Leicestershire County Cricket Club

[MaidstoneFox]

11 minutes ago, Bert said:

This fascination with sticking a bowler in at 3 instantly putting us on the back foot. 

They could go with Gumbs in there as he's the extra batter in the squad, but the general selection has been to go with 6 bowling options. Holland or Green have probably said they'll give batting at 3 a go, as it's not a popular position. And they probably think 6 bowlers without Gumbs is a stronger team.

 

Looks like Hill is just going to play Championship games to finish off his career, though he does not like batting 3 either.  All worked best when Rehan was available and batted 3.

[MaidstoneFox]

Pitch is taking a bit of spin. If it stays this dry through to September, the spinners are going to have an absolute riot in those last tranche of championship games.

[Sunbury Fox]

Eskanazi playing himself as if it's a test match, by the look of it! Thought this bloke was meant to meant to be a gun one day and T20 player! Been generally terrible in both for us. 

Edited 4 hours ago by Sunbury Fox

[Cakey]

1 hour ago, Bert said:

This fascination with sticking a bowler in at 3 instantly putting us on the back foot. 

Yep. If we must stick Davey or Scriven in when he is playing or at least someone who  gets on with it. Holland like Eskinazi have one gear

Edited 4 hours ago by Cakey

[Zorrovolpe]

6 minutes ago, Sunbury Fox said:

Eskanazi playing himself as if it's a test match, by the look of it! Thought this bloke was meant to meant to be a gun one day and T20 player! Been generally terrible in both for us. 

A strike rate of 41.56, and he's faced nearly 13 overs of bowling. All the hallmarks of someone out of form who is playing for himself to get any sort of score.

[Lionator]

Commentators keep saying it’s a good batting pitch but it’s been doing bits for both seam and spin?? I think 250+ will be a tough score albeit they’d still be favourites. Hameed is a very good captain, the field placings are spot on. 

[RizLCFC]

10 minutes ago, Zorrovolpe said:

A strike rate of 41.56, and he's faced nearly 13 overs of bowling. All the hallmarks of someone out of form who is playing for himself to get any sort of score.

If we don’t lose another wicket before lunch, he can hopefully kick on in the second session and bat through to the end of the day. 🤪

[Sunbury Fox]

Hard to see anything but a heavy defeat from this position. 

[Lionator]

Reverse sweeping it into your own stumps is certainly a thing.

[StanSP]

Looks like we'll struggle to get above 210-220.

 

Notts will probably polish that off with ease. 

[StanSP]

Eskinazi has been dead slow but he's not to blame for this low score. He's got 50% of the runs! 

[SemperEadem]

Ben Mike keeps posting the same single bird left on a wire image whenever he is not playing.

[Bert]

These will see this off with 10/15 overs spare losing a few wickets. 
 

Eskinazi has played a selfish innings here. 

[SemperEadem]

2 minutes ago, Bert said:

These will see this off with 10/15 overs spare losing a few wickets. 
 

Eskinazi has played a selfish innings here. 

Im fine with a selfish innings whilst the rest are giving their wickets away.

[Lionator]

3 minutes ago, Bert said:

These will see this off with 10/15 overs spare losing a few wickets. 
 

Eskinazi has played a selfish innings here. 

What else is he meant to do when everyone else is throwing their wickets away around him? All he needed is someone to stay with him for a while. 

[Lionator]

Some serious issues in that dressing room/behind the scenes I feel. 

[Sunbury Fox]

Rizvi blocks 4 balls and then takes a single off the final ball, as Notts wanted him to, so he keeps the strike. Ridiculous. 

[James and his giant peach]

Win toss and bowl v lancs concede nearly 400. Win toss and bat v Notts 170-8 at snail pace. It's just trolling at this point

[Bert]

10 minutes ago, Lionator said:

What else is he meant to do when everyone else is throwing their wickets away around him? All he needed is someone to stay with him for a while. 

He’s taken 8 overs of the balls he’s faced without scoring. That’s fine in the county champ. 

[James and his giant peach]

15 minutes ago, Bert said:

These will see this off with 10/15 overs spare losing a few wickets. 
 

Eskinazi has played a selfish innings here. 

Selfish? If he's have got out early too we would be 100 all out. It's a shocking batting performance and he has scored slowly especially early on, but he has at least prevented it from being a skittling. They will still win with 20 overs left though

[James and his giant peach]

1 hour ago, Sunbury Fox said:

Eskanazi playing himself as if it's a test match, by the look of it! Thought this bloke was meant to meant to be a gun one day and T20 player! Been generally terrible in both for us. 

He's not had much choice with everyone getting out for nothing. I do agree though he's been a terrible signing. Had a few good knocks in div 2 last season when he first joined but has been beyond awful this season. 

[Collymore]

About 200 in a 50 over match? Just about acceptable in T20!

 

Must be an exceptional bowling pitch or we've been utter muck. 

[StanSP]

Eskinazi will be stranded in the 90s at this rate. 

 

2 minutes ago, Collymore said:

Must be an exceptional bowling pitch or we've been utter muck.

I'd say there's been some terrible batting all round. It does seem pretty odd that one player can get to 90+ and the rest go out with a whimper. It rarely happens, usually you get 2 or 3 picking up decent runs at the very least if 1 player has. 

 

They haven't really constructed an innings. The first 10 overs was disgusting

 

[Sunbury Fox]

The run out at the end sums things up. Shambolic effort all round. 

[MaidstoneFox]

1 hour ago, SemperEadem said:

Ben Mike keeps posting the same single bird left on a wire image whenever he is not playing.

Meaning he wants to be free to play elsewhere, but is trapped here?