Leicestershire County Cricket Club

[katieakita]

221-4 at the close, good effort but we really are the Yeovil of the cricket world.

Edited 27 April 2014 by katieakita

[Lionator]

Approaching 500, when was the last time they got that?

[Corky]

500 all out, we're actually getting some batting points on the board.

 

Encouraging first couple of innings this season.

[stevelcfc]

Jesus Christ, how have we managed 500? Only problem with that is its our years allocation of runs in one game.

[Voll Blau]

Not sure they'll leave themselves enough time to bowl Glamorgan out today. Encouraging to end up with a "winning draw" in any case though.

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

Those 40overs lost to the weather probably cost us the win.

Things look good though, lots of positive contributions from most of the team.

[The People's Hero]

Encouraging.

[SMX11]

Nice to see positive results against a couple of the weaker teams. Still going to be a tough year though.

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

Essex at the weekend will be a real test, perennial underachievers, expect a Bunsen with Monty in their side. If we come away undefeated from there it will definitely be a good result.

[Voll Blau]

Scott Styris signed up for the T20s. Top addition.

[SMX11]

Would have preferred a fast bowler but he certainly has pedigree in T20.

[Lionator]

Nice to see positive results against a couple of the weaker teams. Still going to be a tough year though.

 

Glamorgan bowled out Surrey for 81. I wouldn't call them weak!

[SMX11]

I wouldn't call Surrey strong! ;-)

[katieakita]

Styris is a good addition as we couldn't afford to fly anyone in which does put a spanner in the works for getting an overseas player. Good start to the season so far.

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

T20 side looks quite exciting probably be-

Cobb

Smith

O'Brien

Redfearn/Eckersley/Thackor

Styris

Sarwan (floating up and down the order depending on how the game is going)

Taylor

Wells

Ireland

Naik

Buck

[katieakita]

T20 side looks quite exciting probably be-

Cobb

Smith

O'Brien

Redfearn/Eckersley/Thackor

Styris

Sarwan (floating up and down the order depending on how the game is going)

Taylor

Wells

Ireland

Naik

Buck

 

 

Thought Thackor was missing for the first few games but a strong side on their day.

[Corky]

Tentatively, are we seeing signs of a recovery in competitiveness from the team?

 

Bowled Essex out for 281, currently 152-2 in reply.

[The People's Hero]

Ben Smith has done a lot of batting work with the entire squad. I think batting wise, we may be ok FC in div 2. I do wonder about the ability to regularly take 20 wickets and force a victory, but the improvement is remarkable and its very impressive.

[katieakita]

Ben Smith has done a lot of batting work with the entire squad. I think batting wise, we may be ok FC in div 2. I do wonder about the ability to regularly take 20 wickets and force a victory, but the improvement is remarkable and its very impressive.

 

Spot on Smith has done a great job and we look like we can make runs which was a problem last year and we are still missing Sarwan

[Guest MattP]

In a great position here, huge chance to finally get a CC win after so long.

[Guest MattP]

A match we should have won today, in a really dominant position yesterday morning. Not quite ruthless enough with the bat.

[Lionator]

A match we should have won today, in a really dominant position yesterday morning. Not quite ruthless enough with the bat.

 

Bowling isn't quite good enough to take 20 wickets yet however I'm overjoyed with these first 3 games. The coaching shake up has obviously had an effect and certain players look to be fulfilling their potential. 

[SMX11]

Batting well without Sarwan and Redfern as well!

Needed early wickets in their second innings but unfortunately they didn't come.

[Voll Blau]

Think they're still of the mentality that a draw is a good result for us, which has been the case for the past few years, even when we're in a winning position.

 

Frustrating.

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

Think they're still of the mentality that a draw is a good result for us, which has been the case for the past few years, even when we're in a winning position.

 

They desperately tried to win the Glamorgan game and probably would have if they hadn't of lost 40 overs to the weather. When you are continually losing a draw with a a good amount of bonus points can be looked at as a good result.

Hampshire coming up next weekend will be a huge test as they are probably the strongest side in the division, Sarwan should be back for this but who will be the unlucky batter he replaces?

By the way Redfearn got 150 for the seconds last week.