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Post by Billy on May 6, 2008 18:28:21 GMT -1
you should defo try and go mate - always a good day out. I need to look through the fixtures and decide which ones I'm gonna try and get to as well
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Post by Tony Yeboah's Lunchbox on May 6, 2008 18:49:47 GMT -1
Yeah, I'm more interested in how we do in ther Campionship, although it is Pro40 that I've earmarked for possible matches subject to what else I do over the summer. Not a big fan of the Twenty20 really. It'll be exciting to watch, but there's no real skill to me. Although to be fair, I'm yet to see a cricket match, so that's a cynical armchair judgement. It depends what you like to see Pete. Twenty20 is the popular choice. The atmosphere is better, its short and sweet, you can have a few drinks beforehand, it usually draws in a sizeable crowd and you get plenty of entertainment in the form of boundaries and wickets all inside 3-4 hours. I loved those games in the hot, summer evenings down at the Rose Bowl and it made a refreshing change to see three quaters of the ground full as opposed to the less populated Pro40 and Championship games. I disagree with you too mate on the skill factor. Its not all about slogging Twenty20 finals day is at the Rose Bowl this year for the first time and I will be there to watch the 2 semi's and the final whilst having a few drinks all day with some of my mates. If its a gloriously hot summers day on the South coast, it will be beautiful. Hopefully, we'll be cheering the Hawks on to victory but I'm not optimistic. As long as its not Surrey
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Post by Pete the Wolf on May 6, 2008 20:00:21 GMT -1
you should defo try and go mate - always a good day out. I need to look through the fixtures and decide which ones I'm gonna try and get to as well Just looked through for me. Much as I still like the County Championship, it's not something I really want to go to the ground and watch with little atmosphere. Am hoping to be in Aber until mid-July (definitely not plannign on leaving until end of June), so the Twenty20 league matches will ahve been played by then, leaving me with the Pro40. We've got home matches at weekends and August Bank Holiday against Surrey, Kent and Essex, so I'm favouring Essex at the moment as have a friend who's an Essex fan, so told her she should be an away fan and come up to support her home county, depending on work and other uni stuff. Yeah, I'm more interested in how we do in ther Campionship, although it is Pro40 that I've earmarked for possible matches subject to what else I do over the summer. Not a big fan of the Twenty20 really. It'll be exciting to watch, but there's no real skill to me. Although to be fair, I'm yet to see a cricket match, so that's a cynical armchair judgement. It depends what you like to see Pete. Twenty20 is the popular choice. The atmosphere is better, its short and sweet, you can have a few drinks beforehand, it usually draws in a sizeable crowd and you get plenty of entertainment in the form of boundaries and wickets all inside 3-4 hours. I loved those games in the hot, summer evenings down at the Rose Bowl and it made a refreshing change to see three quaters of the ground full as opposed to the less populated Pro40 and Championship games. I disagree with you too mate on the skill factor. Its not all about slogging Twenty20 finals day is at the Rose Bowl this year for the first time and I will be there to watch the 2 semi's and the final whilst having a few drinks all day with some of my mates. If its a gloriously hot summers day on the South coast, it will be beautiful. Hopefully, we'll be cheering the Hawks on to victory but I'm not optimistic. As long as its not Surrey Okay, I'll take your work on the skill factor. I wouldn't have minded getting tickets for the finals last year at Edgbaston, but was my 21st and had better ways of spending it. Plus one of my lecturers is a Warwickshire fan as well and he said tickets were already sold out by Feb or something stupid for it.
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Post by Pete the Wolf on May 11, 2008 18:58:08 GMT -1
Well, a draw against Derbyshire sends us top of the table in the County Championship. Derbyshire surprisingly batted on through most of the morning and set Warwickshire a target of 378, which was always unlikely to be reached in half a day on a fourth-day pitch.
Klokker recovered from a golden duck in the first innings to make 103no for Derbyshire, while Clare chipped in with 66 and 64no as well. Bell fell in the 40s for the third time this summer so far, while Trott made 104 in the first innings.
Ultimately, Warwickshire took 10 points to Derbyshire's 9, courtesy of 310ao in the first innings gaining an extra batting point than Derbyshire's 270ao. We might be top of the table, but have played at least a game more than all eight other counties and Essex are only three points behind, a gap they should really recover.
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Post by Pete the Wolf on May 11, 2008 19:02:56 GMT -1
As for today's match in the FP Trophy, it was another disaster. We made it to 232-8, 120 of those runs courtesy of Jonathan Trott, who could stake one hell of a claim for himself in the national side if he carries on this sort of form. In 7 inning so far, he has averaged 60.83 runs.
A promising start reduced Northants to 12-3; Neil Carter taking 3 wickets in 4 balls. However, they recoved and marched home to win by 5 wickets. The Bears now lie 4th out of 5 in the Midlands Division with 1 N/R and 3 defeats.
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Post by Pete the Wolf on May 16, 2008 17:03:22 GMT -1
Oh FFS! Just lost to IRELAND by 4 wickets in the FP trophy Put together 211-7 from the 50 overs and they reached that for the loss of 6 wickets in 46.4 overs. Frost was top scorer with 56, plus Powell chipped in with 47no and Westwood with 41. Porterfield scored 67 for the Irish So that's one N/R and 4 defeats
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Post by Billy on May 16, 2008 17:04:52 GMT -1
and still only one win all season isn't it Pete
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Post by Pete the Wolf on May 16, 2008 17:08:12 GMT -1
Yup, won 1 and drawn 3 in the CC. Although we are joint top with Leicetershire on 48 points from 4 games! However, Essex hover three points behind with a game in hand. In terms of bonus points, we've taken 10 batting points from a possible 20 (so averaging between 250 and 300 for a first innings score ), but have taken maximum bowling points so far.
