Specsavers Championship, Thursday, September 28, 2017

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3rd & 7 37yd

Not a bowling day today... unless you're Somerset. No wickets in international cricket since lunch in the UAE.

by StaggerBreaths 9/28/2017 9:54:42 AM
RESULT: Lancashire won by 7 wickets
Lancashire 179/3 (38.5 ov, target: 176) v Surrey

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/28/2017 9:54:36 AM
END OF INNINGS: Lancashire 179/3 (38.5 ov, target: 176) v Surrey
S Chanderpaul 43* (44) LS Livingstone 69* (86)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/28/2017 9:54:23 AM
@NemoUKS He is the trend setter, everyone will be kneeling next summer

by nickcricket 9/28/2017 9:54:22 AM
Armageddon due alert: Shiv Chanderpaul has launched consecutive sixes

by NemoUKS 9/28/2017 9:54:20 AM
Good point

by Mark Ofield 9/28/2017 9:53:52 AM
I'd get fearful stick kneeling at slip on a Sunday but fair play Tres...

by NemoUKS 9/28/2017 9:53:32 AM
INDIVIDUAL 50: BT Slater 51* (30)
Derbyshire 89/0 (10 ov, lead by 325 - 2nd inns) v Gloucs

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/28/2017 9:53:31 AM
UPDATE: Match start delayed (Play due to start at 11:30am), Hampshire 20/1 (8 ov, target: 259) v Warwickshire

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/28/2017 9:52:57 AM
@MarkOfield Voges is not a left hander

by Will Colwell 9/28/2017 9:51:37 AM
@Haystack_Jnr I think that's definitely the reasoning, still quite harsh

by Will Colwell 9/28/2017 9:51:32 AM
Its because he got a wicket ironically Will, there are two left handers at the crease and they want Bess on to the lefties

by Mark Ofield 9/28/2017 9:51:20 AM
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That is some catch as well, think Tres wouldn't have taken it were he not in his patented kneeling position

by Will Colwell 9/28/2017 9:51:17 AM
Maybe Bess on for the left hander.

by Haystack_Jnr 9/28/2017 9:51:02 AM
Morning chaps its a sad day this one all round last day of county cricket and a shocking ashes squad. Heres hoping for 6 more Middlesex wickets. I see Matt Maynard is leaving at the end of the season not sure what I make of this

by Mark Ofield 9/28/2017 9:50:40 AM
somewhat harshly, van der Merwe takes three edges and a wicket in his first over of the day... and is taken off for Dom Bess

by Will Colwell 9/28/2017 9:49:35 AM
UPDATE: Match start delayed (Further inspection at 11:30am), Nottinghamshire 477 all out (102.3 ov, trail by 88 - 1st inns) v Sussex

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/28/2017 9:47:32 AM
Try again: countycricketlive.boards.net

by StaggerBreaths 9/28/2017 9:45:16 AM
I know i'd do the same.....but wasting time 15 mins into the day......poor form

by Joe Williams 9/28/2017 9:45:07 AM
Now that the cricket's started, a second plug for the home of the liveblog over the winter: countycricketlive.boards.net

by StaggerBreaths 9/28/2017 9:43:44 AM
lovely bowling from van der Merwe

by Will Colwell 9/28/2017 9:43:38 AM
well.....you could say that was coming!!

by Joe Williams 9/28/2017 9:43:19 AM
THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM

by Will Colwell 9/28/2017 9:43:10 AM
3rd time lucky

by petepineapple81 9/28/2017 9:43:10 AM
WICKET: Middlesex 43/4 (24.5 ov, target: 345) v Somerset
SS Eskinazi c Trescothick b van der Merwe 16 (51) Partnership: 15 (8.3 ov)
RE van der Merwe 6.5-2-9-1 AC Voges 4* (26)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/28/2017 9:42:44 AM
Trescothick badly dropped Eskinazi twice in an over

by petepineapple81 9/28/2017 9:42:36 AM
mon dieu....don't fancy Middx's chances here, could be 2 gone already

by Joe Williams 9/28/2017 9:42:18 AM
Phil Mustard and Chris Dent opening the bowling for Glos?

by Will Colwell 9/28/2017 9:35:28 AM
Yes

by Will Colwell 9/28/2017 9:34:53 AM
It is*

by nickcricket 9/28/2017 9:33:30 AM
I believe so.

by StaggerBreaths 9/28/2017 9:33:28 AM
So if Somerset win and Hants draw it Middlesex down?

by nickcricket 9/28/2017 9:32:52 AM
there are plenty of decent sites to get cricket streams from for free

by Joe Williams 9/28/2017 9:30:53 AM
If Hampshire are saved by a wet outfield I will be so cross.

by StaggerBreaths 9/28/2017 9:30:47 AM
UPDATE: Match start delayed (Inspection at 10:45am), Hampshire 20/1 (8 ov, target: 259) v Warwickshire

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/28/2017 9:29:58 AM
I've never had Sky, objecting to Murdoch more than anything else. Have seen a couple of ways of getting cricket for a trial period, might look into that.

by StaggerBreaths 9/28/2017 9:29:15 AM
Aaron Finch a better player than Hilton Cartwright, who'd thought it

by nickcricket 9/28/2017 9:28:26 AM
per month from then until I remember to cancel, which will probably be 6 months after I stop wanting it.

by nickcricket 9/28/2017 9:27:19 AM
Yeah whatever. They do like a tinker.

by Haystack_Jnr 9/28/2017 9:27:08 AM
@Haystack_Jnr I think they're combining it with 'obstructed the field' or something

by Will Colwell 9/28/2017 9:25:39 AM
obstructing the field now I believe

by Joe Williams 9/28/2017 9:25:30 AM
@Staggers I presume you can still be out that way, but they are changing the nomenclature ?

by Haystack_Jnr 9/28/2017 9:24:37 AM
Don't have BT, don't think I can stand Vaughan in anycase. Don't fancy paying 35 quid to have BT put on my TV to pay 23

by nickcricket 9/28/2017 9:21:43 AM
Just read that, due to law changes, Michael Vaughan will be the last player dismissed 'handled the ball' in Tests. Sad.

by StaggerBreaths 9/28/2017 9:21:24 AM
END OF INNINGS: Gloucestershire 224/2 declared (57 ov, trail by 236 - 1st inns) v Derbyshire
GT Hankins 79* (128) JR Bracey 82* (159)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/28/2017 9:21:21 AM