Re: County Cricket 2010 : Tue May 18, 2010 7:04 pm  

Karlos13 wrote:

17 wickets at Edgbaston so far today. Last 2 Lancs wickets from the first innings, Warwickshire bowled out for 113, and Lancs now 21-5. Wonder why Lancs didn't enforce the follow on?

God only knows, big chance to get a innings win, or have a very small run chase.

Hope this shocking second innings won't throw away what should be a win. Still, if the tail can wag and get us up to 200, sets a target of 450-ish, which should be far too much, and 2 days to get 10 wickets.

Otherwise, seems the Yorkies are finally getting a game, seems we won't be the ones to bring them crashing down to earth in a giant fireball

Re: County Cricket 2010 : Wed May 19, 2010 9:53 am  

I think the reason for Lancs not enforcing the follow-on is to give Jimmy Anderson a chance to bowl

Re: County Cricket 2010 : Wed May 19, 2010 7:10 pm  

Lancs need to get Trott out early in the morning or they could throw away what should have been an easy win after what happened in the 1st innings.

Re: County Cricket 2010 : Thu May 20, 2010 4:14 pm  

Yorkshire are in danger of losing this game!

Not sure when the close of play is tonight but Somerset have a chance of winning it, could be a a blunder to declare so early.. espeically now it seems Notts will either beat Hampshire or their game will be a draw, after Hampshire looked comfortably earlier on in the day.

Re: County Cricket 2010 : Thu May 20, 2010 4:35 pm  

Close of play is 1800 so Somerset have 25mins to get 40odd runs

Wins so far for Lancs and Durham

Re: County Cricket 2010 : Thu May 20, 2010 5:10 pm  

rob_a wrote:

Close of play is 1800 so Somerset have 25mins to get 40odd runs

Wins so far for Lancs and Durham

Yorkshire have indeed been beaten by Somerset! Superb effort by Somerset, Hildreth with an awesome 102 off 70 balls!

On the flip side, It looks like Hampshire will beat Notts too, surprisingly after one bit, interesting stuff with the top 2 sides losing. Opens everything out now.

Well it's 18:09 and Hampshire need 7 to win with 2 wickets left.

Re: County Cricket 2010 : Thu May 20, 2010 6:40 pm  

Looks like there will be less of you Yorkies on here in the next few days going on and on about how good you are Notts well ahead of you and Lancs just 6 points behind you with both teams having a game in hand.It's not going to be as easy as you lot thought it would be is it.

Re: County Cricket 2010 : Thu May 20, 2010 7:41 pm  

Asim wrote:

One of the good things about this season so far has been the way players have come into the side and made positive contributions, it's not just a first XI that are doing the business.

Still, I'll keep my healthy scepticism that I save for all the teams I follow and insist that it's bound to go tits-up sooner or later!

Tits up it has indeed gone!

Re: County Cricket 2010 : Thu May 20, 2010 9:23 pm  

Yorkshire lost chasing the win, better than sitting it out for the draw like the old days
Well done to Yorkshire and the people who changed the scoring system this year

Re: County Cricket 2010 : Fri May 21, 2010 12:08 pm  

Hopie wrote:

Yorkshire lost chasing the win, better than sitting it out for the draw like the old days
Well done to Yorkshire and the people who changed the scoring system this year

Yup, there were only two realistic results on that pitch heading into the last day - Yorkshire were unlikely to be able to bowl Somerset out and force the win.

With the difference of only four points between a loss and a draw these days though, it was worth taking the gamble and seeing if they got reckless in their chase?

Isn't this the second year in a row Somerset have chased down a massive target to beat Yorkshire in the last innings at Taunton?

Given that Yorkshire were missing their two best bowlers and their captain it's a bit rich to start saying it's all gone belly up on the basis of that one defeat.