jackthegas
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Post by jackthegas on Aug 5, 2015 20:29:52 GMT
Another win today, what is going on?! This time without Klinger, anyone know why? I was listening to it today but annoyingly they never mentioned the reason - didn't sound like he'd be out for long though. With that win Glos are officially in the quarter finals. Keep going like this and they should get a nice home tie at Bristol. He was batting with a runner yesterday. Think it's a hamstring. |
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irishrover
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Post by irishrover on Aug 5, 2015 21:48:20 GMT
I was listening to it today but annoyingly they never mentioned the reason - didn't sound like he'd be out for long though. With that win Glos are officially in the quarter finals. Keep going like this and they should get a nice home tie at Bristol. He was batting with a runner yesterday. Think it's a hamstring. Oh well a bit worrying but I suppose now they've qualified it buys some rest time for him. To be fair to Glos they were only a last ball muscled 6 away from qualifying for the T20 Quarter Finals as well. Definite signs of progress in the one day stuff at least. I think part of it is probably just having quite a young team - this time of year their bowling attack is probably just a little less banged up than most. It's a strange time of the season to have an intense one day group stage really. We still can't quite get this right. This is supposed to be a format we're giving new priority to but instead it's all packed into congested few weeks and the result is a bit of a strange tournament. I mean Somerset are already out - it just seems daft. Still don't understand the problem with having T20 on Friday, One day competition at the weekend and Championship cricket midweek and just having a regular schedule. Then they bleat about having to adjust to different formats - well I would have thought a professional cricketer should be able to manage that! Anyway if you look around at scorecards the result is a tournament that seems to remain stuck in a previous age of 50 Over cricket. Doesn't seem to resemble the World Cup or that series we played against NZ. If anything county cricket doesn't really seemed to evolved in the format since Bracewell's Gloucestershire revolutionised over 15 years ago now. |
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jackthegas
David Pritchard
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Post by jackthegas on Aug 6, 2015 12:46:25 GMT
He was batting with a runner yesterday. Think it's a hamstring. Oh well a bit worrying but I suppose now they've qualified it buys some rest time for him. To be fair to Glos they were only a last ball muscled 6 away from qualifying for the T20 Quarter Finals as well. Definite signs of progress in the one day stuff at least. I think part of it is probably just having quite a young team - this time of year their bowling attack is probably just a little less banged up than most. It's a strange time of the season to have an intense one day group stage really. We still can't quite get this right. This is supposed to be a format we're giving new priority to but instead it's all packed into congested few weeks and the result is a bit of a strange tournament. I mean Somerset are already out - it just seems daft. Still don't understand the problem with having T20 on Friday, One day competition at the weekend and Championship cricket midweek and just having a regular schedule. Then they bleat about having to adjust to different formats - well I would have thought a professional cricketer should be able to manage that! Anyway if you look around at scorecards the result is a tournament that seems to remain stuck in a previous age of 50 Over cricket. Doesn't seem to resemble the World Cup or that series we played against NZ. If anything county cricket doesn't really seemed to evolved in the format since Bracewell's Gloucestershire revolutionised over 15 years ago now. I like Championship cricket starting on a Sunday. The good thing about the current schedule is that someone who works 5 days a week, 9-5 can watch all forms of cricket. If the CC started on a set day midweek I'd never get to see any. It's a difficult one though because you can't please everyone. |
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irishrover
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Post by irishrover on Aug 6, 2015 13:15:33 GMT
Oh well a bit worrying but I suppose now they've qualified it buys some rest time for him. To be fair to Glos they were only a last ball muscled 6 away from qualifying for the T20 Quarter Finals as well. Definite signs of progress in the one day stuff at least. I think part of it is probably just having quite a young team - this time of year their bowling attack is probably just a little less banged up than most. It's a strange time of the season to have an intense one day group stage really. We still can't quite get this right. This is supposed to be a format we're giving new priority to but instead it's all packed into congested few weeks and the result is a bit of a strange tournament. I mean Somerset are already out - it just seems daft. Still don't understand the problem with having T20 on Friday, One day competition at the weekend and Championship cricket midweek and just having a regular schedule. Then they bleat about having to adjust to different formats - well I would have thought a professional cricketer should be able to manage that! Anyway if you look around at scorecards the result is a tournament that seems to remain stuck in a previous age of 50 Over cricket. Doesn't seem to resemble the World Cup or that series we played against NZ. If anything county cricket doesn't really seemed to evolved in the format since Bracewell's Gloucestershire revolutionised over 15 years ago now. I like Championship cricket starting on a Sunday. The good thing about the current schedule is that someone who works 5 days a week, 9-5 can watch all forms of cricket. If the CC started on a set day midweek I'd never get to see any. It's a difficult one though because you can't please everyone. I agree - I also like Championship Cricket starting on Sunday. Most of all I object to their attempts to free up schedule by reducing the number of Championship games again from 2017. That's depressing. |
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