Leicestershire County Cricket Club

[katieakita]

Brilliant fightback from the lads today, really impressed with Sykes, glad he got amongst the wickets. I've been wanting him to play for a while instead of Naik, yet he's signed a 2 year contract, just shows the club is poorly run.

Good fightback but if we have played 2 spinners what will their spin attack make of it. Naik has hardly took a first class wcket this season and still no Thakor!

[harpendenfox]

Thakor has been playing for the 2s for a fortnight. Hope he is ready to return now.

Sarwan still has a bad back apparently.

Whitticase backed Naik to push for England this season. Good call Phil.

[Stinkenzo]

Confident Ajmal will get atleast 10 wickets this match

[RizLCFC]

Decent spell by Young Buck got us back in and Sykes built on that. Once again though Naik seems to have been 'jiggered'....was going for five an over early on which, sadly, is par for his course.

At present we have the problem that to give Naik 15 overs is equivalent to gifting the oppo 75 or so runs without the worry of their losing any wickets!

Tomorrow?? Best hope is to keep Worcs to 350-360 max, then dig in and hope we can post around 270 ourselves. Gut feeling though is that they'll rack up nearer 400 and we'll reply with half that!

Agree with all of that.

[Voll Blau]

We're not exactly a traditional cricket heartland though are we? Rugby union fans in Lancashire probably think the same of Sale whilst looking at the likes of Leicester and Northampton.

England as a whole is a traditional cricket heartland.

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

Have to say we came back well with the ball after the awful first session, need to bat well today and make sure we are still batting at the end of the day.

[RizLCFC]

218-3 to 280 all out, not good enough that, should've got to 300 at the very least.

[Sunbury Fox]

Lost last 6 wickets for 36. Dire. Another defeat looms if Worcs set us anything over 150 with Ajmal bowling on a last day pitch.

[Narborough_fox]

To be fair to Nathan Buck, in 8 games, he's taken 38 wickets which is the fourth highest in the whole of the second division behind Ajmal (SIXTY), Footit (41) and Hogan (40). Alongside Robson, he's been one of the high points of this season.

[RizLCFC]

To be fair to Nathan Buck, in 8 games, he's taken 38 wickets which is the fourth highest in the whole of the second division behind Ajmal (SIXTY), Footit (41) and Hogan (40). Alongside Robson, he's been one of the high points of this season.

Both of them out of contract too...great!

[Narborough_fox]

Both of them out of contract too...great!

Don't worry, we've re-signed Naik...

[RizLCFC]

Don't worry, we've re-signed Naik...

Don't, just don't! 😀

[RizLCFC]

Don't worry, whitticase will sign up two others to ease the pain when Robson and Buck move on!

Two has beens!

[harpendenfox]

Heard on the radio that Eckersley was officially approached by Worcestershire, but the conversation has now ended as they wouldn't agree to him being first choice wicket keeper batsman. Sounds like he is preparing to move on though. I presume we have offered him a new contract, but haven't heard that publicly.

[Guest MattP]

He'll be gone, why on earth would you hang around to continue to play here? Worcestershire rattling along, we'll be just after tea I imagine. Spinners being taken apart.

Ajmal with a 300+ lead, good luck guys.

[Stinkenzo]

Ajmal is just taking the piss now

Edited 15 July 2014 by Walkers

[Sunbury Fox]

Why is it that our bowlers consistently bowl out teams for reasonable scores in the first innings but always get taken apart in the second innings?

[RizLCFC]

Why is it that our bowlers consistently bowl out teams for reasonable scores in the first innings but always get taken apart in the second innings?

Because the batsmen under achieve, where we should have a healthy lead going into 2nd innings we end up with a lead of 20-40 runs or even a deficit

[katieakita]

Two has beens!

Two has beens who would have been poor in their prime.

[Narborough_fox]

Naik has bowled 318.2 overs and has taken 12 wickets conceding 1011 runs making every wicket cost 84.25 runs. Horrific reading.

[RizLCFC]

That's why I can't understand his 2 year deal, 1 might've been ok but I wouldn't have offered him that either. His batting has also gone downhill, from a genuine all rounder he looks like a real tailender. We have enough good spinning talent at the club in Sykes, Sayer, Collins even Redfern, all much better prospects. They're development will just be restricted with Naik staying. The bad thing is he's been very expensive, not even held one end up like you expect of spinner.

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

Another defeat, our once proud club is a total mess, 20 years ago we were winning Championships, 3 T20 titles but now we are the joke of first class cricket, what's happening at the County does anybody down there care?

[Sunbury Fox]

It is 4 years since we won away in the Championship and now 27 games without a win home or away. No prospect of that getting any better once we lose our few half decent players during the winter. I can see us losing first class status if this goes on many more seasons.

[Corky]

Defeats this season:

 

278 runs

9 wickets

9 wickets

234 runs

10 wickets

6 wickets

204 runs

 

Not one narrow defeat, either a draw or a thrashing so far

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

It is 4 years since we won away in the Championship and now 27 games without a win home or away. No prospect of that getting any better once we lose our few half decent players during the winter. I can see us losing first class status if this goes on many more seasons.

I would imagine questions are being asked regarding our first class status at the ECB, we are not competitive nor showing any signs of trying to change things so that we are. 4 seasons without an away win is shocking!