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Post by Admin on Apr 1, 2019 10:04:13 GMT
Loughborough MCC University (previously known as Loughborough University Centre of Cricketing Excellence) is a cricket coaching centre based at Loughborough University in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, and the name under which the university's cricket team plays. The former Loughborough University Centre of Cricketing Excellence played 27 first-class matches from 2001 to 2009. As Loughborough Marylebone Cricket Club University, the team has played fourteen first-class matches from 2010 to 2015.  Off we go to our ultimate aim of finishing third in Division 2 this should be a fill your boots game but suspect Loughborough will be a lot better than the other MCCU sides we could play forcast is not brilliant but the season is now almost upon us. |
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Post by chris on Apr 1, 2019 13:17:13 GMT
Loughborough MCC University (previously known as Loughborough University Centre of Cricketing Excellence) is a cricket coaching centre based at Loughborough University in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, and the name under which the university's cricket team plays. The former Loughborough University Centre of Cricketing Excellence played 27 first-class matches from 2001 to 2009. As Loughborough Marylebone Cricket Club University, the team has played fourteen first-class matches from 2010 to 2015. Off we go to our ultimate aim of finishing third in Division 2 this should be a fill your boots game but suspect Loughborough will be a lot better than the other MCCU sides we could play forcast is not brilliant but the season is now almost upon us. but this game is not first class, and this will be consigned to the dustbin for records purposes. Even if someone scores a double hundred and takes 20 wickets, it will hardly be mentioned.
Who will play?
Will Onions or Mahmood play? Both went on to the UAE and did not play a single match. Assume Captain Vilas will be on a flight today or tomorrow after playing at Centurion yesterday. Will Hameed open or just fill in for Livingstone?
Jennings, Davies, Guest, Hameed, Jones, Bohannon, Vilas, Bailey, Parry, Gleeson, Onions 
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Post by Crusty Crouton on Apr 3, 2019 10:21:50 GMT
Why isn't this a FC game Chris? I thought all University games were?
Incidentally was Mahmood definitely with the squad in the UAE then? If that is the case why on earth didn't he play?
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Post by chris on Apr 3, 2019 13:43:30 GMT
Why isn't this a FC game Chris? I thought all University games were? Incidentally was Mahmood definitely with the squad in the UAE then? If that is the case why on earth didn't he play? In someone's infinaite wisdom, they decided that only the first two games played by the Universities would be first class. Unlikely to increase that now, more likely make them all meaningless.
IIRC, at the time, there used to be a habit of spreading out their games so that a couple were at the start of the season and a third one might be a little later after the counties already had a few championship games under their belt and were liable to rest half their first team - if they were not totally out of form.
Then they changed the fixture schedule so that the universities would play 3 games in less than a forthnight at the very start of the season. Maybe they thought the students would be tired! More likely they just forgot and left the ruling based on limiting the students' first class matches rather than change it to being first class if it were the first class counties first game of the season (and therefore likely to be a strong side, rather than gift second team squad players first class debuts).
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Post by Crusty Crouton on Apr 3, 2019 15:59:16 GMT
Thanks Chris, I had no idea that was the case!
Cricket just being cricket then basically...
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Post by Admin on Apr 4, 2019 12:58:50 GMT
Sod all teams news at the moment, keep the Studies guessing
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Post by lancsdes on Apr 5, 2019 0:36:14 GMT
Thanks Chris, I had no idea that was the case! Cricket just being cricket then basically... Quite ; as Graeme Fowler used to say “ Cricket administrators are bizarre beyond words” |
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Post by chris on Apr 5, 2019 10:32:14 GMT
Davies goes early for a single figure score.
But the good news is he was bowled by Lancs Seconds bowler Chris Sanders.
Tom Lawson ex-academy and also a regular in our seconds last year also playing for the students.
Plenty of banana skins ahead against our young bowlers with points to prove (as we need Footitt, rather than our own players).
Mahmood not playing so probably not fit.
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Post by Crusty Crouton on Apr 5, 2019 13:57:52 GMT
Lancs Side:
Keaton Jennings
Alex Davies(wk)
Haseeb Hameed
Glenn Maxwell
Dane Vilas(c)
Rob Jones
Brooke Guest
Josh Bohannon
Graham Onions
James Anderson
Mark Footitt
Didn't realise Tom Lawson was playing for the Students, he plays for my club Burnley in the Lancs League.
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Post by Crusty Crouton on Apr 5, 2019 14:00:33 GMT
Lancs lose two wickets in 2 balls as Maxwell is dismissed for 37 (53) and Guest goes first ball.
Collapse on the cards?
However Hameed is still there on 80* from 161 balls, batted for 3 hours now. Is he back?!
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Post by lankymad on Apr 5, 2019 14:24:35 GMT
HH nearing a ton. Don't care who it is against or even if it's not first class, just delighted to see him hitting the middle again. Interesting that he isn't opening either, a sign of things to come??
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Post by apm51054 on Apr 5, 2019 15:20:21 GMT
HH nearing a ton. Don't care who it is against or even if it's not first class, just delighted to see him hitting the middle again. Interesting that he isn't opening either, a sign of things to come?? He has three figures |
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Post by chris on Apr 5, 2019 15:53:56 GMT
HH nearing a ton. Don't care who it is against or even if it's not first class, just delighted to see him hitting the middle again. Interesting that he isn't opening either, a sign of things to come??
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Post by lankymad on Apr 5, 2019 17:26:04 GMT
HH 201*. Let's hope he can take that form into the Middlesex game.
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Post by Admin on Apr 6, 2019 18:24:10 GMT
Bowl them out cheaply we bat again overall 368 in front
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