Leics V Middlesex

[flashyfox]

New season starts tomorrow. Anyone know any team news yet. Dippenear and Du Preez to miss the game, as still involved in games in SA.

 

[flashyfox]

Looks like the team will be:

New
Boyce
Du Toit
Ackerman
Allenby
Nixon
Henderson
Lawson
Rowe
Malik
Cummins

Dippenear, Du Preez and Kruger all still in SA

http://www.leicestershireccc.co.uk/articles/0/983.html

 

[glyn]

Looks like the team will be:

New
Boyce
Du Toit
Ackerman
Allenby
Nixon
Henderson
Lawson
Rowe
Malik
Cummins

Dippenear, Du Preez and Kruger all still in SA

http://www.leicestershireccc.co.uk/articles/0/983.html

I want Nixon batting at 7. Perhaps this Ed Foster kid will get a bat as well.

Just the 4 Kolpaks in the side then :icon_wink

 

[glyn]

Good to see the site is up to date,.......

http://www.leicestershireccc.co.uk/team/players.html

 

[CM]

Sorry to spam but I've written up a season preview on my newly created blog http://leicestershirefoxes.blogspot.com/

I guess I'm kind of right about depth already. We have three of our top players missing and bring in DuToit, Cummins and Rowe to replace them. I expect Middlesex to win comfortably (unless the rain saves us)

 

[flashyfox]

Middlesex won toss and decided to bat. 14-0

 

[flashyfox]

Live commentary at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/middlesex/latest_scorecard/default.stm

 

[flashyfox]

48-1 at lunch. Malik and Cummins didn't sound very impressive. Rowe with the wicket. Lawson came on first change. Maybe still getting over jet lag

 

[H T B]

Okay, without fear of being shot down, the term Kolpak, I only here of it within cricketing circles. What is it all about? Why the animosity towards it/them?

 

[Melton Fox]

Okay, without fear of being shot down, the term Kolpak, I only here of it within cricketing circles. What is it all about? Why the animosity towards it/them?

It's all to do with digital photography overtaking the analogue version.

Not so many rolls of film anymore.

 

[fosseboy83]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolpak_ruling

 

[glyn]

New county season same story!

eicestershire v Middlesex at Leicester - Apr 16-19, 2008
Middlesex won the toss and elected to bat first
Middlesex 214/2
OA Shah 108* ET Smith 35* CW Henderson 19.5-8-31-1 DT Rowe 13-5-46-1

Surrey v Lancashire at The Oval - Apr 16-19, 2008
Surrey won the toss and elected to bat first
Surrey 168/2
MR Ramprakash 59* MA Butcher 49* SI Mahmood 10.2-3-43-0

 

[H T B]

It's all to do with digital photography overtaking the analogue version.

Not so many rolls of film anymore.

Thought that was Lurpak?

 

[Melton Fox]

Thought that was Lurpak?

So it was :icon_redf

 

[glyn]

Good comeback late in the day
Middlesex 257/5 (93.0 ov)
Leicestershire

 

[CM]

The Kolpak rule allows nationalities with an associate agreement with the EU, to work in the UK, without restriction. So basically its meant more foreign players come to the Uk.

Decent day for Leics I think. 257/5 against such a strong batting line up and after Middlesex won the toss. Middlesex are still on top, but it could have been a lot worse. I expected a lot worse.

Lawson didn't do much, did he?

 

[glyn]

Lawson didn't do much, did he?

Par for the course for one of our overseas strike bowlers in recent seasons :icon_roll

To be fair though that middlesex batting line up is a class apart when compared to our side and they will pile up plenty of runs this season.

 

[flashyfox]

257-5 is a good comeback. Sounded like we didn't bowl at all well today. The guy on commentary said our attack 'looked pedestrian'. I think when the 2 SA kolpaks arrive we'll have a little bit more menace about us!

 

[glyn]

Surrey v Lancashire at The Oval - Apr 16-19, 2008
Surrey won the toss and elected to bat first
Surrey 168/2
MR Ramprakash 59* MA Butcher 49* SI Mahmood 10.2-3-43-0

I see Ramps made it 102* at close, his 98th century.

Why didn't he get called up in the winter

 

[Hazzman]

Cracking day so far...

Middlesex out for 312

County are 158 for 1...New 72 no, Boyce 69, Ackerman 12no

Cummins and Naik coming good in the end.