I don't know if you caught the Somerset v Nottinghamshire game yesterday. If you did, you were doubtless as sad as I was to see our near neighbours beaten...
The batting of Keiron Pollard and Joss Buttler at the end was sensational. I'm not convinced that Pollard is a great player, but he hits a ball further than anyone other than Chris Gayle and with his medium pace and tigerish fielding he is a 21st century cricketer, a T20 specialist who can tour the globe picking up hefty cheques in return for a few such performances.
Like the concept or not, it won the game for Somerset yesterday but I was equally impressed by Buttler's improvisation. I would dearly love to see Derbyshire tackle a run chase in such a sparkling manner, but with respect to all concerned think that is a little way off just now.
Today at work we had an ice-breaker prior to a training day. Who would we most like to be and why? We could pick anyone from history and I toyed with the idea of being Andrew Carnegie, who taking into account the various exchange rates and monetary values was the richest man ever. I could help out Chris Grant and bring top names to the County Ground.
In the end though I settled for Garfield Sobers. I could bat brilliantly, bowl left arm fast medium, orthodox slow left arm and chinamen and catch anything that came near me. More to the point, I could make a mint in the IPL with such talents then play every season for Derbyshire (without injury, of course) and turn us into worldbeaters.
Now THAT would be a landmark signing!
I went with some Notts fans, It was a good game and despite feeling Notts were 10 runs short, I thought Notts would win as soon as Kieswetter got out.. I thought Notts bowling was poor, with far too many full tossers. Pollard came in and was brilliant and swung at everything, however I thought his bowling was very erratic
ReplyDeletePeakfan, no more talk of Landmark signings please! It is direspectful to the hundreds of good players the club has had in the past. No disrespect to Collingwood but he would have struggled to get into some of our sides over the years so don't give me landmark!
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