The Bears/Pears/County Cricket Thread 2015

[steffo]

As the sun came out I went down at tea to watch the last session. We didn't take the new ball until 90 overs and then Patel bowled the second over with the new ball. If I was Patel I would ask for a pay rise - 35 overs bowled.

[pooligan]

As soon as i heard Eakin say Nash has hardly scored a run this season , you just knew he would post a good score. Stating the obvious we need some quick wickets this morning

[Chris Jameson]

Another century for Bairstow yesterday, his third of the season and he and Bresnan have helped Yorkshire recover to a decent score against Durham.

[adrenachrome]

380 for 5. Luke Wright just gone for 110. Played on from Patel. Chris Woakes was on the pitch as 12th man. 

[Chris Jameson]

Century for Bresnan, he and Bairstow have now put on 248 for the seventh wicket.

[Chris Jameson]

Partnership is now a record for the seventh-wicket for Yorkshire, surpassing Wilfred Rhodes and Cecil Burton's stand of 254 in 1919!

[adrenachrome]

480 for 5 here. 550 by tea being predicted
 #burythegroundsmanunderthewicket
 

[adrenachrome]

500 for 5. Trott bowling. Pleasant breezes in the upper press box.

[Chris Jameson]

Yorkshire 557/6 declared. Bairstow 219 no, Bresnan 169 no, 366 partnership.

Durham 41/2

[adrenachrome]

562 for 5 at tea. Our pace attack have bowled 45 overs between them. Josh Poysner our yoot leggie has has 1 for 154 off 40. Sussex have 4 centurions.

[cdbearsfan]

They declared 601 for 6, we're already 14 for 2.

The two Sussex matches will cost us the title this year, I reckon.

[Villafirst]

Why do we always seem to struggle against Sussex? THey've had a shocking run in the last few games up and til today. Could do with Chris Woakes being fit soon. Barker out for 4 weeks is a blow.

[adrenachrome]

Edgbaston.com

Brian Halford's Match Report Day 2


Sussex found their batting form in spectacular fashion to pile up 601 for six and take total command of their LV=County Championship match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston.

At the start of this round of games, no team in either division had fewer batting points than Sussex but their middle-order burst collectively into form as the home side's decision to prepare a slow pitch backfired spectacularly.

It was a tale of sun-soaked midsummer misery for Warwickshire as four batsmen plundered centuries.

Chris Nash (121, 203 balls, 14 fours, one six) and Luke Wright (110, 204 balls, 13 fours, one six) laid a platform on which Ben Brown and Ashar Zaidi ruthlessly built. Brown (an unbeaten 119, 150 balls, eight fours, one six) and Zaidi (106, 149 balls, 13 fours) added 191, a Sussex sixth-wicket record against Warwickshire which also took the team to their best total against the Bears, surpassing 562 at Horsham in 2004.

The runfest left Warwickshire contemplating a follow-on figure of 452 and that looked a long way away when Steve Magoffin took two wickets in his first 20 balls to have them 14 for two.

Warwickshire closed on 62 for three after Luke Wells trapped Ian Westwood lbw just before the close.  They need Jonathan Trott, a habitual plunderer of Sussex over the years, to bat for a long time tomorrow.

After Sussex resumed this morning on 280 for three, Nash and Wright extended their partnership to 169 before the former charged at Jeetan Patel and was stumped. Wright's excellent innings, watchful on the first evening then more aggressive, ended when he played on to Patel.

If the home side thought removing those century-makers would conclude their punishment they were mistaken. During the afternoon session Sussex added 146 without loss on a pitch offering no encouragement to the seamers and only the slowest turn. Warwickshire's four spinners toiled through 112.4 overs for just four wickets for 374 runs.

Zaidi finally perished when he became Laurie Evans's second victim in first-class cricket and the declaration soon followed.

Facing significant scoreboard pressure, Warwickshire were hit by a superb opening spell from Magoffin. Varun Chopra, having survived several big appeals, nicked to wicketkeeper Brown and Ateeq Javid edged to second slip to leave the Aussie paceman with 3.2-2-2-2.

Few batsman relish a backs-to-the-wall challenge more than Westwood and Trott and they survived to within three overs of stumps before Westwood fell to a ball which turned sharply.

[adrenachrome]

100 partnership between Trott and Wright. 160 for 3 approaching lunch.

[Chris Jameson]

Durham 208 all out. Following on 33/0 at lunch, 316 runs behind.