Leicestershire County Cricket Club

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

2 hours ago, everton carr said:

Also said Ravi Bopara was always late for matches when Gooch was captain.Bopara was 11 when Gooch retired

Must of meant he could only manage to come after school 😂 

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

2 hours ago, Voll Blau said:

Sheldon Gums too.

 

Another game likely lost at a toss we won. Again. Sick of this now.

Embarrassing again.

Awful bowling. 

[The whole world smiles]

1 hour ago, Sunbury Fox said:

I don't get our obsession with putting teams into bat. 

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

[Voll Blau]

1 hour ago, The whole world smiles said:

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

If you have the attack to exploit that, fine. Only B. Green had them in any trouble though.

 

Looking at the forecast and our recent record, we should have backed ourselves to bat. We keep putting all our chips on having sides 50 for 7 within an hour but that just ain't gonna happen in Div 1.

Edited 14 hours ago by Voll Blau

[Sunbury Fox]

51 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

If you have the attack to exploit that, fine. Only B. Green had them in any trouble though.

 

Looking at the forecast and our recent record, we should have backed ourselves to bat. We keep putting all our chips on having sides 50 for 7 within an hour but that just ain't gonna in Div 1.

That's my take on it, especially as the forecast was for the clouds to clear, which they duly did. 

[The whole world smiles]

1 hour ago, Voll Blau said:

If you have the attack to exploit that, fine. Only B. Green had them in any trouble though.

 

Looking at the forecast and our recent record, we should have backed ourselves to bat. We keep putting all our chips on having sides 50 for 7 within an hour but that just ain't gonna happen in Div 1.

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

 

 

[Voll Blau]

9 hours ago, The whole world smiles said:

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

 

 

No probably about it but like I say, this is Div 1. Most sides do.

 

They're without Cook, so if there was any time not to worry about seeing off a difficult hour, it was this one. Stick Hill up the order to protect the others if it's that much of a concern.

 

Anyway, it is possible to salvage things but we need to play bloody well today.

[Lionator]

Claude Henderson should probably be sacked if we’re in a position where we’re not using our overseas 

[Ted Maul]

2 hours ago, Lionator said:

Claude Henderson should probably be sacked if we’re in a position where we’re not using our overseas 

To be fair, Maharaj was an unbelievable signing. 

 

Both of our overseas for the opening few matches were last-minute- certainly could have done much better than Patel but options would have been limited by that point.