Bears & Pears Cricket Thread 2011

[frank]

Neal Abberley the ex-Bears coach and latter mentor to Ian Bell has died.

http://www.edgbaston.com/news/neal-abberley/

A fitting tribute would be for Belly to score a ton in the Edgbaston test. No Bears player has ever scored a ton in an Edgbaston test.

I'm a Pears supporter, one of the few in this forum, but I do like Ian Bell, partly because he's a fine batsman and partly because he's a Villa fan. He wrote this handsome tribute to Neal Abberley in today's Evening Standard: LINK

[spangley1812]

Good news that Durham lost to Hampshire, that leaves us 17 points behind them with 2 games in hand....We need to beat
Hampshire @ Edgbaston next week

[Gareth]

Great win for the Pears...is the great escape on? Shame Ajmal isn't there till end of season

[spangley1812]

Great win for the Pears...is the great escape on? Shame Ajmal isn't there till end of season

You have signed the Windies paceman Kemar Roach to replace him havnt you............

[Gareth]

Yep, asking him to hit the ground running, a name I've heard but can't say I remember seeing him play though.  Ajmal has just started to really come good like Shakib last year.

[Villan For Life]

Good news that Durham lost to Hampshire, that leaves us 17 points behind them with 2 games in hand....We need to beat
Hampshire @ Edgbaston next week

We need to win and win well. The points deduction from earlier in the season could be offset by clocking up a few more bonus points.

[cdbearsfan]

Bears on telly now. Nothing on the game but hopefully we can take some form into the Championship games. Chanderpaul debuts too.

[Villan For Life]

Christ we were shit but I put that down to the fact that the match was meaningless for the Bears.

[Simon Ward]

Christ we were shit but I put that down to the fact that the match was meaningless for the Bears.

The next four days are surely the focus for the Bears!

[Villan For Life]

Christ we were shit but I put that down to the fact that the match was meaningless for the Bears.

Let's hope so.
The next four days are surely the focus for the Bears!

[Simon Ward]

Hants 48-5! Lets just hope the pitcxh doesn't get reported again!

[Villan For Life]

137-8, Woakes has 5 for 20.

[taylorsworkrate]

good on ya woakesy

7 for 20 not too bad an effort.

[Villan For Life]

141 all out, good performance from Woakes who returned figures of 14.4 - 3 - 20 - 7

Career best figures for another cricketing Villa fan.

[TopDeck113]

Westwood gone, making it 11 wickets in less than two sessions.  I can feel a pitch report coming,