Yorkshire

Currently 51-5

Ouch

 

Not ideal with such a long tail. Bresnan, Hodd, Patterson, Rafiq, Sidebottom, Brooks is not the strongest 6-11 you've ever seen!

 

51-6

 

Even Len Hutton's taking wickets!

 

They seem as bad as England; relying on the tail.

 

153/6, Rafiq with a 50 so some sort of recovery but still a long way behind the 8 ball.

 

183 for 7 now.

 

Maybe someone would care to dig Saturday's thread out where some enlightened soul told us Azeem Rafiq was useless??

 

274-8 crisis averted

 

Must be a flat pitch if Hodd can get 90 odd and Brooks 40 odd both not out good to see Hodd get runs though I like him, got a great attitude for being in and out of the team


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not looking good for any silverware this season, hope we are still in it come the middlesex game

 

Think most teams bar Middlesex need to look down as well as up.

 

Let's see what his speciality bowling is like first shall we?

 

Good comeback for ladt 4 wkts to put on a further 230 when a score of 100 looked unlikely at one stage.

 

can't see us looking over our shoulders,
mainly poor day today despite wkt from last ball, we need to grab early wickets tomorrow, weather iffy for thurs which we'll be batting in

 

Disagree. Not a poor day, surely? Got to 280 from 51-6 and took 2 wickets. I'd say we're on top. And given they put us in to bat, and dominated the morning, it can't be that flat!

 

Let's not. Let's say well done in one of the 3 cricketing skills he's expected to carry out.

 

not saying whose on top, but 51/6 at 1 stage? that's poor if you wanna be champs.
will see if we can bowl them out sub 200, they get 250/275 then?

 

Of course the start was poor (was 64/6 at one point, actually, I got it wrong; still bad like!). But the sign of real champions is being able to put a good score on when you have poor starts like that. It's happened loads in the last couple of years. Most of the time it was Barstow who bailed us out, but even when it hasn't been him, there's always been someone, and the fact that two players who haven't scored many with the bat recently did the business is fantastic. Notts must be deflated

Other examples of this happening recently:
Durham at home last season: we were about 95/9 in 1st inns, got about 165, bowled them out for about the same. Then we were 90/5 in 2nd inns, Maxwell and Rashid scored massive 100s to get us over 400, then we bowled them out
Lancashire at home this season: We were about 26/4 and 70/5 in 1st inns, but Bresnan and Rashid put on good scores to get us to 300. We went on to win

It's no coincidence that we keep doing it! Hopefully we can pressure Notts now and try and enforce follow-on, though that's unlikely. If not, hopefully a lead of around 80!

 

Notts 48-4