surrey vs Worcestershire match thread

[jimbobgooner]

First topic message reminder :

Chris Adams has named a twelve man squad for the LV=County Championship match against Worcestershire at the Kia Oval.
Jacques Rudolph has been withdrawn from the squad for this match due to family reasons.
The Surrey squad for the LV=County Championship match against Worcestershire on Thursday 19th April, Friday 20th April, Saturday 21st April and Sunday 22nd April:
Rory Hamilton-Brown (capt)
Steven Davies (wkt)
Mark Ramprakash
Zander de Bruyn
Tom Maynard
Jason Roy
Chris Jordan
Gareth Batty
Jon Lewis
Stuart Meaker
Tim Linley
Jade Dernbach
with no rudolph avaliable i would expect river to go back to opener unless roy gets the short straw
if roy does open i would leave out river

[guildfordbat]

Brain dead! Gone to Rico's first ball after lunch. 69-5.

Enter River. Time to prove his doubters wrong ....

[packofwolves]

Rico has got rid of De Bruyn, another Worcester old boy, for 6 off 20. Gone caught at slip by Mitch.

I guess that rain can't come back soon enough, eh, Guildford?

[guildfordbat]

Pack - are you listening to the radio commentary? I like Dave Bradley's style (he's from Local Worcs radio). He seems knowledgeable without being too serious. Fits in well with our Churchy.

Great comment from Churchy: ''Everyone is now looking at the dark clouds to our right, well not quite everyone, two people!''.

[packofwolves]

I was listening to it this morning Guildford. I do like Dave Bradley, he's been around Worcester for a long time now. He has that knack of showing his passion for the club without being disrespectful or ignorant of the opposition. A fine art!

Haha brilliant quote that. It's those little observations and flashes of humour that set cricket commentary apart from the rest in my view. In very few sports do you get such an opportunity of "set the scene" as it were.

[jimbobgooner]

The brain goes for a well made 6

[guildfordbat]

Rain still holding off at the Oval but concerns about the light even with floodlights on.

117-5 ....

[jimbobgooner]

Raining in dulwich guildford

[jimbobgooner]

Christ did you hear that thunder

[guildfordbat]

Rain finally stops play with Surrey on 117-5. A bit of a recovery mounted by Wine Gums and River.

I fear that may well be it for the day. Raining heavily now Guildford way and with all the thunder I guess JimBob is hiding under his bed in Dulwich!

[jimbobgooner]

Lol just passing through guildford inspection at 3.30 pm tea being taken

[guildfordbat]

Still off although they've just started playing again at Lord's ....

[jimbobgooner]

5.15 start 24 overs left If no more rain

[jimbobgooner]

End of wine gums

[guildfordbat]

now its time for my end of day report
it rained a lot

For end of day two:
good start, poor middle and finish. And it rained again!

That ok, JimBob?

[chichestersurryfan]

I haven't really been able to follow today what's been going on....disappointing final score, but I guess one can only judge how disappointing or not that score is after Worcestshire have batted (if the weather relents enough for that to happen!)
I think if my calculation is correct, we're likely to have amassed a grand total of 3 batting points in 3 games so far (unless there's some heroics from the tail tomorrow!)... To be fair I guess too early in the season to read too much into that, given the poor weather & poor Pitch (at Lords)!

I do love that comment from Churchy... brings back memories of sitting in the Vauxhall Stand totally on my own,when I was probably 35 years younger than I am now & before the rather sensible policy of closing parts of the ground off became more fashionable... There were probably about 5 other people in the Harleford Road side of the ground... mind you the pavillion was probably 'packed out' with atleast 20 people in there

[Corporalhumblebucket]

Disappointing but somewhat predictable day after we were put in to bat.

Really is not good for the side as well as Ramps to have him struggling away....

Looking at forecast for tomorrow seems fairly unlikely we'll get anywhere near a full day....

[jimbobgooner]

now its time for my end of day report
it rained a lot

For end of day two:
good start, poor middle and finish. And it rained again!

That ok, JimBob?

i could not have put it any better myself guildford

[HappierSurreyFan]

We could do with a few more showers, luckily I think there are some forecast for the next few days.
I have only just recovered from our game against Middlesex, I was on a train to Edinburgh watching cric info on my phone when we lost that, unfortunately Mrs Depressed had booked us onto the quiet coach.

Anyway our bowling is looking ok nfor the season but the batsman have to start digging in for higher scores, wherethe Reindeer???

[Dulwich_Dog]

Oh dear 123-7 after 35 overs. Is Grizzly going to be blaming the pitch again ?

[Tibor]

Happier,

Reindeer absent due to personal reasons.

[guildfordbat]

I was listening to it this morning Guildford. I do like Dave Bradley, he's been around Worcester for a long time now. He has that knack of showing his passion for the club without being disrespectful or ignorant of the opposition. A fine art!

Haha brilliant quote that. It's those little observations and flashes of humour that set cricket commentary apart from the rest in my view. In very few sports do you get such an opportunity of "set the scene" as it were.

Lovely self deprecating comment today from the splendid Dave Bradley.

Churchy apologised for having given out the wrong email address for Radio Worcs. Bradders replied: ''Don't worry, Churchy. People only email me on week days when they're at work. They're not going to waste their leisure time doing it.''

Meanwhile, Surrey fighting back well. Worcs 34-4 in reply to Surrey's 140 all out. Two wickets each for Never Knowingly and Streaker.

[packofwolves]

38-4 at lunch. Worcester's fragile batting coming to the fore once more. Mo out for single figures yet again...he really has not batted well so far this year, he was poor against Notts and even failed to score against the students, despite the fact that we appeared to be playing them on a runway. Hope he turns it around soon.

