Lancs v Northants

bill40

bill40

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I'm hoping @THEMISSINGLINK will start a thread in which case I'll delete this. Some interesting team news.

  • Keaton Jennings (c)
  • Michael Jones
  • Josh Bohannon
  • Marcus Harris
  • Matty Hurst (wk)
  • Luke Wells
  • George Balderson
  • Tom Hartley
  • Anderson Phillip
  • Tom Bailey
  • John Turner

For those wondering who the hell John Turner is we loaned for 14 days from Hants. This is a pretty diabolical vote of no confidence in our youngsters. In better news Hartley plays more as a batting all rounder than anything else I suspect. Jimmy and Mahmood still crocked.
 
We are once again fielding although since the O/T pitch is prone to flatten day one is the best time to bowl.
 
Much stronger team this week and I get the loan signing - apparently he's rapid and not sure any of our younger fast bowlers have the pace to make a difference?
 
Leither said:
Much stronger team this week and I get the loan signing - apparently he's rapid and not sure any of our younger fast bowlers have the pace to make a difference?
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Aspinwall bowls at a fair lick and with a frontline of Bailey, Williams and Phillips could easily accommodate one inexperienced bowler. Oh well I suppose it shows how brutally Lancs are fixed on promotion. Oh williams isn't playing, my bad.
 
Oh Balderson opening the bowling with Bailey, I was expecting Phillips. Once again the pitch looks like the end of June.
 
Wicket. Balderson snaffles Vas.. err the opener that isn't Proctor for 16. 23-1. It's a good job Hurst can catch unlike the slips! If we are serious about promotion we have to be beating the likes of Northants... Did I really just say that?
 
Well done on sustaining your support for the dwindling powers of the Red Rose county Bill keep up the good work.

I must admit that after more than 70 years of enthusiastically following their fortunes my devotion of late has faded significantly. As a child all those years ago I used to await with great impatience the delivery of the Evening Gazette to check their latest score in the Stop Press and then listen to the end of play score on the radio. I recall those many magic names Statham,Washbrook,Ikin Tattersall then Pullar Barber,Higgs etc .etc. but the magic sees to have gone now with our bunch of second division strugglers which is so sad for a great county like Lancashire.
 
1950`spoolfan said:
Well done on sustaining your support for the dwindling powers of the Red Rose county Bill keep up the good work.

I must admit that after more than 70 years of enthusiastically following their fortunes my devotion of late has faded significantly. As a child all those years ago I used to await with great impatience the delivery of the Evening Gazette to check their latest score in the Stop Press and then listen to the end of play score on the radio. I recall those many magic names Statham,Washbrook,Ikin Tattersall then Pullar Barber,Higgs etc .etc. but the magic sees to have gone now with our bunch of second division strugglers which is so sad for a great county like Lancashire.
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I'm hoping it's just for one season and it should be. I have a lot of time on my hands and this gives me something to do.
 
bill40 said:
89-2 at lunch have I mentioned we should have batted?
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Lancs are certainly short of a decent seam bowler, it was painfully obvious last season. Not sure about the lad Anderson Phillip, he's played two tests for the West Indies, but none since 2022. Hopefully Jimmy will be fit soon. Unfortunately, some of the young lads aren't quite ready, in my opnion of course.
 
Stewart9 said:
Lancs are certainly short of a decent seam bowler, it was painfully obvious last season. Not sure about the lad Anderson Phillip, he's played two tests for the West Indies, but none since 2022. Hopefully Jimmy will be fit soon. Unfortunately, some of the young lads aren't quite ready, in my opnion of course.
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Phillip and Balderson have bowled really well, yes having Jimmy back will be a bonus but our bowling is strong, not sure about Turner yet.
 
TheSeaWord said:
In most cases you should bat first.

Wickets rarely get better.

The highest score is very rarely in the fourth innings.
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This is Old Trafford the track usually flattens unless it starts spinning which is rare unless you're the very very best.
 
