[Cricket] County cricket - a guide

A1X

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Deepest, darkest Sussex

• Aug 4, 2020

• #1

Saw this on the Twitter earlier and found it amusing, the chap who wrote it is a Somerset fan so I suspect this influences nos. 1 and 18 a little, but the rest generally feels about right. Especially about our northward and westward neighbours.

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Seasidesage

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• Aug 4, 2020

• #2

Got Hampshire spot on...

 

keaton

Big heart, hot blood and balls. Big balls

Nov 18, 2004

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• Aug 4, 2020

• #3

He's got Sussex right.

But any sensible table has to have Surrey or Hants at the bottom

 

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Gwylan

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Uffern

• Aug 4, 2020

• #4

Seasidesage said:

Got Hampshire spot on...

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... and Surrey

I'd have described Sussex as a team with a bowling attack to die for but with a batting line-up that looks half dead.

 

studio150

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On the Border

• Aug 4, 2020

• #5

Gwylan said:

... and Surrey

I'd have described Sussex as a team with a bowling attack to die for but with a batting line-up that looks half dead.

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A 1st divison bowling attack with a minor counties batting line up is how I view it,

 

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Gwylan

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Uffern

• Aug 4, 2020

• #6

studio150 said:

A 1st divison bowling attack with a minor counties batting line up is how I view it,

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Ooh, that's a better description

 

GT49er

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Gloucester

• Aug 4, 2020

• #7

Gwylan said:

... and Surrey

I'd have described Sussex as a team with a bowling attack to die for but with a batting line-up that looks half dead.

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Maybe 'Sussex as a team with a bowling attack to die for but with a batting line-up that already have' might be more appropriate.

 

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blue-shifted

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a galaxy far far away

• Aug 4, 2020

• #8

Excellent descriptions in there from someone who clearly knows their cricket. Surrey and Lancs spot on

 

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Farehamseagull

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Nov 22, 2007

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Sarisbury Green, Southampton

• Aug 4, 2020

• #9

Very good. Hampshire and Surrey absolutely spot on!

 

Eeyore

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• Aug 4, 2020

• #10

I can think of three Nottinghamshire players who have played for England in recent times who haven't come from Leicestershire. I can think of two that have.

I think Will might be a Somerset fan.

 

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The Mole

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Bowdon actually , Cheshire

• Aug 4, 2020

• #11

Stuart Broad, James Taylor and Harry Gurney (although Broad is Notts through and through)

Samir Patel and Jake AB all both Notts players... not to mention Harold Larwood and Derek Randall - probably the best bowler and batsman England have ever had
His description of one of the finest grounds in the world is woeful

 

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Bodian

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• Aug 4, 2020

• #12

keaton said:

He's got Sussex right.

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Except that of course we have in fact won the championship more often than Somerset....

 

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Gwylan

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Uffern

• Aug 4, 2020

• #13

Bodian said:

Except that of course we have in fact won the championship more often than Somerset....

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Yeah, but nearly every county can say that. Somerset and Northants can cry together

 

BeHereNow

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Southwick

• Aug 5, 2020

• #14

Oi! A relative of mine played for Hampshire and I’m sure he wasn’t posh. Although, his son is a multimillionaire.