2015 Hampshire Thread

[SaintPowelly]

Hope Vince keeps them both on for as long as they can run in. Go for the kill.

[st_brendy]

Tough drop from Smith, would have been Fidel's 4th.

[SaintPowelly]

Would love a 10 wicket win, both of these need runs

[SaintPowelly]

Halfway there, still 0 down, 12 mins til lunch

[Durhamfootman]

good to see Smith back in the side.......... was he injured or were they just being daft?

Edwards AND Bird? something funny going on?

[SaintPowelly]

good to see Smith back in the side.......... was he injured or were they just being daft?

Edwards AND Bird? something funny going on?

Edwards is a kolpak now

Smith hasn't had the best campaign with the bat in T20 and his bowling isn't needed with Crane and Dawson ( and Briggs in 1st game )

[Durhamfootman]

yet until today, Hants have not impressed. Today Smith is back and Hants have dominated

#gofigure

[SaintPowelly]

yet until today, Hants have not impressed. Today Smith is back and Hants have dominated

#gofigure

We impressed against Sussex

[st_brendy]

I rarely, rarely criticise a fielder for missing a direct hit, but from there, with that much time, Adams had to hit. Ingram is a massive wicket to take.

[st_brendy]

Daws thinks that's a good score, and I do agree. 30 - 40 runs more than we'd have liked.

I can't see this being a simple seven wicket victory. Fingers are crossed that Carberry hits the seamers for a few, before Glamorgan turn to spin.

[haggishants]

Circinfo currently shows Glam 1 Hants 1 presumably because they have it down as abandoned without a ball bowled (despite giving a ball by ball commentary so far!) . Surely it's Glam 0 Hants 2?

[haggishants]

They've changed it now to 'no result'.

[Hampshire]

Sky keep referencing it as a nr and therefore a point to each team and showed it like that in their table.

[st_brendy]

Unless three's a rule hidden away in the ECB rulebook somewhere, then 1-1 is correct. It was an abandoned match, and as less than 10 overs were bowled in the second innings, D/L can play no part. Thus a no result.

Given that we were no wickets down, and ahead of the required run rate, you can be certain that we were ahead of the D/L par score.

My one hope is that because Glamorgan refused to take Hogan off, that the ECB might somehow go out of their way to make it 0-2. Presumably, if taking Hogan off was an option, then continuing the game (at least until the 10 over mark) was also an option. Rudolph may have been better keeping shut about wanting to keep Hogan on.

As angry and annoyed as I am, I attach no blame whatsoever to the match officials. It was a poor pitch pretty much from the word go. But clearly it also became dangerous. The last thing we want is for Carberry or Adams to get seriously injured. Even just a one week injury would have put them out of two one-day games and a four-day for us.

[st_brendy]

The captain has tweeted:

James Vince:
The pitch did become too dangerous but no reason why we shouldn't get 2 points from that game, duckworth Lewis at that stage was 9 for 0

I hope he's right, but I fear the rules will say otherwise.