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Leicestershire County Cricket Club

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RowlattsFox

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Whatever happens this season its great to get a win on the board as they are hard to come by. 

This thread is quite harsh sometimes but I think they've been relatively competitive so it's nice to get the win. 

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Quote from BBC website: 

The last time Leicestershire won a County Championship match in Division One, Phil DeFreitas was playing for The Foxes. Remember, he won the 1986/87 Ashes.

It's been 8,320 days since they won a four day game in English cricket's top tier. They had never beaten Yorkshire at this ground by an innings, and it's only the second time they had beaten The Tykes since 1996.

They played wonderfully, particularly since they lost the toss. They bowled with real vigour, getting the most out of the pitch, bowling consistent lines and lengths. They batted as well as I have seen them bat this season, being tactically astute - going hard at the bad balls, but otherwise playing calmly and diligently.

Rehan Ahmed is a superstar, Nick Kelly looks like a very good overseas batter.

With a win, they have kept themselves alive in their fight for survival. Two vital matches against Glamorgan at home, and Yorkshire in Scarborough, are to follow in two months' time.

But the monkey is off Alfonso Thomas' back, they have their win, and in some style too.

Yorkshire were surprisingly abject, and their inconsistency will be a huge worry. 

Put simply, if they wanted to compete for the title, they would have won this game. The fact they got hammered tells it's own story.

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56 minutes ago, RowlattsFox said:

Whatever happens this season its great to get a win on the board as they are hard to come by. 

This thread is quite harsh sometimes but I think they've been relatively competitive so it's nice to get the win. 

This sounds like a crazy stats considering we’re bottom, but we have the joint most batting bonus points in the league and only Notts have more bowling bonus points, so it’s clear we’re just not quite going the distance with teams. 

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Corky

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A comprehensive win with little drama, very enjoyable.

 

It has been far too long since a Division One victory and it feels really good.

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James and his giant peach

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Excellent win. If you think, we had a few years where we didn't win a game in div 2, so to win by an innings in div 1 is not be sneezed at.

 

It's a shame though we won't have Rehan for long, it's clear England have no spin options which stand out and none of them can score first class hundreds so he's bound to get picked soon. Imagine him batting at 8 with Archer, Tongue, Stokes and Atkinson the seamers. 

Alex Green is raw but looks to have a lot of talent, and the catching was brilliant, that Cox catch from the inside edge and the catch at leg slip last night were top class. 

Walshy5

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30 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

You heard he has now signed elsewhere?  As last week said counties are after him.

Heard rumours he's off to Warwickshire 

katieakita

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Someone linked Cox to Warwickshire on here last week but thought Alex Davies was their number one who averages a bit more with the bat and is a couple of years younger. Maybe it comes down to finances but hopefully we can sort him a deal

MaidstoneFox

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3 hours ago, katieakita said:

Someone linked Cox to Warwickshire on here last week but thought Alex Davies was their number one who averages a bit more with the bat and is a couple of years younger. Maybe it comes down to finances but hopefully we can sort him a deal

He'll be 35 by the start of next season, so there may be a limit to what we offer him and how long for. Still looks to have some cricket in him though. John Simpson is nearly 38 and still going strong for Sussex, Chris Cooke is 40 at Glamorgan.

everton carr

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9 hours ago, katieakita said:

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Word around the ground yesterday that Cox will be leaving at the end of the season.Understand the relationship between Cox and Thomas hasn't been mended since Thomas criticised Cox on RL for scoring too slowly In a T20 match this season.

 

everton carr

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5 hours ago, MaidstoneFox said:

He'll be 35 by the start of next season, so there may be a limit to what we offer him and how long for. Still looks to have some cricket in him though. John Simpson is nearly 38 and still going strong for Sussex, Chris Cooke is 40 at Glamorgan.

Another rumours is that he will be going back Worcs.Roderick possibly moving back to South Africa

everton carr

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5 hours ago, MaidstoneFox said:

He'll be 35 by the start of next season, so there may be a limit to what we offer him and how long for. Still looks to have some cricket in him though. John Simpson is nearly 38 and still going strong for Sussex, Chris Cooke is 40 at Glamorgan.

Not sure it's about age.He's younger then  many in the squad.

everton carr

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One huge negative from yesterday and highly embarrassing for the club.It was old players day and out of 55 invites only 3 turned up Barry Duddleston Tim Boon and Peter Willey.Sad and baffling that the club has such a bad relationship with former players.

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1 hour ago, everton carr said:

Not sure it's about age.He's younger then  many in the squad.

Age is just a number. You only have to watch him throwing himself around behind the stumps to realise that he has a lot of cricket left in him. He’s also up with the top run scorers for us in both competitions this year so why wouldn’t you offer him a new contract? We would miss him big time, but I wouldn’t blame him for moving back to Worcestershire. He never wanted to leave in the first place. 

Officer Doofy

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2 hours ago, everton carr said:

Word around the ground yesterday that Cox will be leaving at the end of the season.Understand the relationship between Cox and Thomas hasn't been mended since Thomas criticised Cox on RL for scoring too slowly In a T20 match this season.

 

Thomas is strange in who he decides to berate publicly. 

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