Just in case you need a Reminder - CC1 Warwickshire in July
By Farmer White et al
August 21 2024
As th CC1 returns this wek here is a look back to the win we had just befre it allwent white for month or so. Farmer will be back in the red ball spotlight for most of September if he gets the muse though we'll both be in Edgbaston this next weekend and hopefully the weather will stay away!! Enjoy Day for just before Day 1
County Championship 2024. Division 1. Somerset v Warwickshire 30th June and 1st, 2nd and 3rd July. Taunton.
Somerset. T.A. Lammonby, A.R.I. Umeed, T. Kohler-Cadmore, T.B. Abell, T. Banton, J.E.K. Rew (w), K.L. Aldridge, C. Overton (c), M. Pretorius, M.J. Leach, J.T. Ball.
Warwickshire. R.M. Yates, A.L. Davies (w), W.M.H. Rhodes, S.R. Hain, D.R. Mousley, E.G. Barnard, J.G. Bethell, M.G.K. Burgess, C.R. Woakes, M.G. Booth, O.J. Hannon-Dalby.
Overnight – Warwickshire 412 and 281 for 8. Somerset 284. Warwickshire lead by 409.
Final day 3rd July – A stunning victory and the watcher on the Trescothick Pavilion terrace
With Somerset in sight of a stunning victory, but with nothing certain, one watcher in particular caught my eye. As he leaned intently and motionless on the safety bar of the Trescothick Pavilion terrace, high above the play, I wondered what was going through his mind. The tension in the ground was such that every ball was bowled in silence, every run applauded or cheered with most watchers as motionless and watching as intensely as the one on the terrace. No one moved from their seat or from where they stood. No one dared. One of the age-old superstitions of cricket saw to that. When a side is on the cusp of winning a tight match, their supporters do not move. It is the eleventh commandment.
As I took my seat at the start of the day, the questions of the evening before about whether and when Warwickshire might declare had been answered. They had declared before the start and set Somerset 410 to win in the day’s full allotment of a minimum of 96 overs. I doubt anyone around me seriously thought Somerset would win, although the hope floated tantalisingly in the air. For most of the match, runs had proved difficult to score and wickets had proved difficult to take unless the batting side was on the attack. Any rational calculation based on the evidence of the first three days, an average of 326 runs a day, 3.4 an over, with wickets falling at an average of just over nine a day, pointed towards Somerset attempting to bat for a draw. If they were to attempt to win, they would need to score at 4.2 runs an over.
Then, Somerset’s start focused the mind. Tom Kohler-Cadmore, in the opener’s spot for the second match in succession, drove at Chris Woakes three times in the first over with his usual mixture of heart stopping and heart lifting results. The first, he missed. The second he edged at catchable height past fourth slip for four, the third he drove through the on side to the Garner Gates for four more. In the second over, Andy Umeed twice drove Oliver Hannon-Dalby through the off side, the first for two, the second to the Brian Rose Gates for four. A maiden played out by Kohler-Cadmore to Woakes was followed by Umeed pulling Hannon-Dalby and driving him off the back foot through extra cover, both for four. There were boundaries in each of the next three overs, all driven as Warwickshire searched for movement with the new ball. Given the the history of the first three days, Somerset’s quick advance felt like a bubble waiting to burst. And burst it did. Umeed attempted to drive a shorter length ball from Hannon-Dalby, edged it and was caught by Burgess moving neatly to his right. Somerset 44 for 1. Umeed 30 from 26 balls. Runs still needed, 366 from 88 overs. But Somerset’s intent was now clear. An attempt on the target was at least to be explored. It had been a pulsating if foreshortened start from Umeed, his free-flowing drives in particular, which brought him generous applause as he left the field, but it had cost him his wicket, too early in the piece it felt.
Tom Lammonby was more circumspect but still looked for runs although he never looked secure. He soon passed Kohler-Cadmore who, after that opening over, had seen little of the strike, and when he did, scored mainly in singles. Lammonby did find the boundary, although once, against Woakes, the ball came off the inside edge and passed excruciatingly close to the stumps. Another boundary came from a top edged hook against Michael Booth which fell safe just short of the rope. With the keeper up, Lammonby played and missed too but also scored with those smooth guides which are one of the hallmarks of his batting. Somerset were still forcing the pace, if not at the rate of the opening partnership, but Lammonby’s narrow escapes laid bare the risk for all to see.
