English Domestic Cricket

[pillowprocter]

could anyone explain the matchups for the first round of the women's T20 comp? why did all the big counties except Sussex play eachother in the first round instead of the smaller teams, and how did Northumberland get a bye ahead of 7 first-class counties?

 

[Supreme General]

Notts are winning the County Championship this season. Haseeb Hameed’s barmy army all the way

 

[Aislabie]

This is such a Northants signing

 

[Supreme General]

Lewis Gregory and Josh Davey opening for Somerset….

 

[Aislabie]

Lewis Gregory and Josh Davey opening for Somerset….

It's been an increasing trend in county cricket to treat openers more or less as "new ball watchmen" and then loading your batting up from about 3-8. Hampshire were the first to do it aggressively, and since then we've seen Glamorgan, Somerset and others get on the bandwagon too. The data on specialist openers in the wobble ball era must be pretty bad to make so many teams do it, but both Gregory and Davey have prior experience opening

 

[Supreme General]

It's been an increasing trend in county cricket to treat openers more or less as "new ball watchmen" and then loading your batting up from about 3-8. Hampshire were the first to do it aggressively, and since then we've seen Glamorgan, Somerset and others get on the bandwagon too. The data on specialist openers in the wobble ball era must be pretty bad to make so many teams do it, but both Gregory and Davey have prior experience opening

Yeah true just didn’t expect at the start of the season to have a list of county openers include: Rehan Ahmed, Dom Bess and Josh Davey.

 

[Welwyn]

It's been an increasing trend in county cricket to treat openers more or less as "new ball watchmen" and then loading your batting up from about 3-8. Hampshire were the first to do it aggressively, and since then we've seen Glamorgan, Somerset and others get on the bandwagon too. The data on specialist openers in the wobble ball era must be pretty bad to make so many teams do it, but both Gregory and Davey have prior experience opening

We literally only have one opener on the staff and have now dropped him!

 

[ddrap14]

and have now dropped him!

How could this have happened?

 

[Aislabie]

Now that I'm off work for a little bit I was thinking I might take in a day of Championship cricket at some point - but there's one issue with that plan. Tickets at Trent Bridge are £23 for general admission.

It's a Championship game in the summer holidays - why would you not just make admission cheap or free and then get as many in as you can to make money on concessions?