Hampshire CCC 2025

[Picard]

54 minutes ago, stevegrant said:

Another thing, on the scheduling this year... we finish the group stage  the quarter-finals are A WEEK before Finals Day in September. Utterly ridiculous, and likely means empty seats at Edgbaston in the four competing teams' allocations.

No worries. Finals Day will be the 4 southern teams as usual .

[Lighthouse]

I thought 220 was a good score but Essex are having an absolute yard sale at the moment - everything must go.

[Hodgey]

I reckon Cox could have scored 10 6s in a row if needed. And god knows how many he’d have got if we played another 10 overs….

Batting pitch mixed with some pie throwing (Fuller / Howell especially) 

[Andrew Watson]

Some innings by Cox after a very decent Hampshire total,however Dawson has been let down again by the pie throwers brigade of Howell and Fuller,after he bowled his heart out yet again.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

1 hour ago, Andrew Watson said:

Some innings by Cox after a very decent Hampshire total,however Dawson has been let down again by the pie throwers brigade of Howell and Fuller,after he bowled his heart out yet again.

Not quite sure why Fuller bowled the last over there

[stevegrant]

Just now, Lee On Solent Saint said:

Not quite sure why Fuller bowled the last over there

Basically came down to rubbish bowling resource management by stand-in captain Chris Wood, who has pretty much always been one of our death bowlers throughout his career but rather than take responsibility and get the job done he burned his final over with three to go, and then gambled that they'd need too many in the final over that Fuller or Howell bowling pies wouldn't matter.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

4 minutes ago, stevegrant said:

Basically came down to rubbish bowling resource management by stand-in captain Chris Wood, who has pretty much always been one of our death bowlers throughout his career but rather than take responsibility and get the job done he burned his final over with three to go, and then gambled that they'd need too many in the final over that Fuller or Howell bowling pies wouldn't matter.

Thought as much, I was thinking Currie was going to bowl the last over to be honest.

[Barsiem]

TBF we needed to get Cox out before the end to stand a chance of winning so we needed to bowl our more in form bowlers.  Fuller and Howell were atrocious last night....

Some innings by Cox!  I don't think he gave us a sniff of a chance the whole innings

[stevegrant]

It was an incredible innings, but still one where we will almost certainly feel we could have bowled better to him, especially at the death.

We've scored exactly 450 runs in 40 overs against Essex in the Blast this year and only have one win to show for it

Fortunately it didn't actually matter in terms of qualification or group placing, I don't think Sussex and Kent would both be able to win by enough tonight to overhaul us, and we couldn't catch Surrey or Somerset, so it was effectively a dead rubber, but it does show a vulnerability at the back end of the innings that we've had throughout this year's group stage.

Still think we'll have a good chance at beating Northants, Durham or Warwickshire (final placings in the North group still TBC tonight) on the road, but with the games not taking place until September, christ knows what the squad will look like then. Think it clashes with an international white ball series too

[Andrew Watson]

Durham away then, very winnable if we get the team selection right,interesting who we will sign as the two overseas players for this game. I suppose that will depend on availability and fitness.

[John B]

On 17/07/2025 at 23:37, stevegrant said:

Basically came down to rubbish bowling resource management by stand-in captain Chris Wood, who has pretty much always been one of our death bowlers throughout his career but rather than take responsibility and get the job done he burned his final over with three to go, and then gambled that they'd need too many in the final over that Fuller or Howell bowling pies wouldn't matter.

A small ground easy pitch batsman in the form of his life nothing to do with bpwling resource management in my opinion Wood came on to get a wicket which he did shame it was not Cox

 

Cox is an excellent batter I saw him at the Bowl last season when he got a ton if Essex get relegated it would be great if we got him in and sent Orr to them

[Window Cleaner]

So Durham in September, might be a tall order for us. Toss would be important. I think there are some England South Africa short format games at that epoque so we might be robbed of Dawson and won't probably be able to get our South Africans back.

Still not at all bad to make the play-off stage. 

As a general comment on the T20 blast overall this season, I've been a bit surprised about the general poor quality of the bowling in most of the teams I've seen. Some of it is just destined to be hit over the boundaries, too short, too wide, a lot of full tosses. Seems that good bowlers avoid T20 nowadays. Sussex the other day were particularly poor, don't know if they have injuries or international calls but it was Club standard. Mind you batting has evolved, a few years back 160 was about par, now it would seem to be 180+.

[stevegrant]

On 19/07/2025 at 09:44, Window Cleaner said:

So Durham in September, might be a tall order for us. Toss would be important. I think there are some England South Africa short format games at that epoque so we might be robbed of Dawson and won't probably be able to get our South Africans back.

Still not at all bad to make the play-off stage. 

As a general comment on the T20 blast overall this season, I've been a bit surprised about the general poor quality of the bowling in most of the teams I've seen. Some of it is just destined to be hit over the boundaries, too short, too wide, a lot of full tosses. Seems that good bowlers avoid T20 nowadays. Sussex the other day were particularly poor, don't know if they have injuries or international calls but it was Club standard. Mind you batting has evolved, a few years back 160 was about par, now it would seem to be 180+.

I would assume the insanely dry period we've had has probably contributed. I think there's generally a preference to high scoring over low scoring in T20 when it comes to preparing pitches, but I'm not even sure the ground staff will have had much say in matters this year with the lack of any real periods of rain to soften the surfaces up, so as a result it's just been a series of roads.

[Lighthouse]

Weatherley picked to open the batting. Are Stoneman and Orr both injured or just not fancied? Organ as expected replaces Daws.

[Picard]

On 29/06/2025 at 17:32, Weston Saint said:

None of the players like the Kookaburra ball!

Update on bowling.

• Baker has a knee injury and there is some hope he will be fit again next week
• Wheal has a heel injury and not available at present.
• Turner is out for the season with a stress fracture.
• Barker is available after this game.

Do you know why Barker isn't playing?

[Gloucester Saint]

Could be a struggle to get a result for either team with tomorrow’s forecast and the ball https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2637487

[Weston Saint]

7 hours ago, Picard said:

Do you know why Barker isn't playing?

No, not had a chance to find out.

[Gloucester Saint]

Mind you, in fairness to Kookaburra, the Dukes have been going soft and out of shape after 20 overs in the Test series as well.

[Weston Saint]

Barker has a slight calf injury and Orr is out with concussion. I have just spoken with Adi Birrell and Giles White.

[Andrew Watson]

Thanks Ron.

[Fabrice Fernandes no.1 fan]

I feel like I've seen an ex and she's with a much bigger more handsome man based on Abbas' efforts against us this season

[Andrew Watson]

Well done in particular to Tilak and Organ,the same needed again tomorrow. A few new faces needed for next year,that is for sure.

[Gloucester Saint]

35 minutes ago, Andrew Watson said:

Well done in particular to Tilak and Organ,the same needed again tomorrow. A few new faces needed for next year,that is for sure.

As long as there’s no collapse we should avoid the follow on and that would be another draw. Safety bit by bit.

[badgerx16]

Is that a career best score for Organ ?

[stevegrant]

8 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

Is that a career best score for Organ ?

Yep.

Worcestershire lost in the end, so they're now in the situation of needing results regardless of conditions. Mercifully the last game of the Kookaburra at New Road next week, but I fancy they might try to prepare a pitch that'll produce a result as they need a win - if it means they end up losing instead, it's probably a risk they need to take now.