[Cricket] Derbyshire v Sussex - LV= Insurance County Championship Div 2

[Moshe Gariani]

Looks a pretty flat pitch. Madsen is one of those players who always seems to score runs against us - it didn't help us dropping him though.

I do think our batting will be all right this season but without Robbo and Archer, I can't see us bowling anyone out - unless we produce an absolute greentop (and then we'll be skittled out for 68)

Yes, agree completely. Adding the 2 overseas makes our batting look pretty decent. Young bowlers, and probably Finn too, will find it hard on good pitches.

Best chance in this game is a highscoring draw. No rain in the forecast.

 

[DJ NOBO]

Looks a pretty flat pitch. Madsen is one of those players who always seems to score runs against us - it didn't help us dropping him though.

I do think our batting will be all right this season but without Robbo and Archer, I can't see us bowling anyone out - unless we produce an absolute greentop (and then we'll be skittled out for 68)

For ten years supporters have been calling for more batsmen. Now we’ve sorted that out, the bowling attack looks toothless. The return of garton and Robinson will help. And Finn adds a lot of clout.
High end batsmen must love facing crocombe. He doesn’t do anything particularly well. At least with Atkins there’s the fear factor that he might take your head off with a wayward delivery.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

For ten years supporters have been calling for more batsmen. Now we’ve sorted that out, the bowling attack looks toothless. The return of garton and Robinson will help. And Finn adds a lot of clout.
High end batsmen must love facing crocombe. He doesn’t do anything particularly well. At least with Atkins there’s the fear factor that he might take your head off with a wayward delivery.

Garton and Robinson, and also Jack Carson

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Shan Masood has never scored a FC double-hundred, btw...

 

[Gwylan]

Shan Masood has never scored a FC double-hundred, btw...

Yeah, but he's never played Sussex before

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Yeah, but he's never played Sussex before

Indeed.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

"Hats off to Sussex for getting through their overs quickly"

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[hans kraay fan club]

Can we play you every week?

 

[jcdenton08]

The lads will be delighted with performance.

Their lads, of course.

 

[vegster]

Bless you poor souls, I really think you are wasting your time with these threads. The glory days are long gone, as are the days when we went in to a match with a chance of winning. After day one we have lost all chance of a victory, we have a slim hope of a boring draw but the probability is a heavy defeat. ...repeat ad finitum. .....let it go !

 

[jcdenton08]

Bless you poor souls, I really think you are wasting your time with these threads. The glory days are long gone, as are the days when we went in to a match with a chance of winning. After day one we have lost all chance of a victory, we have a slim hope of a boring draw but the probability is a heavy defeat. ...repeat ad finitum. .....let it go !

If Albion supporters had done that in the great escape season, we likely wouldn't have a club now. Let alone be the 11th best club in the country, in a beautiful stadium with international footballers playing for us.

The good times will come again for Sussex. One day, eventually. It's clear it won't be this season though - or probably next year either.

 

[Pevenseagull]

That decade always struck me as being a bit crass.

 

[GT49er]

If Albion supporters had done that in the great escape season, we likely wouldn't have a club now. Let alone be the 11th best club in the country, in a beautiful stadium with international footballers playing for us.

The good times will come again for Sussex. One day, eventually. It's clear it won't be this season though - or probably next year either.

Would that be when good times return for county cricket?

Remind me - what is the average attendance for a county championship match at Hove?

Sadly, I can see hard times ahead for 'proper' cricket - the swing-the-bat-and-bash-it of one day and 20/20 might survive for a bit (and I bloody hope the hundred doesn't!) but kids don't play cricket much any more. State schools almost universally have given it up. Cricket grounds in prime areas are big enough to build a hundred bloody Barrett or Wimpey homes on, the game is very expensive to play ...................

It might see my time out, and I love the watching the county cricket coverage that we're getting on line at the moment ........ but I doubt if cricket as we know it (or at all) will exist in 50 years time.

 

[A1X]

Any guessing on how long that partnership is likely to last and the runs scored, given that this is Sussex?

I’m hoping neither have been here long enough to have caught anything

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Would that be when good times return for county cricket?

Remind me - what is the average attendance for a county championship match at Hove?

