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Phew!

Yorkshire left it late to bowl out the last few wickets to win by 200 runs :-D
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Well played Hants and Yorks ... We're in the group of death apparently
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faaip wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 4:25 pm Well played Hants and Yorks ... We're in the group of death apparently
Who Hants??

If that is the case at least they are off to a flyer
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Well Leicestershire & Surrey drew + Somerset lost
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1964white wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 4:45 pm Who Hants??

If that is the case at least they are off to a flyer
Yes Hants... Middlesex were supposed to be up there, Surrey always dangerous, Somerset are due. Gloucester playing very well and really only Leicester rebuilding. Kevan James said on commentary he doesn't like this new format as we're throwing away 20 years of developing a strong top division which benefits our test team...now we're basically back to the single division we had where the level of competition is inconsistent
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As I understand it if you are in the top two by the end of the mini league matches you go into the top division of six counties and it’s only from there that a county can win the county championship and the Bob Willis trophy, the top two play off at Lords for that trophy.

If you don’t make the top two in the mini league then you go into the 2nd or 3rd divisions of 6 teams in each where you are playing for position in those divisions but in reality there is nothing to play for as far as I can see as there is no promotion or relegation.

So if you don’t make the top two in the mini league then your season is effectively finished.

Is my understanding correct? If so then I’m not a fan of this new format.
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The administrators have a huge dilemma as to how to move forward with FC cricket, because they cannot hope to compete with T20 and need to merely accommodate.

At some point I think it is inevitable that red ball and white ball cricket will essentially be two different sports, and players will not realistically be able to play both, just like rugby players don’t play league and union at the same time.

Look at someone like Jonny Bairstow. To make himself impossible to ignore to the England set up for ODI and T20 cricket, he has sacrificed his red ball career.

In terms of career achievement he’ll no doubt consider it worthwhile, and rightly... then there is the financial aspect to boot.
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Big game for Hants this week, home to second place Gloucestershire

Who do Yorks have ?
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faaip wrote: Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:16 am Big game for Hants this week, home to second place Gloucestershire

Who do Yorks have ?
Sussex Faaip.

Yorks off to a very solid start at 60 for 0 then collapsed to 102 for 5 (29 overs)

Lyth 42

Hants going well at a more sedate pace but solid at 65 for 1 (32 overs)

Worcestershire flying v Nottinghamshire 122 for 0 (32 overs)
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We're playing good old fashioned 4 day cricket... steady against solid bowling .
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Ian Holland is in great form, 64, 146, now 50 no v Gloucs throw in ab excellent 3-19 v MID second innings which ripped the heart of the batting line up

American of course which is interesting considering my post on the european super league thread
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Hants 168-1 at tea, slow but the right tactic. Holland on 90.

Yorks in a spot of bother
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faaip wrote: Thu Apr 22, 2021 3:00 pm Hants 168-1 at tea, slow but the right tactic. Holland on 90.

Yorks in a spot of bother
I suspect you are much happier than I am :lol:
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faaip wrote: Thu Apr 22, 2021 1:05 pm We're playing good old fashioned 4 day cricket... steady against solid bowling .
How it should be played :tup:
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Aye... real paint drying speed...

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Kevan James is a really good commentator... Hants legend of course..
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There's the Holland century, well deserved though he was dropped on 77 by WI captain Braithwaite... absolute sitter
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Alsop with his second century of the season ...2 for Holland as well plus one each for Vince, Northeast and Dawson.. So 7 centuries in 5 innings so far from 5 different batsmen..
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faaip wrote: Thu Apr 22, 2021 4:35 pm Alsop with his second century of the season ...2 for Holland as well plus one each for Vince, Northeast and Dawson.. So 7 centuries in 5 innings so far from 5 different batsmen..
Sensational batting :cricket:
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