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lewisant · « **Reply #1925 on:** April 25, 2021, 09:32:48 AM »

Is county cricket shown on TV anywhere?

Adder · « **Reply #1926 on:** April 25, 2021, 09:50:04 AM »

Quote from: lewisant on April 25, 2021, 09:32:48 AM

Is county cricket shown on TV anywhere?

No is the general answer to that. There are half decent and legal streams available of pretty much all county matches at the moment on the various county web sites.

LiamTheBaggie · « **Reply #1927 on:** April 25, 2021, 10:15:50 AM »

Quote from: lewisant on April 25, 2021, 09:32:48 AM

Is county cricket shown on TV anywhere?

The county teams stream their footage with bbc radio used as commentary

LiamTheBaggie · « **Reply #1928 on:** April 25, 2021, 10:20:58 AM »

Fantastic day of cricket at Edgbaston yesterday and Iâ€™ve caught a nice tan in the back garden to boot.

Warwickshire made 284 following some late runs from Danny Briggs who looks a great addition with the bat as he provides much needed lower order runs.

Essex are currently 213-9 with a lead of 224. Itâ€™s a great recovery as they were 36-5 and staring down the barrel of defeat. If Essex add to that score this morning then they will be slight favourites given their attack.

Dan Lawrence made a less than convincing 55. He never looked at all comfortable and was turned sideways a few times by Miles and OHD. He was run out in the end chasing an impossible single.

leeiswba · « **Reply #1929 on:** April 25, 2021, 03:52:12 PM »

Quote from: lewisant on April 25, 2021, 09:32:48 AM

Is county cricket shown on TV anywhere?

The streams are quite decent to be honest, as Liam says itâ€™s has the radio commentary on with it

hardtobeat · « **Reply #1930 on:** April 25, 2021, 04:31:08 PM »

Warwickâ€™s games are shown on their own app

MarkW · « **Reply #1931 on:** April 25, 2021, 04:43:20 PM »

Hameed with another century as he and Ben Slater make a good start at edging Notts ahead of Worcs

TheJacko2000 · « **Reply #1932 on:** April 25, 2021, 04:45:39 PM »

My county Lancashire have had an excellent start to the season. Today we've wrapped up an innings win over a good Kent side with sometime England leggie Matty Parkinson taking 7 for 126 off a whopping 52 overs.

Ohhhhh Lanky Lanky!!

LiamTheBaggie · « **Reply #1933 on:** April 25, 2021, 06:15:18 PM »

Warwickshire beat Essex by 7 wickets to go top of group one. Rob Yates unbeaten on 120 with half centuries for Hain and Vihari.

A great four days of cricket finished with a well measured chase this afternoon.

#Youuuubeeeears

TheJacko2000 · « **Reply #1934 on:** April 25, 2021, 06:24:55 PM »

Quote from: LiamTheBaggie on April 25, 2021, 06:15:18 PM

Warwickshire beat Essex by 7 wickets to go top of group one. Rob Yates unbeaten on 120 with half centuries for Hain and Vihari.

A great four days of cricket finished with a well measured chase this afternoon.

#Youuuubeeeears

Some chase that against Harmer in particular.

TheJacko2000 · « **Reply #1935 on:** April 25, 2021, 06:27:52 PM »

Do love county cricket, all the other games are finished but Hants have taken the extra 30 minutes in pursuit of 1 Glos wicket. The 10th wicket pair with a currently unbeaten stand of 36.

Edit. And they held on for a draw.

lewisant · « **Reply #1936 on:** April 25, 2021, 06:56:54 PM »

So I need to pick a club to support. I used to have a cricket game where Mushtaq Ahmed played for Surrey and I always played as them. Think they had Graham Thorpe and Alec Stewart too so maybe Iâ€™ll choose them!?

Although my local team from where Iâ€™m born would Warwickshire and probably the closest team to where I live is Somerset. Amazingly all of Cornwall and Devon canâ€™t produce a good county cricket team?

I suppose what I want from a team I support is to suffer - like England and West Brom make me do!

TheJacko2000 · « **Reply #1937 on:** April 25, 2021, 07:00:20 PM »

Quote from: lewisant on April 25, 2021, 06:56:54 PM

So I need to pick a club to support. I used to have a cricket game where Mushtaq Ahmed played for Surrey and I always played as them. Think they had Graham Thorpe and Alec Stewart too so maybe Iâ€™ll choose them!?

Although my local team from where Iâ€™m born would Warwickshire and probably the closest team to where I live is Somerset. Amazingly all of Cornwall and Devon canâ€™t produce a good county cricket team?

I suppose what I want from a team I support is to suffer - like England and West Brom make me do!

Suffering? I reckon Leics or Northants. Never seem to do anything in the longer forms of the game.

lewisant · « **Reply #1938 on:** April 25, 2021, 07:17:23 PM »

Quote from: TheJacko2000 on April 25, 2021, 07:00:20 PM

Suffering? I reckon Leics or Northants. Never seem to do anything in the longer forms of the game.