Hopefully Tulip and Camo can dig in with a solid partnership after lunch. I seem to remember Tulip scoring a few against Surrey a couple of years ago in Div2. I'd settle foe a repeat of that!

Great comment from Bradders last year, on a particularly fine summer's day. "Of course you can email in to us if you're listening online. Although realistically you probably aren't. Who'd be chained to their computer on a beautiful day like this? When the weather is this good I generally assume that we're talking to ourselves."

[guildfordbat]

Worcs now 7 down.

Choudhry out for a duck. Clearly not such a good batsman as his dad Cholin!

[Tibor]

Worcestershire batsmen looking as unsinkable as the titanic, of which James Cameron should know all too much about.

[Dulwich_Dog]

"Meaker The Streaker" - like it , hope it sticks

[packofwolves]

110-8, getting close to the Surrey score, mainly thanks to James Cameron (36 n.o.) and Rich Jones (19 n.o.)

[packofwolves]

115-9. I had to curse it. Jones gone to Dernbach for 22. Rico to the crease now. Lets hope he remembered which end of the bat to hold.

[jbd349]

6fer for Meaker.

The three main seamers (Lewis, Dernbach, Meaker) have performed really well so far this season.

[packofwolves]

Surrey reach 50-3 off 16 ovs. 2 wks for Rico and one for Lucas. Roy, Davies and De Bruyn the men out.

[ChrisfromStroud]

Anyone for a dodgy pitch??

[guildfordbat]

100-5.

Hyphen and River currently holding it together.

Weather permitting, could be very tense tomorrow.

[guildfordbat]

Surrey finish the day (technically the third) on 131-6. A lead of 152.

Hyphen still there on a run a ball 55, the only half-century - so far at least - of the match.

Rico has 3 second innings wickets and 9 in the match. So far. A class act.

If Worcs are to win, they'll need to score the highest innings of the match in the fourth innings. As said before, that's not impossible but never easy.

A Surrey win is now possible but subject to some important big IFs.

IF we can score 40 more in the morning.

IF we bowl sensibly.

IF the weather behaves ....

[Shelsey93]

Richardson never ceases to impress these days. I wonder what batsmen find so difficult about him - does he get more swing than most? Is he more accurate than most? Is he actually quicker than we give him credit for, combined with the above?If none of these you'd think the batsmen would just get on the front-foot to him and the like.

[chichestersurryfan]

critical day for Surrey tomorrow... Worcester one of the weaker teams in Div 1 season.... lose this and we could be in for a bit of a struggle this season... I haven't been able to listen to any commentary or read any reports so not sure if a poor pitch, poor batting, good bowling or some combination of all 3! - although showers are forecast, especially later in day.... my forecast for what it is worth is a draw! - Surrey on top, setting Worcester 190 to win and they are 80 - 6 when rain ends proceedings and its a draw.... we'll see just how wrong I am!!! - mind you, sorry to bring this up, Guildford bat but this time last week when I was fretting a bit about Surrey on the Sunday morning, you told me not to worry

[guildfordbat]

... mind you, sorry to bring this up, Guildford bat but this time last week when I was fretting a bit about Surrey on the Sunday morning, you told me not to worry

Chichester - great post!

If it makes you feel better, I'm worried about tomorrow.

Last week was different. It was all in our hands. Yes, Middlesex bowled well and the wicket was dodgy. However, more than anything, we blew it [anyone who doesn't go along with that should speak to the Corporal about the lunacy of the main batsman taking a single off the first ball of the over!].

Tomorrow we have an awful lot more to do. Firstly, add 40 runs to our score. Then - and this is never easy despite the conditions - take 10 wickets. If Worcs can get a partnership going, we're in trouble. Oh, and we have to pray it doesn't rain much ....

[Corporalhumblebucket]

Anyone for a dodgy pitch??

Have no fear Chris. I am sure Adams will give the Oval authorities a severe wigging for a poor pitch if Surrey bowl Worcs out for 100 tomorrow...

[jimbobgooner]

time for my end of day report
it was not a day to be a batsman

[Corporalhumblebucket]

Batty out And Meaker pinches the strike with a 3

[Corporalhumblebucket]

Hyphen out for 76 after a useful partnership of 22 with Streaker.... Lead is a fragile looking 185....

[jimbobgooner]

Noooo not the captain

[Corporalhumblebucket]

Lead scrapes past 200

[packofwolves]

Excellent knock from RHB which may well be a match winner. Lewis having a bit of a slog here, and the luck seems to be going his way...edges over and through the slips bringing his boundaries.

10 wickets in the match so far for Rico. What a star that man is.

[Corporalhumblebucket]

Partnership up to 25.

[Corporalhumblebucket]

Never knowingly & Streaker competing to see who will end the innings with the highest first class batting average. (16.03 vs 16.10 atm)

[guildfordbat]

Excellent knock from RHB which may well be a match winner ....

Hi Pack, Corporal and all - Hyphen's innings was commented upon by Churchy as ''worth a double hundred on a flat track''. Jonny Barran - who is anything but the silly arse he plays up to - concurred.

[jimbobgooner]

Here comes the rain

[packofwolves]

I think Churchy was bang on too Guildford. A captain's innings if there ever was one.

Lead is now 218. Alan Richardson is now 2 inches shorter having bowled continuously all morning so far.

[Corporalhumblebucket]

Meaker falls for 19 having faced 51 balls. That was probably as good as we could reasonably have expected.....

[guildfordbat]

Hi JimBob - just started raining my neck of the woods as well.

Meaker goes - useful knock.

Third Degree - doing twelfth man duties today. Adams seems keen to keep him involved. I'm sure he'll play again this season, perhaps just as a batsman.

[jimbobgooner]

Can dernbach play sensibly

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