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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 29 2010, 04:09 PM (7,688 Views) | |
| TC Admin | Mar 29 2010, 04:09 PM Post #1 |
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 The English county season is officially underway with the MCC playing the defending champions Durham out in the United Arab Emirates - with pink balls (don't be immature now).  The domestic structure has changed for this season. The LV County Championship is still around but the 50 over cup, the Friends Provident Trophy, has been scrapped. Hampshire were the last winners.  The 40 over league has been revamped with Scotland, the Netherlands and an ECB Recreational XI joining the counties in three groups. Each team will play home and away with the winners of the three groups and the best runner up going to the semi-final. The 20 over competition has been changed a bit also - there are now two groups - north and south. The final this year will be at the Rose Bowl on August 14th.I should also mention the Indian Premier League which is fully underway. It's free and live for us in the UK on ITV4 and on YouTube for everyone!  The national side will be playing Bangladesh at home in a test series before playing Australia in an ODI series. Pakistan will also come to play (and will also play Australia in the first neutral tests, here in England) before we go to Australia for the Ashes. Between all that we have the ICC Twenty20 World Cup again, this time in the West Indies. This is when we'll see Afghanistan take on the world's best after amazingly rising through the ranks!  Other tours in the world in this year: Australia in New Zealand (currently on) South Africa in the West Indies India and Sri Lanka in Zimbabwe |
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| TC Admin | Mar 29 2010, 04:09 PM Post #2 |
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LV County Championship Division 1 Durham (defending champions) Nottinghamshire Somerset Lancashire Warwickshire Hampshire Yorkshire Kent (promoted as Division Two champions) Essex (promoted) Division 2 Sussex (relegated  )Worcestershire (relegated) Northamptonshire Gloucestershire Glamorgan Derbyshire Surrey Middlesex Leicestershire Clydesdale Bank 40 league Group A Glamorgan Lancashire Somerset Surrey Sussex Worcestershire Unicorns Group B Derbyshire Essex Gloucestershire Middlesex Netherlands Northamptonshire Yorkshire Group C Durham Hampshire Kent Leicestershire Nottinghamshire Scotland Warwickshire Friends Provident t20 North Group Derbyshire Durham Lancashire Leicestershire Northamptonshire Nottinghamshire Warwickshire Worcestershire Yorkshire South Group Essex Glamorgan Gloucestershire Hampshire Kent Middlesex Somerset Surrey Sussex ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2010 Group A Pakistan Bangladesh Australia Group B Sri Lanka New Zealand Zimbabwe Group C South Africa India Afghanistan Group D West Indies England Ireland BBC Sport cricket homepage BBC Sport counties homepage County ins and outs |
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| Lee Vilenski | Mar 29 2010, 06:05 PM Post #3 |
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Netherlands playing in the English leagues? That seems a bit weird. |
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| TC Admin | Mar 29 2010, 06:16 PM Post #4 |
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It's happened before. I think it's weird too but it gives them more games and experience I guess. I think the new Unicorns side in the 40 over league is weird, they could have invited another team to play instead of making a new side made up of young players without full county contracts. |
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| TC Admin | Mar 31 2010, 04:12 PM Post #5 |
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The England Twenty20 World Cup squad has been announced. Some great news for me - Michael Lumb, who was amazing for Hampshire last season and is doing well for the Royals now in the Indian Premier League, has been called up for the final squad! He totally deserves his place so I hope he can prove that.  Craig Kieswetter in for Matt Prior is good news too. Kieswetter's a great batsman in the shortest form of the game. Here's the squad in full: Paul Collingwood (capt), James Anderson, Ravi Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad, Craig Kieswetter (wk), Michael Lumb, Eoin Morgan, Kevin Pietersen, Ajmal Shahzad, Ryan Sidebottom, Graeme Swann, James Tredwell, Luke Wright, Michael Yardy. Other Twenty20 squads can be seen here. I'd choose this XI: 1. Kieswetter (wk) 2. Lumb 3. Morgan 4. Pietersen 5. Collingwood 6. Wright 7. Broad 8. Bresnan 9. Swann 10. Sidebottom 11. Anderson Quite a good side on paper I think. As I write this, Lumb's walking out to bat for the Royals. I'll fail now I've said all this.  EDIT: Oh dear, it was going to happen - Lumb out for 0. Where's that facepalm smilie when you need it? |
