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You are only one win off 2nd place though… minus the bonus points
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We don’t look like winning though! Our bowling looks ordinary and the batting has relied too much on Harris. Once he threw his wicket away, the last 7 wickets fell for only 49 runs.
Keaton Jennings has now resigned as captain. And Mark Chilton, Director of Cricket, has apologised to all Lancashire members for the poor start to the season.
All is not well with the Red Rose.
Should have kept Hameed. Could do with a steady batsman at the top of the order at present.
I notice Lancashire have returned Luke Wells to the top of the order, from where he probably never should have been displaced.
The most eyecatching opening arrangement so far in this week’s round of Championship games, however, is Lewis Gregory’s inserting of himself and Josh Davey as numbers one and two. Give how often the two of them, and Gregory in particular, are finding themselves in early and digging the side out of trouble following five or six cheap wickets, I can see the logic up to a point.
The Somerset fans among you won’t thank me for this, but I’d nominated them for the drop along with Worcestershire pre-season, based on the hangover from losing out in all three title races within mere weeks last term. That’s a lot to recover from.
If the victory over Essex (whose complacency from last backend appears to be creeping in once more) represents a genuine turning of a corner, my prediction could soon start looking a bit less well-founded.
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“I notice Lancashire have returned Luke Wells to the top of the order, from where he probably never should have been displaced.”
And to prove you right, he scores a century.
“The Somerset fans among you won’t thank me for this, but I’d nominated them for the drop along with Worcestershire pre-season, based on the hangover from losing out in all three title races within mere weeks last term. That’s a lot to recover from.”
I’ve just been told the Somerset are creeping up the table..
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Dale Benkenstein sent on his way by Lancashire earlier this week, it appears, and an opening night’s victory in the T20 Blast immediately follows. Possibly coincidental, equally possibly not.
I suspect that’s it for Dale as a coach in this country, having taken two counties to the foot of CC division two in the space of two and a half seasons. A shame on a personal level, considering his more fruitful experiences as a player over here for a while.
Let’s see what the future holds for his son Luc at Essex going forward. It’s been quiet from him so far this year, but I’d have assumed to see more of him in the one-day format anyway, what with Matthew Critchley continuing to block his most obvious path in the CC starting XI.
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It looks like the County Championship is going to be reduced even further. It won’t be popular with county members but it is inevitable. The Championship is being watched by dwindling crowds while the Blast and The Hundred bring in the crowds and generate the profits.
It does make sense to bring the Blast finals day forward.
Somerset county cricket club celebrate their 150 year anniversary tomorrow meaning it took them 14 years to become a fully official side competing in the county championship.. Either that or my records don’t back past 1891
Still hope for them to make a 100 side then…. pass the sick bucket
My pal the beast Paul O once of this parish was posting on facebook a record score in the 100’s history yesterday
I don’t count a couple of years as history myself… sorry Paul …Charles Darwin to conquer the World
Not county cricket but Australian Alana King stands out a mile ahead of anyone else in the women’s World Cup
16/5 to be top bowler for the Aussie’s in the Semi Final vs India is plenty big enough to be played
the female version of Shane Warne would make a useful addition to some of the mens sidesCharles Darwin to conquer the World
The cricket fixtures were released yesterday. The County Championship starts on 3rd April. It seems to get earlier every year.
Lancashire has wisely chosen to have two games on outgrounds next season. Blackpool and a return to the fold for Southport & Birkdale.
Thank you to Derbyshire for making Lancashire their opponents at Chesterfield, which means another visit to that lovely ground.
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