Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread

[Villafirst]

I see Chris Woakes is missing yet again? Will he ever play any red ball cricket for the Bears again? Typical Olly Stone is omitted from the England starting eleven against NZ and not allowed to play for the Bears either.

[PGW]

We only added 2 runs to overnight score but as they say, you don't know a wkt until both sides have batted well Derby are currently
98/7
4 to Miles
2 Norwell
1 OHD

[PGW]

121/9 4 more required to avoid follow on. If we get the final wkt i'd be tempted to make them

121 all out
5fer for Miles, 4 for Norwell

153 behind

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Bowling
OHD         9   2   33   1
Norwell    13   3   24   4
Miles        11.4   5   30   5
Rhodes      3   1   3   0
Bresnan    3   2   10   0

[PGW]

Haven't enforced. Disappointed so much time left could have had game more or less won by close.

[PGW]

4/1 2.1
Rhodes b Conners 3
Yates 0*
Malan in

[PGW]

A pair in the match for Malan
5/2
Malan Ct Guest b Cohen 0
Yates 1
Lead 158
Hain in

[PGW]

18/3
Yates b Reece 5
Moved onto 26/3
Hain 8
Lamb 8
Since lunch 87/10 and we didn't enforce follow on. Could have had Sunday off. We may do so still. Derby look very brittle.

[PGW]

Tea
43/3 16
Lead 196
Hain 19
Lamb 14

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85/4
Lamb gone
Hain 41
Burgess 0
Lead 238

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107/5
Hain LBW Cohen 46
Burgess 17
Bresnan in
Lead 260

[PGW]

16 wickets in the day so far....ridiculous, still about 12 overs left

[PGW]

126/6
Bresnan Ct Madsen b Conners 7
Burgess 28
Briggs in
Lead 279
17th wkt of the day.

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Wkt 18
128/7
Burgess Ct Aitchison b Cohen 28
Briggs2
Miles in
281 lead

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Close
132/7 48
Briggs 6
Miles 0
Lead of 285
I really hope that the decision not to make them follow on doesn't come back to haunt us.
Derby's batting line up is quite brittle and
Derby could have been on a similar score with game then virtually over. Bears are certainly in prime position but we haven't
quite batted Derby out of the game yet with still 2 days of the game left. Hopefully we can get a lead over 300 which will
give us a physcholigical bonus.