Awesome end to the Twenty20 slogathon at Trent Bridge tonight.
Notts innings had never really got going in the gloomy evening light and heavy atmosphere chasing Leics' unimpressive 136.
A brief flurry by David Hussey and Chris Read (including one huge six into West Wing Upper six feet to my left) for a couple of overs brought Notts back into the game, but it looked game over at 5 down when Read was bowled with just 3.1 overs remaining and 32 still required.
Ealham strode to the crease and the single off the final ball of that over and the two off the first ball of the next hardly looked like putting us back on course, nor gave an indication of what was to come.
The next delivery from the unfortunate Masters was an enormous blow over long on high into the middle tier of the Radcliffe Road stand, and after a mow through mid wicket for four off the next ball, Ealham proceeded to hit the final three balls of the over for six, with the last two balls both being off the edge, the penultimate one flying all the way out of the ground over Parr Upper!
30 runs came off a remarkable over with the scoring sequence being 2, 6, 4, 6, 6, 6 and this left Hussey with the simple task of lofting the next ball over cow corner for the single run still required.
Notts actually won a game they never really looked in the running for with 11 balls to spare and a mere glance at the scorecard would never give you an indication of the sort of game it was unless you dug a little deeper and saw that Ealham's 31* had come off just those 7 deliveries.
Wow...runs being scored in a McCricket game...didn't see that one coming.
_____________________________________________ Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
It's not proper cricket, would never pretend it was, but it's a cracking way to spend 3 hours outdoors with a beer in your hand at the end of a long, hot day at work.
_____________________________________________ Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
observing cotty totty can be done in the same atmosphere and is a lot more enjoyable
I make a good point.
_____________________________________________ Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
'Proper' cricket is the current dominant paradigm, that's all. When test cricket started I bet some people called it not 'proper' because it went on for days too long!
In twenty years I reckon ODIs will have gone the way of the dodo, replaced by T20. Five-day test cricket will still be there but scoring rates will have shot up so that most matches will finish in three days.
In twenty years I reckon ODIs will have gone the way of the dodo, replaced by T20. Five-day test cricket will still be there but scoring rates will have shot up so that most matches will finish in three days.
nah no chance, the indians love their big one day 100's and trust me what they want is a 100 times more important than what english fans may want in the shorter version.
It's not proper cricket, would never pretend it was, but it's a cracking way to spend 3 hours outdoors with a beer in your hand at the end of a long, hot day at work.
To me its still cricket because everything is still the same. The only difference is taht the bowlers are not given any respect. Perhaps bowlers are given too mcuh respect in the longer form of the game. Anyhow, since the start of 20-20 cricket, total runs scored in limited overs cricket has gone up substantially. 20-20 has already had a big influence on ODI cricket.
To me its still cricket because everything is still the same. The only difference is taht the bowlers are not given any respect.
LOL...you idiot.
_____________________________________________ Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Originally posted by jontyh: clap-clap-clap-clap. clap-clap.
That's decided then, any one day biffing should be done by Mealham, at 6 or 7 with his more than useful medium pace to be bowled in the middle overs to stifle the run rate as much as possible.
Originally posted by jontyh: I don't know Breese - who's he? Better than Gough as a bowler/slogger?
No, he's a bit of a T20 bunny.
He bowls off-spin for Durham, quite sure his econ is excellent.
I think you need two spinners and a medium pacer in your T20 attack. The pace men, Phillips is a back of a length strike bowler and Broad has an incredible econ for a young bowler in this form of the game.
