t20 cup

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Today marks the return of the ridiclously long domestic t20 cup..

Today's live game is leics vs Notts...

im predicting a easy win for notts, weather permitting.

Kartik = a pinchmisser

''6 for 2 in the second over. Not the perfect start.'' -Churchy. Wonderful comment.

Update : ''Jason Roy goes for 1. 7 for 3 in the second.''- Churchy.

''Nightmare start.'' - Jonny Barran.

7 - 3 off 2 overs. I'm going out and I may be some while..

This isn't going to last long at this rate!

Corporalhumblebucket wrote:Jimbo - let's hope Surrey are up to the task of providing competitive opposition.

I think RHB's dismissal shows his mind is not on the game. He should not have played.

6 games, 3 wins, 3 NR for Notts :/.

Hales seems to be rounding into form though.

Can we make 50?

Thank God Pietersen is playing on Monday!

42-6 in the 12th.

I don't wish to be too harsh in view of recent tragedy but feel it's fair to question some of the selections and overall balance of the side.

There's no point in packing the side with bowlers when they don't have a total to defend.

Well the less said about that the better start the car

Davies drops Adams

The commentators were bang on when they said that we need a good, experienced batsman at 5 or 6. Having Nannes is pointless as an overseas player when we don't play many fast bowlers and have Tremlett and Meaker playing anyway.

guildfordbat wrote:Surrey play 7 front line bowlers plus Hyphen. I would have played Burns and left Nannes out.

Agree, need to strengthen the batting anyway, and really need to be getting Burns into the team while he's in good form...

Glam struggling more than somewhat against Northants. May not reach 100 either....

Just back from the game, convincing win by Hants

Awesome bowling by Dawson and Dimi set the tone and i think we were brilliant in the field. Surrey on the other hand looked un-organised and there was no real fight about them. They never seem to push for a second run even though it would of been comfortable. To be fair to Ansari he played well and at least showed a couple of classy shots.

Kartik was outstanding, but Meaker, who was smashed round the ground by Vince, + Nannes seemed to struggle. Mind you at least the bowlers put up some sort of a fight!

jimbohammers wrote:Just back from the game, convincing win by Hants

Awesome bowling by Dawson and Dimi set the tone and i think we were brilliant in the field. Surrey on the other hand looked un-organised and there was no real fight about them. They never seem to push for a second run even though it would of been comfortable. To be fair to Ansari he played well and at least showed a couple of classy shots.

Kartik was outstanding, but Meaker, who was smashed round the ground by Vince, + Nannes seemed to struggle. Mind you at least the bowlers put up some sort of a fight!

Congratulations, Jimbo. I was only able to listen to radio commentary of our innings. However, from that, it seemed a case of men against boys (or, perhaps, clear thinking against shell shocked).

One thing I do like about Hants and Dimi's captaincy - think I mentioned this last year - is when bowling, you don't try and over complicate things. If a bowler is doing well, he generally stays on and completes his allotment of overs. Too often in T20 games, a bowler seems to get taken off as soon as he's on the money. I undertand about ''needing to keep the batsmen thinking'' but do believe there is a lot of merit in letting a bowler exploit the rhythm he's found as happened today.

Northants win by 9 wickets with almost 7 overs to spare.....even more one sided than the Surrey/Hants match.

The walking wicket top scored for Glam....

guildfordbat wrote:
Congratulations, Jimbo. I was only able to listen to radio commentary of our innings. However, from that, it seemed a case of men against boys (or, perhaps, clear thinking against shell shocked).

One thing I do like about Hants and Dimi's captaincy - think I mentioned this last year - is when bowling, you don't try and over complicate things. If a bowler is doing well, he generally stays on and completes his allotment of overs. Too often in T20 games, a bowler seems to get taken off as soon as he's on the money. I undertand about ''needing to keep the batsmen thinking'' but do believe there is a lot of merit in letting a bowler exploit the rhythm he's found as happened today.

