Hampshire vs Essex

[Leicestersaint]

272 for 6 - quite a good recovery with a big stand between Mckenzie and Cork.

[Leicestersaint]

100 stand between McKenzie and Cork - the latter has reached 52 - now: 290 for 6.

[chrisobee]

Unfortunately McKenzie out for 83 just before the close but still a good recovery from 190-6 at tea and Cork proving he can still perform with bat as well as ball. 298/7 at close.

[Leicestersaint]

300 all out - last 3 wickets went for 3 runs!!!

[chrisobee]

Typical ! Essex 52/1 in reply.

[Dark Munster]

Essex 209/7 stumps.

 

400 a.o. tomorrow?

[Weston Saint]

Great days cricket.

 

Before the start of play today we agreed 350 would be a massive score. It was not to be.

 

All of Hampshire bowlers were excellent today. Essex 209 came in 92 overs. Might look like slow scoring but interesting all day with the bowlers on top.

[corsacar saint]

Cannot agree with you for once Ron. I stayed till tea-time,totally attritional cricket,especially with the short boundary on one side. The bowling was good ,especially DC,but after the Yorkshire debacle,this sort of game is not doing County Cricket any favours.[i am a fan of the County Championship as well]

[Give it to Ron]

Great days cricket.

 

Before the start of play today we agreed 350 would be a massive score. It was not to be.

 

All of Hampshire bowlers were excellent today. Essex 209 came in 92 overs. Might look like slow scoring but interesting all day with the bowlers on top.

 

It could of been so much better had we taken the 3 catches we missed. Pothas missed one I would expect him to take and the slip catch should of been held.

 

The Rosebowl is undergowing a massive facelift and IMO is losing its way at the moment. Too much building work and made me feel uncomfortable sat in a building site. Shame.

Bowlers did a good job and didn't have much luck beating the batsmen regularly.

[Leicestersaint]

Essex 284 all out. We're now 20 without loss.

[wadesmith]

Looking interesing. Try & bat another 10-15 overs tomorrow, declare, that gives them the rest of the day to get 300 on a four day wicket. Could go either way.

[RonManager]

Hants finish on 235-6.

 

Lead of 251.

[Weston Saint]

Another absorbing days cricket. Let's hope the weather does not ruin what should be a tense finish tomorrow.

[corsacar saint]

Despite the fact,yesterday was attritional cricket,tomorrow could be a fantastic days cricket. This is provided that,the weather is ok,and we do not lose our last 4 wickets in one over at the start of play.

From the way the previous 3 days have gone,one would assume a score of 275+ in about

5 hours would be quite a difficult ask. We certainly owe Essex,for our defeat[shameful last hour capitulation],at Chelmsford in our opening CCC fixture.

[chrisobee]

Weather here in Watford is Ok though a bit cloudy. Could indeed be an interesting day, fortunate that Pothas and Cork have put on 46 so far otherwise we could be in trouble though a decent run rate at 3.4 per over. Essex managed 2.43 and all our bowlers conceded less than 3 an over and took at least one wicket which always helps to build pressure. I reckon we'll aim for 300 and see if Essex go for it, they have some attacking players so I'd imagine they would ?

[bungle]

Closing in on lead of 300 and no more wickets lost.

 

Is 300 enough? Probably. Would want to put them in before lunch for at least 45 minutes I think.

[chrisobee]

I would have thought 300 was plenty but given Pothas and Cork have put on 90 now I'm not so sure. 295 the lead at present, 320 lead and declare ?

[bungle]

Pothas gone. Lead of 302. Swing the bat for 2 overs and see what happens?

[chrisobee]

295/7, still batting and no sign of Cork or Balcombe swinging the bat !

[bungle]

Raining in Bath - hope they have factored in rain.

 

They should get one of those expensive radar things the F1 teams have - not that they ever work properly!

 

Lead of almost 330 - time to declare!

