Bears/Pears Cricket Thread 2014

[Chris Jameson]

I think they still allow people on the outfield at Scarborough from time to time, used to love playing in the interval when we were kids! I'd love to see them being overrun by hundreds of kids determined to get on the sacred grass!

[hipkiss92]

Paul Horton banned for first two T20 games of next years for those asking

[tomd2103]

Paul Horton banned for first two T20 games of next years for those asking

Deserved two games for that poor attempt at a 'tache alone.   

[Andy Poole]

As a kid, my friend and I would pay into the Rea Bank.
At lunch we'd be on the outfield playing with a bat and Tennis ball. Then as the bell was rung we'd nip over into the members area at extra cover to watch the rest of the days' play from there.
As long as we behaved there was never a problem.

We did eventually get memberships. I was 15 when I got my first. That made it far easier to get behind the pavillion to get autographs and my favourite moment was Mike Brearley, getting all the kids to form an orderly queue, while he sat down at one of the old picnic tables to sign autographs.

[adrenachrome]

They let people onto  the playing area at Edgbaston in the 4 day County Championship games in the lunch and tea intervals.

[Villan For Life]

They let people onto  the playing area at Edgbaston in the 4 day County Championship games in the lunch and tea intervals.

Why don't they allow it in domestic one day games?

[Simon Ward]

They let people onto  the playing area at Edgbaston in the 4 day County Championship games in the lunch and tea intervals.

Why don't they allow it in domestic one day games?

Thems the rules!

[Chris Jameson]

Root is captain for Yorkshire's final two matches, hope it goes a lot better than his previous match as captain.

[adrenachrome]

Coventry Telegraph

Chris Woakes given final chance for Bears action this championship season

England management want all of their seam-bowlers to have six weeks clear rest before tour to Sri Lanka

Sep 08, 2014 15:01 By Brian Halford



Chris Woakes will return to Warwickshire’s team against Northamptonshire on Tuesday, but it will be the all-rounder’s last championship game of the season.

He will miss the last fixture, at home to Durham starting on September 23, because the England management want all of their seam-bowlers to have six weeks clear rest before the tour to Sri Lanka.

There is some logic to the management’s stance in terms of certain fast-bowlers – those who are late in their careers and have played in all international cricket this season.

It could be argued that Woakes, who spent much of the first half of the summer in England squads without making the team, would be better off playing than returning to the watching brief with which he has become all-too-familiar in the past couple of years.

It means that Woakes’s final appearance of the season for his county will be in the Royal London Cup final against Durham at Lord’s on September 20.

The former Aston Manor and Walmley player, who was recently awarded an incremental contract by the England And Wales Cricket Board, has been made available by the board for the final, as has Ian Bell subject to him recovering from his broken toe. Reports from Arbroath suggests Bell is likely to be fit to play in the final.

[Chris Jameson]

Chris Read dropped a straightforward catch from Adam Lyth second ball of the day, he dropped Stokes the other day early on in his innings too, hope this proves as costly!

[Chris Jameson]

Sorry to hijack this thread but rather than create my own Yorkshire thread in tribute to the Luke Haines thread where one person talks to themselves i'm going to post about my first team in here (Villa are my second team). Anyway, at the risk of speaking too soon, Yorkshire are going along nicely at 88 for 0 after 19 overs.

[Chris Jameson]

Yorkshire 104/0 Lyth 52*, Lees 52*
Northants 78/1
Worcester 99/4

[Chris Jameson]

Lunch
Yorkshire 118/0 Lyth 62*, Lees 55*
Northants 90/3
Worcester 131/5

Read dropped Stokes when he was on 12 the other day before he went on to score 164, dropped Lyth on 0 today.

[Chris Jameson]

Yorkshire 204/1 Another century for Lyth 100*.
Northants 169/5
Worcester 228/6

Surely Yorkshire can't lose it from here, looking at the batting line up with Rashid coming in at 7 having scored 169* last match, it must be the strongest batting line up we've had in years.

[adrenachrome]

Northants 169 for 7.