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Kent CCC 2023

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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,842
    Cook sending message with 39 off 30 balls to McCullum!
    Blimey, either Cook is a convert to Bazball or he wants the game over quickly, as there are problems at the farm!
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Meanwhile Harry Finch is sending a similar message to the Kent coaches to Muyeye - he has just failed to reach his ton in being caught behind for 96 to go with the 167 that he achieved in the first innings
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    edited April 2023
    80-1 off 16 overs. Far too many 4 balls (17 of them to date) albeit on a good track.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    100-1 off 25 overs. Bowling a tighter length and line now. 
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Thanks for all your help re the questions I have asked, been trying to work it out how long it’s been since my last visit as best as I can make it’s around 52 years. Anyway finally made it along with the wife. Weather isn’t great snd it’s certainly cool.

    Kent are fielding 

    Members used to be able to purchase a cooked lunch in the Cornwallis Suite pre covid. Not sure whether or not that still applies.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    121-1 off 30 overs. Browne is playing a different game (34 off 92) to the others (87 off 88) 
  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,958
    Ended up with a nice chicken Baltic pie in the bar of the Les Ames stand, you can’t say I don’t know how to treat the wife. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,842
    Ended up with a nice chicken Baltic pie in the bar of the Les Ames stand, you can’t say I don’t know how to treat the wife. 
    Appropriate with the cold weather  :)
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    159-1 bad light has saved us and the players in particular given that it is windy and we've hit a new low of 7 degrees. 
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,668
    159-1 bad light has saved us and the players in particular given that it is windy and we've hit a new low of 7 degrees. 
    Don't worry too much about the weather it will be much warmer in August when the county championship gets into full swing.
    Oh hang on
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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Back on - and off again at 164-1. The fielders were practically begging the Umpires to take them off!
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    Is the bowling going to be a problem this season, and the batting too?
  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,958
    Ended up with a nice chicken Baltic pie in the bar of the Les Ames stand, you can’t say I don’t know how to treat the wife. 
    Appropriate with the cold weather  :)
    You can’t beat a good spell checker cock up can you :-)
  • I see (the ex-Kent) Ollie Robinson is getting runs again. Why the hell did Kent let him go? He has always seemed like a decent county cricketer to me.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    If you ever think Kent are pathetic, try being a Worcestershire fan. We had Gloucestershire 45-7 batting first today. A few hours later we are cruising into a lost position. It's absolutely effortless. Oh yeah, and we've allowed one of their lot to score a ton from number 9 and take a hat-trick on the same day. BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE DO
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    I see (the ex-Kent) Ollie Robinson is getting runs again. Why the hell did Kent let him go? He has always seemed like a decent county cricketer to me.
    The issue had been "boiling up" for a couple of years. Three keeper/batsman with the captain being one of them and all of them sharing the same ambition to play for England. He was dropped when Billings came back from the IPL and if one looks at the fact that we've had to leave out Denly for this game, it is difficult to see who they omit for Robinson. Even though they probably should. That said, his departure has been very amicable from both sides and it wouldn't surprise too many people if he were back with is in three or four years time providing it suits all parties for that to happen at that time. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,842
    Leuth said:
    If you ever think Kent are pathetic, try being a Worcestershire fan. We had Gloucestershire 45-7 batting first today. A few hours later we are cruising into a lost position. It's absolutely effortless. Oh yeah, and we've allowed one of their lot to score a ton from number 9 and take a hat-trick on the same day. BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE DO
    At least you're not flooded! With all the rain in March, New Road would surely have been at risk
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Hopefully manage to get a full game out of this, but not looking likely. Having said that, Essex are very light in the batting department once Browne or Westley go.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Subject to no more rain, play due to begin at 3.15
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    edited April 2023
    They are, indeed, back on but, unfortunately, Gilchrist is bowling like someone who is coming back from injury without enough overs under his belt before doing so. Struggling for line and length, his three overs to date have gone for 29 to give him overall figures of 17-1-95-0. By contrast, Agar has looked threatening if only to the welfare of the Essex batsmen - his four overs have gone for just a single and he's hit Browne on the head too with a bouncer (17-8-40-1). 

    194-1 and an undefeated stand of 151
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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Westley reaches his ton

    210-1
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    245-1 at tea. A stand of 202 between Browne (90) and Westley (114)
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,846
    opposition are 707-5 in the last two innings we have bowled 
  • MrOneLung said:
    opposition are 707-5 in the last two innings we have bowled 
    Once again , same story as last season 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Browne reaches his ton too

    280-1 and the partnership is now 237
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Well we can't win this game now. The wicket offers nothing to the bowlers at the moment so there should be no excuses for us when we go in to bat. "Should". 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    They are off for bad light now and that is probably it for the day. Some respite at least.

    289-1

    Browne 105*
    Westley 138*

    WA Agar 19-9-43-1
    NN Gilchrist 21-2-115-0
    C McKerr 13-1-51-0
    JDM Evison 13-1-54-0
    Hamidullah Qadri 8-1-25-0
  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,958
    Based on what I saw yesterday, I thought Agar bowled very well, was disappointed by Gilchrist but would say his figures flattered him, look like both carried on in the same vein today unfortunately for Gilchrist.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    We have a wicket!!!

    Westley caught hooking by Compton off McKerr for 148

    313-2
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Followed up by a second wicket to Agar 

    324-3