wow, now 18 for 2, they'd better make a bit of a go of it or we'll be accused of a fix by the other struggling counties.
Say 250 all out...that sounds like they tried...but not too much.
If he even plays, LvG seems to have gone off him for some reason or other, unless of course the vicious kick that he took against the Serbs has had some sort of sequel that hampers him in some way.
don't remember too many of those when I was there, mind you they probably passed most of their time smokng behind the roller under the chestnut tree, whereas we sporty science types played football in the Cage.
With a bit of luck LvG will underestimate us as he did with PSV and play a gung ho attacking side that Mané and or JRod can
exploit on the break. Their defence isn't solid enough to play just one real DM as he did yesterday.
it's not even a case of being or not being good enough...he is just totally unsuited to the PL. He's not the first and he certainly won't be the last. Why he turned down Seville at the last minute in the summer of 14 and chose Hull is just unexplicable.
although now looking quite hypothetical. Hants won't get much, slow scoring on a rain affected day and Sussex who looked in trouble at one time have recovered to about 260-6 so unless Somerset fail completely with the bat and lose miserably we're for Div 2.
But as always with the Pats there's a new controversy right around the corner.
Not that the Pats will ever be seriously sanctioned for it of course, they never are.
That will depend very much on the outcome of the Sussex-Somerset game though. A really bad result for either of them will
leave us needing a draw with a few bonus points and a win at most.
Now let me see how many Championship games did Theo actually play for us before deciding he was too good for that level and needed to go to the Arse. 20 perhaps.
Comfortable 3 day win then, amazing what you can do with a bit of decent bowling. Pity Sussex look like beating Worcs though.
Still gives us it all to do but a decent result against Somerset might see us out of the woods..and them in them.
Difficult to say, Japan play Cambodia tomorrow and Iran on the 8th, that will mean that Maya is back with Saints on Thursday 10th whilst I don't think VvD is involved in any internationals at all.