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Post by Admin on Jul 5, 2019 15:05:32 GMT
 v  Venue  Northamptonshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Northamptonshire. Its limited overs team is called the Northants Steelbacks – a reference to the Northamptonshire Regiment which was formed in 1881. The name was supposedly a tribute to the soldiers' apparent indifference to the harsh discipline imposed by their officers.[2] Founded in 1878, Northamptonshire (Northants) held minor status at first but was a prominent member of the early Minor Counties Championship during the 1890s. In 1905, the club joined the County Championship and was elevated to first-class status, since when the team have played in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England.[3] The club plays the majority of its games at the County Cricket Ground, Northampton, but has used outlier grounds at Kettering, Wellingborough and Peterborough (formerly part of Northamptonshire, but now in Cambridgeshire) in the past. It has also used grounds outside the county for one-day games: for example, at Luton, Tring and Milton Keynes. During the 2018 season, Northamptonshire played in Division Two of the County Championship, the North Division of the Royal London One-Day Cup and the North Division of the Vitality t20 Blast. A four dayer at Northampton and with Glamorgan not playing if we get more than three points we go back to being top. Only three fit pacemen therefore high time Parkinson played, Livingstone probably also a doubt due to a side strain, anybodies guess who will replace him. Never seen cricket at the venue but did watch Northampton Town when they played there, this man never played cricket for a county but he did score six at Northampton  |
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Post by richard on Jul 5, 2019 17:45:51 GMT
Only been to Northampton once and that wasn’t to watch Sport.
Got the feeling though that I wasn’t welcome. We arrived at the hotel to discover there had been a major fire that morning and obviously the place was closed down.
It is about time though that I recommenced my target to get to home games of all counties. The last new ground must have been over 20 years ago now, possibly at Surrey.
Got Durham (though I once stood beside their ground in the pitch dark having been working close by during the day at around the time it was being built), Kent, Northants, Somerset (though I have been to their excellent museum) and Sussex to do. Too late now to plan for this season I think but I will have a good look before next season starts at their fixture lists.
Edit to add Nottinghamshire. I saw Phil De Freitas finish of his 5- and Mike Atherton score the first three of his first England hundred (against New Zealand) but haven’t been there for a Notts game.
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Post by chris on Jul 6, 2019 17:59:22 GMT
13 in the squad. No Bailey, Livingstone, Anderson, Lehmann (wonder if the latter is released, can't get a game even when Livingstone is injured). Suppose they are confident of promotion without playing an overseas until Maxwell returns. Least it means Croft and Bohannon will be batting in a more representative position.
Davies Jennings Hameed Jones Vilas Croft Bohannon Mahmood (in Lions squad next week so will miss Sussex match) Onions Gleeson Parkinson/Parry Sanders involved (more likely to play next week, unless they think Onions needs a rest for this match)
Surely they can't leave out Parry and Parkinson.
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Post by Admin on Jul 6, 2019 19:08:27 GMT
If Anderso not fit next week means we look short of bowling
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Post by chris on Jul 7, 2019 10:39:45 GMT
If Anderso not fit next week means we look short of bowling |
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Post by Admin on Jul 7, 2019 10:50:51 GMT
Nope neither can I uncontested nonsense again we bowl
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Post by lancsdes on Jul 7, 2019 11:23:21 GMT
Usual negative madness from Lancs . Picking Parry who scored two good fifty pluses for seconds against Warwickshire presumably for his batting. Those innings were worthy efforts but Parky won the game with his wickets in the fourth innings.
Interesting to see Sanders in squad after first innings wickets in that game including Bell caught behind ; I would have thought he was a couple down the pecking order.
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Post by Admin on Jul 7, 2019 11:33:23 GMT
Anderson ruled out of Sussex game
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Post by chris on Jul 7, 2019 12:59:26 GMT
Usual negative madness from Lancs . Picking Parry who scored two good fifty pluses for seconds against Warwickshire presumably for his batting. Those innings were worthy efforts but Parky won the game with his wickets in the fourth innings. Interesting to see Sanders in squad after first innings wickets in that game including Bell caught behind ; I would have thought he was a couple down the pecking order.  Only joking.