Another top edged hook from Lammonby, off Michael Booth, flew high towards the Trescothick Pavilion. It began to fall short. Just visible from my seat, running beneath the front row of heads, along the boundary from the covers store towards the sight screen came Ed Barnard, full pelt. Then a full-length dive, arms outstretched before the ball was clasped, brilliantly. Lammonby gone. The only consolation was the perfect view of a spectacular catch from almost vertically above. “Yes! You bears!” shouted one joyous Warwickshire supporter. Somerset 77 for 2. Lammonby 26. 333 still needed with 77 overs remaining. The required rate was just beginning to edge up, 4.3 runs an over compared to the original 4.2. Not much of a gap, but Somerset had lost two wickets in the process which again emphasised the size of their task.
Tom Abell to the wicket. Abell is Somerset’s most flexible top order batter, able to defend or attack with equal proficiency. He is also outstanding at pacing an innings and reading a match situation. If ever Somerset needed an Abell innings it was now. Hearts missed a beat when, defending, he edged his first ball past the slips for four. A lofted on drive only just cleared midwicket to a gasp or two from around me but Somerset benefited from two more runs. From there to lunch, Abell and Kohler-Cadmore played with a disjointed mixture of attack and defence, responding to the bowling no doubt, but it gave the impression of neither attacking the target nor playing for a draw. Abell found the boundary twice with drives while Kohler-Cadmore hooked a four and lofted Jacob Bethell over long on straight into the back of the lower level of the Trescothick Pavilion. They played with less risk than Umeed or Lammonby had done, but as the players left the field for lunch with the score on 117 for 2, Somerset had scored at 3.9 runs an over and the required rate had risen to 4.4. Not much of a rise perhaps, and still within bounds, but with both wickets lost to attacking strokes, Somerset needed a substantial partnership, and some luck.
Half an hour after lunch, it seemed that Somerset might have settled for a draw. In eight overs, only 15 runs were scored with only a single boundary, a cut for four to Abell off Bethell. Three maidens in succession had been bowled at one point and the required run rate had risen to 4.8. Too slow it seemed. And yet, and yet, a doubt nagged, a doubt generated by hope. Hope born in the remembrance of another match, 15 years before. In 2009, Yorkshire had set Somerset 476 to win in 90 overs, 4.6 runs an over on the flattest imaginable pitch. Marcus Trescothick and Arul Suppiah had opened. They had begun with the sort of intensely measured care that Abell and Kohler-Cadmore were now displaying before gradually picking up the rate. In 2024, were Somerset, 117 runs to the good with eight wickets standing, trying to consolidate before launching an extended assault on the target? As Abell and Kohler-Cadmore worked through those eight overs, the feeling they generated was reminiscent of that generated at the start of that Trescothick-Suppiah partnership. Hope.
Hope generates tension and the tension was about to receive a double twist from Kohler-Cadmore. First, he broke the dearth of runs by driving Woakes straight back to the Lord Ian Botham Stand and then cutting him through backward point to the Ondaatje boundary. Then, emphasising the risk that had been experienced on this pitch when attacking, he drove at Hannon-Dalby, miscued and the ball steepled wide of mid-on from where Barnard ran to take another good catch, this time from over his left shoulder. Somerset 144 for 3. Kohler-Cadmore 49, accumulated in over two and a half hours. The remaining target was 266 in 56 overs. Still 4.8 an over needed. Somerset really would need a partnership of substance, but Kohler-Cadmore and Abell had taken them 67 runs closer and the hope, even if threatened by that wicket, still held.