Cheers Guildford

Totally agree with you about Dimi's captaincy. When Dawson bowled the first 2 overs, i said to my mate 'surely he will keep him to bowl in the latter overs', but no he bowled out and got another wicket. We also looked well up for it in the field, something i thought we might of struggled today after a late night against Essex last night. Hats off to the boys, 4 wins in a row

essex are bottling it

Somerset now lost 2 in a row, kinda lucky we were already on 10 points before this slump

Surrey were dreadful. They need a decent, senior batsman with good T20 experience who could do with a little hit around. Shame KP is not a Surrey player


More seriously, I have been impressed by Yorkshire so far. We are normally rather iffy at this format, but there actually appears to be a coherent plan this season. Oh and good death bowling.

We've suddenly got fairly good at T20!

And Phil Hughes, what a player!

Just to add to that Hughes what a player, his scores this year;

78*
11
52
87*
41

Gloucs vs Welsh dragons abandonded without a ball being bowled.

Mat wrote:Just to add to that Hughes what a player, his scores this year;

78*
11
52
87*
41

probably because he hasnt faced any genuine rapid, short pitched bowling!

Surrey and Hampshire are having a 10 over shootout tonight, should be fun

A certain KP Pietersen opening the batting for Surrey. Caught by Jimmy Adams off left-arm spinner Liam Dawson first ball!!

It's obviously contagious.

De Bruyn coming in anywhere above 11 in a T20 game is a nonsense.

8 from 14 in a 10 over match, cheers for that Zander

Reporting live from a wet oval surrey on cause for a comfortable win

As Tremlett's first over goes for 16?

Game over Duckworth Lewis robs surrey

Presumably most of the consumed before the delayed match started.

Pieterson golden duck first ball by Dawson, brilliant

5 in 5 for Hants

LondonTiger wrote:Surrey were dreadful. They need a decent, senior batsman with good T20 experience who could do with a little hit around. Shame KP is not a Surrey player

PS that was not KP lat night. It was Ramps in a KP mask.

another shocker from surrey again nannes going at 17 a over

take a bow nora

Good win for Sussex again tonight but feel sorry for Surrey, hope you guys recover soon.

Sussex are the form team, but this year must keep that momentum going - for the last two seasons they've let it slip. I slightly worry about their quick bowling, though Liddle is underrated, but they seem to have discovered a new wonderkid mystery spinner - South African Michael Rippon who bowls chinaman.

Was at the Oval tonight with Chichester. Shockingly poor bowling by Nannes whose main tactic seemed to be to hope batsmen would get side strain when stretching to flay wide balls through the offside. Roy looked out of sorts, but took a good catch . Pieterson ;played himself in and then took careful aim to get caught in the deep. The Brain was his usual self. Davies had one good over with the bat.

Nora restored a modicum of respectability after it looked like Sussex would win in about 8 overs. Burns played with assurance - definitely worth a run in the team. Meaker did at least bowl a whole straighter than Nannes.

Some good clean hitting by the Sussex batsmen who really had the game won in about 3 overs and look full of confidence. Surrey well beaten, tho' it's fair to note that pretty much every mishit Surrey shot went straight for a catch to a fielder, whereas Sussex had 3 or 4 that just fell beyond or wide of fielders.

Shelsey93 wrote:Sussex are the form team, but this year must keep that momentum going - for the last two seasons they've let it slip. I slightly worry about their quick bowling, though Liddle is underrated, but they seem to have discovered a new wonderkid mystery spinner - South African Michael Rippon who bowls chinaman.

Agreed shelsey, if we can keep going then we'll do well. Rippon is amazing, watched him take 4-23 on debut against Kent and they couldn't pick him at all! Now if only he was English...

Notts go top of the group with a 4th win . Though as I've always said D/L doesn't work for T20.

Our bowling lineup looks weak, but its hard to argue with that batting lineup.

Lumb
Hales
Wessels
Voges
Taylor
Read
Mullaney

I watched a probably understandable but still very disappointing night for Surrey. The grey and drizzly evening summed things up neatly.

