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Post by Pete the Wolf on Jun 11, 2008 20:37:36 GMT -1
Good to have some bowling performances. We seemed to have lacked anyone since Giles, let alone the days of Pollock and Donald. Frost's been doing well too, which raises an interesting dilemma for when Ambrose returns from England duty. Plus a question of who if anyone will step aside for Bell too.
The Twenty20 will be good for morale and has also taken on an additional finance importance with the reqards on offer in the Champions League. But I'd agree with you that the County Championship is the priority.
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Post by Pete the Wolf on Jul 2, 2008 16:02:55 GMT -1
Well, after the Twenty20 Cup group stages are finished, the County Championship has got back underway. Warwickshrie had to settle for a draw with bottom side Gloucestershire, who scored 336 from their first innings, largely courtesy of a second-wicket stand of 176 between Porterfield (76) and Marshall(121). Snell also chipped in with a 54no. Martin was easily the pick of the Warwickshire bowlers with 5-84. The Bears then put on 528- , Bell leading the charge with a fantastic 215 as he shared a partnership of 221 with Trott, who also put on 164no. Salisbury aided a late charge as well with 48 runs from just 28 balls faced. Warwickshire would scented victory when reducing Gloucestershire to 60-3 in their second innings, but a 103-run partnership between Marshall (64) and Snell (54no) saw them home on 189-4. Shame we couldn't close them down, but a draw was always on the cards when only just entering the third innings of the match on the final day. Still, Warwickshire are now 23 points clear of Middlesex in second following Leicestershire's 10-wicket thumping at the hands of Worcestershire, so even maximum points from their game in had won't be enough to displace us.
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Post by Pete the Wolf on Jul 10, 2008 20:21:28 GMT -1
And out of the Twenty20 Cup we go Not bothered with updates on that trophy (I've made my opinions clear on it before! ) but may as well mention it on here.
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Post by ITFC Dudette6 on Jul 10, 2008 20:58:56 GMT -1
And out of the Twenty20 Cup we go Not bothered with updates on that trophy (I've made my opinions clear on it before! ) but may as well mention it on here. At least Ian Bell's done alright today, eh Pete?
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Post by Pete the Wolf on Jul 10, 2008 21:02:47 GMT -1
And out of the Twenty20 Cup we go Not bothered with updates on that trophy (I've made my opinions clear on it before! ) but may as well mention it on here. At least Ian Bell's done alright today, eh Pete? He'll be on a high after hitting 215 runs from 280-odd balls last week. Fantastic knock again. He doesn't do that badly for England does he usually?
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Post by ITFC Dudette6 on Jul 10, 2008 21:07:35 GMT -1
At least Ian Bell's done alright today, eh Pete? He'll be on a high after hitting 215 runs from 280-odd balls last week. Fantastic knock again. He doesn't do that badly for England does he usually? He doesn't. However, he is frustrating, as he can get decent starts but doesn't convert them into those big hundreds that we keep hearing about - especially in ODIs. Either way, pleased for him. Shame he's being overshadowed by KP at the other end really.
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Post by Pete the Wolf on Jul 10, 2008 21:16:11 GMT -1
He'll be on a high after hitting 215 runs from 280-odd balls last week. Fantastic knock again. He doesn't do that badly for England does he usually? He doesn't. However, he is frustrating, as he can get decent starts but doesn't convert them into those big hundreds that we keep hearing about - especially in ODIs. Either way, pleased for him. Shame he's being overshadowed by KP at the other end really. Slow and steady wins the race I know I'm biased as a Bears fan, but it just really annoys me when I go on BBC or something and there's talk of how useless Bell is etc. All seems to stem from the 2005 Ashes (which admittedly the Australians did have him near enough as their plaything in), but any time he does well, it's still not good enough. Remember one test when we got thashed, Bell hit 100-odd out of about 200 runs from England and promptly got slated for not scoring enough runs from some areas, admittedly BBC does have some idiots posting on there. Still, if he does get dropped, he can simply get back amongst the runs in Warwickshire's promotion bids. ;D Hmmm, also having Andy Keogh as one of my favourite Wolves players, I seem to have a liking of players with other fans wanting them to be replaced by Freddy!
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Post by ITFC Dudette6 on Jul 10, 2008 21:27:10 GMT -1
He doesn't. However, he is frustrating, as he can get decent starts but doesn't convert them into those big hundreds that we keep hearing about - especially in ODIs. Either way, pleased for him. Shame he's being overshadowed by KP at the other end really. Slow and steady wins the race I know I'm biased as a Bears fan, but it just really annoys me when I go on BBC or something and there's talk of how useless Bell is etc. All seems to stem from the 2005 Ashes (which admittedly the Australians did have him near enough as their plaything in), but any time he does well, it's still not good enough. Remember one test when we got thashed, Bell hit 100-odd out of about 200 runs from England and promptly got slated for not scoring enough runs from some areas, admittedly BBC does have some idiots posting on there. Still, if he does get dropped, he can simply get back amongst the runs in Warwickshire's promotion bids. ;D Hmmm, also having Andy Keogh as one of my favourite Wolves players, I seem to have a liking of players with other fans wanting them to be replaced by Freddy! He was fairly young in the 2005 Ashes series, wasn't he? He got his best Test score against Bangladesh (I think) beforehand, but if you can't score runs against Bangladesh, you may as well just retire. When he's good, he's brilliant to watch. Some of his drives through the off-side today were fantastic. A random question, how do you think Tim Ambrose is doing? He's a Warickshire guy isn't he?
