HomerJSimpson
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Surrey need 25 to win their county championship game. Somerset need another 284 with 8 wickets left. Lose and Surrey are champions again. C'mon The 'Rey
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Norrin Radd
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Sussex promoted back to div 1 for the first time in ten years , with a game to play . Yorkshire look favourite to join them as they are 15 points in front of Middlesex
Glamorgan need 255 runs with only 3 wickets left, and a day still to play. Hopefully, Yorkshire are home and dry.
Pathetic Shark
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The fat lady is warming up her voice to celebrate another championship for the team missing Pope, Jacks, Smith and Atkinson from the final month.
Arthur Wedge
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Well soon enough England will realise that
Potts and Jacks aren’t good enough at international level
Will prob add Bethall soon enough
And Smith isn’t good enough behind the stumps
Carse - too late for him
well and truely slapped
Potts and Jacks aren’t good enough at international level
Will prob add Bethall soon enough
And Smith isn’t good enough behind the stumps
Carse - too late for him
well and truely slapped
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
We thought that last week until that dodgy pitch came to the fore. Not taking anything for granted until that last wicket falls. A nice early Lancashire breakthrough would be nice though
Neilds
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I would also add Livingstone to that list as well. Too many low scores and flatters to deceive with the ball - very much like Sam Curran. Needs to get more consistent at international level
Arthur Wedge
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Yeah that’s a fair shout - he hasnt been a consistent enough performer especially at ODI
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
Not sure I'd have Carse in there either
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
Get in. Somerset capitualte this morning and Surrey are county champs again
Grizzly
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The first team in more than 60 years to buy three consecutive championships, no less...
Arthur Wedge
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All that ECB money comes in handy
Grizzly
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Doesn't it just. For those who don't get the reference, Surrey are the only county guaranteed international cricket year in year out, and pay the ECB a fixed fee to do so that was pegged ten years ago. Everyone else has to enter a competitive biding process, ending up paying considerably more. Yes, Slurry also have a very good commercial department, but they start from a position of strength.
I don't think most fans would mind so much if they made more use of their admittedly decent academy rather than parachuting in one game superstars.
Their fans will complain about international calls ups. To give a comparison, I think most people would agree that the best County side this Century was the Yorkshire side 2013-16. In 2015, that side lost Adam Lyth, Joe Root, Gary Ballance, Jonny Bairstow, Adil Rashid, Tim Bresnan and Liam Plunkett to international call ups, and won the Championship by 75 points playing reserves and kids. One overseas player, and only two brought in from outside, one of whom, the legendary Hoddfather, had been released by Sussex...
Arthur Wedge
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ECB have always had tunnel vision when it comes to test grounds and the hundred is a perfect example of it - they are desperate for that to be the IPL and they are willing to sacrifice the county game for it - think Surrey had 38 players used and when one pops off to England or hundred etc they just get the wallet out
They need to bin the hundred and get behind the blast which benefits all counties
Arthur Wedge
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Another slapping defeat - the same players disappointing once again
Arthur Wedge
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Looks like it’s going to go to the reserve day
Arthur Wedge
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Congrats to Glamorgan on winning the One Day Cup - shame it was reduced and even more than it was pushed so far into September to facilitate the money from The Hundredb
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
Thats hard. Three chances to win a trophy and nothing. Especially in a reduced over lottery
Neilds
Assistant Pro
Why are we trying to play cricket at this time of year?!?!?
venger
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Because we have had to make way in the middle of summer for the saviour of the game The Hundred
