Leicestershire County Cricket Club

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

6 minutes ago, RonnieTodger said:

Smashed by Durham, Derbyshire and well beaten by Worcestershire. We look a grade below this level.

 Not really top sides on paper either. 
Really poor showing 

[James and his giant peach]

Beggars belief what we've done so far this season. Near enough hammered in every game. We aren't even competing at all. All facets of the game including captaincy and coaching are sub par so far. Team selection today was honking. Budinger has to be first name on the sheet in a t20 game, Hull needs dropping, fielding was shite. Dreadful evening. 

[Lionator]

There’s just a general lack of confidence from top to bottom isn’t there. I’m sure we’ll get out of it but it’s sad given everything we’ve achieved recently. 

[everton carr]

We play 8\9 over 30s every game yet the commentators talk like we are full of kids.

[Voll Blau]

25 minutes ago, Officer Doofy said:

About 15 of us were going from our cricket club in June. 

 

Not bothering now and even a few pushing for notts. 

 

Depressing 

Yeah, that is depressing to read. Just go for the beers surely?

[Voll Blau]

19 minutes ago, everton carr said:

Not sure commercial reasons apply with Derby.Very poor crowd tonight rarely get a big crowd v Derby

For most counties, though, you'll get bigger crowds if more away fans can attend.

[everton carr]

3 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

For most counties, though, you'll get bigger crowds if more away fans can attend.

Agree but rarely get decent crowds v Derbyshire or Northants for that matter.

[Corky]

1 hour ago, Voll Blau said:

Think you need to keep the local derbies for commercial reasons but they should have had it as six groups of three local rivals who then join up with another group of three to make six - then rotate each year.

Yes, we need the local derbies but going to the Riverside and Old Trafford has run its course. Would much prefer heading to Chelmsford, Taunton, The Oval or an outground such as Beckenham or Richmond.

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

10 minutes ago, everton carr said:

Agree but rarely get decent crowds v Derbyshire or Northants for that matter.

Plus we won’t get decent crowds when we’re performing so poorly. 

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

28 minutes ago, James and his giant peach said:

Beggars belief what we've done so far this season. Near enough hammered in every game. We aren't even competing at all. All facets of the game including captaincy and coaching are sub par so far. Team selection today was honking. Budinger has to be first name on the sheet in a t20 game, Hull needs dropping, fielding was shite. Dreadful evening. 

Unfortunately I have to agree with you, it’s been a total embarrassment so far. So many poor decisions being made by the coaches. 
We are miles off where we need to be. 

[Corky]

Tone was set in the first three overs of each innings.

[James and his giant peach]

It's £20 odd quid when it's on SKY and YouTube and we are playing shite cricket so it's no surprise it's a poor crowd especially as it's a weekday too. 

[Voll Blau]

16 minutes ago, everton carr said:

Agree but rarely get decent crowds v Derbyshire or Northants for that matter.

Would be interesting to see how many we'd take if we played Derbyshire at Repton.

[Corky]

Really surprised we have never tried a match at Oakham or Kibworth.

[James and his giant peach]

6 minutes ago, Corky said:

Really surprised we have never tried a match at Oakham or Kibworth.

We have. We used to play a game every year at Oakham school and I'm sure we played Notts at Kibworth last year in the Metro Bank

Edited 27 May by James and his giant peach

[Lionator]

8 minutes ago, Corky said:

Really surprised we have never tried a match at Oakham or Kibworth.

Get em up Broomleys 

[Corky]

2 minutes ago, James and his giant peach said:

We have. We used to play a game every year at Oakham school and I'm sure we played Notts at Kibworth last year in the Metro Bank

I know. I meant a T20 match.

[Samu]

Took my 6 year old daughter tonight for her first ever game and even though the cricket was dreadful, we did really enjoy the experience. I’ve been living in London for 15 years now and occasionally go to Surrey games - it’s always way too busy with massive queues for food and drink. Tonight felt way more relaxed and just generally a nice experience. Perfect weather too. Just a shame the game was a bit rubbish!

[Lionator]

9 minutes ago, Samu said:

Took my 6 year old daughter tonight for her first ever game and even though the cricket was dreadful, we did really enjoy the experience. I’ve been living in London for 15 years now and occasionally go to Surrey games - it’s always way too busy with massive queues for food and drink. Tonight felt way more relaxed and just generally a nice experience. Perfect weather too. Just a shame the game was a bit rubbish!

The Oval’s a great ground but there’s nowhere quite like Grace Road ❤️

[Bert]

1 hour ago, Sunbury Fox said:

I'm not sure batting first would have made much difference to the result. We'd have got about 160 and they'd have knocked them off in about 15 overs. We are just way off the level required. The batting lacks reliable power hitters, the bowling is inaccurate and the fielding unreliable. Losing to these so heavily is unacceptable. Bloke who has 4 wickets for them is basically a part time bowler. 

He took 6. 
 

Didn’t learn the lesson of Friday. Batting last when you have the choice, starting your innings at 8pm is suicide. Regardless of whether you think it wouldn’t have made a difference. 

[Bert]

I can’t believe we sacrificed a bowler for a batter. The fielding was shocking. 3(?) dropped catches? The bowling was too many times too short and too predictable. They were just batter than us in every aspect of it all.

 

Dropping Budinger was mental. Some of them need to get their heads out of their arse and start turning up. Patel and Eskinazi in particular. Hull and Green look unfit running in to bowl. We’ve also let a part time bowler take 6 wickets.  
 

Season is near on done in the blast already. 

[MaidstoneFox]

All a bit odd really and most of them look out of form. On paper, these are stronger teams than we were putting out last season for most Blast games, a lot of which had Matt Salisbury and Roman Walker bowling.

[when_you're_smiling]

I reckon we bowled more than two overs worth of full tosses. Wouldn’t surprise me if it was 15 of them, so about one in every eight legal deliveries. Throw in a dropped catch every four overs…Turner’s excellent innings and 1 for 12 probably made the result more flattering for us than it should have been.

 

The tactic just seemed to be throw all rounders in and hopefully something sticks. 

Edited 27 May by when_you're_smiling

[SemperEadem]

1 hour ago, Voll Blau said:

For most counties, though, you'll get bigger crowds if more away fans can attend.

Plenty of Derby there tonight.

[Fox1norfolk]

2 hours ago, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said:

I’d like to hear from Claude and Fons about this disaster, we don’t seem to have been prepared properly for this tournament at all. 
Shambolic 

Explain why we have not won any match the season, need to sort it out chaps