English Domestic Season 2025

[chris.hinton]

What an effort from Worcestershire. Waite what a man

 

[FBU]

Had to miss the Lancs run chase as I had to watch how RCB would do. Last seen Lancs lost 4 wickets so I didn't know what to expect when I went to check BBC scorecard. Phew, a draw.

 

[Yeoman]

Combined over rate today must have been shocking. Play continues at 6.40 with 4 overs remaining. Scheduled close 6pm!

Lancs bowled 29 overs before lunch in two hours. Middlesex heading to bowl 67 in 4 hours 45 and counting.

The Middlesex over rate has been poor for as long as I can remember.

 

[Chin Music]

As bad as Warne getting Keith Arthurton LBW?

Oh my days. I knew Bucknor turned into an utter prune as time went on, but that's disgusting. As I say, some umpires feel that they have to put up the finger as soon as a player uses the pad, regardless of whether the ball is going to be near to hitting the stumps.

 

[vidiq]

What a coincidence

 

[Third_Man]

The Middlesex over rate has been poor for as long as I can remember.

But they seem to have got away with it. 67 overs in 4 hours 55 minutes (rather than two sessions so 4 hours). Even with allowing for taking 8 wickets it seems to include some generous umpire allowances for stoppages (there was one ball change). I was amazed when the Somerset Worcestershire result came through and Middlesex still had almost an hour's bowling ahead of them.

I forget the exact calculation but it was something like 3.75 mins per over plus an allowance of couple of minutes per wicket. That would be 67 x 3.75 = 251.25 minutes plus a further 16 minutes. Therefore 67 overs should have taken around 270 minutes not 296. When you consider Gohar bowled 23 overs the rest is poor indeed. But I haven't seen a table with any deductions. Unless the first innings had a very fast over rate (about +6) surely they should have lost points.

and why was Holden allowed to put his feet up and not field?

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

But they seem to have got away with it. 67 overs in 4 hours 55 minutes (rather than two sessions so 4 hours). Even with allowing for taking 8 wickets it seems to include some generous umpire allowances for stoppages (there was one ball change). I was amazed when the Somerset Worcestershire result came through and Middlesex still had almost an hour's bowling ahead of them.

I forget the exact calculation but it was something like 3.75 mins per over plus an allowance of couple of minutes per wicket. That would be 67 x 3.75 = 251.25 minutes plus a further 16 minutes. Therefore 67 overs should have taken around 270 minutes not 296. When you consider Gohar bowled 23 overs the rest is poor indeed. But I haven't seen a table with any deductions. Unless the first innings had a very fast over rate (about +6) surely they should have lost points.

andd why was Holden allowed to put his feet up and not field?

Mind you, they may have cost themselves a chance of winning in the end!

 

[chris.hinton]

County Championship (11-14th April)

Division 1

Durham vs Warwickshire
Nottinghamshire vs Essex
Surrey vs Hampshire
Sussex vs Somerset
Yorkshire vs Worcestershire

Division 2

Gloucestershire vs Glamorgan
Kent vs Middlesex
Lancashire vs Northamptonshire
Leicestershire vs Derbyshire

 

[chris.hinton]

Round 1 of the County Championship Results (At a Glance)

Division 1

Essex 582/6 (Crichley 145*),
Surrey 365 (Foakes 92*, Harmer 4/83) & 291/6 (Sibley 66)

Essex (14 pts) draw with Surrey (11pts)

Yorkshire 121 & 275 (Lyth 106, Wheal 4/56)
Hampshire 249 (Brown 49*) & 148/5 (Priest 57)

Hampshire (19 pts) beat Yorkshire (3 pts) by 5 wickets

Durham 378 (Ackermann 116, O'Neill 5/.86) & 289 (Ackermann 124, Tongue 5/66)
Nottinghamshire 579 (James 125, Potts 4/112) & 89/2

Nottinghamshire (22pts) beat Durham (5pts) by 8 wickers

Worcestershire 154 (Aldridge 5/36) & 485/9 (D'Oliveira 121, Leach 4/107)
Somerset 670/7 dec (Banton 371)

Somerset (16 pts) draw with Worcestershire (9 pts)

Sussex 528 (Simpson 181*, Bamber 4/105) & 313/7 dec (Alsop 82*)
Warwickshire 454 (Yates 112, Carson 4/92) & 104/2 (Yates 65*)

Warwickshire (15pts) draw with Sussex (14pts)


Division 2

Gloucestershire 222 (Van Burren 67, Reece 6/52) & 259 (Charlesworth 110, Reece 4/45)
Derbyshire 391 (Madsen 118) & 93/1 (Jewell 51*)

