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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.

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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]

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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.

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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.

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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 ?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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