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Kent Cricket 2021

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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,811
    51-9

    My fault again - Stevens out
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,946

  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,736
    Here's a funny one but, perhaps, a symptom of how things work these days in 2s cricket. It's always been a case that a player might trial at one county and then if things don't work out they will then trial at another.

    However, there is one player turning out for us today who so far this season has played:

    2nd June - Essex 2s v Surrey 2s
    3rd June - Kent 2s v Sussex 2s
    8th June - Essex 2s v Middlesex 2s
    10th June - Kent 2s v Essex 2s  
    13th June - Kent 2s v Surrey 2s
    5th July - Durham 2s v Kent 2s

    Poor bloke plays one day for Essex then the next for Kent. He also faces twice in the space of two weeks against Surrey for two different counties. Then, having played all his games either side of the bridge he's called up by Kent to play in the other end of the country!

    Such are the "trials" and tribulations of a player trying to secure a pro contract.

     

    Chopping and changing teams like that is setting him up nicely for a career in franchise white ball hit-and-giggle-whilst-taking-the-money cricket when he does finally make the breakthrough into senior cricket.
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,736
    edited July 2021
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/57716431

    England seamer James Anderson took his 1,000th first-class wicket as Lancashire triggered a Kent collapse at Emirates Old Trafford.

    Anderson took a wicket in each of his first three overs, then added four more in his 7-19 as Kent slumped to 34-8.

    Bowling, appropriately enough, from the James Anderson End, the 38-year-old fast bowler claimed his best figures at Old Trafford.

    He beat his previous Manchester best of 6-49 against Worcestershire in 2004.

    But, after taking the first five wickets to fall, Danny Lamb wrecked his chances of taking all 10, by getting the wicket of England batsman Joe Denly.

    Anderson's 1,000th victim was South African Heino Kuhn, caught behind by skipper Dane Vilas.

    England's all time top Test wicket taker was finally taken off after an opening 10-over spell with figures of 10-5-19-7.



    There's something wrong with that first line from the BBC report.

    It should read:

    England seamer James Anderson took his 1,000th first-class wicket as Kent triggered a Kent collapse by starting their innings at Old Trafford.
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,623
    74 all out - let’s see how our bowlers do - I’m not holding my breath 
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,736
    I can see an innings defeat heading our way.

    Unless ...

    Fanny! Time to put on your dancing shoes and get boogieing!
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,786
    Anderson’s good but wait until the god that is Stevo comes out to bowl before before jumping to any conclusions……
  • Stewart
    Stewart Posts: 2,451
    Wow! Just seen the score
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,736
    We've got Lanky Lanky rattled: 31-0 after 6.2 ov ...

    When does the T20 restart?
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,811
    We've got Lanky Lanky rattled: 31-0 after 6.2 ov ...

    When does the T20 restart?
    Therein is the problem. As I mentioned before with regard to Crawley's Test woes, constantly throwing your hands in T20 does not prepare him for what he will face at the highest level in red ball cricket which is all about shot selection and playing the ball as late as possible and under the eyes. The best shot of all is the "leave" but, with all due to respect to Sibley, you do have to have one or two shots.

    England's top 3 today:

    Sibley caught 2nd slip 0
    Burns caught behind 1
    Crawley caught 2nd slip 0

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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,811
    Quinn sparks a collapse

    64-1

    More wickets to follow shortly
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,683
    Kent and Surrey having a competition who can lose by the biggest margin.
    Shocking performance by both.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,863
    knock em over for 120
    rapid 250 from us and then scoreboard pressure gets us the win

    Boom!
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,736
    MrOneLung said:
    knock em over for 120
    rapid 250 from us and then scoreboard pressure gets us the win

    Boom!
    Sounds like a plan.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,863
    MrOneLung said:
    knock em over for 120
    rapid 250 from us and then scoreboard pressure gets us the win

    Boom!
    64-0 to 67-3

    Insert the 'It's happening' gif
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,736
    Still in with a shout of a first innings lead ...
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,811
    Quinn sparks a collapse

    64-1

    More wickets to follow shortly
    Told yer!
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,863
    Quinn sparks a collapse

    64-1

    More wickets to follow shortly
    Told yer!
    Can you tell us again ! 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,811
    MrOneLung said:
    Quinn sparks a collapse

    64-1

    More wickets to follow shortly
    Told yer!
    Can you tell us again ! 
    Sorry not getting the vibes yet. Being told the next wicket will fall with the score on 110.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,811
    MrOneLung said:
    Quinn sparks a collapse

    64-1

    More wickets to follow shortly
    Told yer!
    Can you tell us again ! 
    Sorry not getting the vibes yet. Being told the next wicket will fall with the score on 110.
    It's a gift

    110 89-4

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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,811
    93-5

    no stopping me now!
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,736
    Lancs 108-5 at stumps, a lead of 34.

