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On 03/09/2025 at 09:17, Barsiem said:

Think England haven't treated him that well in this.  He's played very little first class cricket, has been known to be erratic, yet they pick him to play against a top international side and ask him to open the bowling - in the power play - after the England batters had been skittled....

He should be debuting against Ireland if they have to fast track him...  Not against SA

Well up to a point. But as there was no way that England were going to win this match it made sort of sense to let him keep plugging away to see if there were any possible grounds to select him at any time in the near future.

There are far better and more consistent bowlers available than Baker and I doubt he'll be bowling much in the near future for England, well not against any serious batting side anyway.

This was just an old school tie, maybe selection.

On a different note, weather at Durham tomorrow doesn't look too bad, bit nippy in the evening perhaps.

25 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Sonny Baker's bowling getting murdered by Aiden Markram in the ODI.

Unsurprising, he's been erratic for Hants, good sometimes and awful on other occasions.

Shouldn't pick players on cartoon cricket performance cos a mish-mash of county players is no comparison to South Africa' s XI.

2 minutes ago, Mixedkebab said:

Get the fuck in

Dawson is a monster, so important 

Still I hope they give the MoM to Currie. Good knock, bowled well, backed up to run out Ul Haq.

Think the second rain delay helped us, reduced their overs and upped the strike rate, went from 7 to over 8.

Risk losing this on D/L because Yorks are playing for that. They probably wouldn't match our total but we're not taking the wickets we need to boost our chances.

Jack getting expensive.

1 minute ago, Mixedkebab said:

What a stunning innings from Dawson, brilliant.

This sort of total looked way out of reach earlier 

Good effort from Currie as well, haven't seen him bat much before.

That said York's bowling seemed to degrade a fair bit. Perhaps the conditions or the balls or just getting tonked by Mayes,Dawson and Currie.

11 minutes ago, Andrew Watson said:

Middleton puts himself and the side under too much pressure,he faces far too many dot balls for a number 3 batter. I do get that someone has the sheet anchor role to play.

Well perhaps, but to be perfectly fair to the player, I don't think him batting at 3 was in the initial plan for this competition. Should be Prest after Tilly left but he's hopelessly out of form and Weatherly has a broken arm so he's a non-starter as well. We probably counted on Albert being more available as well and at the end of the day perhaps not changing a winning side came into play as well.

At the end of the day we've been heavily reliant on the openers, didn't happen today.

Brown proving once again that he's not a one-day batter if the bowling is anywhere near decent. Doesn't have the shots to score quickly enough. Out trying to hoik a straight one to the leg side. I might even have gone with Prest instead if Albert isn't available.

We now look to have a minimal chance of winning. Thought we were short of at least one run scoring batter, looks like it will be that way. 53/3

Bugger, Gubbins has chopped on. 8/1.  Might be difficult to get a reasonable score here, looks windy.

Just seen today's team. Seems very reliant on the openers, if they should go early and cheaply, the dynamic batting looks on the short side. Still dense on the bowling. We're batting first I think. Toss lost.

2 hours ago, Toadhall Saint said:

He’s been rubbish tbh. Pity really as my nipper thinks he’s the bees knees.

 

was sat in front of a couple of people discussing the one day result yesterday and they thought it wasn’t on bringing Daws and Fuller back in for the 50 over game - not in the spirit of things.

Well, those people are entitled to their opinion but without Daws,Fuller  we wouldn't have won yesterday as likely as not. Hundred players who've finished their stint or aren't required are available according to the rules. I would stop at just playing them in the final though but if they've played in the campaign then they've earned their place. What is more we're really a bit short of players without them.  Vince on sunday, doubt it don't think he's contracted for anything but the T20 with us.

But I expect Albert and Dawson to play on sunday, must be a toss up between Fuller and Barker though.

For me, the side for sunday is: Orr,Gubbins,Middleton,Albert, Dawson, Brown (or Fuller) Mayes,Barker;Abbott,Neal and Jack.

True, outfield looks really bobbly. Seem to remember Scarborough being like that as well. Not to mention us playing there on Sunday yet

1 hour ago, Andrew Watson said:

Good suggestion WC but we only knew we had qualified later in the day on tuesday.

Perhaps but the number of possible scenarii wasn't a mind-boggler. Arundel was mentioned but was considered a no go. At the end of the day we've shot ourselves in the foot because this wicket today is a dream for their spinners and dobby medium pacers.

We've made 227, could defend that but Abbott, Wheal and Fuller need to be accurate today. 

Club wicket not even in their county. Surely we could have made more effort to find an alternative more advantageous to us.

Must say, result decided by a coin-toss is looking pretty good right now.

Just not scoring fast enough. 2 down.

Looks like a difficult pitch to score on. Umpire severely ungenerous with the wides.

Wow, heavy artillery on the bowling front. Abbott,Fuller,Wheal,Dawson,Neal and Jack. Hope they get a chance to bowl .

21 minutes ago, Weston Saint said:

As far as I know there is a reserve day tomorrow 

Weather forecast doesn't look any better though, nor Manchester, Taunton or Bristol on Sunday.

1 minute ago, Weston Saint said:

Rule 16.9 applies - toss of a coin or if the final the trophy is shared. 

20 overs minimum per side constitutes a match in play off, semi and final (10 in group stages)

3.-Metro-Bank-One-Day-Cup-2024.pdf

 

Is there a reserve day ? Seems to be in the rules, perhaps they've changed

Dawson in the group for tomorrow's game. Bit of a surprise there. No Albert or Barker seemingly.

Neal bowls pretty tidily most of the time and Gubbins is playing really well in this competition, taken a couple of outstanding catches as well.

Hope there's some Hants input to the commentary for the Middx game, the Gloucs chaps were a bit painful yesterday, a lot of jobs for the boy's stuff and whingeing about trifles. Hope we play Abbott and Barker cos if Organ has to bowl at Radlett he will get massacred.

Ah great Middlesex. Commentators were saying Warks, but I guess they didn't figure on Warks losing on D/L suppose there must have been rain.  So a Radlett slogfest then.

Got there in the end, mainly thanks to the fabulous start from Orr and Gubbins.

Warks next? We'll need to bowl better at Edgbaston. Perhaps have a sixth bowler on hand .

11 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

The Hundred is a waste of time and effort.

Well yes but it apparently rakes in a lot of money. Can't see why exactly that would be, apart from a few fading international "stars" it seems to be just a mish-mash of county players. Don't think it was like that at the start but I suppose the continual international series have taken their toll viz à viz the global stars.

When you see blokes like Donald in Hundred squads you have to wonder why people flock to games.