2008 English County Season Domestic Thread

Yes Clobs , just 2 to go for the hundred hundreds !

So he was and the lad did nip one out though - maybe he's got a future in the game.

 I see he took 2 wickets yesterday Clobs , he could be a fine signing.

 Nice to see Simon Jones take 5 wickets in a one dayer yesterday. All the talk of recent years has been about Flintoff's operations , but Jones has also had 3 years of turmoil.  Whether he'll be as quick as he was in 2005 remains to be seen , but it's good to see him back on the park after so long.

He'd have enjoyed bowling on the pitch there on Friday night for the ground's debut - plenty of movement and variable bounce as Gloucestershire rained on Glamorgan's new home debut.

Jones was bowling again towards the end of last season but was just going through his action to get used to bowling again.

Edited by The Tyke - 14 May 2008 at 3:31pm

More good news for Simon Jones supporters after he took a 5 wicket haul yesterday against Gloucestershire. That's his 1st five-fer in the longer version of the game since the 4th Ashes test of 2005.
      Grand to see all his hard work paying off , maybe his test career isn't over yet.

No Clobs , maybe you'll go watch when he makes an appearance against your lads huh 

I've been saying we've got a very good team at the moment, and it's only now that people are starting to listen!

The Championship isn't won in May, but it's certainly good to see us right up there - we are the only team in the division, and one of only three (Leics and Warwicks are the other) in the country yet to be beaten in a four-day match.

Good news that caddi£k is on his way back and could play against Yorkshire on Friday. Friends Provident Quarter Final against Kent comes first though, a bit too soon for him.

What an innings from Graham Napier. He's just broke the world record for most number of sixes by an individual in T20, with 16 of them.

I'd never heard of the lad before seeing him on Sky!  Some knock , does he regularly get big ones ?

25 and out huh - sounds like a shoo-in for the current England side then Clobs !

Originally posted by Sledger I'd never heard of the lad before seeing him on Sky!  Some knock , does he regularly get big ones ?

Originally posted by The Tyke Originally posted by Sledger I'd never heard of the lad before seeing him on Sky!  Some knock , does he regularly get big ones ?   He doesn't get much chance normally. Essex don't play him in the FC side and in limited overs they normally send him in at 7 or 8.   It was only with Galleon arguing with the coaches to get him up the order that he got put in at 3.

 Righto Tykey!  Let's hope it's not a flash in the pan and the lad brings some much needed oomph into English cricket. Who knows , he might just be that someone special to get England from a torpid unit into a dynamic one that scares Australia !
     (these drugs are strong!)

Simon Jones takes another fiver-fer against Leicester - this time in the 2nd division of the county championship.  I hope the selectors are looking on - the lad's strike rate is very impressive after such a lengthy time out of the game.