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Post by Admin on Apr 27, 2022 13:00:53 GMT
 The Rose Bowl, known for sponsorship reasons as Ageas Bowl is a cricket ground and hotel complex in West End, Hampshire. It is the home of Hampshire County Cricket Club, who have played there since 2001. It was constructed as a replacement for the County Ground in Southampton and also the United Services Recreation Ground in Portsmouth, which had been Hampshire's homes since 1882. Hampshire played their inaugural first-class match at the ground against Worcestershire on 9–11 May 2001, with Hampshire winning by 124 runs. The ground has since hosted international cricket, including One Day Internationals, matches in the 2004 Champions Trophy, two Twenty20 Internationals and Test matches in 2011, 2014 and 2018, when England played Sri Lanka and India. In 2020, the ground was used as one of two biosecure venues, alongside Old Trafford, for the tours involving West Indies, Pakistan and Ireland which were regulated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to be able to host Test cricket, the ground underwent a redevelopment starting in 2008, which saw stands built to increase capacity and other construction work undertaken to make the hosting of international cricket at the ground more viable. A four-star Hilton Hotel with an integrated media centre overlooking the ground opened in 2015. Following Hampshire Cricket Ltd finding itself in financial trouble in 2011, the lease on the ground was sold to Eastleigh Borough Council for £6.5 million with a benefactor injecting a similar sum in 2012. The Rose Bowl played host to the inaugural final of the 2019–21 ICC World Test Championship between India and New Zealand, resulting in New Zealand being crowned inaugural World Test Champions.[2] Hampshire great Roy Edwin Marshall (25 April 1930 – 27 October 1992) was a West Indian cricketer who played in four Tests from 1951 to 1952. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1959. www.ageasbowl.com/cricket/@hantscricket www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2637487 |
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Post by Admin on Apr 27, 2022 17:01:48 GMT
Same squad plus Jennings and Wood
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Post by Admin on Apr 28, 2022 9:37:39 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 28, 2022 9:42:47 GMT
Lost toss bowling Jones and Bailey in for Saq and Parky
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Post by werneth on Apr 28, 2022 9:55:03 GMT
Curious selections. I can see why they'd want to shorten the tail from the lst match but to go in with no frontline spinner when Hampshire are playing two seems strange.
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Post by Admin on Apr 28, 2022 11:14:35 GMT
40-5 suggests we possibly have read the pitch correctly but we’ll see
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Post by werneth on Apr 28, 2022 11:36:36 GMT
40-5 suggests we possibly have read the pitch correctly but we’ll see Agreed! I long ago came to the conclusion that the guys who play this game for a living may know a little more about it than me! |
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Post by man in the stand on Apr 28, 2022 13:32:28 GMT
Surprised to see Mahmood and Parkinson dropped. I saw Jennings having a net last week but still injured??
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Post by exile on Apr 28, 2022 16:20:39 GMT
40-5 suggests we possibly have read the pitch correctly but we’ll see Agreed! I long ago came to the conclusion that the guys who play this game for a living may know a little more about it than me! But the five wickets were taken by the three bowlers who would have played anyway, regardless of the pitch (they also took four of the last five). The back-up seamers haven't been effective: Balderson hasn't been tight enough and Lamb had to be taken off after conceding 24 from 4 overs. Presumably Hants chose to bat expecting the pitch to flatten out, which it has, but probably expecting to lose three or at most four wickets before lunch. They were nearly right: the last five wickets put on 206 and, if the red mist hadn't descended on Fuller, they might have got quite a few more. I can't see any case for omitting Parkinson but I hope Lamb now proves me wrong by getting a big score. |
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Post by Admin on Apr 28, 2022 16:28:25 GMT
Agreed! I long ago came to the conclusion that the guys who play this game for a living may know a little more about it than me! But the five wickets were taken by the three bowlers who would have played anyway, regardless of the pitch (they also took four of the last five). The back-up seamers haven't been effective: Balderson hasn't been tight enough and Lamb had to be taken off after conceding 24 from 4 overs. Presumably Hants chose to bat expecting the pitch to flatten out, which it has, but probably expecting to lose three or at most four wickets before lunch. They were nearly right: the last five wickets put on 206 and, if the red mist hadn't descended on Fuller, they might have got quite a few more. I can't see any case for omitting Parkinson but I hope Lamb now proves me wrong by getting a big score. Never omit a spinner |
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Post by chris on Apr 28, 2022 17:30:18 GMT
Agreed! I long ago came to the conclusion that the guys who play this game for a living may know a little more about it than me! But the five wickets were taken by the three bowlers who would have played anyway, regardless of the pitch (they also took four of the last five). The back-up seamers haven't been effective: Balderson hasn't been tight enough and Lamb had to be taken off after conceding 24 from 4 overs. Presumably Hants chose to bat expecting the pitch to flatten out, which it has, but probably expecting to lose three or at most four wickets before lunch. They were nearly right: the last five wickets put on 206 and, if the red mist hadn't descended on Fuller, they might have got quite a few more. I can't see any case for omitting Parkinson but I hope Lamb now proves me wrong by getting a big score. |
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Post by Admin on Apr 28, 2022 18:03:02 GMT
The clubs view
Pakistan fast bowler Hassan Ali also continued his excellent start at Lancashire with five for 45, with Nick Gubbins’ 101 not out saving Hampshire after they had slumped to 40 for five. Lancashire reached close 37 for one, 209 runs in arrears.
