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County Cricket 2025

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Raymondo said:
Looking very likely that Worcestershire and Yorkshire will win, closing the gap on Durham.
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Essex's approach in that game has been odd from the start, opted to bat and only went at 2.7 an over for the first day and a half to score 368. It's like they went out with the sole intention to try and draw.
 
Inside Forward said:
Worcestershire toiling to get Hampshire out although it looks as though Yorkshire are going to win.
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As of Tea there had been just 1 wicket fall on Day 5 at both Southampton and The Oval. This experiment is ridiculous.

Although Lancashire and Yorkshire winning will probably leave Knob Key to think his kookaburra idea is justified - not realising at all that both of those games were played at outgrounds.
 
It’s all bunching up in the Division, Yorkshire the biggest winners obviously as the only team who actually won.

1 Surrey 140
2 Notts 139
3 Sussex 123
4 Somerset 117
5 Warks 117
6 Durham 108
7 Hampshire 105
8 Yorkshire 91
9 Essex 88
10 Worcs 73

Five games left each, the worry for me is that we’re no longer a full win above the relegation zone. We’ve got a pretty tough run-in too, we still have to go to Ciderabad and we still have to play Surrey at home (if they can be bothered to travel). Those are the next two games, both with the kookaburra.

Following that, three potential 48 pointers against Essex (a), Worcestershire (h) and Yorkshire (a).

I think Essex need to be quite worried with their own position mind you, not sure what the crack is with Cook and Porter - but they were both absent this week and that creates a huge hole in their lineup when they don’t play.

For us, the biggest concern I think is the team selection, or moreover the availability of our better players. I would hope Bedders is back for the last five fixtures and I hope Rainey can have the next month or so off and can recover from whatever injury he picked up this week. Will be interesting to see how much, if anything we see of Carse and Wood as they look to get fit/stay fit for the Ashes.
 
Soon be time for the hybrid pitches experiment to return. Not sure which counties are involved but Gloucestershire will be hoping it won't be them given what happened last year.

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Aidan11 said:
Soon be time for the hybrid pitches experiment to return.
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Is this actually a thing?

I know Notts used a hybrid last week for their snooze fest against Yorkshire - which we mentioned elsewhere led to Jonny Bairstow bowling spin.
 
Anyone know if we tried to get him based off his performance against us for Northumberland 2 years ago?

Clearly we missed a trick if Surrey have given him a deal.

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ECB allowing Notts to sub in Josh Tongue for the final 2 days v Hampshire. If you're allowing one team to do it for this round of fixtures then surely that should apply to everyone else.
 
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