Tom Banton, who had made the number five slot in the Championship his own in the first half of 2024, joined Abell. Again, Somerset consolidated, 23 runs coming in the first ten overs of the partnership with only a single boundary, four clipped off his legs off Hannon-Dalby by Banton. After those ten overs, Somerset had reached 167 for 3, needing 243 in 46 overs, but as the overs remaining reduced the required rate rose faster. It was now 5.7 an over, but crucially Abell and Banton were still there with, a thick edge from Banton apart, little sign of threat from the bowlers, the softening ball perhaps reducing their effectiveness. The intent with which the pair batted, no opportunity for a single was missed, the slow scoring notwithstanding, continued to drive the tension as the target inched closer.
Now, they began to drive the scoring rate up. Boundaries began to be struck. Abell began with an on drive off Hannon-Dalby to the Hildreth Stand to register his fifty in nearly two hours. Off Barnard, he edged a cut through third slip, but with Warwickshire having to commit more to defence, there was no third slip. A straight drive from Banton off Robert Yates was struck with real intent and brought the standard accolade for a good stroke of, “Shot!” As tea approached singles began to reap applause, the crowd adding its encouragement. When Banton attempted to hook Booth, he top-edged the ball to the Lord Ian Botham Stand for four. When he attempted and missed an uppercut off the next ball someone in the crowd added stricture to encouragement with an anxious shout of, “Hey, cut it out!” The tension was now gripping every nerve.
Booth was now pitching short, and accurately short, in an attempt to slow the scoring or force the batter into risk if he attacked. Virtually every ball went through at the batters upper body level. In response, Abell pulled him to the Priory Bridge Road Stand for four while Banton pulled him between the long and fine leg fielders for six, 12 runs coming from the over. Booth persisted and Banton hooked and top edged straight back over his head for the second time to the Lord Ian Botham Stand for four. The cheers were coming now for the boundaries, whether off the middle or the edge, for it was clear Somerset were not only intent on winning the match, but that they might just do it. In the over before tea, Banton turned Bethell behind square for a single to register his fifty from 76 balls in 81 minutes. Risks he had taken and some luck he had had, but at tea the target had been reduced to 180 from 33 overs, 5.5 an over. Somerset were now scoring at the required rate, at times exceeding it, and Abell and Banton were applauded off.
After tea, they continued as if there had been no break, no post-lunch style regrouping now. They did not quite maintain the required rate, but the boundaries still came, mainly from pulls, although Banton glanced Bethell and lofted him straight back over his head for six to the Trescothick Pavilion. In response, Warwickshire placed four on the boundary including a long leg and deep square leg, and to Banton, two shortish midwickets. Eventually, Banton pulled Barnard once too often and was caught by one of the midwickets falling to his right. Banton was visibly devastated. Somerset 282 for 4. Banton 81 in a minute over two hours and the applause followed him all the way to the Pavilion. Target now 130 in 22 overs. Required rate still 5.5 an over.
In 2009, at the fall of the second wicket, Somerset had sent in the tall pace bowler, David Stiff, to boost the scoring rate after the foundation had been laid. He scored 49 from 32 balls including four sixes, mainly targeting the roof of the Lord Ian Botham Stand as I recall. In 2024, with four wickets down, Migael Pretorius was sent in on a similar mission. His 14 runs from 10 balls did not take Somerset much closer but the required rate was maintained and at 282 for 5 Somerset needed 128 from three balls over 23 overs, still 5.5 an over.
In 2009, with Somerset needing 138 from 20 overs at the fall of the fifth wicket, Peter Trego marched out, there is no other way to describe Trego’s walk to the wicket. He proceeded to play the innings of his life, 103 not out from 54 balls in 68 minutes and Somerset won by four wickets with four and a half overs to spare. In fact, it may have been much closer than that, for as Zander de Bruyn struck the winning boundary through straight midwicket rain was beginning to fall heavily from clouds that had threatened for a while. In 2024, it was James Rew who walked to the wicket to join Abell with no Lewis Gregory to follow. Rew had had an annus mirabilis in 2023. In 2024 he had had, with the bat, a season not far short of what the late Queen called an annus horribilis. On the shoulders of Rew and Abell might depend the outcome of the match.
