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Offline mawallace

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v Surrey (Home)
« on: July 19, 2019, 03:31:53 PM »
Squads have been announced:-

Essex - unchanged

Simon Harmer (11) (Captain)
Aaron Beard (14)
Ravi Bopara (25)
Varun Chopra (6)
Cameron Delport (89)
Dan Lawrence (28)
Matt Quinn (94)
Shane Snater (29)
Ryan ten Doeschate (27)
Paul Walter (22)
Tom Westley (21)
Adam Wheater (31) (Wicket-keeper)
Adam Zampa (88)

Surrey:-

Jade Dernbach (c)
Gareth Batty
Scott Borthwick
Rory Burns
Jordan Clark
Rikki Clarke
Sam Curran
Tom Curran
Aaron Finch
Ben Foakes
Will Jacks
Ryan Patel
Imran Tahir

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Re: v Surrey (Home)
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2019, 04:04:26 PM »
Likely to be rain ruined but if not surely we can't pick two specialist spinners and only 2 main seamers plus Bopara in the conditions you'll get tonight.  The problem is one of the spinners is the captain and the other the best bowler available so we'll probably going to end with a team that's totally unsuitable for conditions!

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« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2019, 04:26:44 PM »
Likely to be rain ruined but if not surely we can't pick two specialist spinners and only 2 main seamers plus Bopara in the conditions you'll get tonight.  The problem is one of the spinners is the captain and the other the best bowler available so we'll probably going to end with a team that's totally unsuitable for conditions!

...and thus sums up perfectly the ridiculous decision to make Harmer, who has a useless record in the T20 in this Country,  the T20 captain and then use one of our two allotted overseas player (uhmm...assuming we ever do see the second one!!) slots on another specialist spinner!! There will probably only be the odd game or two where the pitch/situation is suited to playing both, so what a complete waste especially when we are a specialist batsman light anyway!

Rain COULD be our saviour though, as shortened matches often become a complete lottery and very dependant on the toss, or if the match is abandoned completely, at least we will actually get a point!
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Re: v Surrey (Home)
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2019, 04:37:51 PM »
Presume Harmer is captain to give him some experience to take over Ten Doeschate next year in 4 day cricket. Westley to be made captain for white ball formats next year perhaps ?

Anyway, Surrey look very strong. Pray for rain. The Matt Coles situation is odd. Surely he is better than Quinn and Snater ? What a pointless signing he was. Would like to see Walter given a go over Lawrence.


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« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2019, 04:45:15 PM »
Presume Harmer is captain to give him some experience to take over Ten Doeschate next year in 4 day cricket.

Again this has come up,how do we know Tendo will step down as Captain in CC? Nothing has come from the Club or player yet, hopefully Tendo will continue at least as a player while he has plenty to offer & on the evidence of last night plenty in T20.

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« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2019, 05:36:21 PM »
The money men will obviously disagree but it terms of the competition, a draw would feel like a win with the teams being the equivalent of a Man City vs West Ham game.

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« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2019, 05:43:40 PM »
Presume Harmer is captain to give him some experience to take over Ten Doeschate next year in 4 day cricket.
Again this has come up,how do we know Tendo will step down as Captain in CC? Nothing has come from the Club or player yet, hopefully Tendo will continue at least as a player while he has plenty to offer & on the evidence of last night plenty in T20.

I had thought the same, RtD is nearly 40 and Harmer is substantially younger.  However, SH is an experienced skipper in SA so wouldn't need the experience?

Maybe RtD just feels it is too much leading in all formats and the obvious replacements (Bopara and Westley) don't appear suitable.

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Re: v Surrey (Home)
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2019, 08:09:48 PM »
Carnage at the ECG

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Re: v Surrey (Home)
« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2019, 08:17:11 PM »
Delport holding an end up while Lawrence has a go...  ;)

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Re: v Surrey (Home)
« Reply #9 on: July 19, 2019, 08:24:21 PM »
We might, just might be in with a chance of a win.

Can’t quite believe what I have seen on cricinfo.

Will the weather hold up, will our bowling hold up?

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Re: v Surrey (Home)
« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2019, 08:26:24 PM »
Delport proving why not signing a big hitting OS batsman when Chelmsford is your home ground is madness.

Now if any bowling attack could find a way to lose this.....

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Re: v Surrey (Home)
« Reply #11 on: July 19, 2019, 08:28:17 PM »
Watching on Livestream - awesome!


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Re: v Surrey (Home)
« Reply #12 on: July 19, 2019, 08:31:17 PM »
Wow.....simply WOW!!.....what do all us experts know now then?!!!.....what an amazing innings!..there is NO way under the sun that we can lose this.

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Re: v Surrey (Home)
« Reply #13 on: July 19, 2019, 08:33:30 PM »
Surrey 19 off the first over ..

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Re: v Surrey (Home)
« Reply #14 on: July 19, 2019, 09:30:24 PM »
Trying to follow on cricinfo. Site keeps crashing, but Surrey now need 70 off 10 balls. No no balls or wides please.