Cricket: County Championship 2008

[winbet]

Great start for "Aussie" Pattinson for Notts. Heard him on the radio and he has a strong aussie accent with plenty of cricket action there. The season could go a bit better than I thought. The bowling looks strong, batting a bit iffy, as Voges no way as good as Hussey who may only make a few games for Notts this season, and I don't rate opener Wood.

Ramps starts off the season with his usual customary century!

[Paul Ross]

That's gotta be post of the month surely.

[Matt]

Middlesex 312
Leicestershire 246/1 (80.0 ov)

We'll be alright when we get our best players in

[Tranquillizer]

Originally Posted by Matt

We'll be alright when we get our best players in

I know you made a stack but that is a real weak line up. Tail starts at 4

[Tranquillizer]

Rob Key, nice one. Winning the toss and batting

Dont be deceived by the Gloucs game. The clouds kept coming out when Gloucs got their wickets. Kirby has no pace anymore and just bowls through sheer agression. Got real lucky when North should have been given out LBW for 1. seen the video and he was plum They have a great top 4 but not much after that. Kirby and Lewis only 2 decent bowlers. Their back up ones are awful. North got lucky with his part time spin and stole a few wickets but in one day games I`d be scared they wouldnt be able to defend a good score.

[Tranquillizer]

Are Leicestershire even trying to win?? 63/3 off 31 overs.

[TheRat]

Bloody weather ******* us over as usual.....had that in the bag

[Tranquillizer]

so an 0-2 start -2 units
dont know which effort was worse. Both pathetic efforts.

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Tranquillizer

I know you made a stack but that is a real weak line up. Tail starts at 4

Allenby didnt look like a tail ender yesterday

Dippenaar and Du Preez to come into that batting line up dont forget......

[kevshat]

Forgot to update this thread last night. Kent were battered and Owais Shah's 116 wasn't enough to outscore Ackerman. Gloucestershire had the match at their mercy before the rain came in to save Derbyshire which was annoying. Surrey vs Lancs was also rain affected so -12 for the week for me. Hopefully the weather will pick up and the Championship won't be the struggle it was last year. Next matches are on Wednesday.

[mdivenuto]

One stand out bet for me.

Somerset to beat Lancs 13/8 at Boylesports.

To me this price is all wrong. Lancs are continually over-rated, Somerset time will tell this season but I really do think they are a decent team, with some big gun batters and theres always Andy Caddick to take 14 of the 20 wickets they will need.

Boylesports have gone well out of line with their price, I would surprised if the 13/8 lasts until Wednesday morning

[kevshat]

Originally Posted by mdivenuto

One stand out bet for me.

Somerset to beat Lancs 13/8 at Boylesports.

To me this price is all wrong. Lancs are continually over-rated, Somerset time will tell this season but I really do think they are a decent team, with some big gun batters and theres always Andy Caddick to take 14 of the 20 wickets they will need.

Boylesports have gone well out of line with their price, I would surprised if the 13/8 lasts until Wednesday morning

Caddick is out injured mate. Anderson is back for Lancashire. That might have something to do with the big price. I'll come back with more thoughts for tomorrow later on.

[Tranquillizer]

DURHAM EVENS SURREY EVENS
SUSSEX 4/11 KENT 11/4
LANCS 1/2 SOMERSET 2/1
YORKSHIRE 8/13 HANTS 13/8
DERBYSHIRE 6/4 ESSEX 4/6
NORTHANTS EVENS WARWICKSHIRE EVENS
MIDDLESEX 1/3 GLAMORGAN 3/1
WORCESTER 4/6 LEICS 6/4

2 bets
Surrey 5/4 totesport
Northants 5/4 Boylesports

[kevshat]

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2 for me this week. Did look at Yorkshire but even though Hoggard is playing something's telling me to leave it alone. Probably us chasing down 405 to win up at Headingley 2 years ago is keeping me away from it but whatever it is my focus of attention is Division 2 this week.

10pts Warwickshire to beat Northamptonshire 8/11 Ladbrokes

Warwickshire will count themselves fortunate to come away from their 1st match with a draw as only a rained off final day saved them from what looked like certain defeat to Worcestershire. Northants however weren't so fortunate and got bashed up at Essex in the opening match.

