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Re: NatWest t20 Blast 2017

PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 2:57 pm
by Arthur Crabtree
Hales has been off the boil in the last few games.

Hants XI looks very strong.

Re: NatWest t20 Blast 2017

PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 2:59 pm
by st_brendy
Arthur Crabtree wrote:Hales has been off the boil in the last few games.

Hants XI looks very strong.


On paper it does. But on a number of occasions in the group stages, reality didn't match it.

Re: NatWest t20 Blast 2017

PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 3:05 pm
by Arthur Crabtree
Spinners turning the game around here. Key passage of play.

Re: NatWest t20 Blast 2017

PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 3:43 pm
by st_brendy
Unless one of our top three really gets going (which is possible), I reckon that's 15 too many for us to chase. Patel, Sodhi and Mullaney are capable of bowling at least as tight as us in the middle overs.

Basically, that Abbott over to Christian has badly hurt us - even though we did get him with the final ball.

Re: NatWest t20 Blast 2017

PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 4:10 pm
by Arthur Crabtree
Not that confident of Notts defending this, but at least getting Boom Boom ensures it will be a normal game.

Re: NatWest t20 Blast 2017

PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 4:50 pm
by Arthur Crabtree
Sodhi not having the impact of the Hants leggies.

Re: NatWest t20 Blast 2017

PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 5:03 pm
by Arthur Crabtree
Well balanced game this, just tilting Notts way at the last. Game still on though.


... Berg out now, that might just be the clincher.

Re: NatWest t20 Blast 2017

PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 5:08 pm
by budgetmeansbudget
At 90 odd for 2 after 10 it was a stroll.

Sadly our middle order bolloxed it up once again.

Semi final was still a good effort from this particular team.

Re: NatWest t20 Blast 2017

PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 5:27 pm
by st_brendy
budgetmeansbudget wrote:At 90 odd for 2 after 10 it was a stroll.

Sadly our middle order bolloxed it up once again.

Semi final was still a good effort from this particular team.


Yeah, compared to other three SFs at Edgbaston, that was good for us. But we lost the game the moment Vince decided to try and hit Mullaney, and got caught. All we had to do that over was knock six singles, and Mullaney was done. Vince could then hopefully have got stuck into the final five overs, possibly with a bit of help from Carberry. But whatever order we put them in today, Afridi, Bailey and Dawson still didn't even get 10 runs between them. As you say, it's our middle order again. AS it has been all competition. Fairly embarrassing how much we rely on Vince. Possible that we might have only got 160 against Derby had it not been for a freak Afridi innings.

Until we get a middle order, a score in excess of about 150 or 155 will regularly be a very difficult score for us. Somerset got way too many batting first in our final group game, and Notts got too many here.

Can't even say that there's an easy fix by going down the overseas route, because Bailey is here on a two year contract. He hasn't proven himself to be that replacement for McKenzie that we have so badly lacked for a while.

Congrats to Notts though. Best team on paper for years finally makes the final.

Re: NatWest t20 Blast 2017

PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 5:57 pm
by Arthur Crabtree
So, all north final.

Maybe time to promote more sides from the northern group.;)

Re: NatWest t20 Blast 2017

PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 6:39 pm
by Arthur Crabtree
Birmingham Kiwis bat. Looks like two unchanged sides.

Re: NatWest t20 Blast 2017

PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 7:06 pm
by st_brendy
Good stuff from Woakes. I did wonder after the SFs whether Notts might bring Broad in for Sodhi.

Re: NatWest t20 Blast 2017

PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 7:35 pm
by Alviro Patterson
Samit Patel helping himself to the buffet bowling

Re: NatWest t20 Blast 2017

PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 7:57 pm
by Arthur Crabtree
Looks like it will be a middling sort of score.

Re: NatWest t20 Blast 2017

PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 8:01 pm
by budgetmeansbudget
23 off the last over makes it a very good score