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Leicestershire County Cricket Club

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Corky

Corky

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Charles Dagnall has always backed us. George Dobell seemed to be on our side. Kevin Howells on the BBC today seemed genuinely pleased, too.

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LBTufty

LBTufty

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The Wisden magazine and podcast have been 100% behind the boys and sang their praises during the Metro Cup campaign in '23, likewise The Cricketer. Some of it this season has almost been embarrassing :D

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Stadt

Stadt

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4 minutes ago, LBTufty said:

The Wisden magazine and podcast have been 100% behind the boys and sang their praises during the Metro Cup campaign in '23, likewise The Cricketer. Some of it this season has almost been embarrassing :D

There are some good guys at the cricketer!

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everton carr

everton carr

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48 minutes ago, LBTufty said:

Just as well I've got tomorrow off, might have a few shandies tonight!!

 

The corridors of power at the ECB must be in a panic, "Is there a points deduction we can drum up for the Foxes, perhaps 50 lopped off for an unfairly large playing area and another 20 because both sightscreens are the wrong shade of white" etc. etc.

Really don't get this idea  they have an agenda against the County 80%' of  our turnover comes from the ECB.Many of the England ladies have  spoken out against playing at Leicester and Derby because they barely get 600 compared to  3k at places like Hove Canterbury Chelmsford yet the ECB still reward the  County with a fair share of fixtures for which they pay a tidy amount

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Corky

Corky

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1 hour ago, HaroldBazBo said:

Schild Berry Article - May 2022 in the Telegraph:

 

No runs, no wickets and no hope - do Leicestershire deserve to survive.

 

Up yours old bean.

 

Mike Atherton called us Perenial Stragglers in a Times column earlier this year whilst lamenting Lancs being woeful. He can sod off as well.

Hopefully Scyld will be out and tell us "Yes" because we have won a trophy, promotion, provided two England Test players and somebody on the verge of hitting the highest ever Test score since his question.

Lionator

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1 hour ago, LBTufty said:

The Wisden magazine and podcast have been 100% behind the boys and sang their praises during the Metro Cup campaign in '23, likewise The Cricketer. Some of it this season has almost been embarrassing :D

Mark Butcher in particular talks about us incredibly positively. 

davieG

davieG

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Leics promoted to Division One after 22-year exile
Rishi Patel and Ian Holland walking from the field as rain falls

Rishi Patel and Ian Holland had put on 76 for the second wicket when rain ended play


Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Uptonsteel County Ground, Leicester (day four)

Gloucestershire 482 & 175-3: Phillips 69*, Charlesworth 61; Holland 2-58

Leicestershire 342 & 93-1: Patel 42*; Singh Dale 1-19

Gloucestershire (15pts) drew with Leicestershire (12pts)

Match scorecard

There was no thrilling finale on the field but Leicestershire could celebrate nonetheless after securing the draw with Gloucestershire that, in the event, ensured their promotion to Division One of the County Championship.

With two fixtures still to play, the result at the Uptonsteel County Ground combined with the draw between Middlesex and Derbyshire at Lord's guarantees that Leicestershire will finish in the top two in Division Two and end a 22-year-exile from the top division.

Set 316 to win from a minimum of 74 overs when Gloucestershire, who felt their outside chance of a promotion required them to win here, declared four overs before lunch on 175-3 in their second innings, Leicestershire were 93-1 from 30.3 when the afternoon's third interruption for rain proved heavy enough for the final day's play to be abandoned at around 4.10pm.

It is a first promotion for Leicestershire since the County Championship adopted its current two-division format in 2000. Led for most of the season by Australian international Peter Handscomb - now back home preparing for his domestic season - Leicestershire have been the dominant side in Division Two all season after winning five of their first seven matches and suffering only one defeat.

They last played in Division One in 2003 and have since become almost perpetual stragglers, finishing bottom of Division Two on eight occasions. In four of those, the last as recently as 2022, they failed to register a single victory, famously going 37 matches over 933 days without a Championship win between September 2012 and June 2015.

Leicestershire, whose next target is to secure the points they need to guarantee they are crowned Division Two champions, went into the final day in the comfortable knowledge that while a victory would seal the deal in terms of confirming promotion, a draw might do it anyway depending on the result at Lord's, or at worst leave them needing minimal gains from their final two fixtures.

Gloucestershire's need for a win, therefore, put the onus on them to set up a finish, to which end they added 165 in 21 overs before declaring just before lunch.

Against a Leicestershire attack that was a man down because of Ben Mike's ongoing hamstring problems, 21-year-old opener Joe Phillips further enhanced his growing reputation with an unbeaten 69 from 73 balls.

Ben Charlesworth cleared the midwicket boundary off Logan van Beek and landed back-to-back sixes off Ian Wright in his 56-ball 61 before a miscue to deep third man ended his charge. Ian Holland limited Ollie Price to just eight but Miles Hammond plundered another 28 from 26 before top-edging into off side, Holland veering away in his follow-through to be under the ball when it came down.

Gloucestershire asked Leicestershire to face four overs before lunch possibly more in hope than expectation. The wicket of Sol Budinger perhaps came as a bonus, the opener making no attempt to rein in his natural attacking instincts but perishing after just 13 deliveries, tempted by a wide ball from Ajeet Singh Dale and picking out the fielder at wide third man.

The visitors' cause was not helped by showers after lunch, which eventually washed out 43.3 overs of the scheduled 74.

Yet there never seemed enough jeopardy in the fourth-day surface to make 10 wickets a realistic possibility. Rishi Patel finished unbeaten on 42 with acting captain Ian Holland on 27. Gloucestershire's frustration was cushioned a little by taking 15 points for the draw, but the gap between themselves and second-placed Glamorgan remains at more than 30 points.

Report supplied by ECB Reporters' Network, supported by Rothesay

Silebyfox_89

Silebyfox_89

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1 hour ago, LBTufty said:

The Wisden magazine and podcast have been 100% behind the boys and sang their praises during the Metro Cup campaign in '23, likewise The Cricketer. Some of it this season has almost been embarrassing :D

You'd hope so given their based in Barrow upon soar, the cricketer that is!

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Bert

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7 minutes ago, HaroldBazBo said:

Nothing on the Mercury website?

Have you tried getting on the website lol 

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