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Cricket => Essex Eagles T20 => Topic started by: JasonP on August 16, 2018, 06:49:09 PM

Title: Middlesex
Post by: JasonP on August 16, 2018, 06:49:09 PM
Interesting bowling figures

S Cook   4.0   0   46   1   11.50
Siddle   4.0   0   33   1   8.25
Coles   3.0   0   47   0   15.67
Harmer   3.0   0   23   1   7.67
Walter   3.0   0   33   0   11.00
Zaidi           2.0   0   23   0   11.50
Bopara   1.0   0   2   0   2.00

If he's not injured that's a joke, surely.  Not the first time something like this has happened in the T20.

The captain and the coaches have been so inept it's untrue in this comp.
Title: Re: Middlesex
Post by: nat on August 16, 2018, 07:35:24 PM
15 sixes in the Middx innings. I'm guessing the pitch is on the edge of the square with a 'garden sized' boundary to at least one side of the ground.
Title: Re: Middlesex
Post by: nat on August 16, 2018, 08:14:34 PM
Boom Boom does it again at Lords. We've found a team that is worse at T20 than we are. Well done.
Title: Re: Middlesex
Post by: IlfordEagle on August 16, 2018, 08:25:15 PM
Far too little & far too late but Well Done to the team for winning tonight & avoiding bottom place, we are actually better placed than last year - 7th against 8th but nowhere near good enough overall.
I just hope now that Kent lose to Somerset & we beat them tomorrow & Sussex & Glam both win & Kent & Surrey don't qualify - Happy Days!!
Title: Re: Middlesex
Post by: essexfan548 on August 16, 2018, 08:36:44 PM
We need to beat Kent to win the Mike Denness trophy!
Title: Re: Middlesex
Post by: Valentines Park on August 16, 2018, 09:15:30 PM
That ain't happening unless Coles has a point to prove.
Title: Re: Middlesex
Post by: DT on August 16, 2018, 09:20:04 PM
Shows you how bad Middlesex are when our only two wins have been against them 😂
Title: Re: Middlesex
Post by: nat on August 16, 2018, 09:23:30 PM
That ain't happening unless Coles has a point to prove.
Coles vs Billings ...round two.
Title: Re: Middlesex
Post by: mawallace on August 17, 2018, 05:55:20 AM
I think we need to give some credit to Essex this time.  Bear in mind that due to our bowling we allowed them to get the highest ever Middlesex Lord's score,  and we chased it down against all odds.  Good to see Lawrence get some form in t20 as it's not his natural game
Title: Re: Middlesex
Post by: Perov on August 17, 2018, 06:23:24 AM
I think we need to give some credit to Essex this time.  Bear in mind that due to our bowling we allowed them to get the highest ever Middlesex Lord's score,  and we chased it down against all odds.  Good to see Lawrence get some form in t20 as it's not his natural game

Don't be too harsh on our bowlers.

As one Middlesex member commented " with the shortest Tavern side boundary in living memory".
Title: Re: Middlesex
Post by: Blocky on August 17, 2018, 09:13:43 AM
That ain't happening unless Coles has a point to prove.
Coles vs Billings ...round two.

v.much looking forward to this...
Title: Re: Middlesex
Post by: Reddevil on August 17, 2018, 09:37:34 AM
This match may have been academic in terms of significance to the table, but the most heartening statistic for me is Lawrence’s 86 off 46 balls, including four sixes.

A match winning knock and one which I hope will fully restore any confidence lost, through an indifferent season. All we need now is for Westley to wake up, and we have a revitalised team.

One swallow does not make a Summer, and tonight’s match against Kent, will be a pointer, but with further rounds of The Championship coming up, this result, may just prove the kick start for Essex to get back on track and start playing to their true potential.

Ravi’s bowling stint does indeed raise questions. Did he feel a twinge or slight strain which prevented him bowling more?

Zaidi’s crucial gem of an innings,  which propelled us over the line, only begs the question, why we have not seen more of him, and throws more serious questions to RTD and coaching staff of their apparent continual ignoring of a resource which could have been the difference between winning and losing close games.

