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Kent Cricket 2024

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  • Grapevine49
    Grapevine49 Posts: 997
    edited May 2024
    Which prompts the question why are Kent CCC not supporting those school programmes across Tonbridge, Sevenoaks etc and a range of state Cricket playing schools from Dartford to Folkestone to Dover.

    Are we seriously suggesting the financial, commercial industry players in the County really have no interest in putting their brands to such markets.

    I have no wish to denigrate any player who wears the Kent shirt but the squad looks horribly, horribly deficient.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,315
    Leuth said:
    This is O'Riordan's final FC game tbh. Drink it in
    The absolute fuck lmao 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    No Leaning again.

    Two years running when someone has played a massive innings, then been absent for subsequent games. When Zak is off with England, our batting resources will look even thinner.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    edited May 2024
    Pedro45 said:
    But we are trying to bring through Jas, Ara, Jaydn, and a few other youngsters too, whatever school they went to.

    I've umpired Harrow, KCS Wimbledon, Hampton, Emmanuel, and Tiffin schools this season, plus LSCA, and none of the kids were as good as those at Tonbridge last year (bar one overseas student at Harrow named Matthew Miller, a Jamaican fast bowler very much in the Joffra Archer mould).
    Jas came through the Bexley CC system not schools cricket (his school didn't even play cricket) or even the Kent system and his father played State cricket in India. He trialled for many years before at 16 he eventually got into an age group squad. Arafat isn't a youngster and never played age group cricket at Kent. It is as a result playing cricket for Blackheath CC (their captain being head of sport and recreation at Tower Hamlets brought him to the club) and then for SACA after which he got his first contract at the age of 26 last year. SACA are proving how many were missed because they didn't go to the "right" school or play for the "right" club. Jaydn has, of course, connections with the county and the associated "in house" coaching and for those reasons he would have made it (he is only 18 and like Jas has to ultimately prove his worth) so it didn't really matter what school he went to. 

    So we do not have not have a single player beyond Jaydn that came through our system on our books below the age of 25 albeit that Cox would have qualified had he stayed (although he too was privately educated). Two seasons ago, Sussex had 17 players that came through their age group system and every single one of them went to a private school. Seb is the only one of two boys from his original age group of 21 boys from U11-U15 at Kent (and the other one was only in the U11 squad) that is currently playing in the Kent PL and neither were privately educated. I could write a book on the reasons why Kent's age group system has struggled, some of which I have already expressed but other aspects aren't for a public forum such as Charlton Life!      
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    100-0. It's not goin very well. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    Agar has now hurt himself diving and has left the field. It never ends for us!
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    102-0 off 30 overs at lunch
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    Leuth said:
    Leuth said:
    This is O'Riordan's final FC game tbh. Drink it in
    The absolute fuck lmao 
    Means he won't be playing against Bickley Park tomorrow.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    Agar has now hurt himself diving and has left the field. It never ends for us!
    We might need to bring Stevo out of retirement...
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,738
    Clearly concentrating on white ball cricket....again.
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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    Agar has now hurt himself diving and has left the field. It never ends for us!
    We might need to bring Stevo out of retirement...
    He did take 3-31 and score 114 not out against Seb's Bickley the Saturday before last!
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    Agar hasn't come out after lunch. He fell on his shoulder - hopefully he hasn't dislocated it and is just resting for a while. 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,315
    I think it is strongly likely to certain that O'Riordan is the worst cricketer playing this round of games in either division 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    To be fair to us, it's not as if we're only team not to take a wicket:

    Somerset 104-7
    Surrey 104-6
    Derbyshire 158-3
    Sussex 133-3
    Glamorgan 124-2
    Yorks 106-1
    Essex 121-0
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    Elgar walks straight passed a hand grenade from Parkinson and is stumped by Finch

    146-1
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    Two stumpings by Finch already this season, though this one was much easier! Weird shot by Elgar, when they were so on top.

    https://x.com/KentCricket/status/1794003169665495155
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    Evision bowls Browne. We're on a roll

    172-2
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,853
    Into their tail....
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    MrOneLung said:
    Into their tail....
    That's set Cox up nicely
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    The thing is our bowlers are tight and overall Essex are going at less than 3 an over. We're just not very penetrative. As I type this Cox gets off the mark with a 6!!!
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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    185-2 off 64 overs at tea
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    edited May 2024
    194-3, Westley caught in the slips (Crawley) off Arafat. We have a bowling point!
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    Westley caught at slip by Crawley off Ararafat

    194-3
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    Another wicket to Evison. Critchley LBW

    Essex 225-4 off 80.1
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    Evison has had to step up in the absence of Agar and his return of 16-4-35-2 is proof enough that he has let nobody down. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    287-4 off 96 overs at close. We never let Essex get away but, by the same token, were never on top.

    Cox       51* (116)
    Pepper  35*  (50)

    WA Agar                7-1-21-0
    G Stewart             20-2-60-0
    Arafat Bhuiyan     16-4-38-1
    JDM Evison           19-4-38-2
    MK O'Riordan       10-3-28-0
    MW Parkinson       22-0-81-1
    JL Denly                   1-0-8-0

  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Given the injury situation we bowled ok but with just 14 overs available will be lucky to gain anymore bowling points.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,853
    I think this track has got draw written all over it. 
  • MrOneLung said:
    I think this track has got draw written all over it. 
    Think You are underestimating how fragile our batters are and how much better Essex’s bowlers are than our village attack 
  • billysboots
    billysboots Posts: 1,596
    Double hundred for Cox - that’s rubbing it in !