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LVCC D1 - Durham v Middlesex

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I miss those riverside minefields all of a sudden

Colly showed his inexperience as a captain against yorks for certain.....apologising for his declaration
 
All the play lost to the weather on Friday cost Durham the win.
Always on top but couldn't risk another Yorkshire declaration mishap.
iF it had been a full 4 days or even 3.5 Days Durham would have won at a canter.
well batted scotty borthwick.
your batting in this game was much better than your bowling.imo
 
brandon said:
We had over 100 overs to bowl at them. If you can't bowl a side out in fourth innings in that many overs you don't deserve to win.
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So you would agree that somewhere less than 100 overs (101 actually) should have been considered adequate then, while having the dual benefit of requiring more than just a ticking over run rate from them? 8-)

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TwasOnTheFifthOfMay said:
Incidentally, do you know what the highest unsuccessful run chase is at the Riverside?
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Less than the target Colly set against Yorkshire obviously.I'm afraid the logic that it was obvious it was a very gettable target is beyond me. If it has never been attained before I can't understand how it can be obvious.
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No, a team set 410 to win might score 375 and lose, but that would not count as biggest total to win would it? In which case 336 might not seem such a difficult target. Don't you remember Lancashire nearly chasing down about 480 on the last day at the Oval couple of years back? The short history of the Riverside is a red herring. We'll know next time.

Meanwhile a good effort today, thwarted by the weather it seems.
 
TwasOnTheFifthOfMay;o said:
I remember Durham chasing and getting a total circa 350 at Taunton some years back with Breese getting 160 + and Lancs may well have got 400+ at the Oval,last day of the season I seem to recall but these are isolated cases-it's the very gettable term that I find confusing. Fact is we've totally outplayed Middlesex and outplayed Yorks for 3 out of 4 days but got nothing much to show for it. I don't blame Colly in setting either target.
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6 games in and the topic of conversation has turned away from the top order problems to the middle order in terms of setting up an earlier declaration to get a win which would have taken us top. A side which appeared to have no batting on paper and who were tipped by many as relegation fodder have certainly come a long way in a short space of time.

If we finish above Notts and Sussex we will win the league. Derbyshire are still to be played twice and our best bstsman in Stokes hasnt got going yet. I am quite relaxed about yesterdayand the brand of cricket the side is playing.
 
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I felt the declaration was ok. Set them 300 in 50 overs, either side could have done it but in the end they shut up shop and the pitch didn't offer a great deal for the bowlers.

The weather was the winner in this game.
 
Why should we beat ourselves up about this result? Gained the psychological upper hand against another team at the top of the table. Without the washout we'd surely have won

"We probably conceded defeat in the first session on the first day"

Great attitude from Rogers :lol:
 
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