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Cricket => Essex Eagles T20 => Topic started by: dazedpenguin on June 05, 2025, 02:47:54 PM
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The same squad, let's hope for a different result. Looks like there's some rain around in the evening (in Cardiff, surely not).
Harmer, Allison, Amir, Benkenstein, Cook, Critchley, Das, Elgar, Pepper, Richards, Rossington, Snater, Thain, Walter
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Baffled why thain isn't getting a game. It's more his game than 4 day imo
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Baffled why thain isn't getting a game. It's more his game than 4 day imo
Totally agree and although limited, he can also bowl.
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Baffled why thain isn't getting a game. It's more his game than 4 day imo
Totally agree and although limited, he can also bowl.
I can bowl...badly.
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As much as I don't rate his bowling in 4 day cricket he couldn't really do much worse than the other seamers have so far in T20. And he can give it a biff.
Weird he's not playing at least in place of benkenstein.
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Well, a par score. Going to be tight defending it.
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It looks as though, Amir is not very mobile and is having to be, rather unsuccessfully, hidden in the field.
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The Umpire has told Rossington. If you do not shut up, we will close the Player's restaurant.
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Utterly dreadful again
Skipper is as about as astute as Westley.
Yet bet the same bowlers are picked again
Rosso yet another failure, really a poor signing for us.
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I thought that T20 is on a not to be discussed list.
It should be, as it is so depressing.
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Didn't watch the previous games so this was my first look at Amir, 2025 version. Good grief. Hard to believe it's the same guy. His first 3 overs were shocking, plus he's a complete liability in the field.
The rest of our bowling was merely mediocre, and by the end we looked broken.
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Didn't watch the previous games so this was my first look at Amir, 2025 version. Good grief. Hard to believe it's the same guy. ...
Oh be fair. He's still able to bowl a no-ball on demand.
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Well, after being totally outclassed in the first two matches I did have hope that we could have put up a good fight tonight and maybe even beaten Glamorgan!
How wrong was I?!!...another embarrassment.
We will win a 2 or 3 matches out of the 16 as the law of averages means we have to catch another side or two on a bad day, but this will probably go down as our worst ever T20 campaign and team
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Another poor performance, sloppy in the field (bar Pepper), bowling looks unthreatening and unless Pepper gets runs we don?t look like scoring much above 140.
The squads got such a lack of depth it?s hard to see a solution but I?d like to see Allison have a go at the top of the order instead of Rossington, Benkenstein isn?t a 7 (in fact we don?t really have a 7 in the squad) and we should see the likes of Das, Richards and Thain are good enough to play t20 cricket at this level.
I?d go for Sundays match
1. Allison
2. Elgar
3. Pepper (wk)
4. Das/Benkenstein (Cox when back)
5. Critchley
6. Walter
7. Thain/Richards
8. Snater
9. Harmer
10. Cook
11. Amir
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Battle for the wooden spoon on Sunday.
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I'd go with Walter to open, he hits in the air and often gets caught but at least the first 6 overs he may lift it over the inner field . Plus he is better against pace than spin.
The bigger problem is the bowling. If Silverwood has any guile, he would announce that Amir has an injury ( to save face) and "rest him".
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Battle for the wooden spoon on Sunday.
You may well be right but we did get 15 points last year and lost to Hampshire away, Somerset at home and Glamorgan away last year.
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I'd go with Walter to open, he hits in the air and often gets caught but at least the first 6 overs he may lift it over the inner field . Plus he is better against pace than spin.
The bigger problem is the bowling. If Silverwood has any guile, he would announce that Amir has an injury ( to save face) and "rest him".
I?m not sure what that would do? There?s no one better. He?s past his best but his figures in his last few tournaments have been pretty good. The other overseas player we have is no better. He bowls in theory, the far easier overs, rarely takes wickets and for some unfathomal reason bats ahead of Snater every game.
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It will be interesting to note, what the attendance looks like. The last home game, at Fortress Essex, was hardly jammed packed.
The above description of the ground, is used as it is guaranteed to get a laugh. The same as at, one time, just mentioning Nicholas Parson or Margaret Thatcher in a Pantomime.
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Do not want to drag this form into red ball, so five games to get an improvement.
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One thing worth mentioning from last night's game is something I've never seen before: a bowler switching from right-arm to left-arm mid-over. Ben Kellaway began an over bowling right arm offspin at Pepper, who hit him for successive sixes. Kellaway then goes round the wicket and bowls slow left arm. Pepper blocks the first ball and is out caught off the next.
I've seen players that can throw with either arm but have never previously seen a bowler do this, must be extremely rare.
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One thing worth mentioning from last night's game is something I've never seen before: a bowler switching from right-arm to left-arm mid-over. Ben Kellaway began an over bowling right arm offspin at Pepper, who hit him for successive sixes. Kellaway then goes round the wicket and bowls slow left arm. Pepper blocks the first ball and is out caught off the next.
I've seen players that can throw with either arm but have never previously seen a bowler do this, must be extremely rare.
Essex have something fairly similar;
Batsmen who can?t bat left or right handed and bowlers who can?t ball left or right arm.