Just a short blog from me tonight, as cricket nets have left me needing a long, long bath before bed time...
597-5 plays 475 at the end of the day, with our opponents 122 ahead and a day to play. Logic suggests that this game should be a draw and I would be very worried if we were to capitulate on the final afternoon.
Bairstow and Root scored their expected centuries, Root especially looking a player of tremendous potential. Mind you, he didn't outscore our Chesney...
We shouldn't, not against an attack that is competent but not, in my opinion, among the best in the division. They are likely to have a thrash tomorrow morning, get 230-250 ahead and then hope to bowl us out in two sessions and a few overs before lunch.
Comments about our bowling, on a track like this, don't seem especially fair.
More accurate statements can be made tomorrow evening, when we know how it has all panned out.
I'll have more time then too. Enjoy your evening.
What happens today may hinge on whether Yorkshire feel they can force a positive result. If not, then they may just decide to bat on and save their bowlers for another day. That would be my tactic.
ReplyDeleteIt is hard work to bowl a team out on this sort of pitch but why did Palladino and Hughes not bowl?. I assume Palladino was injured,which begs the question of why he was picked in the first place. Whilst he may not have made the slightest difference to anything,I still think we missed a trick by omittiing Footitt.
It,s probably a stroke of luck we have a bit of a break from CC matches with Turner injured and Palladino possibly following suit. One things,s for certain,the bowlers are going to be placed under far more strain than they were last season.
We're collapsing like a ton of bricks again. If we lose this game from posting a huge first innings, then it's an absolute disgrace. Forget trying to get runs now Derbyshire just don't give your wickets away. 7 more to get have Yorkshire, I can see them doing it.
ReplyDeleteI cant beleive we have lost that game, shocking and probably not something we will recover from for the rest of the season !
ReplyDeleteNever addressed fundamental weakness in side of last year, batting, not enough class or experience and papered over with 2 signings.
We are likely to be relegated at same speed as Derby were in that god awful premier season
Try and dress this one up then please Peakfan. Simply unnaceptable those final 2 days. What bit of confidence we had going into this game has surely dissapeared just like that. I can actually see Krikken being under huge pressure soon.
ReplyDeleteI forgot the laughing stock bit aswell. Which we most definitely are.
ReplyDeleteComments about our bowling, on a track like this (19 Derby wickets for 335 runs, excluding Chesney's knock), DO seem especially fair to me.
ReplyDeleteDerby county were the worst ever premership team, derbyshire are going to be the worst ever division one side.
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Relegated in May, lol. O.k I'm joking. You have to laugh or you would cry.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Krik will be going anywhere even if we are relegated.
ReplyDeleteToday's debacle (and there is no other word for it) is deeply worrying, both for the effect on morale and what it seems to say about our abilities at this level. Apart from Chesney and the Captain no one batted remotely well on what, by all accounts, was a very good wicket for batting. It's hard to be too critical of our bowling on such a good track but the fact remains that we were comprehensively outplayed by a county we finished above last season. Rather than the improvements we needed to compete at this level this would seem to indicate we have regressed. Neither are there any easy solutions out there. It's hard to see who could be signed (and how we would afford it) and I don't see anyone from within the squad breaking into the team and suddenly scoring shedloads of runs or taking hatfuls of wickets. There is an awful lot of hard work ahead to improve performances to the level where we can hope to stay in this division. I still believe these players can do it, but we starting to give ourselves an almighty mountain to climb.
Spireite Tim