4th Test: England v Pakistan at Lord's, Aug 26-30

[Cheshire Cat]

Billy Griffith | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com

Billy Griifith's son also played for and captained Sussex.

Mike Griffith | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Mike must have been a very good captain and/or fielder. Not a great average with the bat, yet a long career.

 

[dje shoreham]

Was at Lords today !
What a great day of cricket well done trott
And broad.... Super knocks and great morning
Of bowling from there wonderkid defo a new
Star to cricket.

ditto -great days cricket - too many beers in warner stand and 2 centuries - what can be better!

 

[Gwylan]

Their "name" wasn't there real name? Robert Charles Russell is Jack's real name.

Well spotted. Billy's first names were Stuart Cathie.

Billy Griifith's son also played for and captained Sussex.

He did - although that's not mentioned by Cricinfo, which is normally very good at that sort of thing.

 

[Gwylan]

Mike must have been a very good captain and/or fielder. Not a great average with the bat, yet a long career.

He was a terrible captain - gave it up after a very short time. I don't think he lasted two seasons.

But it's funny you mention his average because I saw that and was pondering on it when I went to sleep.

The Sussex line-up when I first started watching them was something like: Lenham, Langridge, Suttle, Graves, Parks, Cooper, Griffith, MA Buss, A Buss, Snow and Bates. Parks (and latterly Snow) would be away on test duty and Griffith would keep wicket then.

I looked up the averages of that team and they were astonishingly low, only Suttle and Parks had averages over 30, the others ranged from 23 to 27 - Les Lenham played 300 games and had an average of 26. These were no fringe players, all played at least 200 games.

I then looked up some other long-serving players from other counties: Kitchen, Shepherd, Smedley, Duddleston, Mike Smith of Middlesex and none of them got much beyond 32 either.

So, Sussex players were lower but not much lower - an indication of the problems of playing on rain-infected wickets I suppose.

 

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by keaton
Oh and i bet on us to make less 349 in our first innings at 5/6

How much are you due then?

Not a lot by the looks of things.

Sorry couldn't resist.

 

[Flavor Flav]

Anyone know what happened to Onions? Had a pretty good ashes series but seems to have gone missing somewhere.

 

[Sheebo]

Oh and i bet on us to make less 349 in our first innings at 5/6

Oh dear - it was looking like easy money at 120 / 7

 

[Beach Hut]

Solid start 380/7

 

[Lord Bracknell]

England 410/7
Trott 169 no
Broad 158 no

Next big target is to reach 416/7 and achieve the highest ever 8th wicket stand in a test match anywhere.

Currently 313 (Wasim Akram & Saqlain Mushtaq; Pakistan v Zimbabwe; Sheikhupura Stadium 1996/97)

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

1 run to go....

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

World Record Achieved

 

[pasty]

Right. Now get them both to 200 as quickly as possible then declare immediately.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

173 currently the highest score by a Test no. 9 batsman...

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Trott goes back and squeezes a single to fine leg, he's on the way to becoming the first man ever to make consecutive double hundreds at Lord's after his 226 against Bangladesh earlier in the summer.

I wonder what the record is for the amount of records broken in a wicket stand?

 

[CHAPPERS]

Anyone know what happened to Onions? Had a pretty good ashes series but seems to have gone missing somewhere.

Back injury, hopes to play this season but it's not looking good. Won't make the Ashes at this rate.

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

Broad gone, lbw given after review. Well played Mr Broad

 

[CHAPPERS]

173 currently the highest score by a Test no. 9 batsman...

That's your fault.

 

[Beach Hut]

445/8 at lunch

 

[Beach Hut]

446 all out

Go to 'em boys with the ball although Broad might be slightly knackered