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| TC Admin | Apr 8 2010, 07:44 PM Post #6 |
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The English domestic season starts tomorrow, the earliest it's started for 121 years! See the club-by-club guide here Hampshire start with a few away games as the Rose Bowl is being developed. We're up against Essex in the County Championship tomorrow. Rangana Herath has also been confirmed as our overseas player for the first part of the season before Mendis comes in. |
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| Lee Vilenski | Apr 8 2010, 08:25 PM Post #7 |
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Somerset: Captain: Marcus Trescothick Overseas player: Damien Wright (Australia, first month of season); Murali Kartik (India, after Indian Premier League finishes); Cameron White (Australia, for Twenty20); Kieron Pollard (West Indies, for Twenty20) Who's the key man? England's loss continues to be Somerset's massive gain. Marcus Trescothick was the Professional Cricketers' Association's player of the year in 2009 and it was well merited. He scored nearly 3,000 runs in all competitions and remains one of the most destructive batsman on the circuit. The hope is that the added responsibility of the captaincy won't affect his performance. Who's the one to watch? Batsman Nick Compton looks to be an excellent signing from Middlesex, fitting into a top three that has lost Justin Langer. His one-day record last year was impressive and he should get a chance to improve his four-day performance on some excellent Taunton wickets. How will they do in the County Championship? Having never won the competition, this remains Somerset's Holy Grail but they have been in the chasing pack for the last two years. Bowling teams out twice at Taunton remains a problem, though the addition of Indian spinner Murali Kartik could go some way to rectifying that. What about the shorter stuff? It will be hard to match last year's form with Somerset runners-up in both the Twenty20 Cup and the Pro40 Division One, and quarter-finalists in the FP Trophy. Subject to clearance, Cameron White and Kieron Pollard will be on board for the T20, to join the likes of Trescothick, Peter Trego and Craig Kieswetter in a thumping batting line-up. The windows in the new apartments at the County Ground will be under threat. - Tresco has been immense for us for some-time, also last year Somerset were really strong in the shorter game. T20, and Pro40 finalists. Kieswetter being pulling into England will be a boost, although I disagree with your XI, Chris... He shouldn't be playing number 1. |
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| TC Admin | Apr 8 2010, 09:07 PM Post #8 |
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Trescothick is a great player, I wish he never retired for England! Where would you have Kieswetter then? I put him at the top of the order because that's where he did well for the England Lions. |
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| Lee Vilenski | Apr 8 2010, 10:29 PM Post #9 |
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I'd have him 3rd if I'm honest. He's just simply not strong enough as an opener. |
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| TC Admin | Apr 8 2010, 10:56 PM Post #10 |
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I guess we'll find out when the Twenty20 World Cup is on. |
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| shefellover93 | Apr 9 2010, 01:58 PM Post #11 |
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The Unicorns!! 
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| shefellover93 | Apr 12 2010, 12:35 PM Post #12 |
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Surrey are fail |
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| TC Admin | Apr 16 2010, 11:20 AM Post #13 |
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Indeed. Can't comment too much though as Hampshire lost to Essex. We're doing well now against Oxford University, 403-4 declared in our first innings. Carberry with 164 and McKenzie with 141  Kev and Brooker will be interested in this story. Surely not... |
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| Lee Vilenski | Apr 16 2010, 12:32 PM Post #14 |
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...Surely not! |
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| #PrideOfSouthLondon | Apr 21 2010, 01:23 PM Post #15 |
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Hampshire are 150/0 Surrey are 131/4  |
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