The whole world smiles

That innings was bloody marvelous such grit and character from this team. Yes we all know they aren't good enough to stay up, that's ok it happens. All you want is a team that gives everything and doesn't lay down and these are certainly doing that.

Commentators just having a long discussion about how tired the Essex bowlers looked yesterday fyi!

Personally I wouldn't fancy fast bowling 20 overs in day like their opening bowlers will have then coming back the very next day with a old ish ball and have to get 10 wickets. But different story if they get a couple of wickets tonight though!

I fully expect to have egg on my face by close of play but I think Essex made a mistake enforcing the follow on! Providing we can navigate the next 10 overs unscathed we get tomorrow with an not new ball and a knackered bowling attack.

Awful! I feel bad criticising him to harshly I genuinely think he has dementia or something similar.

It's hypothetical but Essex probably do have the attack to exploit those conditions and we would have been 80-5 or something at tea and everyone would have been saying why the hell did we bat! I don't necessarily think it's toss decisions letting us down we just have comfortably the worst/most unbalanced team in the division

Normally i agree but they were unbelievable conditions to bowl for the first hour today.

Washington freedom in the MLC.

Yeah I was more thinking of the limited over stuff, I remember him being a lot more threatening but that could just be that he had a good game in the one day cup final and my memory playing tricks on me.

Hulls lack of development is particularly worrying he is actually worse now at 21 than he was when he was 19. That shouldn't happen!

If you had told me after the first 3 games that we would be joint second after 5 I would have looked at you like you were smoking crack! Despite not looking convincing even in our two wins a combination of small improvements, terrible opposition and other results going our way means we are well in this competition!

He will be playing for the England lion's won't he? Good chance we him for to 2 county championship games starting the end of next week especially as he hasn't played any cricket this year.

Great post - factually Innacuarate and already discussed at length in the "who manages us" and "king power out" threads!

Great post, this is why I don't tend to post on foxestalk much any more (the Leicestershire cricket thread aside) every thread whether it's about old players, the ground staff, new players , the Jamie Vardy Documentary becomes on opportunity for the same old misrable posters to make the same old misrable points. Yes the club is shit show, but whinging and moaning every second of every day on a internet message board clearly isn't going to affect any change besides making yourself and your fellow fans more misrable. If someone wants to take their family to charity game with some of the clubs biggest legends on a hot weekend then good fuching luck enjoy yourself life is short and it's been a long couple of seasons!

Commentator said last night that they have only ever lost 10 games (now 11) in the blast at home and 3 (now 4) of them have been against Leicester.

Jesus Christ! Talk about trying to snactch defeat out of the jaws of victory! They look so fragile and devoid of confidence! However lots of positives particularly how well we bowled!

Hard to argue! The middle order batsman aka turner, cox Kelly are doing their jobs the openers and bowlers absolutely fuching dreadful.

Sadly I feel like the either win every game or everyone is shit outlook is moving over from football fans to cricket fans. Personally I feel like the club is still moving in the right direction. All tonight needed was one of the 3 openers to score some runs in the power play and we were in business. Silly decision to bowl though!

Last played cricket at the end of April so no reason why he won't be!

I feel like critisim of Fonz and Taylor is a little bit unfair we lost Maharaj, rehan and Handscombe right before the start of the season all are around world class or in Pete's case fringe world class. Because of the faff around losing Pete and Maharaj we missed out on van beek who was excellent last season. Eskanzi looks a good edition but the other signings have so far been disappointing and the side is massively unbalanced hence the helm loan. So what I am trying to say is due to circumstances out of our control we have actually got a worse side than last season in a much harder division. Hopefully they can get it right and if they don't i have every faith in the coaching set up to guide us back up.

Worst season ever!

Coalville is the most Leicester place on earth.

Why in God's name did they take Ben green off he must have had figures of 4-20 odd this morning full of zip and confidence bowling at their number 11 and they bring hull on! Leicestershire need to get a lot more ruthless to survive in this league

Totally agree okazaki wasn't just a cult hero who happened to be in the side when we won the league he was a bloody excellent footballer in his own right. The absolute peak okazaki we signed as a 29 year old would have been highly rated at most premier League clubs even some of the bigger ones. His profile also Suited Vardy like red wine and a good cheese. Its quite a reductive way of looking at football to see all forwards who don't score lots of goals as shit. With Hesky Kuyt and okazaki just being a few examples of why that's nonsese. Anyway back on topic ayew didn't score goals and was shit and a complete willy puller who if I never see again will be to soon.

Really weird tactics Patel and weatherald put us in a great place to go on and try and win this game with very little risk of losing it but the rest of the batters seemed happy to chug along at 3 runs an over or less and take zero chances and accept a draw.