Durham CLS 9/9/2024 4 Days

[anyportinastorm]

Lees helping himself to the bowling buffet as usual. Defeat early Thursday morning?

[anyportinastorm]

Sept 10, 2024 13:13:59 GMT anyportinastorm said:

Lees helping himself to the bowling buffet as usual. Defeat early Thursday morning?

😂 good old famous last words.

[anyportinastorm]

Derbyshire and Northants next summer it is. Surely SURELY the DOC and coach cannot survive this. Laughing at supporters if so.

[Dave Towers]

If the Hampshire defeat in the last match signified the first time in 117 years that we’d suffered two successive innings defeats, how long is it since we had three?

Maybe a new record about to be created.

[exile]

Certainly looking like it if the weather doesn't intervene.  Durham having much the better conditions to bat in but our bowling since lunch has been very poor.  Our latest overseas star seems to think he's bowling on the adjacent strip.  Hartley doesn't have what it take to get wickets on anything but a bunsen.  Might have been different if Hurst hadn't got run out but that's the state of mind Lancs are in. 

[anyportinastorm]

The teams dressing room balconies are very accessible at the Riverside. It would be very easy to look players and coaches in the eye and tell them what you think. I was tempted. I've spent a lot of time and money on this trip and that is my choice. I can accept defeat but not abject defeat game after game. Devoid of ideas and effort. Rip it up and start again.

[MarkG]

Brutal stuff. Absolutely nothing from the last 40 overs apart from Durham ruthlessly harvesting runs from an ‘attack’ that is as ineffective as our batting.

[exile]

The problem is that the people who would do the ripping up are actually the ones who need ripping out.

[Admin]

Just goes to show when you have two quality overseas players what can happen

[Dave Towers]

Sept 10, 2024 17:26:52 GMT Admin said:

Just goes to show when you have two quality overseas players what can happen


I was just going to say that: Bedingham and Ackerman vs. Bruce and Iyer.

Laughable.

[Dave Towers]

Sept 10, 2024 13:13:59 GMT anyportinastorm said:

Defeat early Thursday morning?


I suppose it depends on how long Durham decide to keep punishing us, it could be before then.


Our only hope is to bat well, and how many times have we done that this season. Once, at Kent perhaps?

[John W]

Surrender - no other word.

[slipstream]

Why was Bohannon bowling? 2-0-11-0

[Admin]

Durham 367 for 4 (Bedingham 177*, Ackermann 111*) lead Lancashire 228 (Hurst 90, Bohannon 49, Raine 5-44) by 139 runs

David Bedingham made his third Championship century of the season against Lancashire and also passed a thousand first-class runs for this campaign to help Durham take control of their Vitality County Championship match at Chester-le-Street.
Having restricted Lancashire to 228 all out in their first innings, the home side were 367 for four at the close, a lead of 139, with Bedingham on 177 not out and Colin Ackermann unbeaten on 111. The pair’s unbroken stand of 268 has already set a new fifth-wicket record for Durham in first-class cricket.

The one positive aspect of the day’s play from a Lancastrian perspective was the bowling of the Trinidadian, Anderson Philip, who took two for 86 on his debut, but it now looks as though the visitors will face a battle to avoid a third Championship defeat in succession.



In the morning session, Lancashire’s last four wickets added a further 51 runs to their overnight total. Matty Hurst was run out for 90 after a mix-up with Tom Bailey and Ben Raine took his fifth wicket of the innings when he had Anderson Phillip, the Lancashire debutant, leg before wicket for two.

Raine finished with five for 44, his best return of the season, but crucially for their hopes of staying in Division One, Lancashire failed to earn a batting bonus point for the third successive match.

Replying to the visitors’ 228, Durham’s batters encountered their own problems against the new Kookaburra ball. Ben McKinney gave Phillip his first wicket for his new county when he played on for eight and Scott Borthwick’s indeterminate waft at a ball from Bailey edged a catch to Hurst with the home skipper on nine.

Bedingham and Alex Lees took Durham to lunch on 46 for two and the pair batted serenely for nearly an hour after the resumption, at which point the home side were rocked by two lbw decisions in eight balls.

Lees fell to Phillip for 43 and then Ollie Robinson was trapped on the crease by Tom Aspinwall for four to leave Durham on 99 for four. Bedingham and Ackermann prevented Lancashire making any more breakthroughs and Durham reached tea on 178 for four, only 50 runs in arrears.

Shortly after the resumption, Bedingham reached his thousand first-class runs for the season with a single off Tom Hartley and it was noted that nearly a quarter of them had been taken off the Red Rose’s attack.

But worse was to follow for Keaton Jennings’ bowlers as Bedingham reached his sixth Championship century in just 15 innings this season when he stroked Hartley to long-on for another single. The South African had reached three figures off 143 balls with 11 fours and a six and there had hardly been a moment in his innings when he hadn’t looked in complete control.



The fifth-wicket stand partnership passed 200 when Bedingham pulled a lifter from Aspinwall through midwicket for four.

While almost all other Championship games in the country were interrupted by rain, home supporters sat in the sun and waited to see if Ackermann would reach his century and if the Durham pair would eclipse the county’s record fifth-wicket partnership of 254 set by Ned Eckersley and Bedingham himself against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge in 2021.

They were not disappointed. Three overs from the close, Ackermann got to his hundred off 165 balls and a new fifth-wicket record was set when Bedingham stroked Bailey to deep square leg off the next delivery.

[sillypoint]

A 3rd innings defeat on the run looks inevitable.

I've seen many poor Lancashire sides over the years, but they have been devoid of basic ability, and if the batting was poor the bowling was OK or vice versa. There are seven good players in this team who are performing nowhere near the ability they've previously shown. I can't recall a team looking so disspirited. Bailey's body-language was appalling.

There is quite clearly a disconnect between a large chunk of the players and the management. Whether that management includes the captain is unclear. He's held his own form well, at least until these last two games, and the players seemed to play for him last season, but has he chosen the management or the players? If it's the former that will only be exacerbating the situation and if it's the latter he would normally have been stripped of the captaincy, except that nobody else would probably take the job on.

The board will always back the management over the players, so Bumble is probably going to be correct. They'll probably think they can play the youngsters in Div2 and be reasonably competitive, and letting the malcontents go when their contracts expire, or perhaps before that. That solution costs no money.

Whatever, an interesting winter awaits.