Looks like Notts are aiming for a total of about 500 and then try to bowl Warwickshire out twice in four sessions.
Looks like Notts are aiming for a total of about 500 and then try to bowl Warwickshire out twice in four sessions.
Lancashire 30/4. Worcestershire's bowlers are doing the Bears a big favour! Interestingly, the commentators mentioned how well Ethan Brookes has done for Worcs this season. 600 plus runs at 34 average and also chipped in with several wickets. Great decision by our hierarchy.
Highveld wrote:
Looks like Notts are aiming for a total of about 500 and then try to bowl Warwickshire out twice in four sessions.
I'd say they were making absolutely sure of at least the draw points.
ExiledBrummie wrote:
I agree, will feel a lot happier if Lancs bat badly. Congrats to OHD by the way on his 50th! Unfortunately my initial impressions of Booth are that he's like Miles and no better than Brookes or Garrett who we let go. Need some serious bowling upgrades next season.
Said it all season, he looks very hittable with the odd magic ball thrown in, exactly like Miles.
Oof play that
I must remember
"Our opening partnerships have improved vastly."
A top priority over the winter is recruiting two quality opening batsmen.
No way will Yates be replaced but interesting to see what happens to Davies post review. Are we safe from relegation? I don't think so yet eh? I mentioned it last game but I don't think we'll go down but could go below Notts this game which would be a pretty shameful end to the season.
Yates is very much a Robinson favourite. a new coach will, hopefully, look at the squad with fresh eyes and ideas.
Our average opening partnership is one of the lowest in Division one, so improvement is needed.
It must be soul destroying for the middle order knowing they are going to be batting in the first few overs, almost, every innings.
Was going to watch the You Tube stream but the commentator (No idea who he is, sounds Southern) has the most irritating way of talking, a bit like a pre-teen schoolboy, 'Fink' instead of 'Think' and 'Wiv' instead of 'With', how standards have dropped, can't imagine John Arlott, Peter West, CMJ or Richie Benaud getting a job if they sounded like that. Now the female is at it, 'Anuvver', I give up.
Will Rhodes completes his 1,000 championship runs for the season. Significantly, his total is not artificially inflated by easy runs in games with a Kookaburra ball.
Lancs need to score 250 and to win to stay up. Our batting so far doesn’t fill me with confidence, so need Worcs to do us a favour.
Lancs are now 177 all out and relegated.
Time for the Warwickshire management to make the changes needed to ensure the side in not in danger of relegation again next season.
Not a bad day though, Warwickshire stay up & Blues go top of the league.
Highveld wrote:
Lancs are now 177 all out and relegated.
Time for the Warwickshire management to make the changes needed to ensure the side in not in danger of relegation again next season.
Not a bad day though, Warwickshire stay up & Blues go top of the league.
Ah now I know you support Blues that explains some of your weird comments on here....
paulbear wrote:
Was going to watch the You Tube stream but the commentator (No idea who he is, sounds Southern) has the most irritating way of talking, a bit like a pre-teen schoolboy, 'Fink' instead of 'Think' and 'Wiv' instead of 'With', how standards have dropped, can't imagine John Arlott, Peter West, CMJ or Richie Benaud getting a job if they sounded like that. Now the female is at it, 'Anuvver', I give up.
Paul you must have volume control on your TV!!! Just pretend you are Billy No Mates in the ground.
Highveld wrote:
Will Rhodes completes his 1,000 championship runs for the season. Significantly, his total is not artificially inflated by easy runs in games with a Kookaburra ball.
What about his runs v Durham at home? Was it the Dukes when Rhodes was at the crease and the Kookaburra for everyone else?
If someone can confirm the Kookaburra games I'll spend some time analysing the percentage of runs from those games compared to their total runs.
Highveld wrote:
Our average opening partnership is one of the lowest in Division one, so improvement is needed.
It must be soul destroying for the middle order knowing they are going to be batting in the first few overs, almost, every innings.
I didn't think I could let this statement pass without a bit of evidence-checking, and the results are quite interesting...
Here are the actual average opening partnerships, in order, for all teams in Division 1:
Surrey: 53.7
Warwickshire: 46.7
Nottinghamshire: 40.3
Durham: 33.0
Essex: 28.7
Kent: 28.3
Worcestershire: 22.9
Lancashire: 19.2
Somerset: 19.0
Hampshire: 15.9
So, it turns out that we actually have the second best opening partnership in Division 1!
What was your source? The figures below, provided by Microsoft "copilot" do differ significantly, copilot extracted the data from various sources including cricinfo and cricketbuzz
Here are the average scores for the 1st and 2nd wickets for each county in the County Championship Division 1 for the 2024 season:
Durham
1st Wicket: 45.3
2nd Wicket: 67.8
Essex
1st Wicket: 52.4
2nd Wicket: 61.2
Hampshire
1st Wicket: 48.7
2nd Wicket: 55.9
Kent
1st Wicket: 41.6
2nd Wicket: 58.3
Lancashire
1st Wicket: 50.1
2nd Wicket: 63.7
Nottinghamshire
1st Wicket: 47.9
2nd Wicket: 60.5
Somerset
1st Wicket: 44.2
2nd Wicket: 57.6
Surrey
1st Wicket: 53.8
2nd Wicket: 65.4
Warwickshire
1st Wicket: 46.5
2nd Wicket: 59.1
Worcestershire
1st Wicket: 42.9
2nd Wicket: 56.8
Having done a innings by innings analysis of the scores this season, our average opening partnership from all 14 games was 59.21, but excluding the Kookaburra games it falls to 37.10.
To my surprise Will Rhodes had the most runs in the kookaburra games, comprising 56.57% of his total, Davies scored 40.76% of his runs in those games.
So I have to admit I was wrong thinking that Davies had scored most of his runs in those four games
The attached image shows the game by game https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eZLwXemW0dDD1meIZSpr1Tx1GTLsTYRa/view?usp=drive_link
For the top 3 in our regular batting order they have been dissmissed for under 20 the following percent of their innings
Davies 43.48% Yate 47.62% 7 Rhodes 34.78%
Which, probably explains why they are not considered a good opening partnership, by some obervers.
The commitment (desperation) by you to try and manufacture your narrative is incredible. Fair play.