Specsavers Championship, Friday, June 2, 2017

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3rd & 7 37yd

Not sure #BallyBingo needs a change, it started when he was a run machine and tailed off. He still isn't a fast starter so there is a bit of mileage in it

by nickcricket 6/2/2017 4:12:24 PM
Hameed still scored more than Roy :))))

by Lawrence Payne 6/2/2017 4:12:22 PM
dont be silly lawrene, the top 7 is bullet proof......

by Joe Williams 6/2/2017 4:12:08 PM
@LawrencePayne I'd rather recall Boycott

by Geoff Eisenhauer 6/2/2017 4:11:52 PM
England will recall Ballance and that will be the end of any form sadly

by Lawrence Payne 6/2/2017 4:11:15 PM
Hameed's First Class average under 40 now? Hameed Limbo how low can it go?

by nickcricket 6/2/2017 4:10:52 PM
TEAM 300: Sussex 301/2 (83.1 ov) v Worcs
LWP Wells 128* (223) S van Zyl 54* (106)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/2/2017 4:10:46 PM
I'm up for that Nick. We could even work in the 2016 classic (and 2015 and 2014 and...), who'll open alongside Cook?

by StaggerBreaths 6/2/2017 4:10:25 PM
do we need to change #ballybingo to what ball he'll score his ton on this year too?

by Joe Williams 6/2/2017 4:10:18 PM
Tony Frost and Nick Winter

by Lawrence Payne 6/2/2017 4:09:54 PM
Snowin' Morgan

by StaggerBreaths 6/2/2017 4:09:31 PM
Lets get the 2017 staple of what awful form Hameed is in going again

by nickcricket 6/2/2017 4:09:04 PM
Woo! Gayle, Hales, Rayner... I can almost do one on my own these days!

by StaggerBreaths 6/2/2017 4:08:33 PM
Morgan is always talking down English domestic cricket as well, a one man IPL propaganda machine despite the fact his record there is awful and the only pressure situation he encounters there is does he serve the drinks in the red bottle or the blue bottle. He is worth is place in the side at the moment and I won't pretend he isn't but I don't enjoy watching him play

by nickcricket 6/2/2017 4:08:32 PM
@StaggerBreaths No! Bury head in sand and say nothing!

by Geoff Eisenhauer 6/2/2017 4:08:20 PM
Tell you what SB, to freshen things up why don't we do a Weather themed cricket 11, i'll start with Ben Raine

by Joe Williams 6/2/2017 4:07:44 PM
So we've had the Kolpakshire discussion, we've had Yorkshire players being treated unfairly. Is it time for City T20 talk now? Just making sure we get all the LB classics in before close of play.

by StaggerBreaths 6/2/2017 4:06:49 PM
lol Dez, he dont play 4 day cricket, he changed his country, he talks bollocks apart from that hes just annoying

by Lawrence Payne 6/2/2017 4:03:20 PM
INDIVIDUAL 50: S van Zyl 52* (99)
Sussex 290/2 (81.1 ov) v Worcs

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/2/2017 4:02:59 PM
WICKET: Nottinghamshire 216/9 (64 ov) v Derbyshire
LJ Fletcher lbw b Palladino 3 (29) Partnership: 7 (7.1 ov)
AP Palladino 13-2-38-4 L Wood 10* (21)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/2/2017 4:02:47 PM
The whole Bairstow situation winds me up something chronic....he has played so little cricket for us or England in the past 6 months, other players being given leave to piss around in the ipple and he's a glorified waiter. Arses.

by Joe Williams 6/2/2017 4:02:12 PM
Standard. That Lees/Abell England opening partnership looking like a good joke from 2014

by nickcricket 6/2/2017 4:01:28 PM
WICKET: Yorkshire 21/1 (4.5 ov, trail by 102 - 1st inns) v Lancashire
AZ Lees c Croft b Bailey 5 (11) Partnership: 21 (4.5 ov)
TE Bailey 2.5-0-15-1 A Lyth 16* (18)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/2/2017 4:00:52 PM
Well Woakes gave him 46 overs of fielding...

