Somerset
Hampshire Opener FPT 1
Welcome to the show
By Grockle
April 19 2008
And here we are. Ben Phillips and Kevein Pietersen seem to be definites tomorrow...now all we need is some dry weather and we can get this show on the road! Campaign number one - the FPT and hard opposition first up. No Shaney (how we'll miss him) but Kevo will be turning out. Banger can show him what the country is missing!!
v Hampshire FPT @ Taunton Sunday 20 April 2008
How about:
Langer, Tresco, Hildreth, Blackwell, Durston, Keiswetter or (Gazzard!), Trego, Phillips, Willoughby, Jones, Banks.
It has thrown it down all day today. Hope Frosty had the field covered and the drainage hasn't been affected by the building work.
The link to my Photos on Photobucket - [s1152.photobucket.com]
I hope the barometer is wrong and a full days play is possible,it doesn't look too promising though.
Hissing down here at the moment and like the middle of Winter,absolutely freezing.
Wrap up warm.
Last Sunday: Glorious cricket & BBQ weather. Plus 23C & loads of sun.
Today: Minus 11C & 2 Feet of snow.
Bonkers !
Grizzzly
Very overcast and dull in Londonth is morning (Surrey v Middlesex- FPT) and the Oval didn't see any play yesterday in the Lancs game due to rain , ah well, should be a point more than we usually take from there !
Good luck with the weather guys and enjoy your day .
We have Foxtrot all info about any local coverage - I hope there is some on Somerset Sound but won't hold my breath.
APPLE (AM?) MUsgrove Park Hospital radio are covering from 2:00 but I think there is limited space so you may or you may not get on. (link also on the match page.
You'll need Real PLayer for the local stuff. Don't think you do for Apple. I'll be on later with team news - about 11:30 ish.
PD Trego, BJ Phillips, ID Blackwell, JC Hildreth, PS Jones, JL Langer, ME Trescothick, WJ Durston, C Kieswetter, CM Willoughby, JD Francis
Hampshire team
BV Taylor, GA Lamb, N Pothas, SM Ervine, MA Carberry, JP Crawley, MJ Lumb, CC Benham, CT Tremlett, SE Bond, AD Mascarenhas
No Kevin Pietersen
“Look likes pyjamas, the worst we seen today”
LoL
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Come on boys, keep it going. I'm happy for this one to be completely one sided ...
VtF.
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LoL
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BoBo will have to bowl his heart out to get those five wickets BJ promised us.
LL
I'm a bit surprised that JF's playing, would have gone with Banks or Parsons (remember him).
I concur about the strip. In fact it looks worse 'live' than in the pictures.
I wonder if we're going to see battle between who can post first from the ground?
Nice to see you Ned.
Sexual fantasies LoL?
Control yourself young man.
Though if Michelle ever does want to pop over all she has to do is e-mail me.
She can spend an afternoon watching racing from Stratford.
What girl could refsue that?
LoL
I'm not sure there's much purpose in picking John Francis and then not opening with him?
It's not as though the guy at the other end is exactly a slow coach when our no.2 bats, either!?
LoL
As for racing terms I thought "fell fatally at the first hurdle"would be more appropriate.
I can't see any point in doing so because, no doubt, they will lose in spinless fashion anyway.
Can't BBC Bristol cover the gormless Gloucesters?
I don't suppose there's any coverage of our game anywhere?
Really rather annoyed.
"I've checked out the radio coverage. Radio Solent are covering all Hampshire's games and I've linked through on the matcfh report page."
[www.bbc.co.uk]
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Excellent bowling by Jones; that's what his figures indicate anyway.
LoL
Unless overhead conditions are that bad (or Frosty has prepared a sporting pitch - seems unlikely) 220 would normally be considered under-par. They do have 3 international bowlers though so I'd say 50 per cent of a job well done so far.
Come on the batters!
BVI Grockle
And it looks like Jonah has immediately responded to the increased competition for places created by the return to health of Phillips and the signing of Thomas. Well done, Steffan.
Next, we'll see whether JF and WD can make the most of the chances that they have been given, too.
Wireless is great when it works. Little worried about being spied on from the ECB bogs though.
When it doesn't work it isn't so good. It seems to have dispersed my whole first half of this report into the ether with little chance of getting it back. Photos and all which is even more disturbing.
Oh and the 'pinch-hitting' scenario AG. I don't think Frank was planned to play. Omari was up to play as a second spinner - that didn't happen and Omari's batting hasn't been that certain so they stuck Frank in. Craig would have been where he was irrespective of Frank playing. In fact he didn't play the hitting role because Marcus and Justin lost it early. He didn't get out of second gear really and thanks to John working with Ian we got out of gaol. So I'm not sure the position is for him either. We still don't seem to have faith in a number 3 and so Langer won't open with Marcus - enter de Bruyn!!
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But I do have some very good pictures that I'll upload in tomorrow from the Hampshire innings. My thanks to Alain for those.
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In terms of being really positive, having your two most experienced stars up front, would really fit the bill.
It's either that or see about JF or NE up-front, for me.
As I said, when the other opener is Banger, there would be no serious concern - for my money - about having somebody else a bit more sedate up there (unless the pitch is very flat indeed.)
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There was lots of typing going on and I didn't completely succeed in the sense that I lost the whole of the front half!!
But I do have some very good pictures that I'll upload in tomorrow from the Hampshire innings. My thanks to Alain for those.
Is it fairly easy to upload pictures? I could post some of the ......... .... for BJ.
It's obviously important to you,you obviously feel the need to go on about it so go on post the pictures.
I'd love to see everyone sitting around trying to impress each other whilst looking out for the waiter to bring them coffee and biscuits.
Next time you go perhaps you can tell all your new chums that Somerset won.
They were the ones in the grey and red pyjama suit if they were wondering.
turgid cagey from a Somerset point of view, and when I left I was certain we would lose. My joy at our victory was almost outbalanced by my irritation that I'd missed the best bits. Perhaps it was my presence on site that had brought about Somerset's struggles.
Tremlett looked in fine form, and frankly Hants look to have a good bowling lineup. It was a shame Kieswetter was out on 49.
For those that are interested, I sat in the Ian Botham stand for an hour or so then wandered around to a standing position between the scoreboard and Ondaatje Pavilion. I could see Tractor et al lurking opposite me, and words can't really describe how much I miss the Stragglers.
There are picture books that offer space. You upload your pictures to that and then point the post at them.
Anyone who has intersting stuff they haven't got space for can send them to me and I'll upload them onto the main site area but I'm not gonna be doing that for posts I'm afraid. I also think you can send them in private messages if you want to do that W. (Although unless things have changed BJ doesn't always get them).
If she does, a double-standard may be in operation.
If only they'd turn their mobiles off long enough to watch the cricket rather than having to take that vitally important business call to the person who must be hard of hearing because they have to shout down the thing to them then they could watch soooo much more.
The link to my Photos on Photobucket - [s1152.photobucket.com]
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I noticed you had the courtesy to use yours on the stairs outside in the interval.
Perhaps he had no signal inside?
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