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Bowling not looking particularly dangerous this morning. Might have difficulty in bowling them out twice if tomorrow is truncated by the weather. Mc Manus retired hurt due to the blow on the hand he got yesterday, don't know if he'll be able to bat or keep wicket.

Got the 4 batting points, game a bit disrupted by showers this morning. Prest ony made 5, might have missed his chance there as we might not bat again. Vince still going on 166, Brown approaching 50. Disciplined innings from Vince this time, although he did get dropped off a mistimed hook on 25.

A bit more like it today . Middleton got a duck though. No Barker, leaves room for Prest.

Don't pretend to understand our management decisions anyway. Ralph wasn't all that great in his last months but we sacked him and appointed two absolutely useless idiots to do the job. We've gotten it completely wrong by trying to be clever, spent (or rather wasted) 110 million or so to boot, now we need to clear them all out and start over with a completely new management team.

Much as expected. The moral here is that you don't win at the Oval by being 30/3 in both innings. You can't expect your bowlers to work miracles every time. Their commentators said yesterday that they consider 300 a par score on any Oval pitch....... then again they have a class top order. We just have to do something about our batting, need to drop Organ, put Vince and Dawson further down the order and stop expecting runs from Abbott, he's a regular number 10 bat nowadays, almost a rabbit like Abbas.

Wasn't even an attacking shot this time, it was just a lazy waft at a ball that didn't need any action at all. He's doing it all of the time now.

Had enough of Vince, he is just an easy wicket for any decent quick bowler. Drop him and put Prest in until he learns not to chase every sodding wide ball outside off. Going to lose.

Not working. Now struggling at 33/2, probably be 40 odd for 3 when Vince tries to hit everything out of the ground. That pasting we got from Abbott is looking a bit crucial now.

So a first innngs lead of 16 for Surrey, not bad at all. Should have been a FIL for Hants though. A couple of poorish overs from Abbott and Barker with the new ball allowed their Abbott to smash us around a bit. Thankfully we have Abbas though because Barker doesn't look anywhere near as dangerous as of yore . All in all a one innings game now. I hope we'll not have a disastrous start like that of Thursday.

Yay, batting point. Didn't look at all likely this morning.

About 65 million less per season in the Premier League economy I suppose. Good thing for football though and the betting sites will easily find other media to take their money.

Surrey's new ball force is impressive. If you have a weak link at opener your whole top order will be exposed. We have got the opening pair wrong again, Gubbins might as well open, he's usually facing within a few balls anyway. Dawson is way too high up the order, he should be batting at 6 or 7, he has no new ball technique. As for Vince, well he's always in a hurry isn't he, too much gig cricket I guess. Prest must be majorly hacked off. He can bat and yet he's on the sidelines whereas players who can't handle the new ball are getting a game

Oh dear...........

Well, we got just the one bowling point because we only got 4 wickets in the first 110 overs of their innings , made 223 in our first innings so that made 2 points total but got docked a point for slow over rate. Then we followed on and lost by an innings. Still they don't have Amla this season.

Job done fairly easily in the end. Probably be third in the table after this round of games. Surrey next, hoping for a better performance with the bat than last time at the Oval. Can't remember exactly how many we made but it wasn't a lot.

Polished them off for 31 more runs. Need 132 to win in 5 and a bit sessions. Sensible batting should see us home, that said Organ has just been caught behind for a duck. I do wonder about his technique against quicks who can bowl a bit straight.

Perhaps, but the commentators on the live stream seemed to imply that they think that 150 might be hard to get batting fourth on this wicket. Bit of low bounce from time to time.

So, 231 all out, a lead of 46 and no batting points, not really the start we'd want. The opening overs of the Notts second innings aren't at all great and they've knocked off the deficit already. What is more, we're behind on the over rate as well.

Don't see that we'll be concerned with the top places in the CC this season. The batting is as iffy as ever and our chaps are still getting out to awful shots.

There was a game between Hants and Hants 2nd XI yesterday. No real difference between the teams though but Gubbins and Weatherley opened for the nominal firsts with Middlleton and Organ opening for the nominal seconds. Prest batted at 4 for the firsts, Vince at 3. The firsts made 135/2 I think , but Gubbins retired on 33, I suppose to give someone else a go.

No new faces for the two friendlies, well half a friendly anyway. Sussex was washed out totally and Glos didn't even make it past lunch on the second day. From the little play that actually took place ,not much to learn. Ben Brown made a ton, Prest looked OK and Middleton opened with Organ. Bowling we got a good start and Abbott and Barker got decent figures. Wheal got absolutely spanked by Bracey so I hope we're not relying on him too much for the serious cricket. Vince and Abbas didn't play against Glos.

So, friendly against Glos today and tomorrow. I see that Middleton opened with Organ. Info a bit hard to come by but it looks like, as of 50 minutes ago, Organ and Gubbins are both out and Hants were about 30/2.

Been playing pretty well for them. Practically got them to the final in the eliminator by himself, made 87. I see that the points structure for the CC has changed for next season. Only 5 points for a draw and batting points start at 250. Not sure that that bodes well for us.

His time should have been up before he got here.

Well, I gave up cpommenting on the football a long time ago but this merits at least a WTF.