Why can't we get the tail enders out? A great performance about to get spoilt by the last 3 wickets. So frustrating.
Why can't we get the tail enders out? A great performance about to get spoilt by the last 3 wickets. So frustrating.
All part of the challenge of proper red ball cricket, the result is totally unpredictable and a side can recover from a bad position.
Highveld wrote:
All part of the challenge of proper red ball cricket, the result is totally unpredictable and a side can recover from a bad position.
It's what makes red ball cricket and why it will always be superior to the one day format. Having said that it is still frustrating!!!
Phew - just about did it - an Innings and 14 runs in the end, with hardly any time left. They really put us under the cosh - but we (just about) held our nerves.
'The only good banker, is the Lickey Banker!'
Today was better than a lifetime of T20 or other short versions of the game.
Excellent win. From only watching on TV I am seeing a much happier looking squad compared to last year. The celebrations when the 10th wicket went down was superb. Just a few weeks ago some members were talking about avoiding relegation. These early games will surely have talk of top 2 spot
Last two home games - the win against Hampshire last year and now this.
Four day cricket is not so boring after all!
Freakin' awesome. There will be some Counties that are thoroughly scared of us in this form. Bring on Surrey. Championship decider next!
How astonishing. Bring on the Surrey!
That was fun - I'd just lost all hope when the 9th went down.
Excited by our chances this year. Still got Norwell and Briggs to come back.
The key will be if our openers can maintain form.
GerryShedd wrote:
Last two home games - the win against Hampshire last year and now this.
Four day cricket is not so boring after all!
4-day county championship cricket played by proper teams with history and tradition and rivalry is fan bloody tastic. If ECB got their way last year this would get shelved for crappy north v south and some meaningless guff
Bring on the Surrey but also can't wait till we play Worcestershire again
Top of the league! I'm not sure when we last scored maximum batting bonus points (or registered a maximum points win for that matter) before this game but it feels like it must be years ago. Funny that we do it the year that they make batting points harder to get!
First 24 points haul since September 2018 at Grace Road.
First 24 points haul in Division One since May 2015 at home to Durham. Keith Barker smashed a century and took 9 wickets in the match. Chris Rushworth trapped both William Porterfield and Rikki Clarke lbw.
I saw us collect 23 points at Colwyn Bay in 2018 with Bell and Trott rolling back the years then 23 points at Trent Bridge September 2019 in a fabulous run chase Sibley scoring a century in both innings and that confirmed Notts relegation
Cannot believe Kent were 7 down at 2.15 and I had visions of a 3pm-3.15pm cup of tea at home. No chance, although I love a dramatic finish which does seem to make all the waiting worthwhile, I do not like sitting in the cold watching bowlers who seldom try a yorker against numbers 9 and 10 and keep bowling too wide of off stump so that they can leave the ball and the bowler has wasted his energy. Why didn't Rhodes have a bowl and Woakes bowled a lot of useless bouncers that sailed over the batsmen's head when it was obvious after 4-5 of these that they were not going to even look to hook. If this game had escaped us with Kent 8 or 9 down, then I would have been furious after we had the game won well before lunch. Having said that, to lose 1/3 of the game to rain and still win, was amazing and we look a good side so we must keep this standard going.
What a relief! To have not won after having them 99/7 would have felt like a defeat. Terrific innings by Evison, he's looked good on previous occasions I've seen him, would imagine he'll bat no. 5 one day, right now he's an excellent no.8.
I admit when we signed Rushworth I thought Div 1 might have been a bit much for him at this stage of his career, and I still think he may look a bit innocuous in June/July when the pitches flatten out, but when the conditions are as they were today and yesterday wow...he challenges both edges of the bat and the LBW dismissal is definitely in play as he bowls such a tight line. He really does test a batters technique.
We caught well today, Davies drop aside. Rob Yates in particular has become an excellent slip fielder.
Highveld wrote:
All part of the challenge of proper red ball cricket, the result is totally unpredictable and a side can recover from a bad position.
This is so true.
Yes Evison really impressed. Saw him make his FC debut he batted 6 for Notts in that game in 2019 where Sibley got his two centuries one a double ton. Ben Compton opening bat also made his FC debut at age 27 or 28 that same game
Well done to the Bears! Great win and top of the table is a great start to the season. One concern going forward is how is Liam Norwell? It would be great to add him into the mix soon especially after his heroics last September. We have an 11 day break now before facing off against Surrey.
A lot of chat from sour Kent fans complaining about the Bears celebrations. Rather pathetic in all honesty, they’d be the same group who would take the first chance to complain that people don’t care enough about the championship.
None of them noticing either than Burgess and Davies went straight up to the batsmen, before celebrating.
Kent supporters have been whingeing for over a century, ever since Warwickshire won the County Championship in 1911 and Kent came second. There was a famous cartoon in Punch magazine featuring Warwickshire's Frank Foster with a quote from Shakespeare's Henry VI - "Tell Kent from me she hath lost."
Kent coach Matt Walker was more gracious about yesterday, describing the bowlers as "one of the best bowling attacks in the country. They showed us how to bowl on that wicket."