🏏 A fantastic Friday with honours even between best counties in the country
🏏 Apparently 10mm grass left on pitch, the most Notts would ever prepare
🏏 Did a bit all day, especially for fit again Worrall, must be best seamer on the circuit
🏏 Joe Clarke another beautifully paced century, expensively dropped in the 20s, in the form of his life, a joy to watch
Day 1 Champo notes
🏏 Gower was batting on last visit to Grace Road, not much has changed, but a very pleasant ground on a sunny day
🏏 Unfathomable decision by Leics to stick Notts in on a belter, see 400+ later
🏏 erm, Hull bowling to Nottingham at Leicester in a local Derby
🏏 Hameed often mentioned in context of England openers, but Slater has simpler technique. Superb today
🏏 Amazing Notts won Champo with Clarke only scoring 664 all last season. 529 and counting so far this. In absolute control. Our best player never to play for England?
⚽️ WFCG on fire. Half way to Istanbul. Any team needs a strong spine and Forest had Milenkovic-Anderson-Wood out battling Villa’s equivalent. Of the Morgan’s, Rogers anonymous, Gibbs-White a menace linking up with Anderson. A joy to have a ref who didn’t blow for every contact or challenge, helped the game flow.
🏏 All about Josh Tongue. A flat pitch under cloudless skies made things a lot easier than typical for TB day 1. Once in, it was finding a way to get out for the Warwicks batters. Apart from when Tongue bowled. Every ball a threat. So rare to watch a genuine fast bowler in the Champo, especially given usual ECB cotton wool. A treat and 5 wickets thoroughly deserved. Both teams would need to bat very badly here on for this to be anything but a draw.
🏏 Day 4. Some late order spudding from the Wales tail took the game to nearly tea, but ultimately comfortable for Notts who had greater range and depth of bowling. More injury sub debates no doubt with Lyndon replacing O’Neill and immediately taking 2 wickets. Them’s the rules. ECB delight no doubt at giving Tongue a token game and only bowling 21 of the 145 overs. Duckett perhaps less so facing more balls in warm up than in the middle. Asa Tribe on first sight looked very decent through the leg side.
🏏 Welcome back to the glorious grind. A rebuilding job on and off the field. By lunch Notts upper order in the same ragged state as the TB pavilion. Glamorgan chickened out of batting with the usual first session green-top offering plenty. As last year the lower order rescued us around a fluent century from Haynes. 279 a very workable total with the depth of our seam attack.
The annual Christmas miracle up on Sandale Close. Bigger and better every year. More lights, more spectators, more donations. All to help the local RSPCA.
