Bears/Pears Cricket Thread 2014

[adrenachrome]

Well bowled Wrighty!

Great to see him getting back into the groove. In favourable conditions he can be very effective.

Bear in mind though that Notts have not made the heavy roller available for this match, and all the batsmen apart from Bell are struggling. 

[PGW]

For 73 minutes Read and Patel frustrated the Bears attack reaching 115 when Patel was out for 54.
7 balls later the innings over just adding one run. Woakes taking the last 3 wickets in the over.
Last 4 wickets and bowling figures:
Patel Ct Bell        b Hannon-Dalby 54
Read ct Ambrose b Woakes          27
Carter  LBW            Woakes           0
Gurney Ct Bell     b  Woakes           0
Siddle       Not Out                          0

116 All Out
Chopra Ct Read b Siddle                0 (2nd ball)

Bears bowling figures
Barker             11           3           36         1
Wright             14           5           34         3
Hannon-Dalby  8            0            25        2
Woakes            5            1            13        3

Chopra's dismissal means 5 wickets in 10 balls

[Villan For Life]

5 wickets in 10 balls is amazing.

[PGW]

Into the last over before lunch Bears moved onto 21-1 a lead of 168
Porterfield 10
Evans 9

[Dave Cooper please]

What's happened to Chopra? He's having a 'mare!

[PGW]

What's happened to Chopra? He's having a 'mare!

And Javid - a second duck here first ball . Not good news i'm afraid Bears 65-5 a lead of 212.
The other 4 wickets to fall:
Evans Ct Lumb b Siddle  24
Porterfield Ct Patel b Siddle 22
Bell Ct Read b Gurney 5
Javid Ct Read b Gurney 0
Ambrose no 9
Woakes no 0

Already 9 wickets have fallen in the day.

[Villan For Life]

Is it the pitch PGW? That's 25 wickets in 4.5 sessions of cricket.

[PGW]

A combination of pitch and bloody good bowling....Siddle bowled unchanged since lunch , well until a couple of overs ago along with Harry Gurney and between them got Bears in a stranglehold.
Woakes and Ambrose have started to play a few shots and Ambrose has become only the 9th batsman to reach double figures in the match.
Shows what a good century Bell's was.
83-5 230 ahead - must get a 300 lead - these pair put 26 on now.

[PGW]

83-6
Woakes Ct Mullaney b Fletcher 9

[PGW]

102-6 lead of 249
Ambrose 21
Barker 15

[PGW]

113-7
Ambrose LBW Carter 29
Barker 18
Lead of 260
Patel in now
12 overs to go till Tea

[PGW]

115-8
Barker ct Read b Fletcher 18
Lead 262 Notts will have to get the highest score in the match to win this.
Some of the shot selection's by both sets of batsmen catastrophic proportions!!!

[PGW]

120-9
Wright LBW Carter 0
Lead 267
Patel 6
Hannon-Dalby last man.
We will be bowling before Tea!

[cdbearsfan]

Is it only day two, or have I gone mad and lost a day somewhere?

[Villan For Life]

Is it only day two, or have I gone mad and lost a day somewhere?

It's day two