Worcs v Sussex CC Div1 Relegation Off

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

Cometh the hour
Cometh the Monty

230 all out will be a nice 140 or so lead for Sussex.
Pile on the runs tomorrow and declare at 5pm about 430 ahead.
Wrap it up by tea on Saturday and we should be safe.

Phew!

TNBA

TTF

 

[lichfield seagulls]

Cometh the hour
Cometh the Monty

230 all out will be a nice 140 or so lead for Sussex.
Pile on the runs tomorrow and declare at 5pm about 430 ahead.
Wrap it up by tea on Saturday and we should be safe.

Phew!

TNBA

TTF

I'll have whatever your smoking

 

[simmo]

Worcs 222 all out. Will the follow on be enforced

 

[keaton]

Worcs all out for 222, Khan gets his third, Monty finishes with a michelle.

Lead of 153, will we make them follow on?

 

[Badger]

Worcs all out for double Nelson.

Will Sussex enforce the follow-on? I reckon we'll bat again and try and get 200-220 quick runs and have a couple of overs at them tonight.

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

I reckon so. 5 wicket haul from Monty! Bravo!

TNBA

TTF

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

If the draw will keep us up, then there should be no follow-on

 

[BensGrandad]

Didnt somebody say a draw with batting points will be enough to keep us up. If so I would say enforce the follow on and let them bat the match out or we tear them to pieces again it wont matter. There is no way they will score enough runs fast enough to put us in the likelhood of a defeat.

 

[Mendoza]

we are BATTING, follow on not enforced

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

Good. Massive batting performance now 400 ahead by 5pm and then an hour at them before stumps.

TNBA

TTF

 

[BensGrandad]

I would think that we are going to bat the day/match out. If we score runs quick enough to scent a victory go for it but I would have gone the other route of safety with the follow on.

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

Good. Massive batting performance now 400 ahead by 5pm and then an hour at them before stumps.

TNBA

TTF

Plan should be to bat all day (ho! ho!) and then some tomorrow in order to put the game completely out of Worcs reach. Winning is a secondary priority, not losing is the first.

 

[Simster]

Sussex 103 all out by 3pm.

 

[BensGrandad]

Plan should be to bat all day (ho! ho!) and then some tomorrow in order to put the game completely out of Worcs reach. Winning is a secondary priority, not losing is the first.

That being my view I would have enforced the follow on and let them bat as long as they wanted as they wouldnt have scored sufficient runs quick enough to consider a win. If we bowled them out quicker so to the good.

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

That being my view I would have enforced the follow on and let them bat as long as they wanted as they wouldnt have scored sufficient runs quick enough to consider a win. If we bowled them out quicker so to the good.

Far enough but if they're around 300 with some wickets left tonight then you've let them back in the game with our dodgy batting having to survive a couple of sessions tomorrow on a deteriorating wicket - cf Ali and Panesar have already taken 5 wickets each on first innings. On balance, I would "risk" our flids today rather than choosing to bat last - still with the Yards/Robbo combo's record this season we could well end up as per Simster's prediction.

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

Sussex 103 all out by 3pm.

Worryingly possible this.

 

[BensGrandad]

My view was that to make 300 + and still be only 150 in front, they would need to bat today and possibly untill lunch tomorrrow and that they would probably if scoring runs bat on too long and not leave themselves long enough to bowl us out.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

The weather looks like it will give us a full game, important part of the game if we could just get ahead in the next two sessions

 

[Cantona's Flying Dropkick]

Currently 54/1

 

[Storer 68]

Personally, with a dodgy weather forecast for the weekend, I would have invited Worcestershire to have another go.

Then, the worst we could do would be to draw the game