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T20 Blast 2025

mackembhoy

mackembhoy

International Regular
Third_Man said:
little incidents like those happen all the time. Neesham's catch to dismiss Bohannon worth a mention. Anderson's first time taking three wicksts in a T20 for Lancashire. Probably up there with Darren Stevens for best figures from the over 40s brigade.
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Aye that catch happened so fast it was mental how nonchalant it was.

One of the posho Durham students had been chanting at Neesham for ages and yet somehow was down getting a pint when he took that 😂
 
Molehill

Molehill

Cricketer Of The Year
mackembhoy said:
Cricinfo lack of giving a toss about English domestic cricket this year is getting annoying.

Firstly stopped doing ball by ball coverage for the CC and now the Blast too.(No doubt the Hundred will get wall to wall coverage)

But now they can't even be arsed to put up NRR so the tables for both groups are misleading.

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Yeah, I noticed that too, even the BBC post the NRR's.

What a shambles of a site it's become over the last few years. Can't remember the last time I actually read an article, they are so poorly written. You only have to look at the headlines to realise what utter rubbish is being created.

Root 166* is England's Highway to 2-0

If the Daily Star did cricket....

No wonder the likes of Dobell left.
 
Y

Yeoman

State 12th Man
The contest that everyone’s looking forward to tonight is between the ground staff at Lord’s and The Oval. Who will get their ground ready for play first after the rain expected for most of the day in London?
 
Molehill

Molehill

Cricketer Of The Year
Blenkinsop said:
3/3 for Northants, held their nerve in a couple of tight matches. Brilliant over from Sanderson at the death.
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In the last 4 years, just 2 out of 16 teams to make Finals Day were from the Northern Division. Is it a sign of that lack of quality again that this match was dominated by two 40 year olds (one of whom has basically spent his entire career in the South)?
 
Third_Man

Third_Man

State Regular
Molehill said:
In the last 4 years, just 2 out of 16 teams to make Finals Day were from the Northern Division. Is it a sign of that lack of quality again that this match was dominated by two 40 year olds (one of whom has basically spent his entire career in the South)?
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Bopara almost made amends with 2-0-24-0
The current and prolonged absence of Livingstone, Buttler, Salt, Wood, Mahmood, Duckett, Brook, Root, Rashid, Wood, Carse, Stokes, Potts, Bethell - off the top of my head - might no doubt be matched a similar list from the South teams. You would need to analyse the quarter final matches in the last 4 years to see if there is a greater talent pool in the south or whether they just somehow managed to win the big games by chance maybe due to reading pitches better, winning more tosses, better overseas etc.
 
Molehill

Molehill

Cricketer Of The Year
Third_Man said:
Bopara almost made amends with 2-0-24-0
The current and prolonged absence of Livingstone, Buttler, Salt, Wood, Mahmood, Duckett, Brook, Root, Rashid, Wood, Carse, Stokes, Potts, Bethell - off the top of my head - might no doubt be matched a similar list from the South teams. You would need to analyse the quarter final matches in the last 4 years to see if there is a greater talent pool in the south or whether they just somehow managed to win the big games by chance maybe due to reading pitches better, winning more tosses, better overseas etc.
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But then you look at last year's QF's and pretty much all the big names were available. Lancs lost with Mahmood, LL, Salt and Wood in the team (only Buttler really missing), Durham had Carse, Warks had Bethell. The tosses were evenly shared (all teams opted to field first).

I'm not having a pop from my Sussex stance, but 14 out of 16 QF wins would suggest there's something going on. I'm not even sure that overseas players make that much of a difference as seemingly all have been impacted by losing their regulars (playing the knockouts 2 months after the group stages is just so daft).
 
Third_Man

Third_Man

State Regular
Molehill said:
But then you look at last year's QF's and pretty much all the big names were available. Lancs lost with Mahmood, LL, Salt and Wood in the team (only Buttler really missing), Durham had Carse, Warks had Bethell. The tosses were evenly shared (all teams opted to field first).

I'm not having a pop from my Sussex stance, but 14 out of 16 QF wins would suggest there's something going on. I'm not even sure that overseas players make that much of a difference as seemingly all have been impacted by losing their regulars (playing the knockouts 2 months after the group stages is just so daft).
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Bringing them back for just the QF is not a universally popular decision. Salt was out first ball last year when Sussex absolutely thrashed Lancashire - dressing room problems even then?

Look at all 22 years and it was more or less even until the last two years since when it's 8 from 8 for the South. Overall winning is farily even aswell. I tend to think T20 is anyone's game and it just needs one or two (often different players) to win or turn a match. Or one decision for or against a side at some point in the game and how they react.

But there may come a point where the Southern players have simoply more experience of playing the big matches - which will underline your point. Winning breeds winning.
 
B

Blenkinsop

State 12th Man
It's not just the T20 Blast though. A Northern county hasn't won the County Championship since Yorkshire in 2015, unless you count Warks winning the Bob Willis Trophy.
 
Molehill

Molehill

Cricketer Of The Year
Blenkinsop said:
It's not just the T20 Blast though. A Northern county hasn't won the County Championship since Yorkshire in 2015, unless you count Warks winning the Bob Willis Trophy.
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I was thinking how that may change this year, but the usual suspect has moved ominously into 2nd without really being anywhere near their best yet.
 
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