: Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:12 am  

It was a first team-esque like collapse after tea!
We needed 106 in 34 overs with 5 wickets in hand and still lost by 62 runs. If just one of the 4 players who got over 50 had gone on to make a ton then we'd have won it.
Ah well, on to Scarborough on Monday!!

: Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:58 pm  

How many overs left in the Yorkshire-Sussex game? looks like it could be a close one, Sussex 64-4 chasing 240

: Sat Sep 19, 2009 3:30 pm  

80-8 with what looks like hat trick for Hoggard!! Come on lads finish em off

: Sat Sep 19, 2009 3:38 pm  

81/9

: Sat Sep 19, 2009 3:52 pm  

Yorkshire win.

: Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:15 pm  

Phew! Thought we'd blown it big style the way Sussex started their chase, fair play to them for giving it a go though.

As an added bonus, we're above that lot in the table too!

: Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:29 am  

Sussex look all but down now, 15 points adrift. The four teams they can theoretically catch by winning their final match at Notts are playing each other (Lancs v Warwicks & Yorks v Hants) so a couple of mutually convenient draws look likely.

The race for the second promotion place from Division 2 has gone right to the wire. Five teams still in with a real shout, and they're involved in four different matches in the final round. If Derby v Essex produces a result the winners ought to go up. Derby's excellent opening pair of Chris Rogers & Wayne Madsen and Danish Kaneria's brilliant leg spin for Essex are the key factors that could swing the result their team's way for me. Otherwise I fancy Northants, who should be capable of taking maximum batting points and forcing a win on home ground against Leicester's weak attack.

: Tue Sep 22, 2009 5:47 pm  

Prince of Denmark wrote:

It was actually Surrey, not Sussex, who won the Second XI Championship! Although as Tom Smith, on loan from Sussex, made 86 not out and took five wickets for Surrey perhaps that was a Freudian slip.

It was just me being a bit dim, that's all!

We also lost the Second XI Trophy final to Yaaawkshire yesterday at Scarborough. It was f***ing freezing and we put in a bloody awful batting performance. Nice ground, though.

: Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:37 pm  

GT wrote:

It was just me being a bit dim, that's all!

We also lost the Second XI Trophy final to Yaaawkshire yesterday at Scarborough. It was f***ing freezing and we put in a bloody awful batting performance. Nice ground, though.

Scarborough and Cheltenham College are the two grounds I really want to visit with Surrey. A few years back I was in Scarborough just for a day out on a Saturday in June after Quins had played at Hull on the Friday night. I wandered into the ground and saw half an hour or so of a Yorkshire League match between Scarborough and Barnsley. It's got to be the biggest outground in the country - bigger than some HQ grounds in fact - a bit dilapidated in parts but wonderfully charismatic. It must be great with a large crowd in. We subsequently had a Pro40 game there, but on the Sunday of August Bank Holiday I didn't really fancy the trip from London just for one day.

Blackpool also looked a great outground for a Championship match when I visited last year - a shame it was abandoned without a ball being bowled!

: Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:26 am  

Dark clouds gathering in West Leeds this morning - wouldn't it be typical for Sussex to win and Yorkshire to be rained off for four days unable to pick up a bonus point?