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Post by Pete the Wolf on Jul 10, 2008 21:44:45 GMT -1
Slow and steady wins the race I know I'm biased as a Bears fan, but it just really annoys me when I go on BBC or something and there's talk of how useless Bell is etc. All seems to stem from the 2005 Ashes (which admittedly the Australians did have him near enough as their plaything in), but any time he does well, it's still not good enough. Remember one test when we got thashed, Bell hit 100-odd out of about 200 runs from England and promptly got slated for not scoring enough runs from some areas, admittedly BBC does have some idiots posting on there. Still, if he does get dropped, he can simply get back amongst the runs in Warwickshire's promotion bids. ;D Hmmm, also having Andy Keogh as one of my favourite Wolves players, I seem to have a liking of players with other fans wanting them to be replaced by Freddy! He was fairly young in the 2005 Ashes series, wasn't he? He got his best Test score against Bangladesh (I think) beforehand, but if you can't score runs against Bangladesh, you may as well just retire. When he's good, he's brilliant to watch. Some of his drives through the off-side today were fantastic. A random question, how do you think Tim Ambrose is doing? He's a Warickshire guy isn't he? It sounds like he's not taken off during the ODI series, but he seemed to do okay in the tests. He certainly did well for Warwickshire and if Frost hadn't come out of retirement and done as well as he has, Warwickshire would be in major trouble without him.
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Post by ITFC Dudette6 on Jul 10, 2008 21:47:54 GMT -1
He was fairly young in the 2005 Ashes series, wasn't he? He got his best Test score against Bangladesh (I think) beforehand, but if you can't score runs against Bangladesh, you may as well just retire. When he's good, he's brilliant to watch. Some of his drives through the off-side today were fantastic. A random question, how do you think Tim Ambrose is doing? He's a Warickshire guy isn't he? It sounds like he's not taken off during the ODI series, but he seemed to do okay in the tests. He certainly did well for Warwickshire and if Frost hadn't come out of retirement and done as well as he has, Warwickshire would be in major trouble without him. I think Phil Mustard was incredibly unfortunate to miss out on the ODI series. Thing is though, most of the wicket keepers who've made a debut for England recently have started well, but ended up hitting a bad patch of form with the bat. I'm biased because of Essex, but I want Foster to be given another try at some point.
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Post by Pete the Wolf on Jul 10, 2008 21:50:15 GMT -1
It sounds like he's not taken off during the ODI series, but he seemed to do okay in the tests. He certainly did well for Warwickshire and if Frost hadn't come out of retirement and done as well as he has, Warwickshire would be in major trouble without him. I think Phil Mustard was incredibly unfortunate to miss out on the ODI series. Thing is though, most of the wicket keepers who've made a debut for England recently have started well, but ended up hitting a bad patch of form with the bat. I'm biased because of Essex, but I want Foster to be given another try at some point. Well, I seem to have adopted Essex as a second team, so I wouldn't mind seeing their players getting into the England side. So long as it's not at the expense of a Warwickshire player though ;D
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Post by Pete the Wolf on Jul 19, 2008 21:41:32 GMT -1
Warwickshire remain unbeaten in the County Championship after thumping second-placed Middlesex by an innings and 56 runs at Uxbridge.
Warwickshire opened the batting and quickly found themselves in trouble at 78-4, Maddy struggling on his return from injury and the in-form Trott going cheaply as well. However, an impressive fifth-wicket stand of 157 between Toughton and Frost set Warwickshire on their way. Troughton led the charge with 88, and whilst England fans may be desperate for Ambrose to return to Warwickshire, he may struggle to force his way back into the Bears' line-up, given the form of the returnin Tony Frost, who weighed in with 84. Botha follwed up with 54 and Carter put in a cameo at number 9 with 67 runs from 62 balls.
Shah struck 42 for Middlesex in their first innings and Scott contributed 37, but that was as good as it got for Middlsex as they crumbled to 170 all out. Worse was to follow for them in the second innings as after being asked to follow on, they were skittled for 167. Chris Woakes took a career-best 5-37 and with 2-31 in the first innings, the 19-year-old seamer could be one to watch in years to come.
Warwickshire now hold a clear lead at the top of the County Championship Division 2 with 125.0 points, with second-place Northants 30 points behind on 95.0.
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Post by Billy on Jul 20, 2008 10:39:41 GMT -1
Great result that for the BEars - Middlesex have been pretty good so far this season. I think promotion is almost a certainty already!! Nice to see the youngsters doing well - especially that Woakes fella. I'm glad Troughton is getting some runs and Tony Frost coming back to cover for Ambrose has been a great call
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Post by Pete the Wolf on Jul 20, 2008 14:06:36 GMT -1
At the risk of tempting fate, I would agree that promotion looks highly likely. Woakes has certainly played well and the return of Frost has been brilliant.
