Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread

[Gareth]

Hopefully Derby is a battting paradise because it looks like Pears will be chasing 650/700 for parity….Andersson is well on target for 300+ to start the season.

[taylorsworkrate]

An enjoyable day at Edgbaston despite the umpires desperation to go off for "bad light".....

Hopefully this is a breakout year for Dan Mousley. Way too talented to be averaging 28 in FC cricket

[cdbearsfan]

Well done, Bears. No county ground with lights should ever have the players go off for bad light. I don't think there has ever been a sport so desperate to annoy its paying customers as cricket.

[FatSam]

Saw this image on social media, the gap where the hotel and new stand is going looks very small!

What is the general feeling on this development? It seems a shame to me that they’re not just building the biggest fuck off stand they can in that position, to increase the overall capacity over 30k. Presumably they’ve decided that having more than 25k for a handful of days a year just doesn’t benefit them as much as the hotel running all year round would? It’s the only part of the ground that could accommodate a deeper stand and significantly increase the capacity.

[Mellin]

Nice to see Jimmy Anderson is still taking five-fers for Lancs at the age of 43.

Time machine, please.

[paul_e]

Jimmy and Woakes have both looked exceptional so far this round of matches, England would love them both to be 10-15 years younger.

[paul_e]

Bears get maximum batting points and are looking in really good nick. Put another 100ish on the board (for a lead of the best part of 250) and then get them in for the last hour or 2 of the day to push for the win.

[Crown Hill]

Saw this image on social media, the gap where the hotel and new stand is going looks very small!

It’s actually quite a large gap. It was two different stands.

From backward point to extra cover.

I think 120 bed hotel. Just hope it won’t take too much light from the ground. Second day I’ve watched this match now and it’s definitely affected the conditions with the wind. Wind comes in the gap and then swirls around the ground! Hoping to see a few wickets in this final session!

[Gareth]

Pears batsmen will need to bat properly 2nd time round if derby enforce follow on, likely to be a day and an hour or so to get a draw…too many got a start and got out today

[Villan For Life]

Disappointing for the Bears not to force a win against the jazz hats but a day 4 pitch with favourable batting conditions helped Surrey.

The Pears are digging in, but why did Derbyshire bring Bashir on as 8th change bowler and then let him bowl 26 overs?

[Gareth]

Watched the last hour of the Pears game, was glad to see Bashir bowling as he was possibly the least threatening :-) did seem odd that he’d be the 8th choice though.  Waite is a quality county cricketer…been as good a replacement for Barnard as we could have found.

[cdbearsfan]

Disappointing for the Bears not to force a win against the jazz hats but a day 4 pitch with favourable batting conditions helped Surrey.

Damage done on day one, had them on the ropes and let them off the hook.

[PGW]

That top 6 of Surrey is pretty formidable and although disappointed we couldn't force the win i'm not surprised. Can take solace that we got
maximum points from the draw. Not many teams will beat Surrey in a game that goes the distance.

[paul_e]

Indeed, given surrey will inevitably be in the mix for the title again this year I think we should be encouraged that we pushed them so hard and took 5 more bonus points than they did. There's more to come from the bowling attack as I suspect Barnard and Webster will be very disappointed to have not got any wickets.