ajones1328
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Was looking forward to watch but the stream provided by the club is abysmal compared to Notts, it seems worse than against Derbyshire.
I only watched the first hour did it improve I.e did the camera show the ball once it left the bat ?
Must admit, i'm pretty surprised with that selection
That looks a very good bowling attack with Siddle and Harmer
fingers crossed for a good day, going to miss the Notts coverage !
Rhodes, Yates, Vihari, Hain, lamb, mousley, Burgess, Bresnan, Stones, Briggs, OHD
I do think Bresnan could play at 7 but only if you have a strong top six which we obviously don't have at this stage.
I'd like to go for Brookes over Mousley but don't think we can at the moment.
What a game !!
Massive credit to Notts and Broad in particular.
Having Broad playing and showing his desire and class can only be a good thing for the youngsters in both sides.
BristolBear wrote:
On the Vihari matter, I do feel that he’s in an impossible situation regarding succeeding for the team. He was never going to do well this match. He’s not going to determine the long term success of the side. Overall whatever he does it’ll only be 3 games.
From a personal and Indian standpoint however, this is a great success no matter what. He’s going to get 6 innings, obviously he’d prefer to score runs, but it’s more about getting used to English conditions. Facing Broad is a bonus so he has some exposure in English conditions.
Do I blame him, not at all, but I get the feeling the club were so desperate they’ve allowed themselves to be used.
If the Indian cricket board have similar contract with their players, do you reckon we're even paying him to play?
Would make sense for India cricket board to cover the costs to allow one of their contracted players to play in England and get uses to the conditions.
Andy wrote:
Rhodes got a shocker at the end there.
Yes he seemed fair bit outside the line to me
The umpires have been very quick to raise their arm in the game..bit of time to process the ball might help
Highveld wrote:
Yet another poor dismissal from Vihari,
Can we cancel his contract and get a refund of all the moeny we have spent on him? He seems to be faulty goods and not "fit for purpose"
Hopefully Malan is available next week, he has a visa and can use the same 5 day quarenteen process we used on Vihari.
I'm sorry but this is really odd...every player has a poor game in them. If you don't agree with the signing fair enough but calling him faulty goods seems like you have an agenda
Fingers crossed for much better day
Interesting that Rhodes is opening the bowling. It does make me question whether Bresnan is worth his place as the 3rd seamer.
Think the only way he justifies his spot is batting at 7 and the 4th seamer however, we don't have enough quality in the batting attack to allow that luxury
Highveld wrote:
How much have we wasted bringing in a short term import, and based on his comments his wife/partner?
With flights for two people, presumably not in economy, acomodation, work permit and Covid testing to allow him to exit quarenteen after five days we've already invested/wasted about £10,000 before salary.
Hve we got value for that investment?
How can we answer that after 2 days? Although signing a batsman for 3 games in early April is setting them up to fail !
He can only be judged once his contract is over. With such a short term contact in April, I would have looked at a possible fast bowler to utilise early season conditions.
BristolBear wrote:
Streetly_Bear wrote:
When I first became a member we had Tim Ambrose, Rikki Clarke, Jeets, Keith Barker and Chris Wright. All of those could (and did) contribute to runs. We miss that so much.
But I think those roles did contribute today. Briggs, Burgess and Bresnan scored almost 90 runs combined, not enormous but when you think the top 5 batsmen combined scored 100. That’s a decent contribution.
I think we’re looking at this wrong. It can’t be acceptable for the top 5 to score 100 runs, but also the bowlers can’t allow a side to escape from 119-6 to 273.
Same as last year, the top 5 need to put big scores on the board and the bowlers need to finish teams off.
Could Burgess and Bresnan have got more, sure, but Bresnan got a good ball and I think Burgess got a poor decision. Either way we’re back in the same place we were last year. Wondering why the keeper and all rounder can’t save us, yet we’re chasing 75 more than we should and the batsmen only get a decent score once every 5 or 6 games, enough to keep their place but not enough to help us win.
This is spot on...the batting needs to change/improve but who would you take out? Lamb was decent last game..Hain this one. Yates will open now Sibley is injured.
I actually think in the long run I'd look at Rhodes down at number 6 if he's contributing with the ball. Think we should have really signed another batsman considering we know Sibley is likely to be away with England and they're paying his wages
Our salary across the team must have dropped a fair bit this season with retirements and Stone and Sibley on England contracts
Highveld wrote:
Vihari isn't giving good value for the funds invested in him so far.
Only played one day ! although that is the problem with such short term contracts
Shame we can't sign Malan and Vahari, I don't see an issue of 2 overseas players when they're of a high standard and can help push the youngsters.
Pretty disappointing day.
We should have the advantage after Day 1 but I think Notts have the upper hand now.
Particularly with Sibley issue
letting them get away with this...
I remember Vihari bowling some decent off-spin ! looks like he's out of practice with his bowling
Disappointed Norwell not playing but maybe fitness relayed
Just starts Notts streaming coverage and they have a presenter involved, looks way more professional than our offer
Whilst I was fairly happy with our package, the club does need to look at what is being done elsewhere as I'm pretty certain by the end of today their coverage will be shown to be far superior.
Andy wrote:
I've been screaming for us to play 6 batsmen.
Agreed, with the pitches offering so much assistance in the early stages of the season we should be maximising on the likes of Rhodes who can offer plenty as a fifth bowler (if even required)
OHD, Bresnan, Stones, Norwell, Vihari, Rhodes is a great attack for April
I'm really interested to see what existing fans think of this when it finally gets around to attending matches
I'm a big fan of the T20 blast however I have no interest in IPL and generally International 20/20 as there is no context for me.
I have even less interest in The Hundred however, I do think a lot of people will come around to it.
Personally if they needed to do anything it was tweaks and better promotion of the T20 Blast
Id go for Sibley, Rhodes, Yates, Hain, Vihari, Lamb, Burgess, Bresnan, Norwell/Briggs, Stones, OHD
Ideally Norwell over Briggs, Vihari can actually bowl some decent off spin.
Just had a quick look and Notts streaming service is an improvement on ours. Follows the ball much better
Frustrating draw
I really hope we don't have the same issues as we did last year. We were in great position after day 1 and should have put ourselves in a much better position