Derbyshire 139 and 160-8 (Madsen 51)
Leicestershire 120 (Palladino 5-29, van Beek 3-20)
Derbyshire lead by 179 runs
Derbyshire bowled splendidly this morning, taking the remaining Leicestershire wickets before lunch and reducing them to 120 all out.
It gave them a first innings lead of 19, which would have been more but for dropped catches that allowed the addition of an extra 10 to 15 runs. Wayne Madsen held the final, excellent catch to remove Abbas, having earlier missed a much easier chance.
Yet this should not detract from fine bowling, with Tony Palladino taking 5-29 in 18 overs, and Logan van Beek 3-20 in 15. The latter was on a hat-trick at one point, the second from a fine catch by Harvey Hosein, but his lines and lengths throughout were excellent and it is nice to report on an encouraging and hostile spell which should give him confidence.
Also worthy of note was the discipline of the bowling, with only one leg bye conceded in 57 overs. In what is likely to be a low scoring game, that could be crucial.
The Derbyshire second innings followed much the same vein as the first. Madsen was again the standout, he alone coming to terms with a wicket that continued to offer extravagant movement and irregular bounce. The top four all battled, however, before each was undone in turn.
Late in the day, Hosein looked organised until he was adjudged to be caught behind, hooking at Abbas. He wasn't happy, presumably feeling he hadn't hit it, though the wisdom of such a shot in the day's penultimate over is a fair point.
160-8 at the close, 179 ahead. The home side will need to make the highest score of the match, by some distance, to win this one.
The thinking money is on a Derbyshire win, but you only need one batsman to get in and it is game on. We have a stronger seam quartet and need to bowl with similar discipline.
Either way, there should be another positive result here.
We just need to get on the right side of it this time
Delighted we ended up with a first innings lead. I didn’t expect that at all. Even at the close I thought it would be brilliant if we did so. Have to feel the 3rd innings may have followed the same way as Glamorgan and perhaps we haven’t done enough to bat them out of the game. Time will tell. Fingers crossed for tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteIf we want to win promotion, then we have to beat teams such as Leicestershire, just as we should have beaten Glamorgan. Madsen, in both innings, made the bating look, relatively, easy. Yet the others made it look difficult, hence the low scores of the top and middle order. Watching the live stream today, I had a sense of deja vu. So many players couldn't get hold of the bowling. Abbas aside, I don't think it was anything special. I don't know why, but something seem stop infect the Derbyshire batting in these situations, so players come in and fiddle around for fifteen or twenty balls and then, inevitably, get out for just three or four. I was hoping Critchley would sparkle and make some strokes, but he continued his poor run of form in recent games, like Godleman, Lace, and Hosein. The best we can hope for in the morning is another twenty or thirty from some lusty hitting by van Beek and Rampaul. But 200 or so might not be enough if a couple of Leicestershire players do what Madsen did (he has scored more 4s in his two innings than the players of both teams combined). It's going to be tight.
ReplyDeleteI think Leicester will get a grip in their second innings and knock these runs off, then the alarm bells start ringing again for Derbyshire. We need to win this game lads.
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