Derbyshire - Speechless

[procswrongfoot]

Unbelievable stuff - clearly a pitch that gradually flattened out and gave very little help for the bowlers. Despite this it was still a quite remarkable run chase.

This followed on from the two previous Championship games at Chelt against Leics and Worcs, which both went right down to the wire at the end of Day 4. With severely stretched resources and no overseas (at present), the battling spirit of this young team is frankly extraordinary.

With 3 Championship games to play and 3 promotion places up for grabs, September is surely going to be exciting. Let's hope that Shannon Gabriel can give a big boost to the very stretched bowling resources.

Just pinch yourself and close your eyes. In Div 2 - we presently have the highest bonus batting points (33) and the highest total bonus points of 63 (even more than runaway leaders Lancs).

C'mon Glos.

[rcotswold]

Tripping up at the last hurdle - yet again!

Although not at the 1/4 final - too crowded; noisy, far too much alcohol on offer, and parking...well forget it[!] - the latest results have shown where we are. Inconsistent with bat and ball. How many of our players are genuine div 1 classs; perhaps Bracey, Payne [on his day] Dent [but not as captain] and possibly Higgins as an all-rounder? The rest are reasonable div2 squad players. The latest import appears to be another in a fairly lengthy list of 'failures' brought into the squad for one reason or another - who is guiding the committee on these decisions? What has happened to our Scottish import promised as the next Broad/Woakes/Cummins/Hazelewood - has he figured in any match yet? Liddle is certainly not up to div1 and debatable whether up to div 2?
Cannot see us gaining the promotion spot - if in the unlikely scenario we do wholesale changes to the squad will be required.

[graham]

Equally speechless that Gabriel is in the eleven for the Worcestershire game. So far he has bowled 6 overs and conceeded 39 runs, with 16 in extras from no balls.

The county must playing him for contractual reasons. We will have to try and win this on the back of the remaining 10 team members.