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T20 Damp Squib 2020
The Vitality Blast has not exactly universally blasted off the launch pad:
The game at Bristol being abandoned but already there have been two centurions and it's not even tea time!
Max Holden with a commanding, well composed 102* (60) for Middlesex against Essex and Keaton Jennings with 108 (63) for Lightning against Durham.
16:30 Currently the covers are on at Headingley. Games at Canterbury and Chelmsford are both current off the field due to rain. The covers are also on at Cardiff and Leicester for the other later games.
18:00 Lancashire had made light work of Durham but the two South group games ended as No Results
19.10 The game at Headingley abandoned as were all the other evening fixtures. So only one result out of the seven games today. More Damp Quib than Blast...
Notts Outlaws are bookies favourite for this game and one of the favourites for the whole competition.
Injured Trio* Named
Outlaws have included three of their recently sidelined bowlers in the squad that travel to Leeds to face Vikings today:
Alex Hales, Chris Nash, Ben Duckett, Tom Moores, Joe Clarke, Peter Trego, Dan Christian, Steven Mullaney, Samit Patel, Matthew Carter*, Luke Fletcher*, Zak Chappell, Jake Ball*, Tom Barber.
Harry Gurney's name was added to the sick list yesterday joining Joey Evison who would have been an exciting prospect in this format.
No doubt there still will be a cacophony noise regardless of zero spectators.
Will there be the pyrotechnics just for the Sky viewers? It won't make the best radio, however.
Looking at that squad 2 words strike me
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Slow
No Wood or Libby to patrol in the deep. Trego and Nash in the side .oh dear !
Ages since I’ve posted on here - doesn’t always seem to work when I do I from my phone.
ReplyDeleteLots to cover.
A: I was due to dine at Six earlier this year but it was cancelled. Strange that there is no discount to members there yet it’s still subject to ecb rules on when it can have people back. ....
B: As someone recently poster. “Barber, Trego, Chappell, ..:/where did it go wrong Mick?”
We’ve done well to be competitive in the BWT with such limited resources especially in bowling.
C: How many “not quite all rounders” do we need? Trego, Mull, Samit- and that’s in 4 day cricket. It sure when you look at successful county teams they have that balance.
Still. T20 tonight and Yorkshire will be a tough game.
Don't panic, Don't panic, who needs the athleticism of Wessells, Coughlin, Libby or Wood when you've got Godfrey, Fraser and Wilson in the field ?
ReplyDeleteGodfrey,Fraser ,Wilson and Corporal Jones were not very fleet of foot but were good team members who would get each other out of trouble .
ReplyDeleteIf only the current Notts CCC team would do the same ?
Are they playing as a team or is it eleven individuals playing for them selves ?
It very much looks as if tonights game against Yorkshire will be called off .
Great shame after this long wait for the Competition to start .
All of us supporters hoping Notts would somehow gel as a team and surprise us with determination and resolve .
It will be a miracle if we get a 10 over slog in .
Looks like the weather will be the winner again!
ReplyDelete2 points gained!
ReplyDeleteBetter than losing!
( which was on the cards)
A great shame and anti- climax for everyone involved .
A lot of work went into tonights damp squidd
Better luck on this Saturday!