What followed was a partnership of dreams. As if to continue the theme of 2009, as Rew came to the wicket the sky was darkening, perhaps not yet threatening, but glowering enough to add a doubt about the weather to the tension. Rew announced himself with a drive through mid-off off Rhodes. It came resoundingly off the middle of the bat and crossed the rope in front of the covers store. ‘Resounding’ was a word which would exemplify Rew’s driving from which most of his boundaries came in this innings. Almost unnoticed in the tension, Abell had been approaching his century. He reached it with a single off Barnard in 12 minutes short of four hours. An over later, Rew slog swept Bethell for four and drove him straight back over his head to the Trescothick Pavilion for six, 14 coming from the over. That reduced the target to 85 from 16 overs, 5.3 runs an over.
Suddenly it felt like Somerset were favourites. To the detached observer it had probably felt like that for a while, but to the hardened supporter doubt keeps its grip for far longer. To the hardened supporter something akin to the Boycott doctrine applies, and if two wickets were added to Somerset’s score, the balance would shift markedly. Four hundred and ten was a huge target too, only once passed in Somerset’s history, in that match in 2009. The size of the target and the rarity of targets of that size being achieved brought pressures of their own. But, on Abell and Rew went, Abell pulling and cutting the off spin of Dan Mousley for four and Rew lofting Barnard over mid-on to the Colin Atkinson Pavilion boundary. Every boundary was now being cheered and every single applauded. The fifty partnership was reached when Abell turned Woakes to deep midwicket for a single with the target reduced to 61 in 12 overs, five runs an over. With five wickets standing, overs were no longer an issue. If Warwickshire were to win or save the match they would need to take wickets, perhaps all five.
And yet, tension still gripped. The crowd were hunched forward in their seats, faces taut, silent as each ball was bowled and the watcher at the terrace rail leaned on it, deep in thought, as motionless as the crowd, eyes fixed intently on the cricket. As the target fell past fifty only one boundary came in four overs, but still 22 runs came as Rew and Abell pushed easy singles or scampered quick ones to applause. Warwickshire’s last real hope, the ever-persistent Hannon-Dalby, was bowling now but the situation was beyond even his powers. Rew struck him as cleanly as a lofted drive can be struck back to the Trescothick Pavilion for four. Two balls later a rare full toss was driven spectacularly through the covers for four more and Rew had reached fifty from 49 balls. It had been so emphatic, so unexpected an innings given his form earlier in the season, so perfect for Somerset’s needs when he walked to the wicket, that some stood in applause, a rare accolade for a fifty in a Championship match. Not only had it met Somerset’s need of the moment, it had been a fifty of immense class in its own right.
While Rew was making his mark, Abell continued to make his at the other end. While Rew had made 50 he had made 31 of his own, quietly adding to the pressure applied by Rew. Now came a quieter over from Woakes, but even so five singles were taken, every one applauded to the echo. Somerset now needed 17. That six overs remained was irrelevant. Even more irrelevant when, from the first four balls of the next over from Booth, Abell drove, pulled, drove again and hooked for four, four, six and six, the last of which I lost sight of as it flew towards the region where the Priory Bridge Road Stand and the Caddick Pavilion meet. The final six took Abell past 150 and to his highest first-class score. I doubt anyone noticed the landmarks for Somerset had just won by five wickets and the crowd erupted.
All who could, stood as one, applauding with arms stretched high above their heads. At 410, it was Somerset’s second highest successful Championship run chase. I was lucky enough to have been present at the first and the third highest too. The highest in 2009, was also at Taunton. The third highest was at Hove in 2012. On that occasion when Somerset, chasing 396, lost their fifth wicket with 165 runs still needed and a long tail, things looked bleak as Peter Trego marched to the wicket to join James Hildreth. In the event, Somerset won by five wickets with Trego on 89 at the end. It had been another day of high tension, constant drama and an astonishing Somerset victory after which a small group of us stood at the entrance to the ground to applaud the team coach as it left. By now, the man who had leaned so intently on the safety rail towards the end of the match had retreated with what thoughts of his exploits in 2009 and 2012 I know not.
