To be honest, I could copy and paste what I have previously written about this competition. Derbyshire have the talent to beat Lancashire at Old Trafford tonight, but whether they do is anyone's guess. The bottom line is that we never know which version of our team will turn up, on a given day.
I watched Yorkshire easily beat Leicestershire at Headingley yesterday. It was hard going, because of their insistence on panning to the crowd at every opportunity, sometimes at the expense of the action in the middle. There's only so many mug shots and carpool karaokes a man can handle..
Yet primarily it was tough because this is a Yorkshire side that sits top of the northern group, yet for 90% of the games between the two counties, Derbyshire were comfortably on top.
I watched AJ Tye and Hasan Ali produce text book death bowling to snuff out any chance of a visiting challenge. Fast, straight yorkers, then a couple bowled wide. Impossible to hit for six, consummately professional. When we have two bowlers who can bowl like that, as Charl Langeveldt, Zaman Khan and Lockie Ferguson used to do, I will get excited about T20 prospects once more.
I don't see any change in the Derbyshire side tonight, although Harry Came, Shoaib Bashir and Jack Morley are also in the fourteen. It is possible that a dry, spinning pitch might see an extra spinner play, but it would again shorten the batting.
Lancashire will also likely be unchanged from the side that lost narrowly to Nottinghamshire. The challenge will again be working our way through a lengthy batting order, one that took the game away last week after a good start.
Failure to win ends Derbyshire hopes of qualification, although for me that ended at Queen's Park. Maybe even at Headingley, if I think about it, when worrying signs of fallibility were there for all to see.
We will see later.
Another poor stream from LANCSTV. It started with multiple cameras then changed quickly to static cameras at each end. Then the incessant showing of a LANCSTV ad after every over, even during each over at times. Very poor.
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Now they're got the match summary covering the screen during play so you cant see anything.
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Another tie. Could we have won? Yes . Could we have played better? Yes. Hopefully now we are all but out of the Blast now, it would be nice to see players get games who haven't had chances in this competition eg: Guest, Came , Stewart ,Haydon, Wagstaff or Reece if he's up for a game. Someone who has been really underwhelming is Amrit Basra, classed as a successor to Whiteley, he hasn't lived up to those levels. Couldn't seem to time the ball well against Essex, gave his wicket away last week against Lancashire , couldn't seem to get in tonight. Would like to see him get a bowl tomorrow . Might be unpopular with some , but I would like to see Javed return for next season. As the games have gone on ,he's got better and better and has adapted his bowling to English conditions. Think there is a chance we could do well in the One- Day- Cup, having only lost Donald to the 100. Have to set our eyes on promotion to Division 1 now. Possible if we are consistent and don't lose/ draw games we should win. Derbyshire is last la .Ethan
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