Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread 2017

[adrenachrome]

I have just realised that after the RLC games against Notts tomorrow, Lancs on Sunday and Yorks on Sunday week there is no cricket at Edgbaston  until the CC game against Lancs on 26th June!

The Rounders doesn't start until the second week  of July.

[cdbearsfan]

Three games, none of them on a Saturday? Fuck off, then.

[cheltenhamlion]

Gloucestershire going hard at another big chase at the moment.

[ACVilla]

I have just noticed today's game is live via the website.

When did this start happening?

[adrenachrome]

I have just noticed today's game is live via the website.

When did this start happening?

PGW has been posting links for a while, I believe.

As for today, decent entertainment with good knocks from Trott and young Billy Root, but my analysis after the first CC game at Surrey was further validated.

PS I wish Hobbly Dobbly would fuck off back to Yorkshire.

[Gareth]

Great timing for Pears to get Yorkshire today whilst the good players were in England duty :-) can't fault season start tho

[adrenachrome]

And while I can still remember, I have learned from reliable sources that Rikki Clarke is yet again in dispute with the club over contract negotiations, and he has been as much use this season as a chocolate teapot. It's all good.

Warwickshire are shit.

Villa are shit.

But at least we can have a good laugh about it, with our legendary self-deprecating humour.

[curiousorange]

Pears are going for it at the mo. Great batting in the three one-dayers. Could they make a Finals day at last?

[Rotterdam]

Warks were cruising until Belly had a rush of blood and crosse batted for an LBW.
A classic example of 'defeat from the jaws of victory'.
The weather was nice though.

[Gareth]

Pears are going for it at the mo. Great batting in the three one-dayers. Could they make a Finals day at last?

Let's not get too far ahead:-) this is the best 50 over form for 4/5 yrs!  As for 20/20 finals day, we've flattered to get there for a few years and fell down at late hurdles...think only county never to appear at finals day!

[adrenachrome]

Hobbly Dobbly is a fucking disaster area. Hand out the helmets in the sky line tlwhen the fuckwit is bowling.

[cdbearsfan]

We are an absolutely dreadful team at present.

[Villafirst]

To think we thrashed Surrey to win this cup only 8 months ago. Absolute shambles! I was expecting big things with the return of Gilo!

[tomd2103]

We are an absolutely dreadful team at present.

Looking at the bowling attack, it's hardly surprising.  Hard to think that they did not factor in Woakes not being there and the likelihood of Rankin and Wright getting injured at some point.  Bit of bad luck with the new lad getting injured as well, but the attack at the moment looks so weak on paper. 

[Villan For Life]

To think we thrashed Surrey to win this cup only 8 months ago. Absolute shambles! I was expecting big things with the return of Gilo!

The problem is that the squad is largely the same as the squad that was at Edgbaston when Giles left to take the England one day job. The average age of the squad is very high and the younger players aren't doing it at the moment. Bell, Trott, Ambrose, Clarke, Westwood, Barker, Porterfield, Rankin, Westwood Wright and Patel are all the wrong side of 30. That's virtually a starting XI in red ball cricket.

Giles will turn it around but it's going to take time and a fair few struggles. The club don't seem to have invested in the future, there's no succession planning.