Durham Match Thread 2019

[Durhamfootman]

With Gloucs batting last, seems reasonable that Durham have one hand on the driver's seat.

one hand on the taxi door handle, more like

[Aidan11]

43/4.

This really is dire.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Two first ballers in there.

[captaincolly]

A solid start against the new ball then!

[Arthur Crabtree]

While Pringle scored 30 off 22 balls!

[captaincolly]

While Pringle scored 30 off 22 balls!

Amazing!
If Bancroft insists on batting at 3 he may as well come out with the openers and wait on the boundary! It would be a very short wait too.

[captaincolly]

Interesting. A slow but solid partnership between Bancroft and Trevaskis...only for the leader to be run out and quickly followed back to the pavilion by Trevaskis.
102/6 so 86 is the lead. I think 150 might be enough but where will those runs come from?

[Arthur Crabtree]

Eckersley?

[Arthur Crabtree]

Or Eckerslike?

[Arthur Crabtree]

Scoring at 30. Needs to get a shift on now.

[captaincolly]

Scoring at 30. Needs to get a shift on now.

Eckersley looks pretty good but he'll have to hit out now- 9 down and the lead is only 116.
I wouldn't entirely rule out a Gloucs collapse but that might be clutching at straws!

[captaincolly]

Naturally he's out now!
117 to win.

[captaincolly]

No sign of a wicket so the chances of a sensational victory are close to zero.
The 'lead high performance' coach has a few problems to solve!

[Durhamfootman]

I have a window to go down on day 3, yet there isn't really any point, because the match will be over in a heartbeat

This is why I packed in my membership last time, except that in those days it was the weather that stopped me from getting any sort of value for my membership, whereas now it's player incompetence

5 blobs on that second innings card.... 3 more in the first...... 13 scores of under 10 .......... and in case anyone's forgotten, this is a ball that has been commissioned and designed to help batsmen redress the imbalance between batsman and bowler caused by the scheduling.

8 blobs.... 3 of them hairy

2 innings and even if they could be added together they wouldn't get a 3rd batting point

106 overs we faced across 2 innings. That's pretty much losing a wicket every 5 overs

Pathetic!

[Durhamfootman]

we need to find some kolpaks quickly and failing that find some loanees that could be drafted in, because this lot are a *modded* shower