[Leicestersaint]

Thank goodness we have just declared - leaving them to get about 330.

 

If they do that they deserve to win - but we are in with a fighting chance here, weather permitting.

[stevegrant]

311/7 declared.

 

328 to win with a minimum of 78 overs to be bowled.

[bungle]

Come on 'Aaaaaaaaaaampshiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiire.

[chrisobee]

311/7 declared. Essex need 328 but rain will probably scupper any chances of a result if it duly arrives.

[Um Bongo]

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

 

Rain isn't too far away - And lots of it!

[chrisobee]

Thank goodness we have just declared - leaving them to get about 330.

 

If they do that they deserve to win - but we are in with a fighting chance here, weather permitting.

 

328 off 78 overs means Essex would almost have to double their 1st innings run rate so they would indeed deserve to win. They have got players like Napier and ten Doeschate so I guess it depends on how ambitous they want to be.

[stevegrant]

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

 

Rain isn't too far away - And lots of it!

Probably about 2pm then, I guess. Arse.

[chrisobee]

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

 

Rain isn't too far away - And lots of it!

 

Thanks

[saintsdan]

7-2

 

Good start! One each for Cork and Tomlinson

[chrisobee]

Ok, it will definitely rain now !

[keithd]

even if the rain stays away i'll not be happy until Ten Doeschate is out....

[Leicestersaint]

16 for 2 with the bowlers on top - but rain is forecast for around 4 pm. We might just do this though. What a boost that would be.

[saintsdan]

16-4 now!

 

2 in an over for Balcombe, ten Doeschate out 2nd ball

[stevegrant]

16/3, Walker caught by McKenzie off Balcombe.

[stevegrant]

Ignore that last one... unbelievable, Jeff

[bungle]

Would be nice to get one of these two before tea. Going to be quite close, methinks!

[Doctoroncall]

77-4 at tea off 39 overs.

 

Bopara 57 not out

Foster 13 not out

[keithd]

Bopara gone for 61..

 

88/5

[keithd]

99/6 - Foster gone for a very long 18 runs, occupied the wicket well

 

Not enough time I dont think...

[Nellie]

Rain stopped play. Bugger.

[John D]

what's the weather like down there? - short rain break or is that game over for the day?

[chrisobee]

Arrghhhhhhhh, this is so typical of our season. Lucky, lucky Essex

[corsacar saint]

If Pothas had put Briggs on earlier ,who knows?[They may have got out attacking]

NP is a terrific player,but as I have said before on here,not the best captain.

[chrisobee]

Can't really sit here and judge who should or should not bowl. Kaneria took 1/100 in our 2nd innings and he is a quality spinner which suggests there was more in the pitch for the seamers. Essex would not have attacked from 16/4 anyway.

[Leicestersaint]

It looks like we have been beaten by the weather - the exact science of hindsight shows that NP delayed the declaration too long!

[chrisobee]

It's still dry here as well which makes it even worse!

[Weston Saint]

This was a seam bowler wicket with occasional introduction of Briggs spin. Pothas got that right in my opinion.

 

Weather won and I can tell you our players are very down about it.

 

One bit of news. England have released Pietersen to play T20 and he has confirmed to Hampshire he is available for Sunday's match at the Rose Bowl against Surrey.

[John B]

This was a seam bowler wicket with occasional introduction of Briggs spin. Pothas got that right in my opinion.

 

Weather won and I can tell you our players are very down about it.

 

One bit of news. England have released Pietersen to play T20 and he has confirmed to Hampshire he is available for Sunday's match at the Rose Bowl against Surrey.

 

Dont see why he should be picked - he is hardly a Hampshire Player

[keithd]

Dont see why he should be picked - he is hardly a Hampshire Player

 

yeah lets leave the player of the last world cup 20/20 out! boooo Pietersen....

 

behave, course he should be picked.

[stevegrant]

He'll probably add 1000 to the gate as well...