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Post by Pete the Wolf on May 19, 2008 15:56:07 GMT -1
Well, after we lose to Ireland, we bizarrely beat Nottinghamshire! Warwickshire psoted 173 from their 50 overs (aided by 64 from Ian Westwood), which should have been fairly easy for Notts to chase down with a required run-rate of 3.5 per over. Indeed, it could have been much less with Warwickshire 36-4 at one stage. Sure enough, Notts quickly built up a score of 60-1 after just 11 overs. However, 3 wickets feel in 13 balls and James Anyon took 2 wickets in as many balls in career-best figures of 3-6. Notts were bowled out for 121, giving Warwickshire a 52-run victory. However, it is expremely unlikely the quarter-finals will be reached.
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Post by Billy on May 21, 2008 16:18:09 GMT -1
Middlesex 285-9 on Day 1 of the latest County Champ match. For some reason Zondeki only bowled 2 overs Oh, and Jayasuriya won't be playing for the Bears in the 2020 as he will be playing for Sri Lanka in the forthcoming Asisn Cup in Pakistan
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Post by Pete the Wolf on May 22, 2008 17:05:29 GMT -1
Bit of a blow to lose Jayasuriya, but hopefully we'll get someone good in to replace him. And Zondeki went off with a groin injury.
Looks like we're in the ascendency against Middlesex. Bowled them out for 297and 272-4, so looking good. Hopefully can build up a big lead.
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Post by Pete the Wolf on May 25, 2008 13:51:44 GMT -1
Well, we reached 438-9 against Middlesex with Maddy retiring hurt, so that's another injury to worry about. Getting stupid now. Middlesex replied with 335-7, before a draw was reached with Warwickshire claiming all 8 bonus points and Middlesex claiming 4 on top ofv the 4 each for the draw. batting went well for Warwicks with 50 each for Trott and Botha, plus 81 for Salisbury and 90 for Frost. Powell also chipped in with 47. 5 points clear of Leicester at the top of the table and 8 clear of Essex in thrid, who have a game in hand.
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Post by Pete the Wolf on May 25, 2008 13:52:28 GMT -1
FP trophy against Ireland at Edgbaston declared a No Result without a ball being bowled following torrential rain.
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Post by Pete the Wolf on May 27, 2008 23:14:50 GMT -1
Okay, so we wait until we're out of the FP Trophy before remembering how to win games in it as another victory follows the Notts victory. Things looked bleak for the Bears after being restricted to 187-8 from their 50 overs, 45 coming from Poonia and an innings of 55no from Frost as he continues an excellent return from retirement. Leicestershire posted 53-2 from 19.3 overs before the rain came down. Warwickshire were declared victors by 8 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis method.
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Post by Pete the Wolf on May 30, 2008 18:16:07 GMT -1
Gloucestershire 334-6 at the end of the first day at Gloucester. Gloucestershire put together an opening partnership of 149, so good to see us getting amonst the wickets later on.
Plans to see Warwickshire vs Essex in Pro40 have been scuttled today, but hopefully will line up another match instead.
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Post by Pete the Wolf on May 30, 2008 18:19:11 GMT -1
Bloody hell, jsut read that Anyon took 3-1 in 13 balls
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Post by Pete the Wolf on Jun 6, 2008 18:38:50 GMT -1
Okay, about time I updated 4 days after a match ended Had to settle for a draw with Gloucestershire. Gloucestershire made 420 all out in ther first innings before Warwickshire responded with 410. The length of time taken for Warwickshire to bat through their innings meant Gloucestershire declared on 228-8 and there was no time for Warwickshire to bat in their second innings. Chris Taylor scored 181 runs over his two GLoucestershire innings but in my (most probably biased!) view, Tony Frost was pick of the batters with a 144no for Warwickshire. What a return he's making!
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Post by Pete the Wolf on Jun 6, 2008 18:57:37 GMT -1
Hmm, we're also second in the County Championship, 6 points behind Leicestershire and 15 clear of Essex. Would like to see Warwickshire win the league (of course!) and Essex finish second.
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Post by Pete the Wolf on Jun 10, 2008 20:56:20 GMT -1
Fantastic! A five-wicket win over Glamorgan sent Warwickshire top of the table with a 16-point lead over Leicestershire, although they do have a game in hand. Warwickshire scored 421 in their opening innings with a good proportion of them coming courtesy of Ian Westwood, who contributed an oustanding 176. Botha also chipped in with 62. Croft was the most successful Glamorgan bowler by some margin with 4-101. Glamorgan were then bowled out for 248, Anyon recording excellent bowling figures of 6-82. Rees put up some resistance with 77, but teh next best score was 29, which says it all about leading it on his own. Faced with a first-innings deficit of 173 runs, Glamorgan were asked to follow on. This time they posted 355; Hemp scoring 56, Dalrymple 67 and Gillespie 52. 19-year-old Chris Woakes took a career best 5-59 with the ball for Warwickshire. Warwickshire were left with a target of 183, which they obtained for the loss of 5 wickets. Once again, Westwood was the top scorer with 58, though Powell also made amends for a third-ball duck in the first innings with 55. Top of the league now and no County Championship games until the Twenty20 is done.
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Post by Billy on Jun 11, 2008 17:00:19 GMT -1
yep - great win that - fantastic knock from Westwood at the top of the order and some decent bolwing performances. Perhaps some of the younger players are beginning to find their feet. I hope we do well in the Twenty20 as it will give the team a much needed morale boost, but tbh promotion this year is an absoltue must
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