County Championship

[BobG]

Scoring rate is creeping up. 4.37 now. 89-3 in the 20th. 153 needed in a minimum of 19.3

Bob

[BobG]

Last 6 overs 8,5,5,4,7,5. That's 5.7/over. Not enough - but still scope to accelerate in 10 overs time.

Bob

[BobG]

Half way to the score needed - but only a min of 15 overs left. 120 in 15 overs with 6 wkts left. 8 an over. Hmmm....

Bob

[BobG]

Rate up to 5 an over now after 26 overs.

Bob

[BobG]

10 off the 29th over. 147-4. 93 needed in min. 11 overs. 8 and a half an over roughly.

Bob

[BobG]

b*llocks! Bresnan out lbw for 55. He was going well.

Gale on 20 and Hodd just come in.

153/5 chasing 240. 87 needed. 5 wkts and 10 overs left.

Bob

[RoversAlias]

Bresnan's gone.

[BobG]

So's Gale. Busted.

Bob

[BobG]

About to lose. 5 overs left. There won't be any extras. But only 2 wkts left. No chance of getting the runs.

Bob

[RoversAlias]

Game over now surely. Hodd and Sidebottom have to hold them off for five overs or else Middlesex are champs. 62 needed off the last 30 balls to win it.

As I type Hodd has gone. Nope.

[RoversAlias]

Three wickets in three balls from Toby Roland-Jones wins Middlesex the title.

Hell of a finish to the season.

[Draytonian III]

Tobias Skelton Roland - Jones, to give him his full name, must be related to the Roland - Jones's from Goldthorpe !!!!!!

[roversdude]

Exciting finish just a step too far for Yorkshire congrats to Middlesex

[GM-MarkB]

I blame that moody tw*t Strauss.....

[Draytonian III]

Same here ,I blame Strauss.  Is Johnny Bairstow a centrally contracted player  ???

[drfchound]

Spineless t**ts?

[roversron]

I went today after lunch they had no intention of making a proper game of it. We shouldn't have agreed to a run chase we held all the cards. Even with 8 down and a few overs left they had 6 players on the boundary. ...They don't deserve the title. ..I agree with hound.  Wish we had held out and let Somerset win

[BobG]

That's a completely bizarre field setting then Ron. The only chanace they had of winning the title was to bowl Yorkshire out. Having fielders on the boundary might stop them losing, but it would very likely stop them winning too. A logically potty field...

Bob

[Sammy Chung was King]

Root is a class above any other english batsman we have in the country.

He's not a class above Cook. He may be slightly better but he's not levels above him.

That's true, for some reason i forgot cook. I've always liked ian bell, not as smooth a player as those two but gritty and a good player when he is on form.

[drfchound]

I seem to remember hearing somewhere in the summer that Joe Root is World number one batsman.
Is that true?

[Filo]

Root is a class above any other english batsman we have in the country.

He's not a class above Cook. He may be slightly better but he's not levels above him.

Root can adapt his game to all forms of the game, Cook could n't, that is why Root is a class above

[RedJ]

I seem to remember hearing somewhere in the summer that Joe Root is World number one batsman.
Is that true?

2nd best test batsman, 4th best ODI, 7th best T20.

[drfchound]

That is pretty impressive.

[Filo]

I seem to remember hearing somewhere in the summer that Joe Root is World number one batsman.
Is that true?

2nd best test batsman, 4th best ODI, 7th best T20.

Cooks highest rankings

Test 2nd, ODI 5th, T20 65th

[drfchound]

Cook and Root both 2nd in tests?

[Filo]

Cook and Root both 2nd in tests?

Should have stated that Cooks are career rankings not present day

[drfchound]

Cheers for that.

[NickDRFC]

Cook and Root have both been the best test batsmen in the world at one point