Derbyshire (22pts) beat Gloucestershire (3pts) by 9 wickets

Glamorgan 229 (Cooke 55) & 248 (Carlson 113, Holland 4/46)
Leicestershire 427 (Hill 96, Gorvin 4/51) & 53/0

Leicestershire (23pts) beat Glamorgan (2pts) by 10 wickets

Middlesex 260 (Robson 70, Aspinwall 4/32) & 407 (Holden 184, Bailey 5/79)
Lancashire 359 (Harris 138, Gohar 4/79) & 262/8 (Harris 52)

Lancashire (13pts) draw with Middlesex (11pts)

Kent 231 (Muyeye 71) & 171 (Evison 52)
Northamptonshire 143 (Keogh 64, Singh 4/35) & 114 (Bartlett 60*, Dudgeon 7/36)

Kent (19pts) beat Northamptonshire (3pts) by 145 Runs

 

[chris.hinton]

John Turner has signed for Lancashire on loan

 

[FBU]

Lancs sign John Turner for two games

 

[Third_Man]

Lancs sign John Turner for two games

yes but in doing so they are making an absolute joke of the loan scheme. Whatever people may think about their quality Lancashire have three fit fast bowlers who are in their first team squad playing for their second XI today who are not in the announced match day squad of 15 for the Northants game: Blatherwick, Stanley and Boyden. Mahmood not considered fit enough. Plus Turner's signing will almost certainly allow Sutton to be "rested" / dropped and probably either or both of Williams and Aspinwall to be "rested" or dropped.

Argubly they played too many seamers in the last game and have added Philip to the squad as well as Turner.
At OT the side will probably look like: Jennings, Jones, Bohannon, Harris, Hurst, Wells, Balderson, Hartley, Bailey, Philip, Turner.

Anyone of the 6 fit contracted bowlers mentioned above should be playing ahead of Turner. But if he's not playing why sign him on a loan? Same as Philip was not signed to be a net bowler.

Stanley was signed on a one year contract in the 2003/4 off season. If he is not considered to be good enough to be in the current 1st XI side why renew that initial one year contract? Ditto Blatherwick, if not considered good enough: off load. Do they really need Sutton and Boyden?

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

I wonder are the ECB getting involved telling Hampshire and Lancashire that they want Baker and Turner playing as much as possible?

 

[Third_Man]

I wonder are the ECB getting involved telling Hampshire and Lancashire that they want Baker and Turner playing as much as possible?

In which case they should both be playing for Hampshire, imo. But perhaps Lancashire should also ask them to select their batting line up - an immediate and guaranteed place for Flintoff after he returns to fitness, irrespective of others' form?

ETA: Blatherwick seems to have been withdrawn from the 2nd XI today, so maybe that 15 man squad is either insufficent for Benkenstein or wishful thinking.

 

[Hungry Llama]

Are they using the Kball in the first 2 games or is it all season as Key suggested last year?

 

[FBU]

yes but in doing so they are making an absolute joke of the loan scheme. Whatever people may think about their quality Lancashire have three fit fast bowlers who are in their first team squad playing for their second XI today who are not in the announced match day squad of 15 for the Northants game: Blatherwick, Stanley and Boyden. Mahmood not considered fit enough. Plus Turner's signing will almost certainly allow Sutton to be "rested" / dropped and probably either or both of Williams and Aspinwall to be "rested" or dropped.

Argubly they played too many seamers in the last game and have added Philip to the squad as well as Turner.
At OT the side will probably look like: Jennings, Jones, Bohannon, Harris, Hurst, Wells, Balderson, Hartley, Bailey, Philip, Turner.

Anyone of the 6 fit contracted bowlers mentioned above should be playing ahead of Turner. But if he's not playing why sign him on a loan? Same as Philip was not signed to be a net bowler.

Stanley was signed on a one year contract in the 2003/4 off season. If he is not considered to be good enough to be in the current 1st XI side why renew that initial one year contract? Ditto Blatherwick, if not considered good enough: off load. Do they really need Sutton and Boyden?

That team looks good to me. Would have liked Barnard instead of Hartley, but Hartley chosen for his batting.