Result. Warwickshire 412 (M.G.K. Burgess, E.G. Barnard 92, W.M.H. Rhodes 63, M. Pretorius 5-104) and 281 for 8 dec (J.G. Bethell 66, R.M. Yates 57, A.L. Davis 50, C. Overton 4-57, M.J. Leach 3-97). Somerset 284 (T. Banton 78, T.B. Abell 61, O.J. Hannon-Dalby 6-56, M.G. Booth 3-68) and 413 for 5 (T.B. Abell 152*, T. Banton 81, J.E.K. Rew 57*). Somerset won by five wickets. Somerset 20 points. Warwickshire 7 points.
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All-rounder Rob Yates is back for Warwickshire after illness, but left-arm spinner Danny Briggs is rested and replaced by Taunton-born and educated Jake Lintott.
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And I don't mean the squad.
Grizzers
Bash preferred to Jack and Smith keeping wicket ahead of Foakes, despite what their counties think.
Durham’s Robinson should be in, but he doesn’t play for Surrey.
Umeed, TKC, :Lammonby, Abell, Banton, Rew, Aldridge, Overton, Davey, Pretorius, Leach
The sun has even broken through and the sky is clearing.
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The 4 can limit stays it seems.
Good to hear about the decanting change. Just need to get a couple more blocks of the Somerset stand open now.
And a couple more wickets before lunch please !
Grizzers
Can't be England, surely, since Chris Woakes is also in the Test party - and the Warks team!
Leicestershire`s no.8 Louis Kimber recorded the most brutal county championship innings ever last week - 243 from 127 balls, ,including 15 sixes and the game`s highest-ever single over score of 43. Today he lasted 15 balls against Middlesex, and was out for a duck.
If not I'm not sure what you can all look forward to in the next 3 days... a couple of Somerset centuries perhaps.
There is hope in the darkness as Woakes chips one up at 354 and is caught by Umeed from a ball from Pretorius
We need 2 wickets to start the fight back in this game. They need 27 from 14 overs or 77 from the 14 to put the boot in....
If we have a day like them tomorrow then it will be all start again on Tuesday morning with half the game left and all to play for.
This the first day photos of the Warwickshire match.
There was a cold wind today, didn't expect that on 30th June.
Robert Yates was caught by Kasey Aldridge bowled by Migael Pretorius.
Michael Burgess hitting 6 runs, I hope Somerset batsman can score like they did.
Dan Mousley managed an edge off Migael Pretorius caught Tom Bantom.
Celebrating the wicket of Dan Mousley,
Warwickshire have several good batsmen in their team this is Chris Woakes
Jacob Bethell caught by James Rew bowled Craig Overton.
I made an error with this photo, the caption was correct for another photo that I can't find. Correctly pointed out Craig is at slip so he couldn't have been bowling.
That's all folks.
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Grizzers
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Great to have your photos back Mike !
Grizzers
Agreed Grizzers. Hoping the cold didn’t get into your bones too much Mike. I’ve had a day off from freezing today ; the crowd at Southport looked very cold in the little bit I saw.
The M5 has a major incident that has closed it both ways for 6 miles around Brigy and it is Glastonbury 'kick out' day.
On Thursday they closed the WSM road from just outside Bristol and diverted everything going down into Somerset via the A38 to the airport. They then closed the A38 at Churchill and diverted everything into WSM through Banwell.
So....... A303 is about the only road until you are the other side of Weston and if you are presently on the M5... sorry it doesn't look quick.
2 x 2.5 hour sessions
Tea 3:40
Close at 6:30
It may be moving a little more but not a lot going on. Maybe if Ben Green was in the team to do his thing?
Also brings up his 5-fer 5 for 103
The Andy Umeed hits Hanon-Dalby for six ball two!!
Red ball opening - the Somerset way
Andy Umeed is supposed to be the stable quiet one!!
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Settle, THEN open up. Andy's place in this side is by no means established so he ought to be more aware of the need to score a quantity of runs rather than looking to impress with the quality of his only scoring shot in an innings chasing over 400
51 for 0 would have been better
He snared 4-28 today on loan to Leicestershire- all of them top-order batters -- as Middlesex were rumbled out for 86. Not surprisingly, Lewis Goldsworthy didn`t get a bowl, but he top scored in Leicestershire`s first innings with 41.
