Durham Match Thread 2019

[captaincolly]

Handscomb replacing Poynter tonight as captain and keeper!
Squad vs Yorkshire Vikings (23 August)

Peter Handscomb (*+), Brydon Carse, Matthew Potts, Alex Lees, Nathan Rimmington, Harry Adair, Gareth Harte, Ben Raine, James Weighell, Graham Clark, Scott Steel, Liam Trevaskis, D’Arcy Short

[captaincolly]

Harry Adair in @DurhamCricket squad tonight.
Has played club cricket for Richmondshire, Bedale, Burnopfield, Durham Academy, for Oxfordshire and in Northants.
More than 3000 runs so far.

[Alviro Patterson]

Durham predicting a record gate of 9000+ for tomorrow's visit of Yorkies. Very good weather forecast.

Excellent. Hopefully it'll be a good contest. It'll certainly be an unpredictable one!

What's the ground capacity?

Thinking of rocking up myself tomorrow, to compensate for last Friday's washout at Headingley and see an Alex Lees batting masterclass

I don't know what the capacity is, would guess it's over 10000 but I'm hopeless at estimating these things! Don't think we've ever come close to a T20 sellout so getting in shouldn't be a problem.

Cheers Colly

Am making the pilgrimage

[westoelad]

Handscomb replacing Poynter tonight as captain and keeper!
Squad vs Yorkshire Vikings (23 August)

Peter Handscomb (*+), Brydon Carse, Matthew Potts, Alex Lees, Nathan Rimmington, Harry Adair, Gareth Harte, Ben Raine, James Weighell, Graham Clark, Scott Steel, Liam Trevaskis, D’Arcy Short

Nice to see Franklin acting on my recommendations.
Adair ex Northants has been on trial. Done nothing to warrant promotion.

[captaincolly]

Durham predicting a record gate of 9000+ for tomorrow's visit of Yorkies. Very good weather forecast.

Excellent. Hopefully it'll be a good contest. It'll certainly be an unpredictable one!

What's the ground capacity?

Thinking of rocking up myself tomorrow, to compensate for last Friday's washout at Headingley and see an Alex Lees batting masterclass

I don't know what the capacity is, would guess it's over 10000 but I'm hopeless at estimating these things! Don't think we've ever come close to a T20 sellout so getting in shouldn't be a problem.

Cheers Colly

Am making the pilgrimage

Handscomb replacing Poynter tonight as captain and keeper!
Squad vs Yorkshire Vikings (23 August)

Peter Handscomb (*+), Brydon Carse, Matthew Potts, Alex Lees, Nathan Rimmington, Harry Adair, Gareth Harte, Ben Raine, James Weighell, Graham Clark, Scott Steel, Liam Trevaskis, D’Arcy Short

Nice to see Franklin acting on my recommendations.
Adair ex Northants has been on trial. Done nothing to warrant promotion.

According to his profile he also bowls leg spin. Don't know to what standard though!

[Durhamfootman]

you just know that Harry Adair will get called 'Red'

[Durhamfootman]

Handscomb replacing Poynter tonight as captain and keeper!

progress!

[Durhamfootman]

looking at his 2nd's stats, it looks as though Red has a long handle. He's only had a couple of failures opening and he scores at a decent rate.

[captaincolly]

you just know that Harry Adair will get called 'Red'

Funnily enough someone tweeted about it and that is his nickname!
If he's good at putting out fires he might be handy!

[westoelad]

Playing on the hybrid pitch again tonight

[captaincolly]

Playing on the hybrid pitch again tonight

And have chosen to bowl. Could be interesting. Adair and Harte are playing. Raine is back to but AP won't be pleased by the absence of Lees.

[captaincolly]

A modest total in theory but run scoring looks like hard work - and Maharaj could well be a handful.
Decent start by the openers but can't ever afford to get much behind the rate imo. I think it's 50-50 at best!

[captaincolly]

A more than decent start now. 50 partnership...just like last week!

[captaincolly]

Required rate under 6 an over with 10 wickets in hand.

[captaincolly]

Short out for 29 and the debutant Adair is in at 3.
76 runs required from 12 overs.