GerryShedd
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Kai Smith interviewed about his 'performance of the year":
https://edgbaston.com/news/kai-on-a-high-after-his-130-voted-performance-of-the-year/
Interesting that the above article quotes him as supposedly saying that he bowls off-spin. Maybe he's trying to emulate Glamorgan's Ben Kelleway who alternates between left arm spin and right arm off spin.
Quote from the late American football coach Oail Andrew "Bum" Phillips Jr.
"There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired."
Just saying!
Will Rhodes' final interview as a Bear, in which he confirms that he is going because he wants to play T20 cricket:
https://edgbaston.com/news/will-rhodes-final-interview-as-a-bear/
UrsaMinor wrote:
GerryShedd wrote:
Here's my review of the season:
https://deepextracover.com/2024/10/warwickshire-season-review-2024/
As usual, kind and constructive comments welcomed and the other sort tolerated because I believe in free speech!It's a first rate review but I think our coach is MARK Robinson rather than that guy from Neighbours! Maybe Paul could do a better job.
Whoops! I must have been dreaming of Kylie Minogue (again)!
From The Guardian:
"The Manchester United award for underachievement:
To Lancashire, though it was a close-run thing between three big-name Test counties. Warwickshire, where Mark Robinson seems likely to move on, Nottinghamshire, who finally found their feet as autumn drew near, and relegated Lancashire. But the soggy handshake must go to (the other) Old Trafford where a combination of usually reliable senior pros falling on hard times, overseas imports failing to function, Nathan Lyon being pulled home early by Cricket Australia and a side stuffed with talented but callow youths were relegated. Lancashire lost four games by an innings and gained only 15 batting points. The three points they earned during the draw with Worcestershire in the final game of the season were immediately lost due to a slow over rate. Time to hunker down and try again next year."
See the bit in bold.
As for Quaife's strike rate, it's difficult to work out because everything was judged on time rather than balls bowled in his day.
BUT - looking at his famous last innings at Edgbaston v Derbyshire in 1928 when he scored a century (and was aged 56!), Wisden says that he batted 4 hours and 20 minutes for his 115. Looking at the number of overs bowled and assuming that he had about half of the strike, I reckon he scored at around 41 runs per hundred balls, slow by present day standards but not bad for his age!
Here's my review of the season:
https://deepextracover.com/2024/10/warwickshire-season-review-2024/
As usual, kind and constructive comments welcomed and the other sort tolerated because I believe in free speech!
UrsaMinor - yes, you've called it right.
W. G. Quaife 16891 runs at 40.02 and Eric Hollies 1048 wickets at 19.28.
If OH-D plays for another 20 years, he could just overtake Eric Hollies.
Someone with more time and patience than I possess has calculated who has scored the most (first class) runs and taken the most wickets at Edgbaston.
Any guesses as to the identities of the two players?
Highveld wrote:
Worcestershire have permanantly retired Josh's shirt number, will be displaying a framed shirt in the members bar and have attached his locker plaque to a bench in the players nets area, as well as giving both his parents a life membership.
All are wonderful gestures, and a sign of a management that understands the game and people.
Yes, I agree.
Any suggested names for 2025 overseas?
I know that it's winning tournaments that counts but in terms of matches won across the three competitions, I reckon that Somerset with 23 wins come out top, Surrey come second with 20 and Warwickshire third with 17.
I've only looked at the top division teams on the basis that second division wins don't have the same value.
And as that keen cricketer Mark Twain said, there are lies, damned lies and statistics, which we've all gone out of our way to prove over the last few days.
Review of this round of matches here:
https://deepextracover.com/2024/09/week-15-vitality-county-championship-review/
Got to be worth a try.
Must be fake news. What does George Dobell know anyway? He's only been in and around the game for 30 years or so. And the ECB figures were prepared by Deloitte who have an impeccable record (aside from three recent multi-million pound fines for incompetence and misconduct).
In complaining about Championship cricket being played at this time of the year, we are just showing our ignorance. As the ECB have said, The Hundred is "dominating the British summer sporting calendar”. Forget Wimbledon, The Open Golf, the Epsom Derby or any international football tournaments. They pale into insignificance. The Hundred is the “premier destination for men’s and women’s global cricket superstars”. So four day first-class cricket is quite rightly shoved into the corners of the season. We just need to educate ourselves.
When I brought the name of Allen Stanford into the discussion, I hadn't realised that Lalit Modi had branded the ECB proposals as "a big fat Ponzi scheme" but Stanford would know all about that.
UrsaMinor wrote:
More comment today from Lalit Modi (perhaps not an impartial observer) who believes the financial projections to be "disconnected from reality" and "more like wishful thinking".
If I were a serious investor, I'm not sure whether I would view the ECB as a bunch of chumps who could easily be taken for a ride or as so incompetent that I wouldn't want to touch any business that they had started.
It's just a pity that the ideal investor, Allen Stanford, happens to be serving a 110 year prison sentence.