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Post by Pete the Wolf on Jul 21, 2008 20:24:43 GMT -1
Warwickshire's Pro40 campaign got off to a bad start with a 22-run defeat at the hands of Kent at Edgbaston. Rob Key led the way for Kent with 80 from 83 balls, along with support from van Jaarsveld (49) and Walker (43) as Kent posted 228-8.
By contrast, Warwickshire were restricted to 206-9, Jonathan Trott's unbeaten 91 from 103 balls the only real resistance. Mahmood was the pick of the bowlers for Kent with 4-29 from his eight overs.
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Post by Pete the Wolf on Jul 31, 2008 10:29:01 GMT -1
Warwickshire's second Pro40 game went much better than their first as they eased to an 81-run victory over Leicestershire.
Batting first at Grace Road, Warwickshire amassed 276-7 from their 40 overs. Carter struck 78 from 55 balls including ten fours and five sixes and Maddy contributed 56 from 48. Troughton chipped in with 48 from 46 and Botha threw in a useful cameo of 32 from 19. Spinner Claude Henderson took some pride for Leicestershire with 4-42 from his eight overs.
Leicestershire had batters who all made good starts but failed to push on and were eventually dismissed for 195, although given that it took 36.3 overs to produce that score, they were well off the run rate anyway. Their top scorer was Allenby with 39 from 35 before being trapped leg before by experienced spinner Ian Salisbury. Ant Botha was the pick of the Warwickshire bowlers with 5-43.
Warwickshire currently lie third in the second division of the Pro40.
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Post by Pete the Wolf on Aug 23, 2008 19:08:40 GMT -1
Well, in a match that finally wasn't a rain-affected draw, Warwickshire were left wishing that the rain was around after being crushed by 130 runs in the Pro40 at Glamorgan. Glamorgan posted 218-7 from their 40 overs. Warwickshire crashed to 88 all out in 31.3 overs, so way off the run-rate as well. Will say no more, other than suddenly being glad I'm working on Monday and thus unable to go to see them play Surrey.
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Post by Billy on Sept 20, 2008 16:05:48 GMT -1
Warwickshire's six-wicket win on the final day against Essex at Chelmsford guaranteed their progress back to Division One of the Championship. Essex were going well with the bat as they stretched an overnight 125-1 to 247-1, Ravi Bopara (133) and John Maunders (105) hitting centuries. But they then collapsed dreadfully to the spin of veteran Ian Salisbury (6-100) and were all out for 316. Warwickshire had 45 overs left to get 144 and they were not unduly troubled. Darren Maddy (63) and Tony Frost (38 not out) were the main contributors but the real hero of the day was Salisbury. In his first season at the club, the 38-year-old leg-spinner has taken 38 wickets in the Championship - more than any other Warwickshire player. Surrey, who opted to release Salisbury last October, may regret that decision as they will be playing cricket in Division Two next season havnig failed to record a single win this term. Well having not had very high hopes at the start of the season gaining promotion is a great effort for the Bears! Frost, Trott and Troughton with the bat, and Woakes Anyon and Salisbury with the ball have all had good seasons. Let's hope we can get some top class overseas players on next season and push on from this achievement
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Post by ITFC Dudette6 on Sept 20, 2008 20:06:46 GMT -1
Essex were going well with the bat as they stretched an overnight 125-1 to 247-1, Ravi Bopara (133) and John Maunders (105) hitting centuries. But they then collapsed dreadfully to the spin of veteran Ian Salisbury (6-100) and were all out for 316. How the hell did we do that?! All together now; "It's just like watching England..." No? Just me then.
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Post by Pete the Wolf on Sept 27, 2008 18:52:16 GMT -1
Essex were going well with the bat as they stretched an overnight 125-1 to 247-1, Ravi Bopara (133) and John Maunders (105) hitting centuries. But they then collapsed dreadfully to the spin of veteran Ian Salisbury (6-100) and were all out for 316. How the hell did we do that?! All together now; "It's just like watching England..." No? Just me then. Glamorgan were kind enough to do it for us today, starting the day on 122-1 and promptly finding themselves at 128-8. ;D They recovered to 223 all out, but it was enough to condemn them to a 179-run defeat. Warwickshire won the County Championship Division Two with their first home win since April 2007 after posting scores of 315 and 280, against Glamorgan's 193 and 223. 19-yr-old seamer Chris Woakes returned his best match figures of 10-162 (6-68 and 4-94) to finish as Warwickshire's youngest ever leading wicket taker with 45 wickets. Jonathan Trott was the highest scorer over the season with 1240 runs in the County Championship; however, the plaudits go to Tony Frost in my opinion after scoring 1003 runs following two years of retirement with a batting average of 83.58 runs. Woakes led the way in the bowling figures with an average of 20.57 runs between wickets. It's a shame the Pro40 didn't go so well, finishing sixth in Division Two, but I'm looking forward to Division One in the County Championship next summer. There's a good mix of youth and experience in the squad and things can hopefully only get better.
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