Arthur Crabtree wrote:No space for negativity here. Durham bossing this.
Durhamfootman wrote:I stayed until Lees brought up his century.
I saw almost all of his innings and it looked pretty chanceless. 2 batting points already on the board..... blimey!
Steel looked poor at the start, could barely get bat on ball, but he grew into it and eventually he was finding the middle of the bat with regularity. The Leics fans near me began recalling a double hundred he scored at Grace Rd a couple of years ago, so it was a shame that he got out when he did, because he was just beginning to get going. Whether he was unlucky and the ball did something different or whether it was a well worked plan from Leics, I'm not sure, but Davis and Griffiths started serving up drive balls to both openers so we were driving (and looking to drive) almost everything. I think we sent 5 balls to the boundary in 2 overs, so it wasn't too surprising when one of them got a tickle through to the keeper...... it felt like it was coming tbh. That being said, Steel got us through to the 20th over without loss, so he'd pretty much done his job.
The rate dropped dramatically after Steel got out and we started batting more sensibly again. Robson looked untroubled until the finger went up. Leics were appealing a lot for LBW at that time, so whether the ball was nibbling around a bit (it was pretty windy), or whether the umps was worn down, I don't know... hard to tell from where I was sitting.
Not often I get comfortable when we are batting, but everything was looking very good today. Can we make the most of this good start? There are some interesting match ups going on in the battle for promotion and I feel we need to take big points from this game to have any realistic chance of going up
Durhamfootman wrote:is Lara playing?
Durhamfootman wrote:3 batting points
new ball taken, I presume
Durhamfootman wrote:might be desperation.
they've been shouting long and hard for everything
140 run stand
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