Specsavers Championship, Thursday, September 14, 2017

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3rd & 7 37yd

UPDATE: Match delayed by rain, Worcestershire 460/8 (112 ov, lead by 56 - 1st inns) v Leics

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/14/2017 1:35:01 PM
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand back we come.

by StaggerBreaths 9/14/2017 1:32:16 PM
Oh, here we go!

by StaggerBreaths 9/14/2017 1:31:34 PM
Fixed. And Hameed seems to have dragged Livingstone down with him.

by StaggerBreaths 9/14/2017 1:30:32 PM
WICKET: Derbyshire 187/5 (62 ov, lead by 254 - 2nd inns) v Sussex
MJJ Critchley c Garton b Whittingham 51 (69) Partnership: 60 (15.0 ov)
SG Whittingham 9-1-26-2 HR Hosein 25* (51)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/14/2017 1:29:27 PM
Mine's working fine for second division matches, but first division scorecards just will not load...

by StaggerBreaths 9/14/2017 1:27:59 PM
Leach's bowling is awful

by Will Colwell 9/14/2017 1:27:47 PM
Hameed is IMPREGNABLE

by NemoUKS 9/14/2017 1:26:41 PM
Okay it's time to start jinxing

by NemoUKS 9/14/2017 1:26:31 PM
Yeah same, mine seems to think that Hameed has batted 59 overs for 53

by Will Colwell 9/14/2017 1:26:25 PM
UPDATE: Match delayed by rain (Play due to restart at 2:35pm), Worcestershire 460/8 (112 ov, lead by 56 - 1st inns) v Leics

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/14/2017 1:26:01 PM
The live scorecards are dead for me...

by StaggerBreaths 9/14/2017 1:24:41 PM
Paul Edwards at Somerset v Lancashire 131-1

As so often this season, Lancashire are getting themselves out of trouble and it does not worry them in the slightest if the pace of scoring does not please the home spectators. As the ball has aged, both Haseeb Hameed and Liam Livingstone have looked more comfortable against the spinners and Hameed has collected his third fifty in his last six championship innings. Grumbles about his scoring rate are outweighed by the importance of the opener remaining at the wicket and this has actually been the most fluent and well-organised of his three half-centuries.

by Paul Edwards 9/14/2017 1:24:04 PM
INDIVIDUAL 50: MJJ Critchley 51* (64)
Derbyshire 182/4 (61 ov, lead by 249 - 2nd inns) v Sussex

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/14/2017 1:23:56 PM
Also loving the presence of Umeed well above Hameed there.

by StaggerBreaths 9/14/2017 1:20:51 PM
Wow, Zafar...

by StaggerBreaths 9/14/2017 1:19:54 PM
by Will Colwell 9/14/2017 1:19:09 PM
Dawson is also a much better bat than Leach and England love a tail ender that can bat

by Dav3theRav3951 9/14/2017 1:18:47 PM
Last 10 overs 12 runs
might not get to 350 in time :(

by Lawrence Payne via email 9/14/2017 1:18:21 PM
would probably have a similar number of wickets too if Dawson hadn't missed games for England this year

by MctSmithy 9/14/2017 1:18:08 PM
i think it's aesthetics honestly, dawson has possibly the worst action i've seen in a very long time (rivalling ashley giles even)

by Rob Little 9/14/2017 1:18:08 PM
UPDATE: Match delayed by rain (Play due to restart at 2:30pm), Worcestershire 460/8 (112 ov, lead by 56 - 1st inns) v Leics

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/14/2017 1:18:07 PM
by StaggerBreaths via I.imgur 9/14/2017 1:17:58 PM
don't understand why everyone sees Leach as a saviour and Dawson is incompetent? Dawson has a better average and better economy in the championship this year. All of that without the assistance of Ciderabad

by MctSmithy 9/14/2017 1:16:47 PM
Will be the same for Hameed when he opens opposite Cook.

by StaggerBreaths 9/14/2017 1:16:17 PM
Opening with Davy Warner probably didn't help Ed, its easy to look slow when the other guy is striking at 70

by nickcricket 9/14/2017 1:15:37 PM
So Cowan is retired and now its a Hameed

by Lawrence Payne via email 9/14/2017 1:14:41 PM
WICKET: Warwickshire 64/7 (28.1 ov, trail by 104 - 2nd inns) v Essex
KHD Barker c †Foster b Porter 0 (7) Partnership: 9 (2.4 ov)
JA Porter 10.1-3-26-3 MJ Lamb 21* (50)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/14/2017 1:14:05 PM
Hameed's is 37. Nick has a point.

by StaggerBreaths 9/14/2017 1:13:27 PM
Amusingly, Ed's career strike rate is actually 48 which is perfectly respectable.

by NemoUKS 9/14/2017 1:12:43 PM
Yorkshire on Blockathon to avoid getting batting points!

by Lawrence Payne via email 9/14/2017 1:12:41 PM
He heard me.

by StaggerBreaths 9/14/2017 1:11:50 PM
Think Hameed is really pushing who we should be name slow innings after, Ed had nothing on this lad

by nickcricket 9/14/2017 1:11:29 PM
Hameed now bordering on sur-Cowan levels. Dangerous times.

by StaggerBreaths 9/14/2017 1:09:59 PM
This partnership vital for Lancs, wouldn't expect much from Croft and the Kolpaks (great band name)

by nickcricket 9/14/2017 1:09:43 PM
UPDATE: Match delayed by rain, Worcestershire 460/8 (112 ov, lead by 56 - 1st inns) v Leics

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/14/2017 1:07:17 PM
UPDATE: Match start delayed (Further inspection at 3pm), Middlesex 76/3 (30.1 ov) v Hampshire

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/14/2017 1:07:14 PM
Another Uxbridge inspection at 3. You doin' alright Vitu?

by StaggerBreaths 9/14/2017 1:06:50 PM
Nope, a very English 'David Thomas'

by MisanthropeGirl 9/14/2017 1:06:26 PM
His name wasn't anything like Hubert Stroad was it MG?

by StaggerBreaths 9/14/2017 1:05:48 PM
Yes, one bowler who used to play for the side I'm involved with was occasionally to be found on both knees begging the umpire for an LBW decision. Usually wasn't out but he did scare some lads in to giving them.

by MisanthropeGirl 9/14/2017 1:04:33 PM
Only trail by 76 now, batting last at Ciderabad...

by nickcricket 9/14/2017 1:03:51 PM
#HAMEEDFORENGLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND

by StaggerBreaths 9/14/2017 1:03:40 PM
WICKET: Warwickshire 55/6 (25.3 ov, trail by 113 - 2nd inns) v Essex
AJ Mellor c Chopra b Harmer 4 (25) Partnership: 8 (7.4 ov)
SR Harmer 5.3-3-6-2 MJ Lamb 12* (41)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/14/2017 1:03:36 PM