No Robinson, Jordan or Wiese today to go with Archer. But I’ve already accepted we’ll hardly see Archer in the championship again.
But yes, today hasn’t gone at all well. Won’t do the youngsters any favours.
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[Cricket] ***Kent CCC v Sussex CCC, Bob Willis Trophy, 8-11 August 2020, Canterbury***
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No Robinson, Jordan or Wiese today to go with Archer. But I’ve already accepted we’ll hardly see Archer in the championship again.
But yes, today hasn’t gone at all well. Won’t do the youngsters any favours.
jakarta
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Don't have to think about me, I'm doing the vastly more entertaining option of watering the garden at Jakarta Towers!
I’m not so sure . At the moment he’s not the express fast bowler they were hoping for . I wonder if he might have an in and out England career , and we might see more of him
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Indeed - and all this without the 70 year old Darren Stevens' usual helpful 5 wicket for zero runs intervention.
jakarta
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338-1, clearly we will counterattack tomorrow.
BluesRockDJ
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Thunderstorms forecast.................
albionalex
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Or using it as an excuse not to win games.
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Were really will loose this one.
I don't blame the bowlers - this is down to the batters. They scored 100 to 150 runs too few
Machiavelli
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For reference, Jordan Cox (168no) is a 19yo rookie.
He's an England U19 international, the same as Tom Clark: one got well set and got out, one carried on
That's our performance in a nushell: nearly every batsman got into double figures, not one pushed on for a century (and only two got 50s) on what is probably the best batting wicket they'll see this year.
Can we blame the bowlers now? Kent have almost got those extra 150 runs that we were missing, and yet they've lost ONE wicket. We are shite.
Can we blame the bowlers now? Kent have almost got those extra 150 runs that we were missing, and yet they've lost ONE wicket. We are shite.
Our bowlers? Four kids and two county cast-offs (one of whose last F/C match was more than two years ago)
So, only Claydon and Garton really count - and they're bowling on a road
Sussex have four really decent F/C bowlers (two are on test duty, one is injured and one is stuck in SA). This has been a tough learning curve for the youngsters but to pick on players who have scarcely a handful of F/C appearances is a bit out of order
Without ollie, I fear for us this season in 4-day.
It’s a poor quality team.
It’s not even as if they’re underperforming.
There’s no point getting frustrated by it as there is an obvious lack of talent and/or experience.
All we need is two youngsters to put their hands up, and it will kind of be worth it because with van Zyl, head, wiese, Jordan and Robinson back, next season looks promising.
It’s a poor quality team.
It’s not even as if they’re underperforming.
There’s no point getting frustrated by it as there is an obvious lack of talent and/or experience.
All we need is two youngsters to put their hands up, and it will kind of be worth it because with van Zyl, head, wiese, Jordan and Robinson back, next season looks promising.
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Kent 500 for 1