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It's been a while since "Australian test batsman" carried any implication of quality, beyond Steve Smith and Warner when he's batting in Australia.

200 lead up, and 50 partnership between Brown and Carson. Good game in progress, only disappointment so far today is hearing on the commentary that Brown supports Chelsea.

Just turned the stream on, really nice to see and hear the smattering of spectators around the ground.

Northants 256 all out. Might have taken that at the start of the innings, but disappointing having had them 176-8.

Ooh, nice ground. I feel like I'd be besmirching it. I'm meant to be going to England v New Zealand on Saturday the 12th. On the one hand that's a good thing as I'm part way there, on the other it's bad as I was intending to drink far too much and get all silly. Also, they've not told me if I...

I am unfortunately, albeit I'm down in Sussex fairly regularly to see family (I am at the moment actually). If you're desperate enough to ask somebody who's not played for 10 years and says they were that crap in the first place to turn out, send me a fixture list and I'll see what I can manage.

I'm 6'3", so always felt like I should have been able to bowl faster than I could. On the odd pitch that had a consistency firmer than cold porridge I could get a bit of bounce, but I generally got wickets by the ball passing underneath the batman's wild mow across the line. Every spring I mean...

How come every other bugger on this board could bowl fast in their youth, while I was slogging away watching the ball dribble through ankle high? I had to appeal for a bowled once I hit the stumps so slowly. I choose to believe I would have sped up if I'd kept playing past 16. I have no...

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From memory, I got it above hip high a couple of times. I choose to believe that the fact that the pitch was very obviously spiced up by rain at the time doesn't detract from my obvious brilliance. The cunning set up of two bouncers followed by a full ball slid across from wide of the crease...

You won't hear me arguing. If I'll go to my grave in my 90s, fat, with a bad back and gout, I'll still want to try and knock the batsman's head off. Shame I was never good or fast enough to manage it :lolol::drink::drink::drink:

50 partnership for the 9th wicket. Also new high scores for both Carson and Crocombe. :clap2:

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He could have a burning desire to represent Bangladesh for all I know about him. They could probably do with a good off spinner to balance out the enormous pile of left arm orthodox bowlers they have, for that matter. Plenty of Irish/catholic people have the surname Carson. Re. the EU...

The quality of the video isn't great, I'd say it probably is missing but it's not a howler of a decision. Terrible quality video available here: https://mobile.twitter.com/NorthantsCCC/status/1397858710312075267 There's no way he should be leaving that ball anyway, so I won't be basing my view...

Considering he left it and it was coming back in, it's not horrendously bad, even if I'm not sure it was doing enough. I remember Strauss being given out in an ODI once when he'd literally middled it onto his pad. This is a glorious hole to disappear into on YouTube, but this one's quite fun...

My understanding is that he would have to play as an overseas player, in the same way as (definitely Irish) Tim Murtagh had to retire from internationals to keep his Middlesex contract. I'm not sure that's related to the EU situation though, even under the Kolpak rules players couldn't turn out...

What's the situation with Carson in terms of England/Ireland? Presumably he could play for either. His player profile on the Sussex website just links to cricinfo, which is just blank.

Yes, they were on sale between Monday and, as it turns out, 5pm yesterday. https://sussexcricket.co.uk/news/tickets-general-sale-northamptonshire-fixture

I'll concede that it did say in bold letters on the general sale notice that they'd stop selling tickets at 5pm on Wednesday: https://sussexcricket.co.uk/news/tickets-general-sale-northamptonshire-fixture And I did read that on Monday :facepalm: It still doesn't make any sense that I could...