A wonderful start by Steve Davies laying into Luke Wright but pretty much downhill after that without much apparent thought. If we didn't sky a catch to a fielder on the boundary (like Davies and Pietersen did), we too often struck the ball firmly along the ground to a fielder in the deep (like Brain and Pietersen did) for a single. I'm sure if we'd hit the ball less hard and tried delicate nudges at times, we could have converted several of those singles into twos. There was a lovely six though from Burns who was one of the few not to seem in awe and/or shell shocked.

The rain and Duckworth Lewis didn't do us any favours. I was still hoping - probably very optimistically given Brain remained at the wicket - that we might get in excess of 140 from a full 20 overs. Generally, I'm pretty supportive of Ducky Lew but tonight it seemed to take inadequate account of the acceleration which should have been forthcoming - perhaps, the system is cleverer than I realise and factors in Brain's batting!

The match and our continuing involvement in this year's t20 was effectively over once Nannes had bowled his two dreadful overs. Balls continually overpitched outside off stump being dealt with as severely as they deserved. I obviously don't know how much Nannes has been affected by the recent tragedy. I certainly don't wish to have a go at him if that is a cause at all. However, it is clear that Nannes is not delivering as expected. Given that and our certain exit from this year's tournament, I would question whether there is any point in him continuing to play in this week's games. I would far rather see a Dunn, Edwards or Jewell given an opportunity.

Batty bowled very well and deserved his three wickets. One of those was a wonderful diving boundary catch by Roy which belonged to a better occasion. Unfortunately though, the game was already up by then. As I've mentioned on the 'Surrey articles' thread, Batty led well by example and continually encouraged all in the field.

If I were to be critical, I would query Batty's sticking with certain bowlers (why did Nannes get a second over? His first was poor, we had plenty of bowling options and a small total to defend) and changing of others (Meaker bowled only one over, took a wicket and was then replaced by Brain who was walloped). In contrast, Yardy tended to give his effective bowlers a run - both he and Rippon (watch his quirky action on Surrey tv) bowled their full allotments on the bounce.

T20 is now gone until next year. Perhaps with that knowledge and Tom Maynard's funeral having been held by the time of our next game, there will be some relief and less pressure felt. Lets hope so. Difficult though it is, we need to move forward. Despite Batty's best efforts, we seemed more stalled than moving tonight.

Corporalhumblebucket wrote:Was at the Oval tonight with Chichester. Shockingly poor bowling by Nannes whose main tactic seemed to be to hope batsmen would get side strain when stretching to flay wide balls through the offside. Roy looked out of sorts, but took a good catch . Pieterson ;played himself in and then took careful aim to get caught in the deep. The Brain was his usual self. Davies had one good over with the bat.

Nora restored a modicum of respectability after it looked like Sussex would win in about 8 overs. Burns played with assurance - definitely worth a run in the team. Meaker did at least bowl a whole straighter than Nannes.

Some good clean hitting by the Sussex batsmen who really had the game won in about 3 overs and look full of confidence. Surrey well beaten, tho' it's fair to note that pretty much every mishit Surrey shot went straight for a catch to a fielder, whereas Sussex had 3 or 4 that just fell beyond or wide of fielders.

Corporal - hadn't seen your post when I posted mine. Remarkably similar!

Graeme Swann's Cat wrote:Notts go top of the group with a 4th win . Though as I've always said D/L doesn't work for T20.

Our bowling lineup looks weak, but its hard to argue with that batting lineup.

Lumb
Hales
Wessels
Voges
Taylor
Read
Mullaney

Frightening line-up for domestic T20. Would have been nice to see them try and chase down that 180 last night.

Yeah, shame the rain ruined it, but when theres rain around you always bat 2nd with D/L.

We had Iqbal last year haha

I also forgot Samit Patel haha

Surrey getting off to a good start vs Kent, Pieterson with a good catch

Surrey doing well - or, at least, not disastrously which at the current time is the same thing.

Kent 74-4 off 12.

Nannes only going at 8.5 an over.