**Official** County Cricket 2018

[S.Kennedy]

Glad they won.

 

[S.Kennedy]

Jack Brooks gone now, to Somerset, three-year contract! The rumour is Yorkshire have launched mass pay cuts hence exodus.

 

[SeamUp]

Brooks, C.Overton, J.Overton, Leach, Bess is a solid bolwing attack to have for Somerset.

For Notts. Last season was a terrific season all things considered. Still hoping for a some change for next season after hopefully consolidating their Championship Div 1 status.
Sound base bringing through youtful players like Libby, Moores, Carter, Milnes (hopefully Coughlin stays fit & new signing Slater hits ground running)
Experienced core of Hales, Mullaney, Patel, Wessels, Ball , Fletcher to remain.
Not sure if these will have much of a say next season : Fraine, Nash, Root, Gurney, Footitt, Wood,

 

[SeamUp]

Lancashire have signed Keshav Maharaj for the last 4 County Champ games. Him and Parkinson could be a nice spin duo.

 

[fredfertang]

Lancashire have signed Keshav Maharaj for the last 4 County Champ games. Him and Parkinson could be a nice spin duo.

Hope springs eternal - expect the wicket at Southport tomorrow to be reported

 

[S.Kennedy]

If Lancs do go down, Jennings's move will have secured one extra year of ''division one cricket'' for himself.

 

[fredfertang]

If Lancs do go down, Jennings's move will have secured one extra year of ''division one cricket'' for himself.

Reckon he'll score big in Division 2 next year, given that he shouldn't be wearing the three lions again

 

[S.Kennedy]

Lancs v Worcs, battle for relegation. Infinitely the most interesting of tomorrow's fixtures.

Lancashire are set to hand a debut to South Africa left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj, who has signed an overseas deal for the final four Championship matches.

Maharaj replaces Australian seamer Joe Mennie, who was available for this game but returns home to Adelaide to prepare for his home summer.

Worcestershire will almost certainly be without stand-in captain Moeen Ali because of England Test duty.

He could feasibly come in midway through the game as a replacement if he is not selected for Thursday’s fourth Test against India at Southampton. But that would seem unlikely.

The Pears overseas player is Maharaj’s compatriot, the left-arm seamer Wayne Parnell, who took two wickets on Championship debut at Yorkshire last week.

Parnell will be replaced by India spinner R Ashwin for the final two games of the season.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Jack Brooks gone now, to Somerset, three-year contract! The rumour is Yorkshire have launched mass pay cuts hence exodus.

No rumour about it, skint and have nobody left.

 

[S.Kennedy]

No rumour about it, skint and have nobody left.

Can Colin Graves not put his hand in his pocket?

 

[Starfighter]

I'll be looking forward to seeing them demoted and made to start on -30 points

 

[Midwinter]

No rumour about it, skint and have nobody left.

What happened to them ?

Overpaying for players ?

Not winning enough prizemoney ?

 

[SeamUp]

Hope springs eternal - expect the wicket at Southport tomorrow to be reported

Still clinging on to that hope ?

Got some serious recovery work v Worcs here.

The positive is that Somerset have piled on the runs v Yorkshire. They seriously could go down. They have been looking down for the last few rounds.

 

[fredfertang]

Still clinging on to that hope ?

Got some serious recovery work v Worcs here.

By a thread - given he went wicketless am hoping for some runs from Maharaj

 

[superkingdave]

Chappell and Chilton must be on thin ice. OTOH maybe they will just sign another couple of spinners in the off-season ready for the 2nd Division....

 

[vic_orthdox]

Has Parkinson's numbers been pretty ordinary in the CC? That's extraordinary stuff dropping him like that after what he's been doing in the T20 and the wraps on him.

 

[Jarquis]

Has Parkinson's numbers been pretty ordinary in the CC? That's extraordinary stuff dropping him like that after what he's been doing in the T20 and the wraps on him.

15 @ 29s but has only played half their games anyway.

 

[SeamUp]

Stoneman for the re-call. Survived being the 179th batsmen in FC history to sleep on 99* to get to the 100 unlike 11 times before him.

 

[Jack1]

Stoneman for the re-call. Survived being the 179th batsmen in FC history to sleep on 99* to get to the 100 unlike 11 times before him.

Stoneman has shown he isn't up to it in tests. His FC career stats are mediocre, he's struggled all season in CC1 and this innings can't save him in my view. Burns is surely next in line. It will be criminal to not pick Burns in the 5th test to be honest. It's already been criminal enough not to select him in the series as it is, I wanted him in for game 1. I in fact wanted him in the side before Stoneman originally played his first test..and then they followed with Jennings who is worse than Stoneman.

 

[wpdavid]

Stoneman for the re-call. Survived being the 179th batsmen in FC history to sleep on 99* to get to the 100 unlike 11 times before him.

Ignoring the (hopefully) tongue-in-cheek reference to an England recall, it was a very good innings. I was at The Oval yesterday, and conditions were as favourable for Notts as they possibly could be at this particular venue. Throw in a Surrey lineup without recognised numbers 4 or 5 batsman in the side, and you really fancied Notts to bowl us out very cheaply indeed if they took a couple of early wickets. Which they did, of course. Effectively, numbers 4 to 6 were all batting a couple of places too high due to injuries, and if Stoneman had gone cheaply too, we could still have been dismissed for something around 120. But he did his job superbly and we'll now see how Notts shape up against 375.

You're a Notts supporter btw? My take on them was they had the sort of attack that will keep them in business when there's anything in the wicket for them but not enough for the less helpful tracks. Fletcher bowled very well indeed, as did Wood. And Milne came back very strongly after an errant first spell.