Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread 2016

[ACVilla]

Today saw two very rare occurrences:

All eleven Warwickshire players bowled and the wicket keeper got a wicket.

[adrenachrome]

Today saw two very rare occurrences:

All eleven Warwickshire players bowled and the wicket keeper got a wicket.

Not a good advert for county championship cricket, to be honest.

[Dave Cooper please]

Thought early season pitches were meant to be bowler friendly result wickets.
If 20 wickets had fallen in a day there would be trouble and fines, why not the same for producing a pitch so unlikely to produce a result?

[cdbearsfan]

It's always been the way. Cricket doesn't care about the fans. Witness the number of times umpires take teams off even when the bowling team is more than happy to play spinners so it's not dangerous in any way, or the ludicrous scheduling of county games to avoid taking advantage of weekends.

[adrenachrome]

We just got Lyth. Yorks 50 for 2. Freezing.

[PGW]

113-4
A wkt for each of the bowlers,Barker,Woakes, Clarke & Rankin....Bairstow gone 20
Ballance 25*
Leaning 13*
That cold i've gone home...listen to it plus watch sport all afternoon.

[PGW]

2 Wickets gone after lunch, no play before lunch due to drizzle
209-6 69 overs
Leaning Ct Ambrose b Woakes 51
Ballance Ct Ambrose b Barker 68
Rashid 12*
Plunkett 0*

[PGW]

Gone off again....light
227/6 70.5 overs
Rashid 16
Plunkett 14

[adrenachrome]

Rain not light PGW.

Plunkett hit his 14 runs from 4 consecutive balls from Barker.
 
 

[PGW]

277/7 83 overs
Plunkett Ct Ambrose b Clarke 26
Rashid 39*
Patterson 13*

[PGW]

Tea 308/7  90 overs
Rashid 52*
Patterson 30*

[PGW]

Game moved on and with 12 overs left in the day i think final stoppage just taken place with:
Yorkshire 368-9 104.3 overs
Patterson 62*
Sidebottom 6*

[cdbearsfan]

If we could reduce it to one innings per side could still be a good game. Neither side will agree though as it would mean forfeiting the bonus points from our batting/their bowling. One of my bug bears is that captains can't agree to forfeit their second innings during the game. Make it a one innings game, keep your bonus points, far better chance of a result. Much better for the supporters.

[pooligan]

Westwood fails yet again,out for 4  18 for 1

[ACVilla]

I'd have thought Porterfield must be in with a shout of getting the next match instead of Westwood, I had a look at the batting averages for Division 1 this morning and I know it is very early in the season but it did amuse me to see our opening batsman 99th out of 99.