13:50pm start if no more rain.

Another 5fer for Barnard who has his hand up for player of the season for me. What a signing he’s been, a good honest county pro who plays wholeheartedly but without ego.

Those Overton boys are thugs and their father is worse. I sat behind him at a game once and the profanities and racist comments were so bad I had to move. The apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree.

LeicesterExile wrote:

Inside-edge wrote:

Somerset win the toss and elect to bowl.

Yates
Davies*
Rhodes
Shaikh
Bethell
Mousley
Barnard
Burgess+
Rae
Rushworth
OHD

There must be a mistake - no Benjamin !!
Pity we didn't win the toss.

Yes, good to see Shaikh get his chance.
Unfortunately it’s raining again.

Somerset win the toss and elect to bowl.

Yates
Davies*
Rhodes
Shaikh
Bethell
Mousley
Barnard
Burgess+
Rae
Rushworth
OHD

Ground delay, toss at 11am. 11:30am start.

LeicesterExile wrote:

Inside-edge wrote:

It’s horses for courses.
I spoke to a fellow yesterday who knows I follow cricket but has never shown any interest himself. A friend of his got tickets to the eliminator at The Oval so he went along. He said it was very exciting, he thoroughly enjoyed it and would definitely go to a 100 game again. He remarked how different it was to the ‘boring’ cricket that was on the BBC back in the day.
It’s definitely not for me but I can see the appeal for new audiences.

I bet he will go to a few of these games and then he will find constant 6s and 4s becomes repetitive and boring and will move on to his next adrenalin fix. Could this be what the BBC are starting to find?

You are probably right. I think he picked a good game to go to because it ended in a Jofra Archer super-over (or should that be a super-five?) so was probably better than the average 100 game.

Squad:
Barnard
Benjamin
Bethell
Booth
Briggs
Burgess+
Davies*
OHD
Mousley
Rae
Rhodes
Rushworth
Shaikh
Yates

It’s horses for courses.
I spoke to a fellow yesterday who knows I follow cricket but has never shown any interest himself. A friend of his got tickets to the eliminator at The Oval so he went along. He said it was very exciting, he thoroughly enjoyed it and would definitely go to a 100 game again. He remarked how different it was to the ‘boring’ cricket that was on the BBC back in the day.
It’s definitely not for me but I can see the appeal for new audiences.

Disappointing.

6 down now, looks terminal

41 off the last 3 overs somewhat spoilt the earlier work of the bowlers.

248 to win

Whatever the outcome of the game 4 for 34 from his 10 overs (on the bounce) is a fantastic effort from Barnard. Shame Yates dropped Ingram to deny him his 5fer.

Yates and Shaikh return to the squad from Lions duty.

https://edgbaston.com/fixtures/first-xi/glamorgan-vs-warwickshire-sunday-18-august-2024/

Wow!

Rhodes takes one big swing too many and falls on 75.

29 from 24

Well played young man.

Could we snatch victory from the jaws of defeat? It’s getting very interesting…….

42 needed from 30

Won the toss and bowling first

Barnard*
Rhodes
Burgess+
Benjamin
Smith
Malik
Lintott
Booth
Wylie
OHD
Rae

Abandoned, no result.

We’ve been set a target of 155 from 18 @ 8.61 an over.

But it’s raining again….