Anyone else struggling to sell their finals day tickets in the ticket exchange?
Anyone else struggling to sell their finals day tickets in the ticket exchange?
I've got 4 tickets £10 below the purchase price for sale on stubhub and viagogo, been on sale since last Friday evening, looks like another year of being lumbered with tickets.
I’d imagine it will be a tad cold this time in September!
Lost to the eventual champions. I call that fifth place...
Gloucestershire were very worthy winners. They peaked at the right time, winning their last five matches in the competition.
GerryShedd wrote:
Gloucestershire were very worthy winners. They peaked at the right time, winning their last five matches in the competition.
Reminds me of the year we won it.
Does always seem a bit strange that we didn't get to finals day with a won 10 and lost 5 record, a ratio of 2:1 wins/defeats and Gloucestershire had 9 wins to 6 defeats a 3:2 ratio. It does feel weird that teams that scrape through (2014 yes we did) can have a worse playing record than other sides who don't even get to finals day, it just isn't a competition that rewards the best sides. The sooner they adopt the 50 over final format, the better, it isn't sour grapes, it's just frustrating to blow your whole season on 1 game after waltzing through the group stages and qualifying with games to go.
Yes they're a very decent team who clearly have a strong team spirit. Mark Alleyne is a great bloke too. It's a team who have been together a long time and have been on a few ups and downs. Read an article in the Cricketer on Friday which highlighted the tournament figures of David Payne and Matt Taylor, elite numbers, you have to give them credit. Role definition is massively important in white ball cricket and everybody in the Glos team knows exactly what their role is. Really well drilled, it all comes through a good team chemistry, something we don't have with all the ringers and mercenaries.
I was pleased for them, as frustrating as it was for us losing to them I thought some of the comments on here about them were a bit disrespectful and bordered on arrogance, 'how can WE lose to THEM' kind of thing etc.
I agree with pretty well all of the above.
It was very moving when James Bracey placed the trophy in the hands of David 'Syd' Lawrence, their ex-fast bowler, who is sadly suffering from motor neurone disease:
https://cricket.one/match-hub/watch-james-bracey-honours-david-lawrence-in-tearful-eyes-as-gloucestershire-win-t20-blast/66e68cf8ac94d32b0f021a08