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Re: Durham Match Thread 2019

Postby captaincolly » Wed May 22, 2019 8:00 pm

SaintPowelly wrote:If everyone in your XI (based on this lineup) scores their average, you’d score 278.

I’m not sure what to make of that.

Might be that individually most of them have promise but collectively the line-up is too flimsy because the balance between experience and inexperience is wrong.
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Re: Durham Match Thread 2019

Postby captaincolly » Thu May 23, 2019 12:16 am

captaincolly wrote:
SaintPowelly wrote:If everyone in your XI (based on this lineup) scores their average, you’d score 278.

I’m not sure what to make of that.

Might be that individually most of them have promise but collectively the line-up is too flimsy because the balance between experience and inexperience is wrong.

Having a look at the batting in the last shambolic effort and I think the positives (+) and negatives (-) are:

Lees += obvious talent as demonstrated in the RL50 matches and pretty experienced -= had a disastrous couple of seasons at the end of his Yorkshire career so, despite his ability, no recent record of run scoring in 4 day cricket.

Pringle + = I'm not sure! - = he's got a poor record batting in the middle order so opening the batting seems a bad idea ( although to be fair he played a few shots in the second innings but that swashbuckling approach won't work unless you're someone like Warner)

Bancroft += a world class batsman and I'll be very surprised if he doesn't score a lot of runs - = under constant pressure in thus lineup and , batting at 3 , will almost always be in straight away so why not open?

Harte += very promising start to his career and he looks capable of establishing himself as a fine player. - = still inexperienced and is unlikely to have the luxury of coming in to bat with a decent score on the board so that'll make it harder for him to establish himself as a fine player. If he'd been batting at 4 with the deadly duo Rocky & Borthwick in the top 3 he'd have a much better chance.

Burnham += another very gifted player who has made a promising start this year. -= same as Harte but with the added pressure of coming back after the ban!

Trevaskis += looks useful so reasons for optimism -= a rookie in a lineup with only one top class batsman so he'll be batting under pressure more often than not.

Eckersley += pretty good record and a lot of experience, certainly a better bet than Poynter. -= the record is pretty good but not great so when he comes in to bat with the side in trouble he won't work miracles.

Raine += he's already shown he can make 30's and 40's down the order. -= through no fault of his own those 30's and 40's are unlikely to be game changers because we'll probably only have about 100 on the board when he comes in to bat with the tailenders!

So I think that lineup is less than the sum of its parts. Bancroft is the only one I expect to do well, most of the others would probably be fine if individually they were part of a stronger lineup but having them all in this one won't work imo.
Cameron Steel maybe should be in but he's another one with more potential than experience so would have the same problems. I'd have Smith in for his experience but he's rarely been a prolific run scorer and is probably in his last season.
Richardson has experience but not the sort of record in 4 day cricket that'd inspire confidence. And Poynter is hopeless.

The only hope is ,as DFM has said , we've only been about 100 runs short in each match so it won't take a miraculous improvement to start winning. If we'd not had the disastrous run out of the great leader yesterday I think there'd have been a very good chance he'd have scored enough runs to make us favourites to win.
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Re: Durham Match Thread 2019

Postby Durhamfootman » Thu May 23, 2019 8:14 pm

what happened with the run out?
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Re: Durham Match Thread 2019

Postby captaincolly » Thu May 23, 2019 8:21 pm

Durhamfootman wrote:what happened with the run out?

I was having a walk around the ground so didn't see it but apparently it was a suicidal run! Opinion divided as to who was at fault but Bancroft well set on 40 and Trevaskis had been in with him for a fair while & they looked fairly secure.
But that run out , predictably , triggered a disastrous collapse.
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Re: Durham Match Thread 2019

Postby westoelad » Mon May 27, 2019 8:01 pm

Northants 2nds post 271 with last 2wickets adding 100 :Nooooo
Lees and C.Steel survive last 9 overs. No sign of either Smith or Richardson in last few 2nds games.
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Re: Durham Match Thread 2019

Postby captaincolly » Mon May 27, 2019 8:18 pm

westoelad wrote:Northants 2nds post 271 with last 2wickets adding 100 :Nooooo
Lees and C.Steel survive last 9 overs. No sign of either Smith or Richardson in last few 2nds games.

