Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread 2018

[curiousorange]

The Pears batting was absolutely shocking. It was blustery in Worcester today but it doesn't excuse yet another pathetic collapse at the crease.

[Gareth]

D’Oliviera is a number 6 not an opener, Rhodes scored big runs in 2nd XI game last week so that suggests not a form issue, Head needs to step up and contribute a score - at the mo he looks like a bits and pieces one day player.  Mitchell & Clarke have credit in the bank but likewise need to deliver.

Biggest problem however is the lack of pressure for places, an untried Westbury (who can’t do worse) or t20 specialist Whiteley isn’t exactly stacking the heat on those failing so badly.

[curiousorange]

Is it possible all the stuff with Bumpy has had an effect? That was at the start of the winter but there have been off-field things which you can't really plan for.

[Gareth]

I don’t know, doesn’t seem to have affected the bowling too much, suspect it’s more to do with the step up into div 1 & teams having depth in attacks so lot less cheap runs - got to focus on next game and try and get a 300+ on the board

[cheltenhamlion]

Gloucestershire nearly won away for the second time at Sussex this week before the rain intervened.

[Steve67]

Strange how we are top of the table for bowling points but have only one bonus point for batting.

[tomd2103]

Bears started their CC match against Derbyshire at Edgbaston this morning with the visitors batting first and making a pretty steady start.  No Olly Stone in the line up, is he injured again? 

[paul_e]

Bears started their CC match against Derbyshire at Edgbaston this morning with the visitors batting first and making a pretty steady start.  No Olly Stone in the line up, is he injured again? 

They left it right to the last minute to decide the team because him and Barker were right on the edge but They've both missed out, will be back for the next game.

currently Derbs are 169/5 2 each for wright and Patel and another for Brookes.

[paul_e]

Derbs all out for 318

Brookes got 4, 3 were clean bowled.

[PGW]

18/1 in reply...Sibley gone.
4 overs to go. Wright in as night watchman

[PGW]

close 32/1 12 overs
Rhodes 13
Wright 10

[spangley1812]

From the Beeb

Former England batsman Jonathan Trott is to retire at the end of the season.

The 37-year-old, who has spent his whole county career at Warwickshire, played 52 Test matches before retiring from international cricket in 2015.

Trott has scored 17,750 runs in 269 first-class games at an average of 43.93, with 44 hundreds.

"Choosing to retire at the end of the season is something that I have spoken about at length with my family," Trott told the club website.
"This is now the right time to look at the next chapter of my career," he added.

Trott, who was born in South Africa, made a century on his Test debut against Australia in the final Test of the 2009 Ashes series at The Oval, helping the hosts to win the series 2-1.

He went on to win another two Ashes series and was part of the side that reached the top of the world rankings in 2011.

His 329-run stand with Alastair Cook during the 2010 Ashes Test in Brisbane is the highest by an England pairing in Tests in Australia.

Trott was also named the International Cricket Council player of the year in 2011 after scoring 1,042 runs at an average of 65.12 during the 12-month period.

Jonathan Trott won the County Championship title with Warwickshire in 2004 and 2012

He left England's Ashes tour of 2013-14 with a long-standing stress-related condition, but returned 18 months later for the Test series in the West Indies.

After managing 72 runs in six innings, he retired from England duty having scored 3,835 Test runs at an average of 44.08, and 2,819 ODI runs at 51.25.

Ashley Giles, sport director at Warwickshire, said Trott would be remembered as one the greatest batsmen to have played for Warwickshire and England in the 21st Century.
"He made an immediate impact upon arrival at Edgbaston by scoring such a high volume of runs, and he has gone on to be part of one of the most successful periods in the club's history, with five major trophies won across all formats," the former England spinner added.
"At international level, he played a major role in one of the best England teams of the last 50 years; a team that went top of the world rankings, but which also won the Ashes in Australia for the first time in 25 years.
"He's a Bear through and through."

[cdbearsfan]

Good luck to him. Things haven't been so great in the last couple of seasons, but he's an undoubted club legend. Thanks for everything Trotty.

[tomd2103]

Derbs all out for 318

Brookes got 4, 3 were clean bowled.

Let Derbyshire get away a bit there as it was looking like they were going to be bowled out for considerably less earlier in the day.  Need to bat well now to get anything positive out of the game. 

[Villafirst]

Apparently, Ryan Sidebottom has a side strain, he won't bowl again in this game, probably 4-6 weeks out. Not good news, hopefully Stone will be back soon.