Hampshire CCC 2026

[Lighthouse]

I’m assuming they used the combine harvester instead of the roller at the Oval this week as by my maths they went through a period of 148 runs for 20 wickets. We could be about to see two county teams bowled out for bang on 83 in the same match.

[Window Cleaner]

Gubbins being very silly there. Doesn't really matter anyway. We won't win because we let them score just short of 400 after putting them in.

Can we just forfait the last 3 matches as we're obviously out of our depth in every facet of the club.

Edited yesterday at 17:00 by Window Cleaner

[Gloucester Saint]

9 minutes ago, Window Cleaner said:

Gubbins being very silly there. Doesn't really matter anyway. We won't win because we let them score just short of 400 after putting them in.

Can we just forfait the lat 3 matches as we're obviously our of our depth in every facet of the club.

Domingo is certainly out of his depth, at no stage this season has the team in any format looked well coached and vaguely organised. 

Brown as skipper has been very poor tactically - Lehmann as skipper for me. 

Needs to be a brutal winter from the new owners, clear decks at all levels. 

[Window Cleaner]

8 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

 

Needs to be a brutal winter from the new owners, clear decks at all levels. 

Probably won't happen, "the we'll be alright in Div2" mentality is already spreading.

 

[Window Cleaner]

And we've just seen just how much difference a real spinner and bowlers who bowl straight and on a length can make.

This Hampshire cut price fac-similé side is just a joke.

[Gloucester Saint]

31 minutes ago, Window Cleaner said:

And we've just seen just how much difference a real spinner and bowlers who bowl straight and on a length can make.

This Hampshire cut price fac-similé side is just a joke.

Look at the state of this. With the exception of the superb Woakes, their attack is low-mid 70s, just more accurate than Minor Counties. Shouldn’t be 74/6 on a pitch where they were 200-2 and scored 400 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/scorecard/e-233554

I’d like to see the better youngsters - Mayes, Jack - under a first class level coach next season and brand new Director of Cricket to put some decent professionals around them. Weatherley and Albert fine for white ball but not red ball contract. Currie needs to decide if he wants to play all formats, might be better under a decen coach. The only youngster who improved this year was Baker. Keep Lehmann, probably Gubbins, Orr is going to Middlesex? Brown is hopefully out of contract, dreadful. 

The others need to find new careers and play cricket as leisure. Especially Tom Prest.

Edited yesterday at 18:50 by Gloucester Saint

[Window Cleaner]

But bowling velocity isn't worth anything if it's not accurate and has no effect.

I watched some of Jack's bowling, it's erratic' short or misdirected and half of it goes down the leg side. It's stop gap stuff compared to that of Abbott or Barker or Abbas two years ago. We have gone cheap option everywhere and I just want to see the end of it . A décent mens CC side and good T20 is what you need. The rest just doesn't matter and money should not be squandered on it.

Edited yesterday at 18:57 by Window Cleaner

[Window Cleaner]

Another innings defeat. How anybody could find that acceptable just confounds me. Nothing about Hants CCC is as it should be.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

I bet Abbott seriously regrets signing up for another year.

[Window Cleaner]

23 minutes ago, Lee On Solent Saint said:

I bet Abbott seriously regrets signing up for another year.

No, he's pushing 40 and set in his ways, fortunately for HCCC.

[Gloucester Saint]

We still need Abbott next year and I hope he’s doing his badges, because if the club rule is that we must appoint SA coaches then we know Kyle has high standards even if the rest of the club stop caring a long time ago.

Batting bar Lehmann needs a complete clear out. Mayes might do better with some actual coaching. Russell Domingo has been phoning it in for a while. Weatherley and Albert white ball contracts. 

Reminds me of Saints 08/09 except there’s more senior players at Hants CCC, but they really don’t give a toss. Being a mediocre cricketer is one thing but just throwing your wicket away and chuckling or bowling three different lengths and lines an over is just demonstrating a total lack of professionalism.

But as the recent overseas debacle showed, it runs at all levels of the club. Keep Abbott, Lehmann, Mayes, Baker, and I’m struggling, in red ball, Weatherley and Albert white ball. New head coach and staff with some level of engagement and attention to detail, new Director of Cricket and the board needs an overhaul too. 

Edited 4 hours ago by Gloucester Saint