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CC : Leicestershire v Durham


McAlindon bowling on a practice strip during the tea break. Must be gutted. Feel for the lad. His substitution today is worse than the incident at the one day cup final a couple of years ago when two players were dropped at the eleventh hour due to the release of Potts and Raine from the Hundred. It caused turmoil amongst the players. We lost that game to a club that chose not to follow suit and went away with both the cup and the moral high ground.
 
bumble2 said:
McAlindon bowling on a practice strip during the tea break. Must be gutted. Feel for the lad. His substitution today is worse than the incident at the one day cup final a couple of years ago when two players were dropped at the eleventh hour due to the release of Potts and Raine from the Hundred. It caused turmoil amongst the players. We lost that game to a club that chose not to follow suit and went away with both the cup and the moral high ground.
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I must admit I dont get your outrage at all. They'd have known this was happening before the game started.
 
Am I the only one who thinks us bowling tonight just hands all the initiative to Leicestershire? We are 240 ahead and would I assume want to bowl 10 at them tonight so with the change of innings that only leaves us 20 overs at 5 an over to get to a 340 lead. They would then potentially have 106 overs at a run rate of 3.2 to win.

The average runs per wicket in this match has been 60.22 so far so setting them 340 is far too low. We need to at least wait till the required run rate is above 4.0 per over. If we can go at say 6 an over and use 25 then we add an extra 50 runs to the target and reduce their available overs to 101. The run rate required would be 3.86 and that feels better to me. If we are putting them in tonight I expect full on bazball after tea.
 
tynevalleyblackcat said:
Am I the only one who thinks us bowling tonight just hands all the initiative to Leicestershire? We are 240 ahead and would I assume want to bowl 10 at them tonight so with the change of innings that only leaves us 20 overs at 5 an over to get to a 340 lead. They would then potentially have 106 overs at a run rate of 3.2 to win.

The average runs per wicket in this match has been 60.22 so far so setting them 340 is far too low. We need to at least wait till the required run rate is above 4.0 per over. If we can go at say 6 an over and use 25 then we add an extra 50 runs to the target and reduce their available overs to 101. The run rate required would be 3.86 and that feels better to me. If we are putting them in tonight I expect full on bazball after tea.
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Yeah its borderline isn't it, pure speculation at the minute, but I agree in the sense its been a fast scoring ground, feels a bit risky like.
 
So, there are 32 overs left in the day. Will the plan be to bat for 20 of them, adding another 100 or so, declare and have 10 overs at Leics tonight?
 
mosi said:
So, there are 32 overs left in the day. Will the plan be to bat for 20 of them, adding another 100 or so, declare and have 10 overs at Leics tonight?
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Plenty of wickets left, go all Bazball on them get 120-140 and see what comes, we'll have a new ball by tea tomorrow and hopefully game over. Might as well try to force a result & still be top!
 
MustardAndOnions said:
Yorkshire is absolutely vital for English cricket like. Its the absolute worst thing to do is to bankrupt them, will impact thousands and thousands of young cricketers across the county. all for what?
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All the more reason they should set the gold standard for behaviour and not be above the law. Create a new Yorkshire club to replace them.
 
tynevalleyblackcat said:
Am I the only one who thinks us bowling tonight just hands all the initiative to Leicestershire? We are 240 ahead and would I assume want to bowl 10 at them tonight so with the change of innings that only leaves us 20 overs at 5 an over to get to a 340 lead. They would then potentially have 106 overs at a run rate of 3.2 to win.
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There’s no way we go that conservative in a situation where we’re bowling with 10 overs to go tonight.

If we go at 7.5 an over from now until then, we’re up over 380.

There’s also cloud and rain predicted tomorrow, it’s probably worth factoring in how well we bowled today under cloudy skies rather than look at the runs per wicket under sunny skies.

It wouldn’t surprise me if we pull out tonight with 10 overs to go and a lead of over 400.
 
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