tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46846306391908034.post7722571558657159091..comments2024-03-28T21:07:17.119+00:00Comments on Derbyshire Cricket - Peakfan's blog: Leicestershire v Derbyshire day 3Peakfanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328174919897893268noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46846306391908034.post-60210430079708220882015-08-10T16:16:20.764+01:002015-08-10T16:16:20.764+01:00Poor defeat again, only taking three wickets today...Poor defeat again, only taking three wickets today is not good enough. Very disappointing season on the whole and I think we all expected so much better.Marknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46846306391908034.post-25405443838445104442015-08-10T11:04:52.593+01:002015-08-10T11:04:52.593+01:00Excellent innings from Godleman. We would have bee...Excellent innings from Godleman. We would have been in trouble without it,looking at the rest of the scorecard. If Leicestershire win from this point it would represent a major setback but I can see it happening. I too hope Dilshan can come up with some scores to remember him by. To be fair,it,s his first game back on a less than ideal wicket but he needs to do something fairly soon. Durston,s injury is a little worrying. He is almost irreplaceable in one day cricket and would be a big loss if he isn,t fit. Marcnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46846306391908034.post-54315428186018604302015-08-10T10:28:11.250+01:002015-08-10T10:28:11.250+01:00To be honest, having been at Leicester since just ...To be honest, having been at Leicester since just after lunch on the first day, I'm not sure "well deserved" is the best description, as it's been a mongrel of a game with scratchy performances all round. Weather permitting, we should win this now after Leics late collapse, but it's been much closer fought than you'd want against them. Thanks to an outstanding innings from Madsen, we probably had a hundred runs more than you'd have expected in the first innings, but gave that back with some very ordinary bowling on the second day. Cotton had a really poor day, and Thakor and Hughes looked very innocuous. It really showed up the weakness of the argument (on cricketing grounds at least) for the release of Wayne White, as we still have the weaknesses and uncertainties of very inexperienced bowling that underlay the decision to recruit him last year. The announcement of his contract with Leics was an open secret around the ground yesterday, and an attack of Mckay, White and Shreck is going to be a handful if White can replicate what he did for us this year and Shreck can carry on defying the years. <br /><br />Just as our bowling was poor apart from Footitt and Palladino, the batting has been very fragile, with the obvious exceptions of Madsen and Godleman. Only Thakor looked comfortable, although both Hughes and Hosein fought hard in the first innings without ever looking comfortable. I really question whether we should persist with Dilshan, despite the fortune he is undoubtedly costing us, as he is not only badly out of form, but doesn't look as if he's up for grafting as our other out of form batsmen are doing. I'd be inclined to give Thakor a go at 4 to see if the extra responsibility helps him to focus when he gets into the 40's. <br /><br />My guess is that we might get around 50/60 overs today, which should be enough to take 6 wickets, or for Leics to score the runs. Some hard questions to answer if it's the latter, though.notoveryetnoreply@blogger.com