Specsavers Championship, Wednesday, September 20, 2017

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3rd & 7 37yd

Boyd Rankin was pretty dreadful in his 1 test wasn't he

by Dav3theRav3951 9/20/2017 2:08:36 PM
TEAM 200: Surrey 203/4 (64.2 ov, trail by 66 - 1st inns) v Somerset
OJ Pope 19* (25) KC Sangakkara 44* (76)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/20/2017 2:08:28 PM
WICKET: Durham 222/5 (60.3 ov, trail by 124 - 1st inns) v Sussex
MJ Richardson c †Burgess b Jordan 15 (31) Partnership: 29 (8.4 ov)
CJ Jordan 15.3-5-34-1 G Clark 24* (37)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/20/2017 2:08:26 PM
Anthony McGrath avg 40.20 with the bat and 14 with the ball but dropped. Usual anti Yorkshire ECB bias

by nickcricket 9/20/2017 2:08:09 PM
Afzaal got a fifty, which rules him out. Also rules out Schofield, amusingly

by Duluth K. Archaeopteryx 9/20/2017 2:07:46 PM
Ian Ward, 5 Tests average 16

by nickcricket 9/20/2017 2:07:04 PM
I was going to say Gavin Hamilton but he was in 1999

by Dave Knibb 9/20/2017 2:06:50 PM
Usman Afzaal

by nickcricket 9/20/2017 2:04:58 PM
Keaton Jennings

by Steadman19 9/20/2017 2:03:57 PM
The Beep wouldn't get me pick 11 new players so TRJ had to play but probably best for the Captain to have played before

by nickcricket 9/20/2017 2:02:55 PM
1.Browne 2. Burns 3 Gubbins. 4. Clarke 5. Livingsone 6. Northeast 7. Foakes (wk) 8. TRJ(C) 9. Porter 10. Jack Leach 11. Coad

by nickcricket 9/20/2017 2:01:37 PM
Pattinson did take a couple of wickets though

by Dave Knibb 9/20/2017 2:01:08 PM
Richard Dawson be up there as well probably

by Dav3theRav3951 9/20/2017 2:01:02 PM
Kerrigan didn't exactly set the world alight either.

by Brendan Mulcahy 9/20/2017 2:00:48 PM
Darren Pattinson, Scott Borthwick as a spinner

by Dav3theRav3951 9/20/2017 1:59:43 PM
Darren Pattinson has to be up there. Hoggard realised his England career was well and truly down the pan when they picked him at Headingley.

by Brendan Mulcahy 9/20/2017 1:59:34 PM
(ducks for cover)

by dez dezzy 9/20/2017 1:59:25 PM
Gary Ballance

by dez dezzy 9/20/2017 1:59:09 PM
WICKET: Middlesex 54/3 (20.5 ov, lead by 122 - 2nd inns) v Lancashire
DJ Malan lbw b McLaren 18 (48) Partnership: 38 (14.3 ov)
R McLaren 6.5-3-7-1 SD Robson 24* (52)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/20/2017 1:59:00 PM
Who do you think were the worst Test players since the millenium? Amjad Khan? Ian Blackwell? James Ormond?

by Dave Knibb 9/20/2017 1:58:18 PM
@Dave - yeah and do the same thing to Root, try and get him to up his ton conversion rate it.

by Haystack_Jnr 9/20/2017 1:57:36 PM
I picked 11 debutantes, safer that way

by nickcricket 9/20/2017 1:52:11 PM
@Steadman I just think leaving Broad out for a couple of games might concerntrate his mind a bit, he's coasting at the moment.

by Dave Knibb 9/20/2017 1:52:11 PM
I had no Anderson...

by StaggerBreaths 9/20/2017 1:50:57 PM
Bit harsh to drop Broad I think, especially as he didn't have that spell where he rips through a team this summer, he's due one

by Dav3theRav3951 9/20/2017 1:50:54 PM
@DaveKnibb oooo I originally had no Broad too! If he struggles in the first 2 tests it'll be interesting!

by Steadman19 9/20/2017 1:49:47 PM
Really Yorkshire could do with getting the batting point for 300, Matt Fisher does bat pretty well in the 2nd team, and with the man third on the list of Yorkshire averages for the season by players in this match to come in next. Jack Brooks

by nickcricket 9/20/2017 1:49:22 PM
bbc.in

by Humair Arshad 9/20/2017 1:47:59 PM
Ah Tymal. What might have been. Think my favourite Mills Moment was when he decided to try and break Graeme Swann on the eve of an Ashes series. What a hero.

by SDHoneymonster 9/20/2017 1:47:21 PM
bbc.in

by Dave Knibb 9/20/2017 1:47:05 PM
TEA: Northamptonshire 109/1 (25 ov, lead by 152 - 2nd inns) v Notts
RI Newton 30* (75) RE Levi 71* (63)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/20/2017 1:47:01 PM
This is Matt Fisher's forth FC Match and he doesn't have a run or an Average yet

by nickcricket 9/20/2017 1:46:29 PM
@SDHoneymonster I've seen enough of us to know that we have the capacity to **** it up even against Warks!

by Joe Williams 9/20/2017 1:44:22 PM
Also good to see somebody else doesn't see the point in having nine batsmen (since Woakes essentially is one).

by StaggerBreaths 9/20/2017 1:43:48 PM
Middlesex 233 & 54-2 v Lancashire 165

So we've been off for bad light for about 30-minutes but the light has improved. That being said, tea is at 2:40pm with an inspection to take place at 2:55pm. Prior to the delay, Sam Robson and Dawid Malan had been diligent in getting Middlesex past fifty, from 16 for two. Tom Bailey, still getting the ball to leap from the Pavilion End – one drew the edge of Nick Compton's bat, another crunched the fingers of Stevie Eskinazi. When Bailey bowled Eskinazi, he moved onto his career-best match figures – this is the first time he has seven across two innings.

by Vithushan Ehantharajah 9/20/2017 1:43:12 PM
Mills was bobbins for ages Dez. People kept saying, 'Why do they keep picking him, he's left arm and fast but he'll never amount to anything.' Then it all clicked suddenly. As did his vertebrae...

by StaggerBreaths 9/20/2017 1:42:52 PM
@Steadman19 - haha, I know what you mean! More thinking pf his slower ball bouncers etc which made quite a few batsmen look extremely silly

by dez dezzy 9/20/2017 1:42:45 PM
@Joe - have you watched Warwickshire this season?

by SDHoneymonster 9/20/2017 1:42:43 PM
David Hopps at Yorkshire 228-7 v Warwickshire
Warwickshire have been impressively committed for a side bound for relegation and it has been exemplified again in the dismissal of Jack Leaning - a slick catch low to his left by Ian Bell in the gully. Leaning's sober 36 has helped take Yorkshire into the lead. It is only 9 at the moment and they will be hoping for 50 minimum from the last three wicket.

by David Hopps 9/20/2017 1:42:07 PM
@Dav3theRav3951 The all-rounder xi!

by Steadman19 9/20/2017 1:41:45 PM
Turning into a pretty feeble effort against a pretty feeble Warks side here....certainly need another 70 runs or so, can't imagine their top order will quite so turd 2nd time round

by Joe Williams 9/20/2017 1:41:44 PM
@dezdezzy These skills being the ability to get injured at least once every 3 months?

by Steadman19 9/20/2017 1:41:32 PM
TEAM 200: Durham 200/4 (53.3 ov, trail by 146 - 1st inns) v Sussex
G Clark 17* (20) MJ Richardson 0* (6)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 9/20/2017 1:41:28 PM