County Cricket

(15-09-2025 16:09 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  Surrey V Nottinghamshire - Day 2 Close
Toss - Surrey elected to field
Nottinghamshire 231 (77.4 overs) Slater 50 McCann 34 Hutton 30 no Clarke 29 Atkinson 4-41 Fisher 5-61
Surrey 173 (52.2 overs) Burns 47 Lawes 22 James 3-35 Tongue 3-42 Hutton 2-31 Pennington 2-41
Nottinghamshire 219-8 (57 overs) P-White 58 James 47 Fisher 5-57 Worrell 3-53

(16-09-2025 13:02 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  

(15-09-2025 16:09 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  Surrey V Nottinghamshire - Day 3 Close
Toss - Surrey elected to field
Nottinghamshire 231 (77.4 overs) Slater 50 McCann 34 Hutton 30 no Clarke 29 Atkinson 4-41 Fisher 5-61
Surrey 173 (52.2 overs) Burns 47 Lawes 22 James 3-35 Tongue 3-42 Hutton 2-31 Pennington 2-41
Nottinghamshire 256 (67 overs) P-White 58 James 47 Hutton 42 no Tongue 22 Fisher 6-73 Worrell 3-53
Surrey 66-0 (16 over) Burns 41 no
Target 315

Looking like several draws in D2 at least tomorrow.

(Yesterday 14:04 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  

(16-09-2025 13:02 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  

(15-09-2025 16:09 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  Surrey V Nottinghamshire - Day 4 Session 2
Toss - Surrey elected to field
Nottinghamshire 231 (77.4 overs) Slater 50 McCann 34 Hutton 30 no Clarke 29 Atkinson 4-41 Fisher 5-61
Surrey 173 (52.2 overs) Burns 47 Lawes 22 James 3-35 Tongue 3-42 Hutton 2-31 Pennington 2-41
Nottinghamshire 256 (67 overs) P-White 58 James 47 Hutton 42 no Tongue 22 Fisher 6-73 Worrell 3-53
Surrey 294 (71.2 over) Lawrence 50 Burns 45 Pope 41 Curran 33 Lawes 33 Sibley 25 Tongue 5-100 James 2-48
Nottinghamshire won by 20 runs
Target 315

A fantastic win for Notts who are now 15 points clear of Surrey. Notts will only require a maximum of 9 points against the Bears at Trent Bridge in the final round to win the Division 1 Championship.

The Division 1 relegation battle for the 2nd team to join Worcestershire in the drop is wide open. just 10 points separate 5 teams. Durham are most at risk, but have a chance to save themselves with a win against Yorkshire, who would then be in danger defending on the outcome of Hampshire who face Surrey. Sussex & Essex are almost, but not quite safe, a handful of bonus points should be enough even if they both suffer defeat. It could come down to one or 2 bonus points, or it might require the tie breaker rules if two or more teams are level on points.

(Today 15:53 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  A fantastic win for Notts who are now 15 points clear of Surrey. Notts will only require a maximum of 9 points against the Bears at Trent Bridge in the final round to win the Division 1 Championship.

Am gutted am Man and Boy a Surrey fan. But we have a terrible record at Hampshire our final game and there is no way Notts not smashing Warwickshire.

^^ I can't see a world where Surrey don't look like winning the Championship every season. They have a lot in their favour. A decent catchment area to develop local players through there system coupled with the finances to attract the best out of contract players from other counties. The Southern counties also have the lowest rainfall in the country compared to those in the North & West in particular.

After Surrey winning the Championship for 3 years, this season where possible counties have appeared to try to prepare wickets that offer very little assistance to seam bowlers. This is not an exact science, but Surrey has a battery on fast-medium pace bowlers, it looks like the opposition are trying to not play to this strength & maybe hope they can get away with draws.

Surrey have a tried & tested formula at home, usually fielding 5 pace bowling options & making do with decent part time slow bowling. Their pitches often start green & flatten out into days 3 & 4, but by that point their superior quicks have usually got ahead of the game. They have a great depth in their squad, even when International fixture take players away, they have high calibre replacements. The XI that faced Notts this week had 8 players with Test Match caps.

Fair play to the Brown caps, but as a Yorkshireman they are bitter rivals. Not wishing to be fatalist, but Yorkshire are still 10 Championship titles ahead of Surrey, I hope I'm gone before they catch or pass us.

One area of change that I would like to see it a Football style transfer system, which wouldn't solve the whole problem where complete parity could exist, but, especially in the case of the weaker counties, they should at least be financially compensated. Losing players for a big county such as Yorkshire is less of a problem as they still have relatively strong Leagues with numbers to call on. Even so, Yorkshire have spent time money & recourses for over 10 years support Matthew Fisher though injury after injury, & he walks away for free to the bright light of London in search of fame & fortune, who can blame him, but a tranfer fee would soften the blow of losing such players.