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There is a man who is working hard against type to do the right thing for his side.
Happy and glorious
No no. Please don't thank me.
Bit of a haphazard batting effort. Good by Tom A & B, but we still have a great deal of work to do to make this game safe.
Grizzers
Mostly batsmen playing shots.
It is most discouraging watching Somerset play at times.
Tom Lammonby caught Michael Burgess bowled Ed Barnard.
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Tom Lammonby did play some good shots before getting out.
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I do love watching Tom Banton play his shots.
I was critical of Michael Burgess playing for himself and not the team, several singles were turned down trying to reach 150. in the end he failed to achieve it, he was caught Jack Leach bowled Kasey Aldridge going for a big shot.
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Another nice shot by Tom Banton, I do love watching him play when he is in good nick.
They tried getting Tom Banton out by delivering a well directed ball at his head, he did well to get out of the way of it.
Tom Banton was out when I was leaving the ground, then look what happened before I got home.
Still 55 needed
41 still needed 2 wickets left... will they enforce the follow on? Think so? Will we cock it up in the second innings? Well present performance might suggest the same response... think so.
James Rew has not been involved yet this morning.
Hannon-Dalby and Booth bowled well Berthel did his job
Umeed? Meh TKC Meh Lammonby OK Banton Good Davey Meh, Leach got one, Abell poor dismissal but good, Aldridge Meh, Rew Meh, Pretorius good delivery
25 from 10 and now 17 from the 7 after Lunch Pretty sure where this one is going based on today and the possible weather tomorrow (though it is getting better on the BBC).
Warks are 228 ahead with 10 wickets in hand. What is a declarable target here and when do they need to get to it for it to be realistic to put us in and try to get us out?
There are 54 over to go tonight.
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Edit - those two quick wickets have caused the runs to dry up completely - well done boys. Unless they start firing again I now can't see a declaration today
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So... unless they go mad it will be less 400 to take into tomorrow so bat until just before lunch and have a pop either side of the break and on into the afternoon?
Anyone up for the draw?
I will leave you to decide what sort of day it has been. My day was frustrated because of a fielder being in the way of taking photos.
I hoped for a few more runs from the likes of James Rew seen hitting 4 runs.
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There was hope of a second batting point if other batsmen helped Craig Overton score runs to help him out, this is one of his fours. It didn't happen.
Alex Davies bowled by Jack Leach.
Migael Pretorius didn't help Craig Overton out, he was out for one bowled by Olly Hannon-Dalby.
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Kasey Aldridge hitting four runs.
Robert Yates trying to hit a six off Craig Overton he didn't make it he was caught by Josh Davey just inside the boundary rope.
Tomorrow will be hard for Somerset to win the match.
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Conversations about Yorkshire in 2009 have been prevelant this morning
Warwickshire have declared with a score of 410 to win in 96 with a possible extra bit in the last hour if we get that far.
Probably the overhead conditions may have had an effect. I'd bowl in this I think.
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Get Trego out of the commentary box!
The prediction of Tom L being in within 5 balls was a bit pessimistic but hes still in with the opening bowlers and a shiny ball.
Ahh well... onwards
But the 200 is up with 38 to go and Tea looming.
5th 50 this year for the man we didn't have a place for.
Tea with Abell on 74 and Bants on 50
180 needed in 33 overs 5 and a half an over
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Pitch continues to look utterly dead.
To be honest, I've no idea what the Warks plan was yesterday?
Davies and Yates played positively and, when they were out, Warks were 258 ahead with 8 second innings wickets left, whereupon Sam Hain came out and spent 40 balls over his first 3 runs - I thought it was absolutely ridiculous... were they really thinking about losing at 258 ahead with 8 wickets in hand? If it wasn't fear of defeat, why in God's name fart around for 40 balls over your first 3 runs!?
Sun coming out and it feels a little more like summer rather than autumn !
Come on lads. This is gettable.
