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Durhamfootman wrote:Lyth for me too, although Cook and Root have strong claims

For me the shortlist goes

1. Lyth
2. Cook
3. Denly

I'd have Rafiq in there, instead of Steely probably.

On this day in 1965 Leicestershire put on a good total on the first day of their three day game against Nottinghamshire.

The top three batsmen were the ones that did the most damage for Leicestershire. The openers of Maurice Hallam and Brian Booth put on 54 together before the latter fell for 20. Hallam then joined forces with Peter Marner. Together they added 59. After his two half century partnerships, Hallam was dismissed for 54 off the bowling of Ian Davison.

Marne then struggled to find partners. David Constant stayed semi-true to his name by adding 45 to the effort but the middle and lower order struggled with a slew of single Figure scores. Marner did manage to get out for 109 before the end of the innings. With just one batsman left in the hutch, captain Hallam fancied a go at the Nottinghamshire batsmen in the final overs, so declared on 288-8.

Leicestershire did get one wicket, that of Norman Hill but Brian Bolus and Barrie Whittingham kept the home fires burning and saw Nottinghamshire to 33-1 at stumps.

The Professor wrote:On this day in 1965 Leicestershire put on a good total on the first day of their three day game against Nottinghamshire.

The top three batsmen were the ones that did the most damage for Leicestershire. The openers of Maurice Hallam and Brian Booth put on 54 together before the latter fell for 20. Hallam then joined forces with Peter Marner. Together they added 59. After his two half century partnerships, Hallam was dismissed for 54 off the bowling of Ian Davison.

Marne then struggled to find partners. David Constant stayed semi-true to his name by adding 45 to the effort but the middle and lower order struggled with a slew of single Figure scores. Marner did manage to get out for 109 before the end of the innings. With just one batsman left in the hutch, captain Hallam fancied a go at the Nottinghamshire batsmen in the final overs, so declared on 288-8.

Leicestershire did get one wicket, that of Norman Hill but Brian Bolus and Barrie Whittingham kept the home fires burning and saw Nottinghamshire to 33-1 at stumps.

Whoops....wrong post ....enough of 1965.... on THIS day COTD is...

Cameron Delport for his 109* off 59 balls (9x4 and 5x6). He then followed his career best score with a wicket as he helped Leicestershire beat Nottinghamshire and progress in the T20 Blast.

As I write this I notice that I should the exact same fixture I'm talking about in the OTD thread. Spooky.

Because one team played twice today I'm going to split this into two.

Cricketer of the day goes to Netherlands Women's Heather Siegers as she scored 51 in her first game against USA Women and then scored 32 plus 3-29 against Scotland Women.

Performance of the day goes to Myanmar's Paing Danu as he got the stunning figures of 7-3-9-5 against Indonesia.

Kyle Simmonds got 100 in 81 balls and 2-23 for a South African Emerging Team against Zimbabwe A.

It has been a pleasing Month for the allrounder. He has averaged 68.25 with the bat in his four innings and also got 15 wickets across Zimbabwe A's six innings, averaging 17.93.

Precious little cricket today but Derek Duraisingam's 5-26 was unstoppable in Malaysia's 10 wicket win against Myanmar

Indian born Mulewa Darmichand got his second fivefer of the tournament for Singapore as they beat Malaysia.

No Boom Boom?

The prof has far too much sense

Arthur Crabtree wrote:No Boom Boom?

Not after last time.

and don't you forget it!

A record breaking third nod for Nat Sciver today. She got 3-11 plus a valuable 30 for Surrey in their victory against the West today.

so good she could have been a Durham player, who took the big money move darn sarf

Malaysia's gold medal winning captain Anwar Arudin scored 162 off 108 balls against Indonesia today.