the ball they use there. Both ultimately go hand in hand with each other, but it’s braindead from Key to think that the kookaburra will perform the same on a damp English morning with temperatures unlikely to hit 20 degrees as it will on a steamy day in Perth/Brisbane/Melbourne when the deck is rock hard and the outfield is parched.
He was quality, but he wasn’t here long enough for me to gush over him in the same way I do of Bedders
Interestingly though, Bumble compared him to Hussey earlier.
Maybe he’s thinking of negotiating a deal to come back
It’s tough to watch any team toil in the field in the way they are here, but we’ve got to make sure we keep them under the pump. Get that lead up over 250 and make it impossible for them to beat us.
He was annoying me earlier like with his constant cries of ‘YEAH OHHHHHHH’ everytime the batsman played a shot. Bedders middled one back to the bowler and he’s yelping as if it nearly beat his defences and bowled him
See above.
As has Bedingham in every one of his seasons with us.
To come back to this, many of the lads who were around at the start say nobody will ever top Dean Jones, but I’m too young to remember that.
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GordonMuchallNo1Fan
Striker
Unreal this from Bedingham
Inside Forward
Winger
Class this.
Assuming it’s this Toby fella they’ve got on this week. He’s absolute garbage. Made so many mistakes.
It’s a real shame the club couldn’t have sorted some sort of deal to get Marty on there some of the time.
