Leicestershire County Cricket Club

[Lako42]

£40 for a glorified training top. 

 

The gold and black one was nice and was cheaper. 

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

11 hours ago, Sunbury Fox said:

You're probably right but Hendricks should not get in ahead of Barnes on form. 

Spot on, I’d originally put Barnes in but changed my mind.

[LBTufty]

Is Hendricks still being picked for his batting? If I was Ed Barnes, I'd be thinking about a move to another county this winter.

[CrawlingFox]

27 minutes ago, LBTufty said:

Is Hendricks still being picked for his batting? If I was Ed Barnes, I'd be thinking about a move to another county this winter.

To be fair if you ignore the lack of wickets, multitude of runs conceded and the countless no balls then Hendricks is bowling very well indeed.

 

I wonder when Naveen arrives, perhaps he could be persuaded to play a few four day games in place of Hendricks after the Blast finishes. Hasn't played many but can't be worse.

 

Or we could you know, just play Barnes who looks competent with bat and ball.

Edited 12 May 2022 by CrawlingFox

[RowlattsFox]

Hendricks is a weird one, is he more of one day cricketer in South Africa? 

Looked up stats and he's played 1 Test Match against England and managed to get a 5-er, why am I not surprised?  

[Sunbury Fox]

Given how long he spends at the crease,  Evans scores nowhere near enough runs. Really needs to improve his strike rate. 

[CrawlingFox]

28 minutes ago, Sunbury Fox said:

Given how long he spends at the crease,  Evans scores nowhere near enough runs. Really needs to improve his strike rate. 

Tortoise paced.

 

Azad is slow but Evans makes him look fast(well fastish). Evans ironically seems to have exactly the temperament missing in so many English batters, he's happy to grit it out and bat long periods but he also seems to lack many scoring shots and addionally doesn't seem comfortable taking the short ball on.

 

One thing I will certainly give Nico credit for is that he helped transformed Hill from a very average batsman into a very good one and I also think Mike looks much improved this season. So hopefully Evans can be coached to add the shots he needs as teaching the temperament is probably more difficult. Against him would be that he's already 24 so whilst he has time he's also past the age where he'd be considered a young prospect.

 

I think we need more from the opening partnership to be honest. We're they to stay in and bat all day we'd probably struggle to get 200 on the board and that's not really enough.

Edited 12 May 2022 by CrawlingFox

[Voll Blau]

Another daft run out at a crucial time. Brainless.

[Sunbury Fox]

Yet another run out. 

[Silebyfox_89]

Never a run there, Patel error imo Azad not as quick between the wickets.

[Harpenden Fox]

Strategically bizarre to keep playing our out of form overseas Hendricks when Barnes was in form, getting wickets and scoring useful lower order runs. 
 

Bad for English cricket. The ECB effectively funding us to give a South African playing time to the detriment of a young English player.

[MaidstoneFox]

Zak Chappell gone on loan to Gloucestershire.  I hope something comes of it for him, his time at Notts has been disastrous

[SemperEadem]

1 minute ago, MaidstoneFox said:

Zak Chappell gone on loan to Gloucestershire.  I hope something comes of it for him, his time at Notts has been disastrous

Grass aint always greener.

[katieakita]

Impressive really to plod on at 2.5 an over and have so many run outs

[Stadt]

Hill’s our only bat who can score at a decent pace (besides the bowlers!).

[Sunbury Fox]

Falling apart again. Looks like we're locked on to be bottom if even the team next to bottom is outplaying us comprehensively. 

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

Swindles out as well 

 

Some really soft dismissals again against a very very average attack 

Edited 12 May 2022 by Mark 'expert' Lawrenson

[CrawlingFox]

Swindells form has been woeful so far this season. Another like Ackermann who just isn't firing at all.

 

Ben Mike's time to save our total again.

[Lako42]

I'd say embarrassing but it's actually just standard

 

My enthusiasm for the T20 is already reduced.

[chrishlcfc]

All I said at the start of the season was to be competitive. I don’t think in a single game we’ve even been remotely competitive yet. Even in the only game we haven’t lost we were hammered.

 

Beyond embarrassing. Surely Nixon must be on borrowed time assembling this bunch of 30 odd 1st team players of which you could count on one hand the ones that are even bog standard county players. 

[Tommy Fresh]

Sussex gaining some Leicester based fans with these free tickets at least 

[SemperEadem]

Rubbish 

[adam]

A squad of about 30 and only 4 or 5 players good enough. They can dish out as many free tickets as they like but serving up dross like this every game will turn people completely away. 

[Voll Blau]

So, so disappointing to see when we're handing out freebies to try and get the next generation involved. Mind you, I guess a steady stream of wickets keeps the kids' attention at least...

[Lionator]

We need a rebuild a bit like the tigers. The squad needs a collective purpose, not itty bitty players and it needs a coach who sets a standard. No piddling around with players who aren’t good enough, or who can’t hack criticism. Of the current squad only Azad, Ackerman, Hill, Parkinson, Wright and (maybe) Mike are anywhere near good enough to compete at this level of FC cricket.