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Middlesex v Sussex Day 1
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Pavel Nedved 124*
Pavel Nedved 124*
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I only have the 2002 Sussex Members' Handbook, so I don't know if it was updated, but that stand of 228 between Yardy and Naved was Sussex's 2nd highest 7th wicket partnership ever, beating 218 of T.E.R. Cook and A.F. Wensley in 1933, but not quite matching the 344 of Ranjitsinhji and W, Newnham in 1902 (which is also the highest ever 7th wicket partnership in England ever).
If I was to look in an updated records book, I suspect that a 7th wicket partnership of Mark Davis and Robin Martin-Jenkins in 2003 may have been higher. (I am going to have to go and look it up now).
If I was to look in an updated records book, I suspect that a 7th wicket partnership of Mark Davis and Robin Martin-Jenkins in 2003 may have been higher. (I am going to have to go and look it up now).
Withdean Wanderer
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Rana fast becoming a legend, in the same league as Mushy...
dougdeep
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I see Adams flopped again.
Over 500 runs in a day. It's going to be us or Notts for the title - just like it was 25 or so years ago, when we had another fine Pakistan all-rounder, Imran Khan. They beat us to it then, so perhaps it's our turn now.
What are their remaining games?
What are their remaining games?
A wonderful day for all lovers of Sussex CC. How about a double on England winning the Ashes and Sussex winning the CC?
I suspect the latter is more likely!
I suspect the latter is more likely!
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1981.Jim D said:
Don't get my work colleague started on that. He played first team cricket for Sussex around then, and was convinced Notts cheated their way to the title. It's a long story, but he still spits when he hears the names Eddie Hemmings or Clive Rice.
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Windmill
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What a great day's cricket! My first visit to Lord's and I'm definitely suffering from a lack of sun screen.
The morning was a little frustrating: Monty and Adams made solid starts, but never really got going. Prior was lively but didn't stick around, and at 199/6 things weren't looking good.
Enter Rana, and what a partnership with Yardy. Middlesex were forced to use 7 bowlers and at one stage Rana was battering them all over the park. Yardy batted very sensibly and reached 1000 runs for the season today. You had to feel a little sorry for Middlesex, their fielding became very ragged in the heat as we piled on the runs.
This game is probably out of Middlesex's reach already, and it's just a question of how quickly we can dismiss them tomorrow. Possibly we aren't out of the championship race yet after all.
The morning was a little frustrating: Monty and Adams made solid starts, but never really got going. Prior was lively but didn't stick around, and at 199/6 things weren't looking good.
Enter Rana, and what a partnership with Yardy. Middlesex were forced to use 7 bowlers and at one stage Rana was battering them all over the park. Yardy batted very sensibly and reached 1000 runs for the season today. You had to feel a little sorry for Middlesex, their fielding became very ragged in the heat as we piled on the runs.
This game is probably out of Middlesex's reach already, and it's just a question of how quickly we can dismiss them tomorrow. Possibly we aren't out of the championship race yet after all.
Lord Bracknell
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Tonight's Table:-
County Championship - Division One Table
P W D L Batting Bowling Pts
1 Nottinghamshire 12 6 4 2 39 36 175.0
2 Kent 12 6 5 1 44 35 174.5
3 Hampshire 12 6 3 3 28 34 157.5
4 Warwickshire 12 6 2 4 31 33 155.5
5 Sussex 12 4 6 2 41 33 154.0
6 Middlesex 11 4 4 3 39 30 140.5
7 Surrey 12 3 6 3 38 35 130.5
8 Gloucestershire 11 1 3 7 19 31 75.5
9 Glamorgan 12 0 1 11 26 26 56.0
As predicted, following Nottinghamshire's win, we've dropped to fifth.
A win against Middlesex will truly split the Table in half - and Sussex will be in the group that is battling it out for the Championship.
County Championship - Division One Table
P W D L Batting Bowling Pts
1 Nottinghamshire 12 6 4 2 39 36 175.0
2 Kent 12 6 5 1 44 35 174.5
3 Hampshire 12 6 3 3 28 34 157.5
4 Warwickshire 12 6 2 4 31 33 155.5
5 Sussex 12 4 6 2 41 33 154.0
6 Middlesex 11 4 4 3 39 30 140.5
7 Surrey 12 3 6 3 38 35 130.5
8 Gloucestershire 11 1 3 7 19 31 75.5
9 Glamorgan 12 0 1 11 26 26 56.0
As predicted, following Nottinghamshire's win, we've dropped to fifth.
A win against Middlesex will truly split the Table in half - and Sussex will be in the group that is battling it out for the Championship.
Telegraph...
''Sussex's incomplete innings was very much a rags-to-riches story, the transformation from 199 for six, halfway through a sunlit day, transformed as if by magic to over 500, with a stand of 228 between Mike Yardy, whose 179 was his highest championship score, and Pakistani Naved-ul-Haq, whose 139, with 11 fours and four sixes, was a career best.
The left-handed Yardy, who was the mainstay of the county's batting early in the season while his team-mates were searching for form, had survived the havoc jointly wrought in the morning and in the first hour after lunch by Peter Trego, Nantie Hayward and Jamie Dalrymple and had 65 to his name when joined by Naved.
The pair performed their rescue operation with courage and panache. It was the newly-arrived Naved who led the initial onslaught, scoring his first fifty from only 39 balls.
He had contributed 79 to the 125 runs the pair had raised by tea, but after the resumption, Yardy took the bulk of the strike.''
From Guardian...