    The latest scores in the other matches of the current round of the Championship:

    DAY 2 OF 4
    Nottinghamshire 256-7 v Derbyshire 149 all out
    Nottinghamshire lead Derbyshire by 107 runs with 3 wickets remaining

    Warwickshire 237 all out v Durham 20-1
    Durham trail Warwickshire by 217 runs with 9 wickets remaining

    Hampshire 488 all out v Surrey 42-4
    Surrey trail Hampshire by 446 runs with 6 wickets remaining

    Somerset 461-9 dec v Leicestershire 95-3
    Leicestershire trail Somerset by 366 runs with 7 wickets remaining

    Northamptonshire 170-9 v Yorkshire 158 all out & 159-6
    Yorkshire lead Northamptonshire by 147 runs with 4 wickets remaining

    Sussex 226 all out v Glamorgan 205-9
    Glamorgan trail Sussex by 21 runs with 1 wicket remaining

    DAY 1 OF 4
    Gloucestershire 248 all out v Middlesex

    Hants (understandable, given they were playing the Slurry Brownshorts) and Somerset notwithstanding those are some pretty ordinary batting totals.

    The question is: how many of these low totals can be attributed to pitch and atmospheric conditions? How many are due to players having just played a decent stint of 20-over cricket and haven't been able to adapt mentally to the longer (and purer) form of the game, resulting in them throwing their bat at everything and giving their wickets away?
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,811
    Lancs 108-5 at stumps, a lead of 34.

    The latest scores in the other matches of the current round of the Championship:

    DAY 2 OF 4
    Nottinghamshire 256-7 v Derbyshire 149 all out
    Nottinghamshire lead Derbyshire by 107 runs with 3 wickets remaining

    Warwickshire 237 all out v Durham 20-1
    Durham trail Warwickshire by 217 runs with 9 wickets remaining

    Hampshire 488 all out v Surrey 42-4
    Surrey trail Hampshire by 446 runs with 6 wickets remaining

    Somerset 461-9 dec v Leicestershire 95-3
    Leicestershire trail Somerset by 366 runs with 7 wickets remaining

    Northamptonshire 170-9 v Yorkshire 158 all out & 159-6
    Yorkshire lead Northamptonshire by 147 runs with 4 wickets remaining

    Sussex 226 all out v Glamorgan 205-9
    Glamorgan trail Sussex by 21 runs with 1 wicket remaining

    DAY 1 OF 4
    Gloucestershire 248 all out v Middlesex

    Hants (understandable, given they were playing the Slurry Brownshorts) and Somerset notwithstanding those are some pretty ordinary batting totals.

    The question is: how many of these low totals can be attributed to pitch and atmospheric conditions? How many are due to players having just played a decent stint of 20-over cricket and haven't been able to adapt mentally to the longer (and purer) form of the game, resulting in them throwing their bat at everything and giving their wickets away?
    Conditions play a massive part and when the CC is played is a reflection of the disdain the ECB now have for the longer form of the game. It is unusual to have April conditions in July but when you've already played half the games in the CC in the first two months you reap what you sow.

    It's also the fact that they don't play and train with bowlers the calibre of which they would do decades ago. The art of knowing where your off stump is and which ball to play has gone out of the window simply because in white ball cricket the idea is to play each and every one.



  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,740
    Phew ! 

    Was out all afternoon so didn't see the call to arms until around 5pm.

    But, thankfully, our plight was not quite as dire as it seemed at the time.

    I'll be more on the ball tomorrow, promise.....

    ...in the Jimmy Anderson manner. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,811
    It was an "interesting" call from Joe Denly, stand in captain, to invite a certain bowler to take his 1,000 wicket in optimum bowling conditions
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,811
    We're back out there and a wicket to Stevens

    119-6
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,811
    Just watched that last wicket. It was so Stevens. Bowls a couple of out swingers, then throws another wide one that the batsman assumes is going the same way so he leaves it but the ball jags back two feet to take his off stump.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,863
    and here comes the big lower order stand - sigh

  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,811
    Sam Northeast has left Hants by mutual consent and joined Yorkshire on a short term contract. After that he will be a free agent. Wonder if  his fall out with Kent will be buried with a possible return to us? This will almost certainly be Kuhn's last season as he is now considered to be an overseas player and Northeast wouldn't be the worst replacement.

    Northeast made 3 on his debut for Yorkshire

    Followed up with 1 in the 2nd innings, Can imagine those understanding Yorkshire folk cutting him some slack and I expect that they are looking forward to seeing him bat in their next match.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,811
    MrOneLung said:
    and here comes the big lower order stand - sigh

    It's Tea so I am going to predict a wicket within 3 overs of the resumption