Amazing how we can't bowl out tailenders! The occasional annoying partnership is to be expected but not week in and week out.
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Re: Durham Match Thread 2019

Postby SaintPowelly » Tue May 28, 2019 9:23 am

I wonder if Bancroft has been told by Aus selectors that his best way back in to their side and that’s why he is doing it (same reason Vince is opening for us).

I know he opened for the test side, but did he open for his State side? Or could he be a 3 that Aus batted out of position?
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Re: Durham Match Thread 2019

Postby captaincolly » Tue May 28, 2019 10:22 am

SaintPowelly wrote:I wonder if Bancroft has been told by Aus selectors that his best way back in to their side and that’s why he is doing it (same reason Vince is opening for us).

I know he opened for the test side, but did he open for his State side? Or could he be a 3 that Aus batted out of position?

I thought he was an opener but perhaps, as you say , he was a number 3 in state cricket.
I wondered if he wasn't opening here because we wanted to try and get a long-term opening partnership between Steel & Lees but Steel getting axed after a couple of games, and Pringle opening, puts that theory to bed.

So so think you're right shout his test ambitions being behind it - and if he is going to stay at 3 he may as well walk out with the openers and wait on the outfield ! It's a surprise if we get through the first over without one of the hapless openers being out - and both are usually gone in about 10 mins!
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Re: Durham Match Thread 2019

Postby captaincolly » Tue May 28, 2019 2:36 pm

https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/#mf39bf4bb- ... 297ea25b9e
A half century for Lees but Steel out yet again in single figures.
I'm assuming the Jones playing is the young Scot who I seem to remember played a game at some stage last year.
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Re: Durham Match Thread 2019

Postby captaincolly » Tue May 28, 2019 3:44 pm

captaincolly wrote:https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/#mf39bf4bb-6d94-4960-9601-0c297ea25b9e
A half century for Lees but Steel out yet again in single figures.
I'm assuming the Jones playing is the young Scot who I seem to remember played a game at some stage last year.

Run out for 99!
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Re: Durham Match Thread 2019

Postby captaincolly » Tue May 28, 2019 6:39 pm

captaincolly wrote:
captaincolly wrote:https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/#mf39bf4bb-6d94-4960-9601-0c297ea25b9e
A half century for Lees but Steel out yet again in single figures.
I'm assuming the Jones playing is the young Scot who I seem to remember played a game at some stage last year.

Run out for 99!

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Re: Durham Match Thread 2019

Postby Durhamfootman » Wed May 29, 2019 5:07 pm

with all this rain interfering with matches right, left and centre, it's a damned shame that we aren't playing.... this might have been our best chance of avoiding the ignominy of losing all 14 matches in a season
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Re: Durham Match Thread 2019

Postby captaincolly » Wed May 29, 2019 5:38 pm

Durhamfootman wrote:with all this rain interfering with matches right, left and centre, it's a damned shame that we aren't playing.... this might have been our best chance of avoiding the ignominy of losing all 14 matches in a season

Yep. Lots of draws this week.
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Re: Durham Match Thread 2019

Postby captaincolly » Sat Jun 01, 2019 11:32 am

Derbyshire are our next victims, starts Monday at the Riverside. No doubt we will be back to winning ways after those fluke defeats in the last 6 games! :facepalm
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Re: Durham Match Thread 2019

Postby Durhamfootman » Sat Jun 01, 2019 8:32 pm

hundred and a 5-fer for Reece

mark my words

the fact that he looked like a hopeless bowler in the one day cup makes this even more likely, imo

oh and a ton and a 5-fer for Wayne Madsen too
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