On the day Ben Stokes was announced as England’s new Test captain, Anderson produced a casting tape of his best attributes. A reminder, if one is ever needed when you have 640 Test wickets, ahead of the upcoming series with New Zealand and South Africa. Not that Stokes, nor Key, asked or needed one having made their intentions clear.
Inviting Anderson to bowl first on a green-tinged pitch under silvery skies is akin to dangling one’s arm in the face of a ravenous crocodile, but Hampshire did just that and predictably lost their top order cheaply.
Anderson was at his controlling best in a first six-over spell which found brisk nibble in both directions – after Tom Bailey had dismissed Joe Weatherley with an in-out set-up. Ian Holland pushed forward on one which held its fifth stump line, while James Vince was bereft by a sharp in-ducker which took his outside edge. Anderson’s opening stint returned two for six, with four maidens.
One of the motifs of this fixture is the blue-ribbon fast bowling attacks on show from both teams, something perfectly exemplified by the replacement of Anderson with Ali. Ali, on the back of a nine-wicket bag against Gloucestershire, maintained and built on Anderson’s pressure. He slightly squared up Liam Dawson with one that angled away off the seam before a leg-side delivery found its way to third slip via Ben Brown’s outside edge four balls later.
Hampshire needed a partnership. They got one through the pugnaciousness of Gubbins and Felix Organ – who put on 92 either side of lunch.
Gubbins spent a portion of his winter playing in Zimbabwe’s Logan Cup – scoring a century in two matches – and had begun his Championship season with a handful of starts and a 69 last week versus Kent. He was forced to temper his usual aesthetic to churn to fifty in 133 balls.
Anderson returned to direct some short balls at Organ, who having negotiated a series of bumpers, tamely lobbed a top edge to leg slip for 42, before Keith Barker looped a leading-edge off Ali.
James Fuller juxtaposed Gubbins by upping the tempo with his biffing and bottom-hand favoured shot-making. He was 37 off 19 balls at one point, before slowing slightly to a 49 ball fifty, with an 83-run stand with Gubbins.
Gubbins reached his second century for Hampshire since arriving last summer, and the 12th of his first-class career, in 210 balls. But with Fuller bowled by Luke Wells, Ali mopped up the tail ruthlessly to move to 19 scalps so far this season.
Wells and George Balderson had fewer issues against the new ball, although the latter tickled Barker behind late in the day.
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Post by alanw on Apr 28, 2022 19:18:11 GMT
I was also surprised by the selection. I assume Jennings still isn't fit, Mahmood's omission is a rotation policy for the quickies. I don't understand why Parky isn't playing. Five seamers and no specialist spinner makes no sense to me.
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Post by Admin on Apr 29, 2022 12:06:46 GMT
130-7 at lunch suspect we will bat twice in this match
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Post by man in the stand on Apr 29, 2022 12:40:07 GMT
Lamb's bowling seems to have gone off...7 runs an over in the Gloucs game and 6 in this one. Balderson a bit expensive too. Need Salt to be like Gubbins....
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