Monday 31 May 2010

Nearly undone by an Aussie!

Scotland haven't done bad for overseas players in the past, Rahul Dravid springs to mind, but their current one has an IPL contract and captains an entire island!! George Bailey isn't a bad little batsman and he put Hampshire's 'bowlers' to the sword. 90 off 92 balls, hitting almost half the innings 4s and all of the innings 6s perhaps says just as much about Scotland as it does about his own batting abilities. At one point it looked like Hampshire's fairly meagre 237 wasn't going to be enough as Bailey and that famous Scotsman Omer Hussain took their innings to 123-1, and with Hampshire using four bowlers + Ervine to no great effect I thought we were in for another humiliation. Thankfully Pothas didn't have another brain melt and stuck with Wood and Tomlinson, new ball pair extraordinaires, and soon the predictable collapse came. Wood furthered his one day reputation with 3 wickets and bowled tidily, taking the first and the last two wickets of the Scotland innings. Tommo was his dependable self as he too took three wickets. Herath was in economical wicket taking spell shocker too, as he picked up two important wickets in two overs to end with 2-35 from 8 overs. Tommo got the big fish though as he tickled Bailey's edge and Pothas snaffled the catch.

Earlier in the day Hampshire made hard work of another pretty benign Rose Bowl wicket, Lumb playing a god awful innings and getting out for 0 from 9 balls. Carbs also fell cheaply but from then on Adams, Slug, McKenzie, Pothas and Dawson built an eventually good enough total. Annoyingly Slug couldn't build on a very fluent and aggressive 43, but Cork, seemingly better with bat in hand than with ball in hand, added respectability with a brutal 28 at 2 a ball and with 3 sixes.

Kent now await in the 20/20 slog, and rumour has it that two players will make a return from injury for Hampshire...

10 comments:

  1. Bailey scored runs? In the IPL he looked clueless against spin.

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  2. When the only spin threat you have to face is Herath, and the pacers are hitting 80mph, most batsmen would score runs.

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  3. Bailey is the captain of Tasmania and the Australia A team. One should think he gets the occasional single. Who cares if he looks clueless in the IPL. There are enough players looking clueless outside of it.

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  4. Like Cossie ;)

    Wes, I didn't say Bailey couldn't score runs, it's just that anyone can score runs on the Rose Bowl wicket against our attack!

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  5. Nooo-ooo that was of course directed at Greyblazer ;)
    PS great new layout, nice to read!
    And oh that profile description, gold! And so English... *g*

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  6. Ha, thanks Wes, I wasn't sure if anybody would read the description! I thought a makeover was needed considering it is the (supposedly) first day of summer. Not sure on the battleship grey background. What do you think?

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  8. Are these the club colours, they seem to involve dark blue and this creme-ish sort of non-white? I like blogs in club colours, wondering why so few people do that. Mine was originally a stir fry of Oz and PAK, but yes things have to evolve, I agree :)

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  9. I've sort of kept the club colours, but the pale grey background was for neutrality. The blog below has this season's one day kit (the 20/20 kit is identical to the Rajasthan Royals one). The pic at the top is last year's one day kit. I may have a tinker and get some yellow in. :D

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  10. If by yellow you mean gold, that would indeed look quite noble as an accent. I like the logo in the sidebar ^^

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