355-5 close. Two great tosses to win and Jenning's got it wrong both times, oh well I'm off to the golf.
 
bill40 said:
355-5 close. Two great tosses to win and Jenning's got it wrong both times, oh well I'm off to the golf.
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Admittedly I didn't get to tune in today so not sure what the pitch is saying, but it seems like the old ghost of not being able to get teams out of there late on without leaking a load of runs is still about from last season
 
thefutureistangerine said:
Admittedly I didn't get to tune in today so not sure what the pitch is saying, but it seems like the old ghost of not being able to get teams out of there late on without leaking a load of runs is still about from last season
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No bounce, no turn, no swing, no movement in the air or off the pitch and if last season is any indication it's only get even flatter :(
 
Bailey bowls a bouncer to start which barely gets up above waist height. One hunderd partnership up.
 
bill40 said:
Morning all, once more unto the breech of a stupid toss call.
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Certainly looks like a bad decision to bowl first. It's not really hindsight either, the forecast was for cloud cover this afternoon so perhaps more opportunities with the ball when we're batting. Seems odd to me as well.
 
Bringing in John Turner after one game smacks of pressing the panic button. Coach knows he won’t survive if we don’t get promotion, director of cricket must wonder about his position, so forget the opportunity to develop players and just get a loan in.

As for the toss decision, either Jennings doesn’t trust his batters or he just thought the attack was good enough to run through a bog standard div 2 team. Well he’s had a wake up call on the latter.

I went to the Oval to watch Surrey v Hampshire yesterday. A mate went to Old Trafford. Surreys gate was over 5,500. Pile of young people coming in after tea for free as well. Mate reckons no more than half that at OT.

20 years ago the two clubs had similar numbers of members, since then Surrey have doubled theirs and Lancs halved theirs. For all the corporate gloss that has been put on OT, interest in Lancashire the county cricket club is not what it was 20 years ago. And for that I blame the Club’s management which has taken its eye off Lancashire cricket and focused exclusively on ground development.
 
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Old Trafford is now an entertainment venue with a cricket club tacked on :( The sooner we leave the venue the better.
 
bill40 said:
Old Trafford is now an entertainment venue with a cricket club tacked on :( The sooner we leave the venue the better.
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What, and go and play in an outer outer suburb of Nobberville? Can’t wait..

Test grounds don’t have to be unappealing places for county cricket. Notts is a great place for a day out.

There’s scope to make OT a much more appealing ground with a limited amount of expenditure.

Surrey have tributes to their great players and teams in murals and boards all around the ground. You could spend a season of lunch breaks reading them. It gives a modern test ground some soul.

Lancs have nothing like this. It wouldn’t take much money to rectify that.
 
hampshire_exile said:
Bringing in John Turner after one game smacks of pressing the panic button. Coach knows he won’t survive if we don’t get promotion, director of cricket must wonder about his position, so forget the opportunity to develop players and just get a loan in.

As for the toss decision, either Jennings doesn’t trust his batters or he just thought the attack was good enough to run through a bog standard div 2 team. Well he’s had a wake up call on the latter.

I went to the Oval to watch Surrey v Hampshire yesterday. A mate went to Old Trafford. Surreys gate was over 5,500. Pile of young people coming in after tea for free as well. Mate reckons no more than half that at OT.

20 years ago the two clubs had similar numbers of members, since then Surrey have doubled theirs and Lancs halved theirs. For all the corporate gloss that has been put on OT, interest in Lancashire the county cricket club is not what it was 20 years ago. And for that I blame the Club’s management which has taken its eye off Lancashire cricket and focused exclusively on ground development.
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I think the decline started when they abandoned the Country membership which gave a cheap ST for those over 50m from OT on the basis they wouldn't go much. I had one for a number of years.

Junior membership not that long ago were very cheap too. Both mini's had them and we went to a few games as a family. They also gave access to the pavillion and I'nal tickets, which was nice.
 
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