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Post by alanw on Sept 8, 2021 18:03:04 GMT
I think that the top team is the Champion. But also that the top 2 play off for the separate Bob Willis Trophy But I may be wrong. |
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Post by exile on Sept 8, 2021 19:40:38 GMT
Good game today but too little, too late from Lancs. The pitch wasn't as flat today as it had seemed last night. There was nothing for the bowlers at the Radcliffe Road end but still plenty of life at the Pavilion End, which is where the great majority of the wickets fell.
Wells got out playing at one that he perhaps should have left. Bohannon's lbw was iffy and that of Vilas was an absolute shocker but both could have been avoided had the respective batsmen managed to actually hit the ball. Balderson was arguably unlucky getting out to a half tracker (and not everyone was convinced that Paterson had made a clean catch) but (a) it was the same shot that he had got out to in the first innings and (b) the fielder had been put there for exactly that reason. That said, Balderson emerges from the match with great credit and is an obvious talent for the future. The timing of Balderson's dismissal could not have been worse as it forced the lower middle order to face the new ball, a task they were not up to. Jones scratched around for 33 runs and then decided to leave one that kept low and cannoned into middle and off. Croft couldn't cope and nicked off in double quick time (surely this is one season too far in the CC?). Neither could Lavelle, who has looked out of his depth throughout this match. The long stand between Bailey and Lamb was making Notts anxious but was ended by a daisy cutter.
Lancs will feel a little unlucky but really they were the victims of their own poor judgement and lack of technique on a testing pitch.
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Post by lancsdes on Sept 8, 2021 23:24:30 GMT
Unusual for me but I would prefer to focus on the positive of Balderson. However, I feel complete doom and gloom about the future of cricket.
You can certainly tell I have five days off work coming up. Got a freebie for the test match on Friday and then travel to Somerset on Saturday. Weather as usual looking very dodgy for my holidays. Fortunately I will have good company in Taunton’s pubs.
It’s no accident that the teams doing well early in the season have completely lost the plot with the disruption caused by the s...e pub cricket.
A few of us talking in the pub tonight and we were saying how crap modern life was and that the only things that were better than 40 years ago were real ale and fielding. Yes I know modern medicine is better but do I want to be kept alive for the next 20 years? Hope the great umpire in the sky will saw me off. Actually, it will probably be a correct decision.
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Post by exile on Sept 9, 2021 8:28:10 GMT
It’s no accident that the teams doing well early in the season have completely lost the plot with the disruption caused by the s...e pub cricket. Des, I completely share your disdain for the way the season has been subjected to ruinous disruption by a load of synthetic bollocks but I really don't see how that can be blamed for yesterday's result at TB! Groundsmen can't really do it, of course, except within enormously wide margins, but if the Notts groundsman had been able to prepare a pitch on which Lancs would be absolutely guaranteed to come undone, he'd have produced something like this one. Leaving aside the utter stupidity of choosing to bat last on such a strip, too many of our batsmen just don't have the technique to cope with a slightly deviating ball on a fast, bouncy pitch and I don't think this is a new problem. The real disappointment was that we didn't seem to know how to bowl on it either, as Vilas was forced to admit. Some people will point out that the guy who really won the match for Notts was their overseas recruit and will question why Lancs didn't try harder to strengthen the seam attack. Others will say that, given the searing heat and that one end was flat as a pancake, we really should have been able to bat out for a draw. |
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Post by man in the stand on Sept 9, 2021 14:16:42 GMT
Nearly got away with a draw not quite. So some credit but still bad to lose and worse to add another to our injury list.
Our last win in the CC was 3 months ago v Yorks at OT. Since then three draws and two losses. Once you take Jennings and Davies away we have Livingstone who have lost form. Jones doesn't seem to found his this season so far - biggest score 58 and averaging 21.9.
There are positives - Bohannon, Lamb and Balderstone. We will need to win the next two games..maybe we can??
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Post by oldhamexile on Sept 9, 2021 14:31:26 GMT
Huge plus from that performance has to be Balderson's performance. To bowl that many overs and to effectively open in both innings shows for me a young cricketer of substance and real heart, very encouraging. I've admired Danny Lamb's contributions from afar and was nice to see him live for the first two days. What a wholehearted and skillful cricketer, another big plus point. He reminds me a bit of Joe Leach at Worcester in his early days in that he looks like he's been around for ever but has actually only played a relative handful of games in the championship.
Has to be accepted that Alex Davies has checked out of OT and they shouldn't pick him again after that performance.
I felt like Exile about Crofty's performance, there must be alternatives for the championship, but I've only seen him the once this season so will reserve judgment.
This performance reminded me a little of the defeat to same opposition at Notts in 2011. Our gun bowlers (Chapple and Hogg) outgunned by theirs (Adams and Pattinson). Also a bit of dodgy team selection on our part, where was Parky??? Can anyone remember what happened later that season?
Was surprised to see three of the players from the current fixture also played in that game at Southport.
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Post by Phil on Sept 9, 2021 15:20:04 GMT
After all the complaining that the carry forward of the points was completely unfair. It is now Nottinghamshire’s championship to lose 10.5 points clear of their nearest rivals.
Big game next week, they win and it’s probably all done and dusted but lose to Hampshire and who knows??
Meanwhile Lancashire have not won a championship match since May. Lost 2, Drawn 3 (although they were well on top against Yorkshire when that game was abandoned).
Matches aren’t often saved when more than half the side don’t get into double figures, but thanks to the others they took it into the last hour.
Davies, Lavelle, Vilas: 13 balls between them, Croft not many more, and there were about 12 - 13 overs left so about 70 - 80 balls roughly left on the match. Just needed one more player to stick around I haven't had chance to watch the stream today but why were there going to be 105 overs today (according to Cricinfo)?There weren't. it was 96. |
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Post by Phil on Sept 9, 2021 15:28:05 GMT
Surprised they got that close in the end. Balderson fell to a superb catch and Wells to a good one, but most of the rest not great bar Bailey. Hopefully Wood will be back, practising at Trent Bridge, and Livingstone and Parky will surely be back. Davies will probably not play. I don't think transfers should be allowed to be completed during a season, it would prevent the Davies and Salt nonsense. Loans yes, but not proper ones.
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