Title: Re: Middlesex
Post by: Heisenberg on August 17, 2018, 10:34:48 AM
What is Daniel Vettori doing as a specialist T20 coach at Middlesex ?

On a 3 year deal. First year they finished bottom of the table with us. This year bottom again.
Title: Re: Middlesex
Post by: Valentines Park on August 17, 2018, 10:38:26 AM
Never mind that how long is our specialist coach's contract & can we convince Hants to take him off our hands?
Title: Re: Middlesex
Post by: mawallace on August 17, 2018, 12:49:02 PM
"Interesting" thoughts here from Ravi on our T20 performance:-

http://www.yellowad.co.uk/article.cfm?id=134958&headline=Essex%20County%20Cricket%20Club:%20Bopara%20sums%20up%20Essex%E2%80%99s%20disastrous%20T20%20campaign&sectionIs=sport&searchyear=2018
Title: Re: Middlesex
Post by: Andy on August 17, 2018, 12:54:35 PM
"Interesting" thoughts here from Ravi on our T20 performance:-

http://www.yellowad.co.uk/article.cfm?id=134958&headline=Essex%20County%20Cricket%20Club:%20Bopara%20sums%20up%20Essex%E2%80%99s%20disastrous%20T20%20campaign&sectionIs=sport&searchyear=2018

Shakes head in disbelief.
Title: Re: Middlesex
Post by: JasonP on August 17, 2018, 01:09:43 PM
"Interesting" thoughts here from Ravi on our T20 performance:-

http://www.yellowad.co.uk/article.cfm?id=134958&headline=Essex%20County%20Cricket%20Club:%20Bopara%20sums%20up%20Essex%E2%80%99s%20disastrous%20T20%20campaign&sectionIs=sport&searchyear=2018

I guess the problem is that he's half right.  We are lacking decent death bowlers.  The problem is the batting is poor aswell  A Klinger or Ingram type would make a huge difference to that side. 
Title: Re: Middlesex
Post by: nat on August 17, 2018, 01:16:23 PM
"Interesting" thoughts here from Ravi on our T20 performance:-

http://www.yellowad.co.uk/article.cfm?id=134958&headline=Essex%20County%20Cricket%20Club:%20Bopara%20sums%20up%20Essex%E2%80%99s%20disastrous%20T20%20campaign&sectionIs=sport&searchyear=2018
Further confirms why he should never be captain.
Title: Re: Middlesex
Post by: Valentines Park on August 17, 2018, 02:32:09 PM
"Interesting" thoughts here from Ravi on our T20 performance:-

http://www.yellowad.co.uk/article.cfm?id=134958&headline=Essex%20County%20Cricket%20Club:%20Bopara%20sums%20up%20Essex%E2%80%99s%20disastrous%20T20%20campaign&sectionIs=sport&searchyear=2018
Further confirms why he should never be captain.

Not as deluded as Mascarenhas.
Title: Re: Middlesex
Post by: stewyww on August 17, 2018, 04:14:13 PM
"Interesting" thoughts here from Ravi on our T20 performance:-

http://www.yellowad.co.uk/article.cfm?id=134958&headline=Essex%20County%20Cricket%20Club:%20Bopara%20sums%20up%20Essex%E2%80%99s%20disastrous%20T20%20campaign&sectionIs=sport&searchyear=2018

Of course he would prefer two overseas bowlers rather than batsmen. Wouldn't want his place in the side under threat would he?
Title: Re: Middlesex
Post by: Andy on August 17, 2018, 08:21:36 PM
I wonder what accent he uses in these interviews?
Title: Re: Middlesex
Post by: DT on August 17, 2018, 10:51:54 PM
"Interesting" thoughts here from Ravi on our T20 performance:-

http://www.yellowad.co.uk/article.cfm?id=134958&headline=Essex%20County%20Cricket%20Club:%20Bopara%20sums%20up%20Essex%E2%80%99s%20disastrous%20T20%20campaign&sectionIs=sport&searchyear=2018
Further confirms why he should never be captain.



No but what it does confirm is the general malaise at the club this season - how on earth can the team have not prepared properly??  How have the management allowed that to happen??  Didn’t happen under Silverwood, even Grayson !