Leicestershire County Cricket Club

[MaidstoneFox]

18 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

Mine don't give two hoots about cricket. Mainly as they've never seen me sitting down watching it on the telly, as it's been anonymous and lost on sky for nearly 20 years. 

 

But I cannot for the life of me work out why, suddenly, bowling 100 balls instead of 120 will instantly fire up interest. Especially that the teams involved alienate 60% of the cricketing public

 

 

 

 

It might not. But in the same way dogs notice other dogs, my kids tend to notice other kids and all things aimed at them rather for an adult audience. The whole marketing around it is exceptionally bright and fun orientated and you have 'Skips' on shirts instead of Ínvestment mutual' or whatever. 

[Paninistickers]

27 minutes ago, MaidstoneFox said:

It might not. But in the same way dogs notice other dogs, my kids tend to notice other kids and all things aimed at them rather for an adult audience. The whole marketing around it is exceptionally bright and fun orientated and you have 'Skips' on shirts instead of Ínvestment mutual' or whatever. 

Yup. I get that logic. Still can't see it working though (or at least every fibre in my being hopes it doesn't)

 

Kids, I hope,  aren't that easily patronised nowadays by hula hoops or cartoons. They go for bite sized funsters on YouTube nattering on about fifa or unboxing trainers or jake Paul or tiktok memes.  

 

Sport needs media / social media heroes, not 10CC blasting out and blue stumps. Vardy. Anthony Joshua. Tom Brady. Tom Daley even. Or more topical, Federer and Mark Cavendish. 

 

 

[everton carr]

Things getting a bit nasty on Twitter atm between Fangofox  and Wayne White

[Cake]

I will have a look

[Cake]

Is Gavin Griffiths Nixons love child? Rather than pay back maintenance he let's him play in the team? 

 

I can see no other rational explanation 

[adam]

Looking a good decision putting them into bat 

[UpTheLeagueFox]

1 hour ago, Cake said:

Is Gavin Griffiths Nixons love child? Rather than pay back maintenance he let's him play in the team? 

I can see no other rational explanation 

He's only going for 7.6 per over......... 

[Sunbury Fox]

Yay, a wicket! Davis gets it. When I was watching earlier he was by far our best bowler. Convinced he should have had Conway out LBW at least once, if not twice in the first half an hour.

Edited 4 July 2021 by Sunbury Fox

[Corky]

Another bizarre move in the increasing amount of bizarre moves around the county schedule- four weeks of T20, back to two games in the Championship then finishing off the T20 group.

[harpendenfox]

2 hours ago, Cake said:

Is Gavin Griffiths Nixons love child? Rather than pay back maintenance he let's him play in the team? 

 

I can see no other rational explanation 

Klein, Evans and Wright are self isolating so to be fair there were few options 

[Cake]

19 minutes ago, harpendenfox said:

Klein, Evans and Wright are self isolating so to be fair there were few options 

Always a better option than Gavin Griffiths imo. Seconda or another batsmen. Play Steele he can bowl

[CrawlingFox]

33 minutes ago, harpendenfox said:

Klein, Evans and Wright are self isolating so to be fair there were few options 

Sakande?

[harpendenfox]

Griffiths has picked up two wickets since we bemoaned him. We’re reliable on Foxestalk. It’s like pessimistic match threads when City play. We always end up winning!

[harpendenfox]

And now he's added a third. Gav's done a Kelechi

[Cake]

12 minutes ago, harpendenfox said:

And now he's added a third. Gav's done a Kelechi

Ha ha ha guaranteed wasn't it. Fair play to him. I was wrong. 

 

Let's get into the rest of the team!

[MaidstoneFox]

Great crowd in at Taunton and ground looks a picture.

 

Mike doesn't seem to be able to bowl 6 in a row without one of them being a 4 ball.

[SemperEadem]

Mike needs a spell in the seconds.

[Sunbury Fox]

Disastrous morning session even by County's standards.

[UpTheLeagueFox]

3 minutes ago, Sunbury Fox said:

Disastrous morning session even by County's standards.

Somerset scoring 120+ in 90 minutes, in about 21 overs, blimey

[CrawlingFox]

Our pace attack is struggling. Not convinced any of the lads playing today are up to the job if we're consistently going to be playing former D1 sides and if we are then we're ridiculously reliant on Wright who is getting on.

[Cake]

18 hours ago, Cake said:

Ha ha ha guaranteed wasn't it. Fair play to him. I was wrong. 

 

Let's get into the rest of the team!

No I wasn't wrong

[AjcW]

I know I shouldn't be surprised, but what the ****  

[UpTheLeagueFox]

50 minutes ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

Somerset scoring 120+ in 90 minutes, in about 21 overs, blimey

166 runs (losing one wicket) in 31 overs in the morning session.

 

[AjcW]

Just now, UpTheLeagueFox said:

166 runs (losing one wicket) in 31 overs in the morning session.

 

So essentially they'd be heading towards a pretty decent 50 over score... with their tail...

[Guest Lako42]

I'd fancy a go at batting against our attack tbh.