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Re: County Championship 2018
« Reply #465 on: September 21, 2018, 08:08:30 AM »
Somerset cruelly robbed of victory today. Storm has blown covers off making pitch unfit.
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Re: County Championship 2018
« Reply #466 on: September 21, 2018, 09:38:06 AM »
Tinpot club that couldn't organise a p1ss up in an orchard
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Re: County Championship 2018
« Reply #467 on: September 21, 2018, 09:53:06 AM »
Quote from: rickjames on September 21, 2018, 09:38:06 AM
Tinpot club that couldn't organise a p1ss up in an orchard

Even as a very one eyed Somerset fan struggle to understand why the covers aren’t currently off and letting it dry.

There’s not a cloud in sky and the suns out.

Just got a coffee next to the ground and supporters are really not very happy at all.

It would still be considered one of the better decks in the league I play in!!

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Re: County Championship 2018
« Reply #468 on: September 21, 2018, 09:56:23 AM »
Except a draw means that Somerset are confirmed as runners up in the Championship...
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Re: County Championship 2018
« Reply #469 on: September 21, 2018, 10:05:41 AM »
Quote from: Manormanic on September 20, 2018, 07:25:50 PM
Great to see them promoted with a mostly young mostly local team.  And great to have an excuse to head down to Canterbury, which is one of my favourite places to watch cricket.

Daughter number 2 has just started Uni at Canterbury - suddenly, a very good reason next year to go down there to watch cricket - hurrah!!!
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Re: County Championship 2018
« Reply #470 on: September 21, 2018, 10:56:19 AM »
Quote from: Buzz on September 21, 2018, 09:56:23 AM
Except a draw means that Somerset are confirmed as runners up in the Championship...
Love a conspiracy - did like Alec Stewart's comment though, 'I don't think they've done this on purpose' - but there is a chance that they've conjured up a tropical storm in the Atlantic in order to avoid playing day 4.
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Re: County Championship 2018
« Reply #471 on: September 21, 2018, 02:09:05 PM »
Quote from: t2ylo on September 21, 2018, 09:53:06 AM
Even as a very one eyed Somerset fan struggle to understand why the covers aren’t currently off and letting it dry.

There’s not a cloud in sky and the suns out.

Just got a coffee next to the ground and supporters are really not very happy at all.

It would still be considered one of the better decks in the league I play in!!

It’s not the wetness it’s the marks and divots made that’s the issue. Since they were batting and it’s their fault I’d have just made Somerset bat on it anyway.

ECB should take action, if it was anyone else I’d feel a bit sympathetic but as it’s them again and their incompetent groundstaff they need punishing
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Re: County Championship 2018
« Reply #472 on: September 21, 2018, 05:43:44 PM »
Honestly there is nothing anyone could have done about this. Just bad luck.
Look at Middlesex who lost some points in a drawn game because of the cross bow incident last year and then got relegated.
Stuff happens.
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Re: County Championship 2018
« Reply #473 on: September 21, 2018, 09:58:07 PM »
Quote from: mdg20 on September 21, 2018, 02:09:05 PM
It’s not the wetness it’s the marks and divots made that’s the issue. Since they were batting and it’s their fault I’d have just made Somerset bat on it anyway.

ECB should take action, if it was anyone else I’d feel a bit sympathetic but as it’s them again and their incompetent groundstaff they need punishing

Are you for real?

Incompetent groundstaff? Are they supposed to sit out all night to ensure the storm doesn't move the covers

Go give yourself an uppercut
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Re: County Championship 2018
« Reply #474 on: September 21, 2018, 10:02:59 PM »
Quote from: cricketbadger on September 21, 2018, 09:58:07 PM
Are you for real?

Incompetent groundstaff? Are they supposed to sit out all night to ensure the storm doesn't move the covers

Go give yourself an uppercut

No they secure the covers so they don't move, there's a million and one ways of doing it that's better than a couple of sandbags and a bit of string. Ive seem some decent ways online today by some clubbies.

The incompetent bit is more a generalisation that they have been found on numerous occasions over the last few years to have prepared unfit wickets - unless of course it was far more sinister and they have been actively doctoring pitches?
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Re: County Championship 2018
« Reply #475 on: September 22, 2018, 05:48:50 AM »
Historically Taunton was an absolute road, but reasonable enough the club needed to produce more result wickets to help them win the league or get promoted.
It appears that the club decided that spinning wickets would help them do that more than a green seaming wicket when you have decent spinners and thoroughbred quicks that is a good idea in my view.
To say the ground staff are incompetent totally misses the point.
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Re: County Championship 2018
« Reply #476 on: September 22, 2018, 07:13:12 AM »
I think the spinning wickets are a product of the ECB's scrapping of the toss.  If you prepare a green seamer, you get stuck in and are behind the game throughout.  If you prepare a raging bunsen, batting first is often the best bet as you at least get a small window of respite.  Its cheeky, but you can't really blame them whilst that daft policy is in place.
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Re: County Championship 2018
« Reply #477 on: September 22, 2018, 09:15:14 AM »
Why on earth would you not want a county with two good spinners to produce turners? Or should everyone just carry on bemoaning the fact we don't produce any spinners?
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Re: County Championship 2018
« Reply #478 on: September 22, 2018, 09:37:49 AM »
Quote from: Manormanic on September 22, 2018, 07:13:12 AM
I think the spinning wickets are a product of the ECB's scrapping of the toss.  If you prepare a green seamer, you get stuck in and are behind the game throughout.  If you prepare a raging bunsen, batting first is often the best bet as you at least get a small window of respite.  Its cheeky, but you can't really blame them whilst that daft policy is in place.

This is, in part, exactly what the ECB wanted - though perhaps taken to extreme?
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Re: County Championship 2018
« Reply #479 on: September 22, 2018, 10:03:04 AM »
Quote from: Bats_Entertainment on September 22, 2018, 09:37:49 AM
This is, in part, exactly what the ECB wanted - though perhaps taken to extreme?

The ECB's stated aim was to get pitches that lastest four days, starting out good for batting but taking some spin later.  I think Ciderabad has become somewhat different to that.

I don't know that I have that much objection to Somerset producing pitches that offer some assistance - as long as it isn't the exaggerated assistance seenin some games such as the Middlesex one last year or the recent game against Lancashire.  I do, however, have an issue with the ECB toss directive, as it penalises the Northern counties unduly - with the best will going, the times when they now play Championship cricket are such that most pitches up North will start green and damp, and it seems unreasonable to penalise the home side for circumstances beyond their control.
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