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Notts need 55 off 23 balls according to the Leics website.

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Yeah exactly. You haven’t screwed up and have to walk back.

You’ve never got a golden duck off the first ball of a Leicestershire Division Nine match mis-hitting a full toss and it looping to cover.

We (and anybody) could lose more as The Hundred squads aren’t full yet. Northern Superspunkers (or whatever their name is) only have six official players ahead of their first game on Friday. It’s ludicrous. But then could get more ludicrous…. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/20/cricket-the-hundred-twenty20-format-ecb-name-change

I mean, did you watch Notts last weekend? Side batting first has won pretty comfortably at every Birmingham home game this season. It wasn’t tonight that was the problem. One of the Derby games or even winning the tied game would have been enough.

Didn’t believe this was true so had a look. He’s got more wickets in T20 than 50s. His bowling average (10) from three and a bit overs is not far off his batting average in the format (13). Meanwhile, usual two or three down in the power play.

How many have they got? Radio Leicester saying they’ve put a fair few in. Edit - How many slow bowlers is what I mean?

To fund it couldn’t we sell all our defenders and have Kante and N’Didi as the ‘sort of’ back two. No-one’s getting through them both.

Fair play to Fofana for calling it out on Twitter too. Sadly he’ll probably get more grief from that than Fernandez gets for the song.

But this is part of the problem. Three of them play the same position. It’s not club football where you go out and buy for a position you’re weaker in. You can try and shoehorn them all in and expect them to perform exactly the same in different roles but think that was part of his problem this time around. There’s a massive difference between managing at club and international level. Some top club managers have been poor international managers (Capello). By the same virtue, some that have been poor at club level (looking at you Southgate) are better at international level. The ability to change the culture around the England men’s team has to be applauded, and he started that by taking a team with Lingaard. Alli, Young and Henderson to the World Cup semi finals. Whoever comes in will almost certainly be better tactically, however if they don’t build on the work he did behind the scenes, they won’t get as far anyway.

That six from Neesham towards the end - oooshh. That was tense but thoroughly enjoyed it in the end.

I couldn’t follow the match at all last night. Reading the thread this morning was like a flash back to LCFC match threads last season.

Not been one since 1980.

Ludicrous only three runs behind Worcs were at same stage after that dreadful start and having not hit a boundary for about five overs. If they’d have not conceded 35-odd off the last two overs as well they’d have been right in it.

Same!

The future isn’t orange was his orgasm noise.

Wow. Did not see that coming, even when he had a go.

Yep. Ran out of ideas now. It was nice while it lasted. Can’t see them not conceding from a ball into the box now either.

If he keeps playing like this Mainoo is going to get a move to a big club.

Actually a bit embarrassed to get that.

I know he’s usually left wing, but Kingsley Comen hasn’t even payed a minute yet I don’t think. He’d surely be worth a go there.

I think it was when Spain had a corner. Happened twice. Presumably someone in the stadium.

That was virtually identical to the Spanish missed chance.

They wipe yellows at the end of the quarters so it’s only possible to be suspended for the final if you get sent off.