Grizzers
New ball is available but Warks haven't yet taken it,
61 needed off 72 balls
250 up 60 off 70
Last throw of the dice people. Hold on to your hats!!
Or indeed after Warwicks' second.
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Hoping I’ve made a good decision to come down for the Surrey game in September.
After Somerset’s win , I then watched the Cheltenham game. Plenty of things I should have been doing but with no proper midweek cricket for a long time after today, I treated myself .
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One of the best final section of batting I have ever seen, how wrong could I have been when I thought over 400 runs were too many for Somerset to get, (how wrong I Was)
Tom Banton hitting 4 runs.
I have no complaints how any of the batsmen were out going for that large total.
James Rew 4 runs and his 50
they all played well.
I believe this is Tom Abell second 6 to finish the match.
A good start for Andy Umeed until he was caught by Michael Burgess bowled by Olly Hannon-Dalby.
Andy Umeed scoring 4 runs.
Tom Kohler-Cadmore hitting four runs.
Tom Lammonby.
Second place in the table is very good.
Yes, the pitch was docile, but to score 410 against a first rate bowling attack was a huge achievement. There really wasn't any time during the (flippin' cold !) day when we seemed out of it.
Terrific support from all the batsmen, but Tom Abell must take a bow for that pretty well chanceless innings. James Rew was also superb with his calm temperament just what was needed when the fifth wicket fell with still a hundred plus needed.
And we won despite some very leaden skies and a not insignificant amount of egregious time wasting by Warks., which was treated very leniently by the umpires.
All in all, that was very very impressive.
Grizzers
Superb cricket for so many but about 7 weeks before we do it on a 4 day scale again.
Keep the faith people. Support your counties and bollox to the ECB
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Abell will rightly take the bulk of the plaudits. But I have been especially pleased to see how well Banton has played this year. By all accounts, he has been working hard on his batting. I feel that (by contrast with Buttler, with whom he shares a number of characteristics, but who never properly got to grips with how he should play in first-class cricket) Banton has found a method and rhythm which makes the most of his talents.
Us cricket folk eh, the things we think about 😉
Simply put, it is near impossible to take wickets vs defensive shots on our fourth day road. Warks took none in 96 overs.... and never looked like taking one. As Trego said, the problem is that, by day four, even if you induce an edge to slip (which isn't easy to do!), it is most unlikely to carry.
I really thought we should just shut up shop and take the draw points since playing dumbslog type shots would have been the only way to lose the eight draw points. In the event? I was impressed by how we managed to keep the rate reasonably within hand without too many slogs. TKC played an awful one. Migael was sent out to slog, so he did what he was told, but mainly - despite a painfully slow surface, we were able to keep it all ticking over without taking undue risks.
Nevertheless, if we are going to kick on from here, then the age old problem remains: how to get more life into these surfaces.
The fact that this was a "second time ever," achievement suggests that we can't expect to win many games this way and common sense also suggests that other counties will have taken note of the result and, unless themselves desperate for results, are unlikely to declare and leave us a chase. Certainly, after the Trego chase, teams fought shy of that for some considerable time. Admittedly, the Trego chase was at a far higher RR than this one (being a shorter chase).
There was the very occasional light shower & the groundstaff did put covers on briefly at lunchtime, but aside from that it was just heavy cloud & the odd sunny interval. The skies became increasingly dark towards the end of the day and it looked quite possible that rain would intervene. Hence the Warks. time wasting was tough to stomach.
It got gloomy enough for the floodlights to be put on with about five overs remaining, but only four balls were needed due to Tom Abell's concluding and very decisive assault.
Grizzers
Yep the Warwickshire press guy called it at half four. He said whatever their plan was in the morning hadn't worked and a declaration og anything less than 450/475 was daft.
He was right and it won't happen again this year.
Day 1: A toss to remember: [farmerwhite.co.uk]
Day 2: Warwickshire in the ascendant: [farmerwhite.co.uk]
Day 3: Push and counter-push: [farmerwhite.co.uk]
Day 4: A stunning victory and the watcher on the Trescothick Pavilion terrace: [farmerwhite.co.uk]
Farmer
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