2007 English County Season Thread

Glamorgan started badly and slipped to 39-3 but recovered and had a shot at victory before two wickets in two balls from Trego and caddi£k respectively took the game away from them, a good match. Somerset eventually won by 24 runs as Glamorgan racke dup 286-8. Also new player Mark Turner seems to be the Monty of Somerset as far as support goes, however he bowled reasonably well and only went for over 60 runs because Robert Croft decided to slog everything at the end when there was really no chance of victory, but he didn't field a lot so you can't say he's a carbon copy of Monty.

 

However in comparison the whole Glamorgan team fielded like Monty's, Davies went head first into the crowd twice in two balls and they didn't really try to catch skied balls when a little bit of running would've got them out. The only skied catch they took didn't count because it was a no ball.

 

Good game though, and hopefully plenty more like that to come during the long season ahead.

 

P.S. At least Somerset gave me something to cheer about when you consider Lancashire's abysmal performance earlier today.

Somerset 357 (84.4 overs) PS Jones 114!, Trescothick 77, caddi£k 51!, Masters 6-60

 

Leicestershire 58-3 (17 overs) Robinson 26*, Maunders 26, Willoughby 3-10

 

Blimey, great recovery from the Sabres after they went from 71-5 at one stage to end up on 357, with Trescothick continuing his good form with 77 from 128 balls, however what has got to be more impressive is the 146 run 9th wicket partnership between Steffan Jones and Andy caddi£k, Jones amazingly scored 114 and caddi£k 51, talk about a tail-end recovery. Willoughby also bowled excellently to take 3-10 from 6 overs.

 

Lancashire are playing Durham Uni today and Durham Uni are 298-6 from 104 overs, hopefully the tail will be cleared up fairly early in the morning and Lancashire can then put up a good total in reply.

 

Clobs did you get down to Grace Down today, if so can you report on the action today down there?

 

It's never too much fun the bowlers when they come to the oval, the pitch seems to permanently provide stacks of runs.