I was being facetious. I wouldnâ€™t know how to cope with prolonged success and feeling comfortable!

LiamTheBaggie · « **Reply #1939 on:** April 25, 2021, 11:52:30 PM »

Quote from: TheJacko2000 on April 25, 2021, 06:24:55 PM

Some chase that against Harmer in particular.

Batted really well and largely nullified Harmer who was responsible for longing out the day.

The top order needed this as thereâ€™s been some concerns regarding the brittleness of our batting line up - myself included. Back to back wins chasing competitive totals should do them the world of good.

Baggies · « **Reply #1940 on:** April 26, 2021, 08:44:53 AM »

A couple of players to keep an eye on. I know Rob Key has been a huge fan of James Bracey at Glos for a while and he has been getting a lot of chatter on the Hussain and Key show on Sky. The other getting a lot of talk is Matt Critchley at Derbyshire who leads the averages this season for those who haven't finished not out.

Both have started the season really well and both bat in the top order so I'd imagine both will be firmly on the radar of the selectors.

Adder · « **Reply #1941 on:** April 26, 2021, 09:01:06 AM »

Kiran Carlson at Glamorgan now has 2 centuries and 3 fifties in his 6 innings so far. He's now 22 and was the youngest to score a century for Glamorgan at 18. Should also be in discussions.

LiamTheBaggie · « **Reply #1942 on:** April 26, 2021, 09:04:41 AM »

To put Warwickshire win into more context - this from George do bell of cricinfo

To put the result in perspective, it was Essex's first defeat in first-class cricket since 2019 - they had gone 21 games without a loss - and the first time since Simon Harmer arrived in 2017 they had conceded more than two - yes two - to lose a game in the fourth innings. Warwickshire, by contrast, went into this game having won only one Division One Championship match (or Bob Willis Trophy match) at home since September 2016. Harmer has not conceded more runs in an innings when he has not taken a wicket in his period at the club.

leeiswba · « **Reply #1943 on:** April 26, 2021, 10:12:45 AM »

Quote from: LiamTheBaggie on April 26, 2021, 09:04:41 AM

To put Warwickshire win into more context - this from George do bell of cricinfo

To put the result in perspective, it was Essex's first defeat in first-class cricket since 2019 - they had gone 21 games without a loss - and the first time since Simon Harmer arrived in 2017 they had conceded more than two - yes two - to lose a game in the fourth innings. Warwickshire, by contrast, went into this game having won only one Division One Championship match (or Bob Willis Trophy match) at home since September 2016. Harmer has not conceded more runs in an innings when he has not taken a wicket in his period at the club.

Hopefully Worcestershire can make it 2 in 2 defeats for them next week

iwastherein68 · « **Reply #1944 on:** April 26, 2021, 08:16:26 PM »

Quote from: leeiswba on April 26, 2021, 10:12:45 AM

Hopefully Worcestershire can make it 2 in 2 defeats for them next week

You Pears ......... come on

LiamTheBaggie · « **Reply #1945 on:** April 29, 2021, 12:52:57 PM »

The Warwickshire/Durham game is currently being played on grass

I've seen green pitches but this is extremely green in cloudy conditions.

The bears currently 18/2 off 10 overs

Mark Wood is playing for Durham and has bowled well this morning.

MarkW · « **Reply #1946 on:** April 29, 2021, 03:24:21 PM »

Ben Slater of Notts gets to three figures again, and also 5000 career runs at the age of 24.

leeiswba · « **Reply #1947 on:** April 29, 2021, 03:39:39 PM »

Quote from: LiamTheBaggie on April 29, 2021, 12:52:57 PM

The Warwickshire/Durham game is currently being played on grass

I've seen green pitches but this is extremely green in cloudy conditions.

The bears currently 18/2 off 10 overs

Mark Wood is playing for Durham and has bowled well this morning.

82/8 now, been unlucky Warwickshire with the bowlers faced. They had to face Broad the other week in his only game although not sure if he is playing for Notts today.

Essex currently 139/1 against Worcestershire, Sir Alistair Cook 83 not out. Seems a flat wicket again so could be on for 4 draws out of 4 if any bad weather for Worcester

MarkW · « **Reply #1948 on:** April 29, 2021, 03:56:11 PM »

Quote from: leeiswba on April 29, 2021, 03:39:39 PM

82/8 now, been unlucky Warwickshire with the bowlers faced. They had to face Broad the other week in his only game although not sure if he is playing for Notts today.

Essex currently 139/1 against Worcestershire, Sir Alistair Cook 83 not out. Seems a flat wicket again so could be on for 4 draws out of 4 if any bad weather for Worcester

Broad is indeed playing for Notts today

LiamTheBaggie · « **Reply #1949 on:** April 29, 2021, 03:59:10 PM »

Warwickshire bowled out for 87... that's sound more like the bears I know..

Ben Raine has bowled excellently - bowler friendly conditions but he's ended up with 5-9.

There's rain forecast for the next few days - think we might require it !