Leicestershire County Cricket Club

[adam]

23 minutes ago, CrawlingFox said:

Now Derbyshire get a 2 point penalty because one of their player's bats was too wide.

Seems harsh. Too much tape apparently. 

[lanefox]

Beating Notts at home to secure top spot would be the icing on the cake

[Sunbury Fox]

9 hours ago, CrawlingFox said:

Now Derbyshire get a 2 point penalty because one of their player's bats was too wide.

Still worry that they'll found a way to dock points from us again, to ruin our chances of qualifying in favour of a "more fashionable" county.

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

10 hours ago, CrawlingFox said:

Now Derbyshire get a 2 point penalty because one of their player's bats was too wide.

And yet more serious issues went relatively unpunished up in Yorkshire 

[CrawlingFox]

36 minutes ago, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said:

And yet more serious issues went relatively unpunished up in Yorkshire 

I think we can all agree too much tape on a bat is far, far worse than a racist scandal that infected the entire club and also threatened the entire sport's reputation in this country. As is swearing at someone on the pitch.

 

Us little counties must learn our place.

[HybridFox]

Hard not to get excited but cautious given the ECB have form

 

I imagine we'd travel in our droves to Trent Bridge if we made it

Edited 18 August 2022 by TK95

[adam]

What a joke 

[Hitesh]

6 minutes ago, adam said:

What a joke 

One way the ECB and Sky are trying to avoid Leicestershire getting to the final

[Father Ted]

How outrageous that we now lose Hendricks! These teams have 15 man squads, are you telling me that 4 Southern Brave players are injured? 
 

Mike, Ackermann and Parky haven’t even played a single minute yet. 
 

I hope we go all the way in RLODC, take over Trent Bridge and win it, whilst giving it the biggun in the stands. F*** the ECB

[when_you're_smiling]

11 minutes ago, adam said:

What a joke 

Utterly ****ing ridiculous, especially when Ackerman, Mike and Parkinson are sitting around doing nothing.

 

What’s the point in the competition? **** the ECB.

[lanefox]

Worried this was going to happen, Kimber and Mulder will be poached next

[adam]

12 minutes ago, when_you're_smiling said:

Utterly ****ing ridiculous, especially when Ackerman, Mike and Parkinson are sitting around doing nothing.

 

What’s the point in the competition? **** the ECB.

Completely ruining the game. Players sat about doing **** all and now they can steel potentially our best bowler right at the end of our competition. Cricket is finished for the likes of leicestershire in this country. 

[The People's Hero]

I've got shedloads of tickets for the DURHAM game if anyone wants one. I just need your email address.

 

DM me.

Edited 18 August 2022 by The People's Hero

[Voll Blau]

Counties don't help themselves actively promoting their players *playing for a different team* on social media either. Honestly totally fallen out of love with following any cricket other than Leicestershire since it was launched. I've just got no faith that the ECB are arsed about anything other than making money, all while year on year it gets more and more difficult for grassroots clubs to get 11 out every week.

[Paninistickers]

20 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

Counties don't help themselves actively promoting their players *playing for a different team* on social media either. Honestly totally fallen out of love with following any cricket other than Leicestershire since it was launched. I've just got no faith that the ECB are arsed about anything other than making money, all while year on year it gets more and more difficult for grassroots clubs to get 11 out every week.

I can only assume the counties are - as shareholders of this 100 - contracted to promote it. 

 

Wouldn't it be nice for county to be the first to break ranks and openly call out the ECB from.within?

[Sunbury Fox]

2 hours ago, adam said:

What a joke 

This is ridiculous at this stage of the RL competition. No doubt he'll just be sitting on their bench anyway. Will really miss him - and Scriven, assuming he'll be out injured for a bit. Will now be relying on Barnes, who was poor yesterday, and the likes of Walker or Davis. Will make our attack much weaker. And the group stage of this Hundred crap doesn't end until 31 August, so none of the 5 missing players will be back in time for the RL semis. 

[Stadt]

It's a joke. What's the point in us trying to achieve anything? Whenever we're to get a head of steam our players are poached without any compensation. We've built a cracking white ball side despite international call ups, ECB punishments and now the hundred ****ing us over. 

 

We get some sort of recompense from the hundred but it's no good if that money is spent on players to get picked up franchises anyway, if they must take our players then we ought to be paid 50k per player or something meaningful for the club.

[CrawlingFox]

Supposedly Hendricks is just cover for two matches whilst Overton is with England so perhaps he'll be back in time for the knockout rounds though I haven't checked the dates.

[when_you're_smiling]

6 minutes ago, CrawlingFox said:

Supposedly Hendricks is just cover for two matches whilst Overton is with England so perhaps he'll be back in time for the knockout rounds though I haven't checked the dates.

The release by Leics says he’ll be back for Tuesday’s game after whatever bollocks he’s playing for’s game on Monday. We’ll see.

Edited 18 August 2022 by when_you're_smiling

[Graceroad]

52 minutes ago, Stadt said:

It's a joke. What's the point in us trying to achieve anything? Whenever we're to get a head of steam our players are poached without any compensation. We've built a cracking white ball side despite international call ups, ECB punishments and now the hundred ****ing us over. 

 

We get some sort of recompense from the hundred but it's no good if that money is spent on players to get picked up franchises anyway, if they must take our players then we ought to be paid 50k per player or something meaningful for the club.

You are aware so far we have played and beaten Surrey who have 12 players in the hundred and Somerset and Warwickshire who both have 11.We play Notts Saturday who will be missing 10 players

[Stadt]

1 minute ago, Graceroad said:

You are aware so far we have played and beaten Surrey who have 12 players in the hundred and Somerset and Warwickshire who both have 11.We play Notts Saturday who will be missing 10 players

I know it's not a situation unique to us but having players poached mid RLC when we're already under-resourced compared to the other counties makes it very difficult for us. Counties' with better players are worse affected by the hundred which is a leveller for us, that advantage disappears as soon as our good performers are whisked away. We've carried an injured (and expensive in all senses) Hendricks for months, at the first sign of a bit of form he's off.

[harpendenfox]

3 minutes ago, Stadt said:

I know it's not a situation unique to us but having players poached mid RLC when we're already under-resourced compared to the other counties makes it very difficult for us. Counties' with better players are worse affected by the hundred which is a leveller for us, that advantage disappears as soon as our good performers are whisked away. We've carried an injured (and expensive in all senses) Hendricks for months, at the first sign of a bit of form he's off.

We have loads of resources. Bowlers not currently playing include Davis, Walker, Bowley, Griffiths, Evans and Sikande. 

[Stadt]

5 minutes ago, harpendenfox said:

We have loads of resources. Bowlers not currently playing include Davis, Walker, Bowley, Griffiths, Evans and Sikande. 

And they're gash mostly 

[Graceroad]

10 minutes ago, Stadt said:

And they're gash mostly 

Well that's the club's fault for signing them 

[Corky]

Killing county cricket and no shame in it at all.

 

The counties should break away from this disgrace and do it on their own. The ECB have their plastic shit and leave the proper cricket alone.