tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46846306391908034.post6030044730302233064..comments2024-03-28T21:44:13.796+00:00Comments on Derbyshire Cricket - Peakfan's blog: Derbyshire v Nottinghamshire day 1Peakfanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328174919897893268noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46846306391908034.post-1657625768324788902017-08-07T18:34:25.990+01:002017-08-07T18:34:25.990+01:00Your previous comment went under last night's ...Your previous comment went under last night's post Bob.<br /><br />How would you get around that selection dilemma? Fielding our best bowlers doesnt allow for a long batting line up. If we went with Viljoen, Qadri, Tahir and Davis, there's no runs from 8 to 11 at present, tho Qadri will improve.<br /><br />Can only go with what we have!<br /><br />Peakfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328174919897893268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46846306391908034.post-70168590919324975132017-08-07T12:47:42.426+01:002017-08-07T12:47:42.426+01:00I seem to be getting my comments ignored, anyway I...I seem to be getting my comments ignored, anyway I'll try again.<br /><br />Notoveryet, do you seriously consider the leg side flick should become a 'leave'??. I would suggest it is infinitely less risky than a drive against a potentially moving ball and, if we accept your suggestion, the opportunity for hugely negative bowling in championship cricket prevails. Leg side deliveries are free hits - simple as that.<br /><br />Notts will get a lead of at least 200 today and then the outrageously muddled selection by Derbyshire of coupling a very fragile top order with a tail the length of a snake's will be exposed.<br /><br />It is a real shame that the club are effectively ignoring championship cricket with still half a dozen games to go. It is our position in the championship that will be registered, not losing quarter finalists in the T20 . <br /><br />As for Imran Tahir - well, I'm not sure he fancied a midweek game in Derby in front of three men a dog. He seemed perfectly fit to me on Friday.<br /><br />Regards<br />BobAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46846306391908034.post-38657091465303280182017-08-07T01:25:03.535+01:002017-08-07T01:25:03.535+01:00I think 220 probably wasn't much short of what...I think 220 probably wasn't much short of what you would expect on this pitch against good quality bowlers. There were a few indeterminate strokes that resulted in dismissals but these were more than balanced by the number of times batsmen were simply beaten by good balls. Reece and Hughes both played gutsy innings, but both were regularly beaten and could have been out for many fewer runs. Apart from Wilson, who was LBW to a ball that looked clearly as if It was going down the legside, and Madsen who was caught off the execrable uncontrolled flick down the legside that undoes so many good batsmen, most of the others were undone by the conditions and good bowling. I'd love to know the risk / reward equation for the legside flick - it's completely uncontrolled by the batsman, so it's entirely dependent on whether the contact is thick enough to evade the wicket-keeper whether it brings you four or gets you out. Viljoen got his wicket in a similar fashion, so I suspect the balance on the day was something like 16-2, which makes it something to leave alone. <br /><br />The difference at the end of day 1 was how wasteful Derbyshire's bowling was. Taylor bowled no-balls and wides, Palladino (!!) no balls, and Viljoen wides and byes (the latter starting wide and swinging wider in a way that gave Wilson no chance of stopping them). There was also what looked like a dropped catch which Madsen parried and Wilson couldn't gather, and without these, Notts might have been 65-3 at the close. This is a tough wicket, and 220 was no disgrace, but we didn't make Notts work hard enough, and have to do a lot better tomorrow if we're not going to be out of the game by lunchtime. notoveryetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46846306391908034.post-35030500886807912082017-08-06T22:35:42.693+01:002017-08-06T22:35:42.693+01:00It was more than we looked like getting but less t...It was more than we looked like getting but less than we would have hoped for. Certainly less than we needed...Peakfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328174919897893268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46846306391908034.post-68947064457630676472017-08-06T22:30:26.915+01:002017-08-06T22:30:26.915+01:00220 is probably 100+ off being 'OK' in rea...220 is probably 100+ off being 'OK' in reality, assuming we expect to be competitive. Tim, Chesterfieldnoreply@blogger.com