Be interesting to know how many have been LBW as it's the classic Stevo dismissal
Funnily Rikki Clarke (a young whippersnapper at 37) got his 500th first class wicket yesterday, but then Stevo's bowling has matured with age as I don't think it was that dangerous as a youngster
We probably had enough runs even without batting again!
I can't understand why captains don't enforce the follow-on these days.
Think sides nowadays are worried about having to bat last on a deteriorating wicket (especially with someone like Ashwin in the opposition) and it gives an opportunity for bowlers to put their feet up for a while. It also offers control to the side that is on top in terms of setting at score that will be sufficient to not lose a game at the very worst.
We probably had enough runs even without batting again!
I can't understand why captains don't enforce the follow-on these days.
Think sides nowadays are worried about having to bat last on a deteriorating wicket (especially with someone like Ashwin in the opposition) and it gives an opportunity for bowlers to put their feet up for a while. It also offers control to the side that is on top in terms of setting at score that will be sufficient to not lose a game at the very worst.
I imagine Billings also wanted our batsmen to get time in the middle, as most of them failed in the first innings and have been short of runs recently. If we had put Notts back in, we could have ended up winning by an innings or being left with a chase of say 50 which wouldn't have helped
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Not unless Zak and DBD have switched sides ...
Bags of time in the game and weather looks good too
42-1
DB-D out for 8
Crawley 75*
Billings 45*
Hopefully we are well on our way to batting them out of the game!
Wnat a Crawley ton, get him on that plane.
Stevo 3 wickets will be the icing on the cake.
If we lose a wicket now I'm gonna blame Len!
I can’t think of any team having done that recently......curious?
I'll take the blame!
Kuhn gone for 5 Robinson in.
I log on for the first time today & we lose Robinson & Sevo in just a few balls !
Apologies all round.....I should know better by now.