Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread 2018

[manic-road]

Bell 52no Bears 127-3. Just 76 behind

[tomd2103]

Bell 52no Bears 127-3. Just 76 behind

A good couple of batting sessions today and the Bears should be in a good position to win this.

[Villan For Life]

Saw a tweet from the club earlier. At the start of play Bell needed 61 runs to reach 20,000 first class runs and Patel needs 1 wicket for 800 first class victims.

We must secure as many batting points as we can because it looks like second placed Sussex won’t get a batting point.

[paul_e]

Wright gone (as the night watchman) for 16 did his job really well.

Hain in with Bell now 172/4
Bell 76*
Hain 5*

[tomd2103]

Don't want to jinx it, but Bell and Hain hopefully looking set here to post a big score.

[Colhint]

Bell gets his 100 and then passes 20,000 runs. Well done that man.

[paul_e]

Bell gets his 100 and then passes 20,000 runs. Well done that man.

Brilliant achievement given how many summers of county cricket he 'missed' with England.

On the game 254/4
Bell 117*
Hain 43*

2nd batting point secured, we should get 4-5 from here hopefully.

[paul_e]

3rd batting point up, Hain went a while back (for 61) but Ambrose is in and offering good backup for Bell who's still ticking along.

318/5
Bell 141*
Ambrose 14*

Big lead so you'd think the win is probably in the bag (with our bowling and their batting record) so 16 overs to push for the last 2 batting points, I'd like them to give it 1-2 overs after tea and then start smashing it.

[Villan For Life]

3rd batting point up, Hain went a while back (for 61) but Ambrose is in and offering good backup for Bell who's still ticking along.

318/5
Bell 141*
Ambrose 14*

Big lead so you'd think the win is probably in the bag (with our bowling and their batting record) so 16 overs to push for the last 2 batting points, I'd like them to give it 1-2 overs after tea and then start smashing it.

Sussex are struggling in their match too and didn’t secure any batting points.

[paul_e]

By the look of it we'll get the 4th batting point fairly easily but the 5th looks a stretch now.

Ambrose Has gone (for 22) and Barker is in though so that might change things as Ambrose was being very watchful.

346/6 (102)
Bell 160*
Barker 1*

[paul_e]

Oh, gone off for bad light, that's frustrating.

[manic-road]

Oh, gone off for bad light, that's frustrating.

It is, 143 run lead so far.

[paul_e]

In the other important games:

Sussex took a 2 run lead over Middlesex into the 2nd innings but the latter are doing much better this time round on 141/4. If they can set a target of 200-250 I think that's a big ask on day 3/4 on that wicket.

Kent got to 561 and Derbs are 117/1 in response so that one could easily end with no result on the 4th day.

If both of those go our way it'll be a massive boost towards promotion.

[paul_e]

Looks like we've decided to play it safe and keep building a score instead of going for the 5th batting point.

357/6 probably not far off a score that means we don't bat again given Glamorgan have the worst batting line-up in the division.

Middlesex onto 183/5 (lead 181) so that game is going nicely for us.
Derbs 158/2 and need over 400 to avoid th efollow-on so that's in the balance still really.  If they can get up round 400 I think it will be hard for either side to get a positive result there.

[manic-road]

Bears 408-6 Bell 189 not out and a lead of 205 runs. It's in the bag.