by nickcricket 6/2/2017 4:00:16 PM
Re: the mercenary comment, i think that is the main trouble with the Morgan critics - most of them just don't like him for personal reasons, but try and find some cricketing 'logic' to support it.

by dez dezzy 6/2/2017 3:59:43 PM
What annoys me the most is the times we cant pick him because England say he must rest, then they make him fetch drinks l

by Lawrence Payne 6/2/2017 3:59:21 PM
WICKET: Durham 146/9 (39.4 ov) v Northants
BJ McCarthy c Sanderson b Buck 4 (5) Partnership: 15 (1.0 ov)
NL Buck 8.4-1-31-5 SW Poynter 9* (8)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/2/2017 3:58:25 PM
Then Roy has some time with Surrey before the WI ODIs when the Test player will be resting so a chance to test the bench without dropping him

by nickcricket 6/2/2017 3:57:44 PM
Any news on the weather at Lord's? Anyone there?

by Geoff Eisenhauer 6/2/2017 3:57:33 PM
@StaggerBreaths This vote is for the many, not the few

by GeorgePotter19 6/2/2017 3:57:10 PM
No but if he doesn't make a contribution I would drop him for the Australia game which could be must win

by nickcricket 6/2/2017 3:56:46 PM
Unless they vote the non-obvious way.

by StaggerBreaths 6/2/2017 3:56:25 PM
@GeorgePotter19 No

by Geoff Eisenhauer 6/2/2017 3:56:23 PM
play him or realease him its a mockery

by Lawrence Payne 6/2/2017 3:56:19 PM
George: Surrey and Yorkshire supporters excluded, I take it? ;)

by StaggerBreaths 6/2/2017 3:55:56 PM
I would for the record

by GeorgePotter19 6/2/2017 3:55:51 PM
- Live Update
Jon Culley at Notts 213-8 v Derbyshire

Games at Trent Bridge have a tendency to unfold quite quickly but this one has advanced in an unexpected way. Derbyshire, without a win in the Championship since 2015, have given Notts their most difficult day this season so far after electing to bowl first. After losing Patel and Mullaney in the space of 12 deliveries after that post-lunch run splurge they have not really recovered. Derbyshire’s bowling has been awful at times and much better at others. The debutant McKerr went for 25 in three overs in his third spell but came back for a fourth to dismiss Chris Read with his second ball and his last seven overs have conceded only 12. Tom Taylor, likewise, took a battering after lunch, leaking 28 runs in three overs as Mullaney went after him but returned to have Riki Wessels caught behind with the first ball of his current spell and has since yorked Brett Hutton.

by jonculley 6/2/2017 3:55:41 PM
OFC but im biased

by Lawrence Payne 6/2/2017 3:55:27 PM
N

by StaggerBreaths 6/2/2017 3:55:24 PM
ok then straw poll. Would you drop Roy for Bairstow next game?

by GeorgePotter19 6/2/2017 3:54:57 PM
He would drop England in a heartbeat if there was a better offer around, the same way he did to Ireland and the same way he treats Middlesex

by nickcricket 6/2/2017 3:53:48 PM
and for the love of God play some 4 day stuff

by Lawrence Payne 6/2/2017 3:53:37 PM
@LawrencePayne - yes of course it is, bowlers are picked according to conditions.

@nickcricket - a grassy pitch is unlikely to happen this tournament - the pitches are determined by the ICC not the local groundsmen - and that is why they favour keeping a consistent batting line-up that let's face it, whatever your views has been pretty successful overall.

by dez dezzy 6/2/2017 3:53:31 PM
For what it's worth I didn't like the Ball thing before the match particularly, and definitely didn't like it afterwards. But I see why they did it, and I do like keeping the top seven.

by StaggerBreaths 6/2/2017 3:53:15 PM
I have a big problem with Morgan, can't get past the feeling he's just a mercenery.

by Lawrence Payne 6/2/2017 3:52:44 PM