Hampshire 2017 thread

[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.

That hope didn't last long!

[budgetmeansbudget]

Abbott and Bailey sound like an interesting cocktail!

[budgetmeansbudget]

Why do I do that.... Bailey bowled one short of his fifty.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Abbott not hanging about.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Topley looking as potent as Tesco value lager.

[haggishants]

All that early season promise.

[captaincolly]

Good fight back by the bowlers this afternoon though. Spinners in control.

[st_brendy]

Back-to-back games where I simply don't understand our team selection. And both times, Topley is the focus.

Last week I thought it was obvious before a ball was bowled that Topley should have been selected ahead of Crane. Today I thought it was obvious before a ball was bowled that Adams should have been selected ahead of Topley. At Taunton, two spinners and two seamers should always be sufficient (especially when one of those seamers is Abbott). Berg and Topley, unsurprisingly, have bowled just four overs between them. Berg (despite not bowling any of those four overs) gets selected in my book because of his batting.

So ditch the fifth bowler, and get Jimmy in to strengthen the batting.

But hey too late now.

As for the match itself, it's also back-to-back games where potentially the second wicket first innings partnership has done us. We've bowled very well outside of the partnership. And again had a string of LBWs turned turn. Unfortunately for most of that partnership, Crane was serving up full toss after full toss. No point bowling a spinner on a turning wicket if he's not even going to land the thing.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Still a decent chance in this game if we can knock Somerset over tomorrow for around 200. Anything over 250 and its probably curtains.

[The Professor]

Crane's bowling seems crap but Dawson held on at the end.

Agree with Budget, anything in the low 200s still gives us a game.

[haggishants]

Not so bad after all!

[SaintPowelly]

That session went perfectly

[budgetmeansbudget]

That session went perfectly

I wasn't going to say, because usually I'm the kiss of death.

[budgetmeansbudget]

We have a real problem batting in the eighties, wickets seem to tumble.

[SaintPowelly]

Not getting enough here, should have picked Will Smith