Sadly, I can see hard times ahead for 'proper' cricket - the swing-the-bat-and-bash-it of one day and 20/20 might survive for a bit (and I bloody hope the hundred doesn't!) but kids don't play cricket much any more. State schools almost universally have given it up. Cricket grounds in prime areas are big enough to build a hundred bloody Barrett or Wimpey homes on, the game is very expensive to play ...................

It might see my time out, and I love the watching the county cricket coverage that we're getting on line at the moment ........ but I doubt if cricket as we know it (or at all) will exist in 50 years time.

The Suseex Cricket League is the biggest cricket league in the world. Many smaller Sussex clubs that used to field 1 or 2 teams each Saturday now have 3 or 4 teams.

Competing with the Test match ground and/or bigger catchment counties at professional level is very hard but Sussex can do better than the last few years and will fight again.

#GOSBTS

 

[Eeyore]

Would that be when good times return for county cricket?

Remind me - what is the average attendance for a county championship match at Hove?

Sadly, I can see hard times ahead for 'proper' cricket - the swing-the-bat-and-bash-it of one day and 20/20 might survive for a bit (and I bloody hope the hundred doesn't!) but kids don't play cricket much any more. State schools almost universally have given it up. Cricket grounds in prime areas are big enough to build a hundred bloody Barrett or Wimpey homes on, the game is very expensive to play ...................

It might see my time out, and I love the watching the county cricket coverage that we're getting on line at the moment ........ but I doubt if cricket as we know it (or at all) will exist in 50 years time.

I wanted to rage against what you were saying there. Until a little voice in my head said to me 'He's right though, isn't he ?'

 

[Eeyore]

The Suseex Cricket League is the biggest cricket league in the world. Many smaller Sussex clubs that used to field 1 or 2 teams each Saturday now have 3 or 4 teams.

Competing with the Test match ground and/or bigger catchment counties at professional level is very hard but Sussex can do better than the last few years and will fight again.

#GOSBTS

Sunday cricket is slowly suffocating though.

I still can't believe my team is trundling on after 95 years. Just five to go. Hope to see it.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Bless you poor souls, I really think you are wasting your time with these threads. The glory days are long gone, as are the days when we went in to a match with a chance of winning. After day one we have lost all chance of a victory, we have a slim hope of a boring draw but the probability is a heavy defeat. ...repeat ad finitum. .....let it go !

We lost all chance of victory when we lost the toss.

 

[vegster]

Would that be when good times return for county cricket?

Remind me - what is the average attendance for a county championship match at Hove?

Sadly, I can see hard times ahead for 'proper' cricket - the swing-the-bat-and-bash-it of one day and 20/20 might survive for a bit (and I bloody hope the hundred doesn't!) but kids don't play cricket much any more. State schools almost universally have given it up. Cricket grounds in prime areas are big enough to build a hundred bloody Barrett or Wimpey homes on, the game is very expensive to play ...................

It might see my time out, and I love the watching the county cricket coverage that we're getting on line at the moment ........ but I doubt if cricket as we know it (or at all) will exist in 50 years time.

Yes, all valid points. We already have established two speed Cricket in the form of "Bashes " and " Hundreds " with lors of fireworks and music and pazaz. This is killing the County game from the bottom up...it does not help that Cricket is an expensive game to get in to, lots of equipment , whites and boots, two umpires and people to score.
Many kids never play it at school due to costs and time requirements so I think that slowly but surely, it is doomed.

And as you say, that's prime big money building land in Hove.. ..expect it to be sold before too long....." we have taken the decision to move the club to a specially designed state of the art facility in mid Sussex, this will save the club money and help develop Sussex Cricket for the next 200 years.....blah blah blah.."

 

[Lenny Rider]

Bless you poor souls, I really think you are wasting your time with these threads. The glory days are long gone, as are the days when we went in to a match with a chance of winning. After day one we have lost all chance of a victory, we have a slim hope of a boring draw but the probability is a heavy defeat. ...repeat ad finitum. .....let it go !

When it comes to leather on willow I respect your opinion old boy (as with everything else), so is the there a clear positive way forward with Sussex or were the glory years in effect like the middle distance running era of Coe, Ovett and Cram, it was great whilst it lasted but it’s never coming back?