CC :: Durham v Leicestershire

[wayne entwhistle no9]

Haven't watched any of the cricket today but it will be interesting where the wicket is situated for the Notts championship match on Thursday.
If red telephones theory is right that the wickets at the pavilion end of the square are flatter than at the river then hopefully the next one is at the other end.
Mind it does show how limited what in theory is a very decent county attack are when the ball is not seaming and swinging prodigusly.

 

[Aidan11]

Maybe it wasn't the skippers decision which is what a few have suggested today.....

I heard the Leicestershire commentator mention this earlier although he emphasised it was rumours he heard around the ground.

Rumours suggested it was a management decision but I can't fathom why they'd do this.

 

[Twisted]

I think the skipper should perhaps have given them a more tempting target to encourage them to go for it and take a few more risks. He played safe by not declaring sooner and this is the result.

We'll never know. A more chasable total might have let to more risks meaning more chances, or we could have lost and then everyone would be slaughtering the team for losing from such a winning position. Can't really blame them for going safety first, hiding to nothing really.

 

[GordonMuchallNo1Fan]

Well that's my lot. One of the worst county championship games and wickets I've sat through down here. Appalling advert for County Cricket. As a long time member said to me an hour ago "worst wicket I've seen here in 27 years". See what next week brings.

 

[brandon]

We'll never know. A more chasable total might have let to more risks meaning more chances, or we could have lost and then everyone would be slaughtering the team for losing from such a winning position. Can't really blame them for going safety first, hiding to nothing really.

Perhaps at this early stage of the season they just don’t want to take a risk to give Leicestershire any chance of winning a game they’ve been far and away second best since Lunch on Day 1.

 

[Twisted]

One things for sure, this pitch will do wonders for developing our spinners
Think they'll give Evans a chance to get his century before shaking hands?

 

[Marko]

Jesus. That was a hard watch

 

[bumble2]

Batting averages after two games.

Name	Matches	Inns	Not Out	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	Ct	St
You must be logged on to see external links	2	2	0	267	191	133.50	1	1	3
You must be logged on to see external links	2	3	1	67	64	33.50	0	1	5
You must be logged on to see external links	1	1	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0
	2	3	0	227	120	75.66	1	1	0
	2	2	0	16	12	8.00	0	0	4
	1	1	0	1	1	1.00	0	0	0
	2	3	0	122	108	40.66	1	0	0
	1	1	1	182	182*		1	0	0
	1	2	1	40	37*	40.00	0	0	0
	2	2	0	25	23	12.50	0	0	1
	2	2	1	51	51*	51.00	0	1	1
	2	2	0	5	5	2.50	0	0	0
	2	2	0	4	2	2.00	0	0	1

And bowling

Name	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BB	Ave	5wI	10wM
	120	1	63	0
	168	5	92	3	2-52	30.66	0	0
	186	8	76	1	1-28	76.00	0	0
	468	20	220	10	6-58	22.00	1	0
	396	15	161	6	3-35	26.83	0	0
	455	16	198	5	2-38	39.60	0	0
	197	12	48	2	1-13	24.00	0	0

 

[GordonMuchallNo1Fan]

I heard the Leicestershire commentator mention this earlier although he emphasised it was rumours he heard around the ground.

Rumours suggested it was a management decision but I can't fathom why they'd do this.

Yeah the rumour was certain players wanted to declare but Franklin didn't want to. One player rumoured not to be happy "throwing away his wicket" for the sake of a declaration when a century was most definitely possible.

 

[The Rat]

I heard the Leicestershire commentator mention this earlier although he emphasised it was rumours he heard around the ground.

Rumours suggested it was a management decision but I can't fathom why they'd do this.

Can you expand?

I’m lost here

 

[The Red Telephone]

Not much of a consolation but it seems we're not alone as there were only 21 wickets fell at Derby over the four dayzzzzz.

 

[Twisted]

Yeah the rumour was certain players wanted to declare but Franklin didn't want to. One player rumoured not to be happy "throwing away his wicket" for the sake of a declaration when a century was most definitely possible.

surely those two things contradict each other

 

[GordonMuchallNo1Fan]

surely those two things contradict each other

No they don't. Some players wanted to declare earlier including the captain. Franklin rumoured to have had the final say. One player who was pushing for 100 started playing shots in hope we would declare early, lost his wicket. No contradiction at all

 

[chopsfc007]

No they don't. Some players wanted to declare earlier including the captain. Franklin rumoured to have had the final say. One player who was pushing for 100 started playing shots in hope we would declare early, lost his wicket. No contradiction at all

Any evidence of Franklin wanting to bat on and borthwick not

 

[GordonMuchallNo1Fan]

Any evidence of Franklin wanting to bat on and borthwick not

As I said it was the rumour doing the rounds today. I did however find it odd Borthwick just pissed about for the 10 balls he faced. We will never know but no reason to doubt who told me.

 

[chopsfc007]

As I said it was the rumour doing the rounds today. I did however find it odd Borthwick just pissed about for the 10 balls he faced. We will never know but no reason to doubt who told me.

Love a good rumour and Chinese whisper based on nothing

 

[Twisted]

No they don't. Some players wanted to declare earlier including the captain. Franklin rumoured to have had the final say. One player who was pushing for 100 started playing shots in hope we would declare early, lost his wicket. No contradiction at all

not much point saying 'one player' when the only person that applies to is dickson. if we weren't going to delcare then he had all the time in the world to bat for his hundred. if there was some kind of miscommunication i can understand a bit why he might be frustrated but at the end of the say if he'd played big shots successfully and we'd ended up with a lead of 400 with 10 overs left i feel certain we'd have declared.

as for borthwick pissing around for 2 overs, what does it matter? nowt would be gained declaring when he came in other than we could have left a bit earlier

 

[GordonMuchallNo1Fan]

not much point saying 'one player' when the only person that applies to is dickson. if we weren't going to delcare then he had all the time in the world to bat for his hundred. if there was some kind of miscommunication i can understand a bit why he might be frustrated but at the end of the say if he'd played big shots successfully and we'd ended up with a lead of 400 with 10 overs left i feel certain we'd have declared.

as for borthwick pissing around for 2 overs, what does it matter? nowt would be gained declaring when he came in other than we could have left a bit earlier

Maybe Borthwick was pissed off? Again rumours....

 

[viccarlton]

Never let the truth spoil a good story, or rumour, or conspiracy theory.

 

[Voice of fair play]

I think the skipper should perhaps have given them a more tempting target to encourage them to go for it and take a few more risks. He played safe by not declaring sooner and this is the result.

I always think that in general, of course easier to say on the sidelines, but sometimes to win games your need to at least tempt the opposition a little bit to help take those wickets.

Don’t know what it is, it maybe the out and out pressure that is on captains, but modern day cricket captains seem so risk averse nowadays and not sure that’s good tbh.