A quick look around suggests it will be Lord's, the Oval, Headingley, Trent Bridge, OT, Edgbaston, and then you'd only have two from Cardiff, Southampton, Bristol and Durham. Probably not Durham, so two from those first three. Surrey and Yorkshire will insist on playing with their own names, too.
I think it's an absolutely terrible idea that London-centric money men have come up with without any sort of understanding of how English cricket actually works.
Gaz Batts
Can see him steaming onto the pitch in his drinks carrying bib to give it large if we take a wicket. Get him to India as well please.
Ben Duckett replacing Morgan in the ODI squad as well. Hopefully for good. Lad is absolute quality.
Our one day batting is a bit daft these days. Not sure when that happened. Roy, Hales, Root, Duckett, Buttler, Stokes, Billings, Moeen as a top eight is not out of the question and I've left Bairstow and Fingers McGinty out of that.
About 5 keepers in there as well. We should, but won't, piss the Champions Trophy. I see we've landed Australia, New Zealand and Danglabesh in the in no way rigged draw.
I was wondering why all the games in that are 10.30am day games (Darren Stevens ahoy) and then I remembered the Indian TV market.
Anyone at a loose end tomorrow, get the One Day final watched, coverage 10am on Sky. Surrey v Warwickshire, two quality teams. Trott and Ian Ronald Bell in action for the brummies, but Surrey will munch them because we have Curran junior and Gaz Batts.
Woakesy getting taken to the cleaners by the mighty rey. Although this is Davies's last game, we've conveniently raided all Durham's best players for next year.
Good. I hate Durham.
Well this went well. Lord's playing like day 5 Chennai for some reason.
I heard Davies is going to Somerset. He said he wants the gloves back so I think he would be perfect for Yorks since our keeper is always gone with England and our second choice is 32 and averaging under 30.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Yeah but the western terrace would probably call him a poofter when he hoys it to mid on 12 times a season. Somerset is quite a good fit.
He's deluding himself if he thinks he can get into the England picture with the gloves though.
I don't think Nicola Adams has had any stick but they again that would be the younger crowd you dont get at Headingley.... go to Somerset Steve lad.
Agreed, that time has come and gone. Bairstow, Buttler, Billings, Foakes and Duckett are all ahead of him.
County championship deciders today, mainly Yorkshire v Middlesex which is on Sky and the winner is champion (Somerset could sneak through if it's a draw). The build up has featured England withholding Root and Bairstow from Yorkshire's team, and more spectacularly Adil Rashid opting to rest himself, sparking riots on the streets of Pontefract and Pudsey and Yorkshire fans (cricket's Liverpool fans) claiming that it's a massive ECB Strauss-led pro-Middlesex conspiracy, and Angus Fraser is popping people from the grassy knoll.
Really hope Middlesex mince them.
Rashid reckons it's because of an ill relative. I'll take him at face value so the intitial press release it very odd, he's been thrown under the bus.
Does a draw do for Middlesex? Surely a famous Lords road is in the offing
I'm not sure I buy Adil's story tbh. If it was that bad then Yorkshire wouldn't have chucked him under the bus, unless they are all complete morons, which is always possible up there.
A draw would potentially let Somerset in through the middle.
Draw + Somerset win would have it down to bonus points? Could be a cracking four days
Somerset losing 5 for nowt at the end of the day yesterday is a biteven if they can blame it on madly trying to accumulate bonus points.
Nottinghamshire having already gone down is lol enough, but if Warwickshire somehow manage to join them I might poo myself with mirth. That said, imagine Trott's run aggregate in Div 2
Surrey looked certain to go down at the halfway mark, but then the pitches dried out, Sam C came back from his A levels and we pissed it.
Yorkshire struggling. Three down and Bresnan coming in at five!
Please let Yorkshire get stuffed and then Strauss come out and do a lap of honour with the Middlesex players. Maybe Fat Gatt as well. I'm meant to hate Middlesex, but the boring northern farts are the greater enemy to mankind.
AH'LL SITHEE bore off Dickie Bid.
Go in with 4 batsmen. 3 of them get ducks.
lol
I went and saw Warwickshire play about 20 years ago as part of the same arrangement that saw Andy Moles come round promoting Kwik Kricket. In hindsight there's a chance I might have seen Lara.
I was also the only person he gave a yellow card.
Trott calling out Michael Vaughan in the Times this morning
He's such a hero.
His book could be worth a read for sure.
Was lolling at Bresilad in at five for Yorkshire but he's 102* and they are in the box seat now
If the vile Yorkie twats now go on and win it, I'll seethe(e).
2-2!
Yorkies have it in the bag
Only the weather can save us now.
Compton really is broken. Christ knows why England cling on to people for so long. Tremlett was the most egregious example.
Do you think Middlesex have got it in them to take one for the nation and just bat for as long as possible tomorrow?
No, but can you imagine the Yorkshire moaning? It would be glorious. They'd invoke the spirit of the game and all sorts.
You are starting to sound like the cricket version of Smiffy, Jim
Jimrage to TJ1mm would be a hell of a fall if it became (cricket thread) consensus.
I turned against them when I went to watch a day of Test cricket at Trent Bridge a while back and the bloke next to me in the Radcliffe Road End whipped his shirt off after half an hour's play, told me his life story (all of which seemed to take place in either Wakefield or Pudsey), kept saying 'I've only come t'see Bressie', and after lunch just stood up and shouted YAWKSHUR YAWKSHUR YAWKSHUR every ten minutes as the watery Nottingham lager got the better of him.
I don't necessarily disagree. Yorkshiremen are consistently pegged as Straight Talking and Characters. I've not spent enough time around them to have a proper opinion of my own but there's rarely a clearer euphemism for an obnoxious cunt than those.
We played Payday without me stopping to yell 'YAWKSHUR YAWKSHUR YAWKSHUR' every ten minutes so thats a positive
That's only because you were too busy talking about whippets.
Christ I hope New Zealand continue making a fist of this. Long, long home Test season coming up for India. If they start tying themselves in knots and preparing raging turners after shitting the bed in the first of 13 Tests it could all get spectacularly entertaining.
Saw a bit of Kane munching Trashwin earlier with my 6am coffee
Did I read right that Ashwin is India's leading test run scorer in 2016?
He is at the moment. Two tons.
Bairstow leads the world with 992 at 76 this year. Blimey.
Looks like Middlesex have dropped anchor.
They are happy with second apparently. Madness.
Scrumpy still firmly on ice but Andrew Gale is going to start seething if this goes on much longer, and I for one can't wait.
Christ. Things have escalated a bit since I last checked in.
Buffet Bowling
Yeah, just stuck it on the tv. Fair enough but it's rank as a spectacle and not something I particularly agree with.
Absolute shambles.
Hope it tips it down (doesn't look likely).
This is no way to win the title.
Ridiculously generous declaration. Hoping for a draw but imagine Yorkshire will piss it.
At this point we won't win it, we need to go at 6's
Yeah but the scummers will have to go all out for wickets so there will be gaps aplenty. Only way it's a draw is if one of them gives up.
I'm being clouded by immense hatred for both sides here.
Pretty hard pitch to score quickly on from what I've seen
Somerset are sausaged either way. Their only hope is meteor stops play.
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