Durham Match Thread 2025

[captaincolly]

oh, here we go

going to be one of those irritating late order stands that we like to concede

Coles gets his hundred, so well played him

Pottsy not taking any wickets

Yes, Sussex on top and they have a strong bowling attack so we're in a bit of trouble.

[Durhamfootman]

50+ 9th wicket stand

I could easily see them get to 350 after being 257-8

hey ho

No McKinney so Gay and Rhodes ought to be in more natural positions in the order

Bas has had a decent enough return. Nothing for Potts

Old George kept things tight... 3 boundaries only in his 24 overs and they came early on. 110 dots, so not many scoring shots conceded. Just what you want from your spinner if he isn't taking loads of wickets

[Durhamfootman]

oh no

turns out we dropped Coles on 35 and Hughes on 15

[Durhamfootman]

and we dropped Simpson on 17

[Durhamfootman]

and we dropped Coles again on 95

[Durhamfootman]

doesn't make good reading that, does it?

[Durhamfootman]

cost us too. Sussex finish with 361

probably 100 to 150 more than they should have got if we'd taken some of those dropped chances


I bet they snaffle up every half chance they get

poor cricket from us really. We should have been looking to get ourselves a big lead, but instead we're chasing the game

[sussexpob]

Archer not taking the new ball. Maybe stubbed his toe batting and out for anther 5 years...

[Durhamfootman]

maybe he's tired after an hour of running between the wickets yesterday

[sussexpob]

Jof's back!

[sussexpob]

Game is finely poised. Considering the bowling talent on display, its FHP doing the damage for Sussex. Not much movement around for the bowlers it seems, good platform to build a score for Durham

[Durhamfootman]

is just the kookaburra? It has been very windy over the first two days which probably makes both batting and bowling quite tricky

we seem to have been fairly watchful in our approach today, which isn't always the case

249-5, 112 behind

I'm not surprised if FHP has been the biggest handful, he's a very decent county bowler. The only thing that did surprise me was that he didn't make many runs

[captaincolly]

Could have done without that wicket at the end. We need to do what Sussex did and have one major score - no one has made less than 34 or more than 65. Have a feeling Jofra will cause chaos at some point! He looked good.

[Durhamfootman]

yes... we often lose a wicket in the last over of a session

[Durhamfootman]

we still have Bas and he surprised me with the ball, so might do okay with the bat. BR and Pottsy can both bat. Old George could be a number 7 I reckon, so we have runs in us.

I think there's rain around tomorrow, but that might turn out to be 5 mins of spitting, which seems to be the norm these days