''With everything in the England garden rosy it was hard to see what Geoff Miller was doing on the pavilion balcony yesterday, unless he was either planning for the future or taking a peek at one of the candidates to replace Jason Gillespie at Trent Bridge next week. In either case he learned little.
Sussex chose to bat, meaning that any assessment of Owais Shah and Ed Joyce - regarding Pakistan and India this winter - had to wait. And Stuart Clark, called up to understudy both Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee at Old Trafford, laboured through six spells, conceding 109 runs, without the sniff of a wicket.
In fact, early on, when Middlesex still had some kind of a grip on the game, Clark came second best to the peripatetic Peter Trego (Somerset, Kent, Northamptonshire and, most recently, Worcestershire).
Luckily for the England selector there was enough to keep him rapt - Mike Yardy again shoring up the Sussex middle order with his fourth century of the season and a volcanic 139 off 124 balls by a 27-year-old Pakistani all-rounder.
Rana Naved has already bagged 31 wickets in five matches. Yesterday Naved arrived at the crease with Yardy on 58, but Sussex in danger of collapsing at 199 for six. At first he favoured the short Tavern boundary, twice putting Jamie Dalrymple's off-spin into the stands before he completed a 39-ball half century with a straight six off the more experienced Paul Weekes.
He then settled down and kept the ball on the ground, but still scuttled along to his first century for Sussex in 94 balls thanks to a bit of Middlesex charity. His swept single took the partnership to 200 and Sussex to 400, the four overthrows that immediately followed saw Naved to his maiden Sussex century.
By this time Yardy was heading for 179, way beyond his previous best championship performance, and at a rate foreign to his many south-coast admirers. Even when Richard Montgomerie (27), Murray Goodwin (20), Chris Adams (17) and Matt Prior (38) were self-destructing at the other end, the 24-year-old kept working the ball around and occasionally allowed himself a rash of fours, as he did, twice putting Dalrymple backward of square, to go to his fifty in 95 balls.
Swept along in Naved's slipstream, Yardy's century came up in 151 balls, with 15 fours, and he added a dozen more before he clipped his 229th ball, from Chris Peploe, to Joyce at short mid-on.
There was more good news for Middlesex when Naved, shortly after lifting Clark into the stands for his fourth six, hit a simple catch straight to Ben Hutton in the covers.''
''Sussex's incomplete innings was very much a rags-to-riches story, the transformation from 199 for six, halfway through a sunlit day, transformed as if by magic to over 500, with a stand of 228 between Mike Yardy, whose 179 was his highest championship score, and Pakistani Naved-ul-Haq, whose 139, with 11 fours and four sixes, was a career best.
The left-handed Yardy, who was the mainstay of the county's batting early in the season while his team-mates were searching for form, had survived the havoc jointly wrought in the morning and in the first hour after lunch by Peter Trego, Nantie Hayward and Jamie Dalrymple and had 65 to his name when joined by Naved.
The pair performed their rescue operation with courage and panache. It was the newly-arrived Naved who led the initial onslaught, scoring his first fifty from only 39 balls.
He had contributed 79 to the 125 runs the pair had raised by tea, but after the resumption, Yardy took the bulk of the strike.''
From Guardian...
''With everything in the England garden rosy it was hard to see what Geoff Miller was doing on the pavilion balcony yesterday, unless he was either planning for the future or taking a peek at one of the candidates to replace Jason Gillespie at Trent Bridge next week. In either case he learned little.
Sussex chose to bat, meaning that any assessment of Owais Shah and Ed Joyce - regarding Pakistan and India this winter - had to wait. And Stuart Clark, called up to understudy both Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee at Old Trafford, laboured through six spells, conceding 109 runs, without the sniff of a wicket.
In fact, early on, when Middlesex still had some kind of a grip on the game, Clark came second best to the peripatetic Peter Trego (Somerset, Kent, Northamptonshire and, most recently, Worcestershire).
Luckily for the England selector there was enough to keep him rapt - Mike Yardy again shoring up the Sussex middle order with his fourth century of the season and a volcanic 139 off 124 balls by a 27-year-old Pakistani all-rounder.
Rana Naved has already bagged 31 wickets in five matches. Yesterday Naved arrived at the crease with Yardy on 58, but Sussex in danger of collapsing at 199 for six. At first he favoured the short Tavern boundary, twice putting Jamie Dalrymple's off-spin into the stands before he completed a 39-ball half century with a straight six off the more experienced Paul Weekes.
He then settled down and kept the ball on the ground, but still scuttled along to his first century for Sussex in 94 balls thanks to a bit of Middlesex charity. His swept single took the partnership to 200 and Sussex to 400, the four overthrows that immediately followed saw Naved to his maiden Sussex century.
By this time Yardy was heading for 179, way beyond his previous best championship performance, and at a rate foreign to his many south-coast admirers. Even when Richard Montgomerie (27), Murray Goodwin (20), Chris Adams (17) and Matt Prior (38) were self-destructing at the other end, the 24-year-old kept working the ball around and occasionally allowed himself a rash of fours, as he did, twice putting Dalrymple backward of square, to go to his fifty in 95 balls.
Swept along in Naved's slipstream, Yardy's century came up in 151 balls, with 15 fours, and he added a dozen more before he clipped his 229th ball, from Chris Peploe, to Joyce at short mid-on.
There was more good news for Middlesex when Naved, shortly after lifting Clark into the stands for his fourth six, hit a simple catch straight to Ben Hutton in the covers.''
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Parson Henry
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Back from hols what have I missed form the Sussex cricket front?