Northants will welcome their captain into their side here and will also bring Monty Panesar into the side for his 1st game this season. I'm still not convinced they'll be enough to win this game though. Lance Klusener performed well with the bat last week as did a couple of others but there was no contribution from their middle order and Riki Wessels batted 5 last week and he's simply not good enough to bat there IMO. Northants don't really have much of a seam attack, and much will rely on the spin twins with the ball.

Warwickshire have Ian Bell and Tim Ambrose at their disposal this week and that makes their batting so much stronger. They'll go into a top 6 alongside Darren Maddy, Ian Westwood, Jon Trott and either Powell or Troughton so that's very much the top 6 which Warwickshire started their season in Division 1 off brilliantly with last season. Monde Zondeki makes his debut and Jimmy Anyon returns and with the likes of Carter and Daggett they'll form a good seam attack. Ant Botha provides a solid spin option.

Warwickshire are a country mile ahead of Northants in terms of quality, squad depth and ability and even though this is at Wantage Rd I still think the Bears will claim the win here. It could just be too soon for spin to dictate even here and if spin doesn't dominate it will be a long 4 days for Northants.

10pts Essex 1st Inns Lead vs Derbyshire 8/11 Ladbrokes

Essex's batsmen showed they were all in fine form in their opening 2 matches this season. They've already hit 503/5 declared in the 4 day match with Northants and then followed that up with 317/5 in the FP Trophy match at the weekend. They did both of those without Ali Cook who plays for the 1st time this season in this match. Jason Gallian, Mark Pettini and Ravi Bopara have all scored decent runs already this season and another high total could await Essex here.

Derbyshire made nothing like 500 in both their innings put together in their Championship match with Gloucestershire last week and worse still for them is that all rounder Greg Smith is out of this match with an arm injury. He's going to be replaced by a wicket keeper who'll play as a batsman which can't be ideal. Even with Smith in it Derby's batting lineup still looks on the weak side and with Essex having Andre Nel and David Masters in good form already I expect Derby to be bowled out for less than Essex 1st time around.

[mdivenuto]

Originally Posted by kevshat

Caddick is out injured mate. Anderson is back for Lancashire. That might have something to do with the big price. I'll come back with more thoughts for tomorrow later on.

Cheers Kev, on the ball as usual.

That will have everything to do with the big price, will have to improve my research! 13/8 is still a very price, just the blinding value I thought it was.

[TheRat]

It says on the BBC Worcester have drawn with Leicester even though day 2 is not even over
Has the ground flooded again in a matter of minutes or something?!

[TheRat]

Originally Posted by TheRat

It says on the BBC Worcester have drawn with Leicester even though day 2 is not even over
Has the ground flooded again in a matter of minutes or something?!

Looks like it was a mistake
Although looks like yet another draw on the cards.........

[kevshat]

Originally Posted by TheRat

Looks like it was a mistake
Although looks like yet another draw on the cards.........

It's why I predicted you'd finish low down the table mate. Any small amount of rain is just going to keep you off the field at New Rd which will result in draws. Shame really because you've got a half decent side which will obviously improve when Edwards comes over.

As for my bets this week, we had to wait longer than I'd have liked but eventually Essex secured a 1st innings lead against Derbyshire whom the pre-season money which was piled on them looks wasted already. Northants lead Warwickshire by a shade under 300 but won't want to declare straight away so hopefully Warwickshire will be able to bat whatever time they have to out and I'll record a profit for the week.

[TheRat]

Yea, sounds like we are doing well in the CC this year, but rain as usual halting us.
Got Leicester on the ropes really as it stands, and Warwickshire would have been an easy win.....oh well, part and parcel I guess

I try listening to the games on the radio but the commentary is awful so I usually last 10 minutes at a time!!

[kevshat]

Originally Posted by TheRat

Yea, sounds like we are doing well in the CC this year, but rain as usual halting us.
Got Leicester on the ropes really as it stands, and Warwickshire would have been an easy win.....oh well, part and parcel I guess

I try listening to the games on the radio but the commentary is awful so I usually last 10 minutes at a time!!

You've certainly started the season off well mate. I'm off down to the Rose Bowl next month for Hampshire vs Wooster in the FP Trophy in a day night match which should be a good game. Think you'll have Hick back by then. Pretty certain that game is on Sky if you get that out there