Hampshire 2017 thread

[budgetmeansbudget]

Time for the Poole lad to show his metal!

Nice partnership with Abbott at the end, still a long way to go, and still very likely we will end up with almost no points from this game.

[st_brendy]

Time for the Poole lad to show his metal!

Nice partnership with Abbott at the end, still a long way to go, and still very likely we will end up with almost no points from this game.

Against the red ball, I love the guy. Even at this very young age, he's got a future Nic Pothas about him.

He's a completely different batter, red ball vs white ball.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Has to be nailed on follow on, Essex won't bat again surely.

This will be over before close of play today you would think.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Yep.

[budgetmeansbudget]

McManus holding things together again after the top six fail once again.

There was me thinking that our top six, all international cricketers, looked formidable in this game.

Dawson opening hasn't worked. Didn't he have a spell at one or two before, and was pretty useless?

[budgetmeansbudget]

And now he's out and the fat woman is lubricating her tonsils.

[st_brendy]

All in all, a horrible result and one to quickly forget.

But it does go to show how difficult it was to bat, and thus how over par their score was. Bless RTD, he tried his best to just not straight out say how badly our bowlers performed.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Dawson fails again opening the innings.

You just know it isn't going to work.

[budgetmeansbudget]

62/3.

Definitely getting back to normal.

[Hampshireboi]

Looking at the wickets that have fallen, there does seem to be a heavy amount of spin for a first day pitch.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Looking at the wickets that have fallen, there does seem to be a heavy amount of spin for a first day pitch.

I guess that's a crumb of comfort, especially with Crane in the side.

Hopefully Dawson can make up for his poor run with the bat as well.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Looks like third innings in succession not making 200.

[Hampshireboi]

Looks like third innings in succession not making 200.

That's that Hants we all know and follow!

[budgetmeansbudget]

Looks like third innings in succession not making 200.

That's that Hants we all know and follow!

Too true, but looking at our line up going into the last two games you would have thought we were had a very strong batting line up.

BBC suggesting although there is turn it isn't great and Hants batsmen have been getting out to poor shots.

[budgetmeansbudget]

I'm still hopeful that Bailey and Berg can put on a big partnership and if Abbott can chip in with his usual decent effort with the bat we may yet get to 250.