Specsavers Championship, Wednesday, June 28, 2017

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3rd & 7 37yd

Well that was one very applaudable effort from Umeed to stop the rot at Warks anyway.

by dez dezzy 6/28/2017 2:08:23 PM
Two different games at Chelmsford at the moment; one at the end Cook is batting, one at the end Browne is.

by SDHoneymonster 6/28/2017 2:04:57 PM
Croft has dropped a catch

by nickcricket 6/28/2017 2:04:53 PM
Fair play to the lad - I don't think I faced 392 balls in the 16 seasons I played cricket.

by Brendan Mulcahy 6/28/2017 2:02:24 PM
Lancs need to get this game moving, Send Jos Buttler in to open as a pinch hitter. it what he did in his last match for them

by nickcricket 6/28/2017 2:01:54 PM
UPDATE: Match start delayed (No play before Tea, rain), Derbyshire 2/0 (2 ov, lead by 53 - 2nd inns) v Glamorgan

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/28/2017 2:01:31 PM
Even a triple Cowan must be pretty unusual?

by Sam Inglis 6/28/2017 2:01:10 PM
@SamInglis He gets is weight forward more when he is batting well, had a bit of trouble with the full ball after the short ball but that was more mental than technique. The odd thing about his second stint in the side is that generally of the years he has been a good player of spin but by the end he was so out of from would probably have got out to medium pace full tosses if that is all that was bowled at him.

by nickcricket 6/28/2017 1:53:55 PM
Paul Edwards at Essex 161-0 v Middlesex

Looking considerably safer than the Bank of England, Alastair Cook has just reached his century (his third in ten Championship innings this year) off 135 balls and with 17 fours, six of them hit this morning when he has shown no ill-effects from being whacked in the jaw during morning catching practice. Just as importantly, Essex have made good progress in the pre-scone session and looks like a long day and evening for Middlesex.

by Paul Edwards 6/28/2017 1:53:53 PM
WICKET: Warwickshire 284/8 (121.1 ov, lead by 11 - 1st inns) v Lancashire
JS Patel st †Davies b Parry 50 (86) Partnership: 100 (31.3 ov)
SD Parry 16.1-5-20-1 ARI Umeed 112* (385)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/28/2017 1:48:30 PM
@DaveKnibb Yeah, added to the amount of video analysis people can see. Ballance had been dissected and written off the moment he stopped scoring record amounts of runs

by nickcricket 6/28/2017 1:47:15 PM
UPDATE: Match start delayed (No play before Tea, rain ), Kent 105/4 (34 ov, trail by 86 - 2nd inns) v Notts

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/28/2017 1:46:55 PM
And Ballance was still getting stick when he averaged 55

by Will 6/28/2017 1:45:41 PM
- Live Update
George Dobell at Warwickshire (284-7) v Lancashire (273)

Good afternoon from Edgbaston, where Umeed and Patel, who has just reached his half-century, have added 100 for the eighth-wicket and we appear to be in the stage of the innings where the ball has stopped swinging. The pair have also earned Warwickshire a slender first innings lead. It’s overcast here and rain is a threat, but we might just escape it.

by George.Dobell 6/28/2017 1:45:16 PM
Unless Yorkshire bat really badly tomorrow given the forecast is for a full days play at the moment, but 19 wickets in a day is a big ask when only one of them can be Adam Lyth

by nickcricket 6/28/2017 1:36:46 PM
Cook is just warming up to smash McCullums record for the quickest Test century & most 6's in a Test innings at Lords next week.

by dez dezzy 6/28/2017 1:29:58 PM
Soon as*

by SDHoneymonster 6/28/2017 1:26:56 PM
Apart from that Nick, is everything okay?

by Dave Knibb 6/28/2017 1:26:17 PM
Seeing as TRJ has been anointed the next chosen one by us on here Cook's smacking him all over Chelmsford.

by SDHoneymonster 6/28/2017 1:25:47 PM
Then you have got the batting purists, they are going to study the technique of each player and then comment excessively on any player outside of the deemed correct tekkers. Establish players are immune to this on a count of how they are the exception that proves the rule.