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Post by Admin on Jul 7, 2019 17:15:28 GMT
Specsavers County Championship Division Two
Northamptonshire
334/5 (96)
Lancashire
At an educated guess can safely say we are not winning this one, bat first should always be the way to go especially after a spell of warm dry weather, this pitch turns usually later on, the mone selection of Parkinson a blunder as stated earlier, most of other games seemed far well in advance of this in terms of wickets going down our straight forward return to Division 1 may not be so after this game
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Post by Admin on Jul 8, 2019 18:29:39 GMT
Specsavers County Championship Division Two, County Ground, Northampton (day two):
Northamptonshire 442: Bavuma 103, Vasconcelos 77, Rossington 76; Onions 5-77
Lancashire 211-4: Davies 124*, Jones 44; Keogh 2-30, Sanderson 2-33
Lancashire (2 pts) trail Northants (4 pts) by 231 runs with 6 wickets remaining
Scorecard
Alex Davies made an unbeaten 124 as Lancashire recovered from 2-2 to reach 211-4 but Northants still had a 231-run lead at the end of day two.
The home side advanced their overnight score of 334-5 to 442 all out,
Lancashire then lost England opener Keaton Jennings and Haseeb Hameed for ducks inside five overs, with Jennings caught at slip off Ben Sanderson, who then bowled Hameed off an inside edge.
Davies hit 19 fours and put on 127 with Rob Jones (44) as they closed on 211-4
Relive County Championship day two as it happened
Steven Croft (38 not out) also provided the stylish Davies with valuable support in an unbroken stand of 80.
After reaching his 50 from just 59 balls, Davies ended the day at Wantage Road with 21 fours in his 179-ball innings, his first Championship century in over a year.
But Rob Keogh also picked up two wickets to leave Lancashire still needing 81 more runs to avoid the possibility of following on.
Northants captain Adam Rossington told BBC Radio Northampton:
"We lost a couple of early wickets but to rebuild and reach 442 having been stuck in we're really happy with that.
"They've managed to get another partnership going towards the close but we've got the new ball coming soon so hopefully we can take a good lead.
"We've been good at the start this year with the new ball and then we kept it reasonable tight until the breakthrough came after tea.
"We'd have liked another before the close but we can regroup and come back strong in the morning."
Lancs centurion Alex Davies told BBC Radio Lancashire:
"I've obviously missed quite a bit of the season, so to come back and get a few on the board is nice. Losing those early wickets focussed me a bit more and made my role even more important.
"Upon reflection, I've maybe tried a little too hard over the last few games having missed so much cricket, whereas going into this game I knew I was playing well and just needed to relax a bit.
"A trait of ours is having fight when we're behind. Jonesy played well and I always love batting with Crofty.
"We're behind the game, which we haven't been this season, so it's a test of what we're made of from here."
Lancashire's ability to start at 0-2 is becoming the norm, Jennins and Hameed both totally out of form as for the latter, maybe it's time for him to move on away from the old boys coaching club at OT and also maybe move away from his family, personal view think he has been let down by those behind the scenes.
As for the game behind the eight ball let's hope Onions stays fit
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Post by Admin on Jul 9, 2019 12:55:47 GMT
315 all out take away Davies 147 and Croft 78 poor effort from the rest.
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Post by Admin on Jul 9, 2019 13:30:06 GMT
Northants 22-3 two for Onions and 1 for Gleeson
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Post by Admin on Jul 9, 2019 16:38:26 GMT
Home lead now over 300 on a wicket that is turning this is going to be a tall order to avoid our first defeat of the season
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Post by Admin on Jul 9, 2019 16:50:05 GMT
53.4
7
Croft to Hutton, 7 runs
Yep seven runs from one ball
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Only joking.