England cricket
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England watch week 4 – days 1 & 2.
This week’s England watch begins at Trent Bridge, where Notts are taking on Warwickshire. Notts won the toss and elected to bowl first. They had the better of the morning session, reducing Warwickshire to 96/3 at lunch. Dan Mousley making 49 before being caught by Haseeb Hameed off the bowling of England’s Josh Tongue. England
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The championship that keeps on giving. Part 2 – the batters.
Jamie Smith has made a remarkable start to the season after being dismissed for 9 in his first innings of the summer. He’s made scores of 132, 166 and 89 to put himself top of the batting charts this summer with 396 runs at an average of 99.Smith’s move up to number 3 for Surrey
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The championship that keeps on giving.
After three rounds, all played in April, we should be talking about green seamers and low scores. The championship has provided twists and turns, boring draws and thrilling finishes. We’ll start with the king, Sir James Anderson. Despite being 43 years young, he’s got 21 wickets at an average of 12 on some very slow
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England watch week 3 – days 3 & 4.
Somerset vs Hampshire. Somerset beat Hampshire by 2 wickets in a pulsating game at Southampton Nick Gubbins took his score to 83 before being caught by Overton off the bowling of Jack Leach. Jake Lehmann then made 50 before being bowled by Alfie Ogborne as Hampshire reached 265/4 at lunch on day 3. Hampshire wasted
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England watch week 3 – Days 1 & 2.
With only four matches in the championship this week, I’ll review them all. My roundup begins at Southampton. Hampshire won the toss and elected to bat against Somerset. They made their way to 112/4 at lunch with Tony Albert making 42. Once he was dismissed, Jake Lehmann played a lone hand with 76 to get
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Another Aussie invasion.
The county championship has begun once again, and is awash with Australian overseas players. Fifteen will play for English counties this summer, while it has been 9 years now since Mason Crane played his one match for New South Wales. This shows me that the English game has become reliant on the overseas player, and
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The ECB and the current pitch debate.
Now the ECB have brought in the new rule in the county championship that will see the home side docked ALL their points if the pitch is deemed unfit, how will this change pitch preparation?In my view, not much having seen the utter run-fest at the Oval, where you could have played for a week
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Cricket and its paywall issues.
Having seen the news that Lancashire are putting its YouTube coverage of county championship matches behind a paywall, this saddens me greatly.Firstly, I cannot see why Lancashire need to do this; it seems like a business decision more than anything. “Instead of making something free on an accessible platform such as YouTube, lets charge for
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England watch week 2 – days 3 & 4.
Essex vs Somerset. Somerset beat Essex by 10 wickets inside three days at Chelmsford. Essex began day 3 on 131/3, but they collapsed to 245 all out. Matt Critchley moved his score to 59 before he edged Overton to Archie Vaughn at slip. Overton finished with figures of 2/46 from 19 overs. Somerset were set
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Substitutes, a gamble on team selection?
Are teams just taking a chance on players and then reviewing player fitness in real time?For genuine injuries, I have no issues. Is this situation open for manipulation? Definitely yes. You can pick a player who might not be fully fit, and if he goes down injured, you lose nothing because you can replace him
