Bears/Pears Thread 2013.

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321-7 86.1
Villa boy Kieswetter finally out ct Ambrose b Barker 148
Chawla 11
Thomas in
Getting a little gloomy so may not get next 10 overs in

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332/8 89.2
Thomas Ct Ambrose b Clarke 4
Chawla 18
Dockerell in

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333/9
Chawla ct Westwood b Clarke 18
Dockerell 1
Kirby in

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340 All Out 92.1
Dockrell Ct Patel b Barker 2
Kirby 5
Bowling Fig
Barker      19.1    4     67   3
Clarke      16       4     40   2
Milnes       15      3     64   2
Gordon     14      0     67   0
Patel         23     5     71    3
Maddy       4       0      9     0
Javid         1       0      3     0
Could have 1 over to face light permitting

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Bears opened with Westwood and Ricardo Gordon who batted out the 1 over for a maiden. 0-0 1 over stumps

[Villan For Life]

I thought we'd be in for a long hard slog in the field with our inexperienced attack. Credit to them for sticking with it despite the fielders dropping Kieswetter a few times.

Now for some application from the batsmen.

[PGW]

Problems will be for our bowling attack for 2nd innings both Barker (Ankle) and Clarke have sustained injuries whilst bowling in Somerset innings. Also if Woakes is released by England you would have assumed he would have replaced Gordon. Now that Gordon is batting i assume that Woakes will be unable to bat in the first innings - or does it mean he may replace Barker or Clarke!!!

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Steady start this morning, Gordon has got his first Championship runs - currently:
13-0   8.4 overs
Gordon 2
Westwood 6

Off to work now unfortunately - life somtimes is a bitch!!!

[The Left Side]

Warwickshire v Somerset at Birmingham - Aug 20-23, 2013

Somerset 340; Warwickshire 190/3 (73.5 ov)

Warwickshire trail by 150 runs with 7 wickets remaining in the 1st innings

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Bears now 223- 3 83 overs
Javid a career best 87 NO
Evans 86 no
New ball has been taken and runs coming.
27 overs left to achieve some extra batting points - i imagine 350 must be target to get 4 batting points 5 i think out the question....185 for 4th wkt so far.

[PGW]

Excellent stuff
241-3  87 overs
Evans 103
Javid 88
203 partnership

[Villan For Life]

It's a great recovery from 50-odd for 3.

[Villan For Life]

Bears in for Compton and Buttler from Somerset.

Our fragile batting line up needs addressing but I do question the logic of signing players on the fringe of the England squad. We could lose them for most of the season and end up relying on what we already have.

New Batsmen in?

[Rotterdam]

I think Compton has shot his bolt for England, Buttler is a good youngster and has big potential but isn't good enough for a test place.

[PGW]

Compton has signed a 3 year deal with Somerset this morning.

Slow start this morning - 288-3  101.1 overs
Javid 107
Evans 131