Hampshire CCC 2026

[Window Cleaner]

42 minutes ago, Picard said:

Keep them for D2 next year?

Might not be any better. They lack technique and sometimes discrétion. Prest survived a tight caught behind appeal only to play a ridiculous waft 2 balls later. He didn't need to do that, it's rabbits in headlights stuff.

Edited May 15 by Window Cleaner

[Gloucester Saint]

Notts 52-1 in response to our 214.

Decent 55 from Organ, guessing he might be our Dawson replacement.

Some pace attack for Notts - O’Neill, Tongue and Stone. 

[badgerx16]

Hampshire's top order yet again showing as much resistance as a sheet of tissue paper.

[Lighthouse]

You have to wonder just what's going on with Orr to not even get tried out ahead of three or four awful opening batsmen.

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40 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

You have to wonder just what's going on with Orr to not even get tried out ahead of three or four awful opening batsmen.

Must have upset someone's applecart.

I'd clear out all the coaches and start over. No-one is progressing, most are going backwards.

[saint michael]

This has been coming for a couple of seasons. Fragile batting putting pressure on bowling. Losing Vince and Dawson the steadying bit of side is big loss

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6 minutes ago, saint michael said:

This has been coming for a couple of seasons. Fragile batting putting pressure on bowling. Losing Vince and Dawson the steadying bit of side is big loss

At least Vince gave fair notice, he's an exilé so it made sense. Dawson just jacked it in between two matches, must have just had enough of it. 

We need a total clear out from top to bottom.

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, Window Cleaner said:

At least Vince gave fair notice, he's an exilé so it made sense. Dawson just jacked it in between two matches, must have just had enough of it. 

We need a total clear out from top to bottom.

Choice of:

- Believe in Domingo as head coach, mass turnover of players and let the out of contract batters go back to local cricket/minor counties and full time employment. Keep Gubbins for a one more year but but not as an opener.

- Or if the club believe in the younger players as a bulk cohort (some of them are far from young now though) and try changing the coach.

Domingo needs a fast start in the Blast but can’t see it with these players.

Edited May 17 by Gloucester Saint

[Window Cleaner]

Domingo isn't the only coach in question here. You have to look at Adams and Middleton plus all the auxillary coaches. Domingo has just got here, the rot is in the timbers since a few seasons. 

[saint michael]

I’ve been watching a few games and nobody seems to really be able to defend or stick around 

[Window Cleaner]

Looking good for the draw at least. Lehmann showing them how to bat.

As long as we make it to tea with only 6 down we should bé alright. Still be bottom though.

[Toadhall Saint]

Blast starts today - looks like both the matches against Somerset are being shown on sky.

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44 minutes ago, Toadhall Saint said:

Blast starts today - looks like both the matches against Somerset are being shown on sky.

So no youtube then.

Our batting looks quite promising but I'm less sure about the bowling.

[Window Cleaner]

Strange team. No Lehmann or Baker.

Albert and Vince to open, then Weatherly and Prest.

[Window Cleaner]

Not looking great so far. Vince made a quickish 58, Albert 23 but the rest looks like business as usual on the Hampshire batting front. Perhaps we'll bowl really well.

[Lighthouse]

Obviously Somerset are one of the best teams in it but we look little better in this than we have in the CC. 7 wickets down for 41 to finish it off, never in a million years will we defend 158.

[Hodgey]

I think that batting looks really weak - I know they are waiting for Stubbs but too many nurdlers in that line up when you need rope clearers. 
The way 20/20 is played nowadays you have no room for the likes of Weatherly and Prest - unless they could be genuine anchors, which they can’t.

[Window Cleaner]

1 minute ago, Hodgey said:

I think that batting looks really weak - I know they are waiting for Stubbs but too many nurdlers in that line up when you need rope clearers. 
The way 20/20 is played nowadays you have no room for the likes of Weatherly and Prest - unless they could be genuine anchors, which they can’t.

Well yes but I suppose they'll be replaced by Lehmann and Stubbs. Potgieter will drop out presumably.

[Lighthouse]

I don’t think we’ll survive 15 overs the way this is going. Cartwright and Potgeiter are not Ellis and Brevis.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

Another Hampshire masterclass unfolding 

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49 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

I don’t think we’ll survive 15 overs the way this is going. Cartwright and Potgeiter are not Ellis and Brevis.

16.2 actually. Dawson and Currie slowed them down slightly.

So Fuller, Lumsden and Potgieter need replacing. Wood as well probably but we all know that's not going to happen.

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, Hodgey said:

I think that batting looks really weak - I know they are waiting for Stubbs but too many nurdlers in that line up when you need rope clearers. 
The way 20/20 is played nowadays you have no room for the likes of Weatherly and Prest - unless they could be genuine anchors, which they can’t.

They’re something rhyming with anchors…

[Gloucester Saint]

3 minutes ago, Window Cleaner said:

Wood as well probably but we all know that's not going to happen.

Not until Rod has stood down.

[Gloucester Saint]

55 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

I don’t think we’ll survive 15 overs the way this is going. Cartwright and Potgeiter are not Ellis and Brevis.

Beavis and Butthead couldn’t have defended 150 on a Taunton shirtfront to be fair.

Need some more first class batters from somewhere. Find a couple with a dual passport in a southern winter where they need work and let the lads in the top order take up those posts managing Curry’s/PC World near the Utilita Bowl and demolish New Milton’s bowling attack on a Sunday. 

[Lighthouse]

6 minutes ago, Window Cleaner said:

16.2 actually. Dawson and Currie slowed them down slightly.

So Fuller, Lumsden and Potgieter need replacing. Wood as well probably but we all know that's not going to happen.

Yeah they stuttered slightly when they lost the three wickets but it was still as comfortable as they could have hoped for. Manny will need patience. He looks a real prospect but those first three balls, well they don’t come much worse than that.

 

What’s the latest on Turner’s injury, anyone?

[Window Cleaner]

So a bank holiday week-end with no cricket for Hants. Who makes these schedules really?

[Window Cleaner]

Not a great start this evening. Albert and Vince already gone, 26 on the board. Stubbs in soon.No Lehmann.

Edited 19 hours ago by Window Cleaner

[Window Cleaner]

Made 200/4. Good batting from Weatherly,Stubbs and Cartwright. 

Might have been some poor bowling choices, some of them got absolutely hammered.

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, Window Cleaner said:

Made 200/4. Good batting from Weatherly,Stubbs and Cartwright. 

Might have been some poor bowling choices, some of them got absolutely hammered.

Currie probably the difference with 4/18.

[Hodgey]

Much better - Stubbs makes a massive difference - made Weatherly more relaxed and took the pressure off Cartwright.

Not sure about Neals quality but he bowled well today. Commentators all thought a strike bowler is what we are missing (in place of Neal or Fuller) which I tend to agree with, Baker suggested but he’s a bit wild for me and gets hit about a lot (then again so does Fuller but on his day he can bat).

Think we also need to find a replacement for Prest (Mayes ?) who sadly looks unable to fulfil his potential.

[Lighthouse]

That’s as good as you can ask for an evening’s cricket. Cold cider, warm weather and a decent Hampshire win. Stubbs was a huge addition and Neal had a good night.