by nickcricket 6/28/2017 1:22:08 PM
England to carefully manage all the different Twitter stakeholder groups the specialist Keeper mob, they love a good dropped catch lets them remember better days when Keepers went though whole careers without missing anything despite seemingly pulling off high risk feats of acrobatics in nearly very game.

by nickcricket 6/28/2017 1:21:27 PM
Finn in the slips?? that's a long way to fall

by dez dezzy 6/28/2017 1:09:34 PM
Finn drops Browne at third slip, mistakes in the slips are good but not as good as keeping mistakes

by nickcricket 6/28/2017 1:08:43 PM
Think I'd have Foster as wicketkeeper ahead of Wheater, or have you demoted him for trying to injure Cook?

by JoeTheRef 6/28/2017 1:04:13 PM
If the injuries are confirmed then TRJ certainly has to be the first in line, especially given his recent form & knowing the Lords slope etc so well

by dez dezzy 6/28/2017 12:46:35 PM
Match start delayed (No play AFTER Tea, rain), Yorkshire 27/1 (10.5 ov, trail by 489 - 1st inns) v Surrey

by nickcricket 6/28/2017 12:45:28 PM
UPDATE: Match start delayed (Start delayed due to rain), Derbyshire 2/0 (2 ov, lead by 53 - 2nd inns) v Glamorgan

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/28/2017 12:45:04 PM
UPDATE: Match start delayed (No play before Tea, rain), Yorkshire 27/1 (10.5 ov, trail by 489 - 1st inns) v Surrey

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/28/2017 12:44:55 PM
Depending on how fit all the bowlers are Stokes, Wood, Broad and Anderson is quite a risky bowling lineup. Think England will try and back to guys who have been in and around the team before. TRJ was in a squad last summer could see them calling Finn again because the prospect of him in full flow like against SA in 2016 is so tantalising

by nickcricket 6/28/2017 12:44:51 PM
Good one Foster, that's why you never got all those england caps

by Matt_MYano 6/28/2017 12:43:34 PM
UPDATE: Match start delayed (Start delayed due to rain), Yorkshire 27/1 (10.5 ov, trail by 489 - 1st inns) v Surrey

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/28/2017 12:38:49 PM
@dezdezzy Reckon Jimmy will play, Broad wants to play in the Lords final to prove his fitness. I like Jake Ball but he wasn't in many people team for the first test so isn't much of a miss. There is also the situation with Ben Stokes, how much will he be a available to bowl if it isn't much then it adds to the risk of going in with a few question marks hanging over Broad. Would expect to see Wood back in at some stage which isn't a new cap although it feels a little like one. Would like to see TRJ as well but that will depend on if the first choice guys are fit or not

by nickcricket 6/28/2017 12:35:48 PM
UPDATE: Match start delayed (Start delayed due to rain), Kent 105/4 (34 ov, trail by 86 - 2nd inns) v Notts

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/28/2017 12:35:29 PM
STUMPS: Essex 106/0 (36 ov, trail by 140 - 1st inns) v Middlesex
AN Cook 64* (101) NLJ Browne 40* (115)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/28/2017 12:35:12 PM
UPDATE: Match start delayed (Play due to start at 2:15pm), Gloucestershire 31/0 (7 ov, trail by 327 - 1st inns) v Sussex

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/28/2017 12:33:47 PM
Steady rain all day so far in Southampton.

by Matt Warwick 6/28/2017 12:33:42 PM
if toby roland jones doesn't play at Lord's then the england selectors deserve to be hounded out of the country

by Rob Little 6/28/2017 12:33:34 PM
If I were the umps at Headingley the question I would be asking is how quickly can we abandon the days play, The Yorkshire captain is so confident of no play he isn't even at the ground...

by nickcricket 6/28/2017 12:17:10 PM
Forecast is decent at Worcs for the 3 day game with the Lions and SA which is a bonus for all involved

by nickcricket 6/28/2017 12:14:55 PM
Also, are Notts granted a bonus wicket due to Billings being not out overnight and leaving to join the Lions?

by dez dezzy 6/28/2017 12:13:55 PM
Very gloomy but mainly dry down south today - should get a full days play at Chelmsford and hopefully a couple of sessions at Hove.

by dez dezzy 6/28/2017 12:12:53 PM