Leicestershire 2006 Season

how's adam griffith been performing for your lads Clobb's ??? i haven't read much about him so im guessing he hasn't exactly been doing any spectacular?

Originally posted by Clapo how's adam griffith been performing for your lads Clobb's ??? i haven't read much about him so im guessing he hasn't exactly been doing any spectacular?

He is solid for us but hasn't ever looked like picking up a hatful of wickets, and was even dropped for the T20 final (which was a big mistake admittedly). We enjoy watching him bat though

He's done alright actually a couple of times but he's not what you would call scientific in his approach!

Clobs , i've just read about Darren Maddy's exploits in twenty20 - pretty impressive matey!!

1111 runs in 35 matches @ 35.83 off 802 balls - that's a strikerate of 138.52 !!

   Just 3 tests and 8 one dayers though in the late 90's - seems such a pity.

What's his chances of making SA for the twenty20 WC next year?

Originally posted by Clobber but in all likelihood the selectors will go in with whatever happens to be their preferred ODI side by then

That's probably got more red herrings and twists and turns than a good Agatha Christie mystery mate!

Radically different in that they might win a few?

A superb championship victory over Worcestershire today. With rain having wrecked the first three days a contrived finish was agreed with us needing 356 in 88 overs. After a steady start Darren Maddy gave the innings impetus support by John Sadler, both men departing in the 80's leaving Paul Nixon and Claude Henderson to up the tempo further enabling Stuart Broad to strike the winning runs with just 8 balls left.

I'm chuffed for HD Clobs , what a fantastic season he's had! Did I mention that I met him here in a local radio broadcasting studio (I did Premiership Soccer in those days!) and beat him in a beer drinking competition!

Nice fella too , good sense of humour , has HD!

Monty took 2 wickets the last time I saw in that match. He took like 2-117. Pretty poor really. But HD is in a fine vain of form.

oh I see, just the one bottle. I thought you guys had gone toe-to-toe for 27 pints concluding with you muttering "sup up HD lad" or something equally northern!

Originally posted by Clobber I thought you guys had gone toe-to-toe for 27 pints ..

That's a normal Saturday morning/afternoon Clobs , then off to the rugby!

A rather crackpot finish to our County Championshop season today at Grace road.

After Essex had racked up 486 in their first innings we struggled briefly until an unbroken partnership of 243 between John Sadler (making his first Championship hundred in 3 years), and Jim Allenby (becoming only the 5th Leicestershire player in history to make a century on his Championship debut) and a lot of time lost to the weather made a draw inevitable.

Or so it appeared until the captains decided to make a game of it....

After Leics declared 114 behind on first innings we then opened the bowling with Paul Nixon (he's the wicket keeper) and Darren Robinson (opening bat) whereupon Essex rattled up to 186 for 0 off 9.4 overs!

Mark Pettini made 114 not out off 29 balls (which will never be recognised as any kind of record) whilst Robbo had the magnificent figures of 4.4-0-117-0!

What this farcical passage achieved was setting Leics a target of 301 in a minimum of 65 overs with that man Allenby again taking centre stage with a thrilling performance smacking 68 not out off 49 balls to see Leics home in fine style, sealing fourth place in D2 with a 4th win in the last 6 games.


Edited by Clobber

Basically they fed the batsman runs so they could declare and then get back on with a proper run chase. It used to happen a lot but thankfully isn't so prevelant these days.

I am sure the guys were just lobbing it up so they could smack it - it's isn't known as joke bowling for nothing. Grace Road is quite a large playing surface but I have no idea where the ropes were in this instance.

As suspected, Maddy has today joined Warwickshire