 

[chris.hinton]

All the teams are listed below for you to view


Division 1

Worcestershire vs Yorkshire

Worcestershire (Playing XI): Gareth Roderick(w), Jake Libby, Kashif Ali, Ethan Brookes, Adam Hose, Brett DOliveira(c), Matthew Waite, Tom Taylor, Ben Allison, Jacob Duffy, Adam Finch

Yorkshire (Playing XI): Adam Lyth, Finlay Bean, James Wharton, Dawid Malan, William Luxton, Jonny Bairstow(w/c), George Hill, Dominic Bess, Ben Coad, Jordan Thompson, Jack White

Nottinghamshire vs Essex

Nottinghamshire (Playing XI): Haseeb Hameed(c), Ben Slater, Freddie McCann, Joe Clarke(w), Jack Haynes, Kyle Verreynne, Lyndon James, Brett Hutton, Fergus O Neill, Farhan Ahmed, Dillon Pennington

Essex (Playing XI): Paul Walter, Charlie Allison, Tom Westley(c), Jordan Cox, Matthew Critchley, Michael-Kyle Pepper(w), Noah Thain, Simon Harmer, Shane Snater, Samuel James Cook, Jamie Porter

Sussex vs Somerset

Sussex (Playing XI): Daniel Hughes, Tom Haines, Tom Clark, Tom Alsop, James Coles, John Simpson(w/c), Fynn Hudson-Prentice, Danny Lamb, Jack Carson, Jayden Seales, Sean Hunt

Somerset (Playing XI): Archie Vaughan, Sean Dickson, Tom Lammonby, Tom Abell, Tom Banton, James Rew(w), Lewis Gregory(c), Migael Pretorius, Kasey Aldridge, Josh Davey, Jack Leach


Durham vs Warwickshire

Durham (Playing XI): Alex Lees(c), Ben McKinney, Emilio Gay, David Bedingham, Oliver Robinson(w), Will Rhodes, Colin Ackermann, Ben Raine, Matthew Potts, Brendan Doggett, Daniel Hogg

Warwickshire (Playing XI): Robert Yates, Alex Davies(c), Hamza Shaikh, Sam Hain, Dan Mousley, Ed Barnard, Kai Smith(w), Ethan Bamber, Michael Booth, Tazeem Chaudry Ali, Vishwa Fernando

Surrey vs Hampshire

Surrey (Playing XI): Rory Burns(c), Dominic Sibley, Ollie Pope, Jamie Smith, Ben Foakes(w), Daniel Lawrence, Ryan Patel, Jordan Clark, Matthew Fisher, Kemar Roach, Daniel Worrall

Hampshire (Playing XI): Mark Stoneman, Fletcha Middleton, Nick Gubbins, Toby Albert, Tom Prest, Liam Dawson, Ben Brown(w/c), Brett Hampton, Kyle Abbott, Brad Wheal, Sonny Baker


Division 2

Leicestershire vs Derbyshire

Derbyshire (Playing XI): David Lloyd, Caleb Jewell, Harry Came, Wayne Madsen(c), Brooke Guest(w), Luis Reece, Anuj Dal, Martin Andersson, Zak Chappell, Blair Tickner, Jack Morley

Leicestershire (Playing XI): Ian Holland, Soloman Budinger, Ben Mike, Lewis Hill, Peter Handscomb(c), Rehan Ahmed, Ben Cox(w), Louis Kimber, Ben Green, Tom Scriven, Logan van Beek

Northamptonshire vs Lancashire

Northamptonshire (Playing XI): Ricardo Vasconcelos, Luke Procter(c), George Bartlett, James Sales, Rob Keogh, Saif Zaib, Lewis McManus(w), Calvin Harrison, Justin Broad, Liam Guthrie, Raphael Weatherall

Lancashire (Playing XI): Michael Jones, Keaton Jennings(c), Josh Bohannon, Marcus Harris, Matthew Hurst(w), Luke Wells, George Balderson, Tom Bailey, Tom Hartley, John Turner, Anderson Phillip

Gloucestershire vs Glamorgan

Glamorgan (Playing XI): Zain-ul-Hassan, Edward Byrom, Sam Northeast(c), Kiran Carlson, Colin Ingram, Ben Kellaway, Chris Cooke(w), Timm van der Gugten, Ned Leonard, Shoaib Bashir, Asitha Fernando

Gloucestershire (Playing XI): Chris Dent, Ben Charlesworth, Cameron Bancroft(c), Oliver Price, Miles Hammond, James Bracey(w), Graeme van Buuren, Tom Price, Zaman Akhter, Matt Taylor, Ajeet Dale

Middlesex vs Kent

Kent (Playing XI): Ben Compton, Zak Crawley, Daniel Bell-Drummond(c), Tawanda Muyeye, Jack Leaning, Joey Evison, Harry Finch(w), Kashif Ali, Grant Stewart, Nathan Gilchrist, Jaskaran Singh

Middlesex (Playing XI): Nathan Fernandes, Stephen Eskinazi, Max Holden, Leus du Plooy, Ryan Higgins, Ben Geddes, Jack Davies(w), Zafar Gohar, Toby Roland-Jones(c), Blake Carlton Cullen, Henry Brookes

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

Pope out early again…

 

[Blenkinsop]

I didn't know there were two Kashif Alis.

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

Noticed Ahmed opened the batting again, out for 13, interesting