Pleased for Riles. He bowled well last season in Kent Premier League and for the Kent 2s and hope after his injuries and issues with his action that he is on his way back to the bowler he was two or three years
Hard to gauge the strength (or otherwise) of the opposition but good to see fellow addick Riley do well.
Let's hope he's properly on his way back to fulfilling the undoubted promise he showed before the England coaches ruined him.
Great minds Len. I think the issue is going to be that, at the moment, Treders and Qayyum are possibly in front of him - the former because he is the old hand and the latter because he is left arm orthodox and turns the ball away from the right hander. Plus Denly's emergence means that we don't have to play two spinners in any form of the game.
Hard to gauge the strength (or otherwise) of the opposition but good to see fellow addick Riley do well.
Let's hope he's properly on his way back to fulfilling the undoubted promise he showed before the England coaches ruined him.
Great minds Len. I think the issue is going to be that, at the moment, Treders and Qayyum are possibly in front of him - the former because he is the old hand and the latter because he is left arm orthodox and turns the ball away from the right hander. Plus Denly's emergence means that we don't have to play two spinners in any form of the game.
Yes, we do seem to have a number of spinners competing for probably one place, especially with the cold damp games in April and May favouring seamers (not that Kent have any, but that's another story!).
Funnily these days lots of batsmen seem to bat left handed (even though right handed), so the Off spinner is much more of a weapon than it used to be! Nathan Lyon would have been far less effective against England teams of 20 years ago with fewer left handers.
Kent's victory over the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean Super50 on Tuesday has been marred by accusations of unsportsmanlike behaviour from their opponents, after Zak Crawley, the 20-year-old opening batsman, was denied his maiden List A century in what appeared to be a series of calculated incidents.
Going into the 45th over of their innings, Kent had got the match all but sewn up. They needed four runs to win with Crawley on 98 not out, having added 99 for the second wicket with Sean Dickson.
However, that requirement was reduced to two runs by consecutive wides outside off stump from the Leewards Island seamer, Sheeno Berridge, and Berridge might have bowled three in a row had Crawley not chosen to chase his third delivery, which earned him a single into the covers to take him to 99 not out.
Visibly keen for his partner to reach three figures, Dickson then chose to block Berridge's next ball back down the pitch, before turning the fourth, a leg-side delivery, out through midwicket.
Crawley started to jog down the pitch for the winning run, but Dickson waved back him back. However, the Leewards Islands' fielders chose not to intercept the ball, which rolled over the boundary for the winning run.
The incident attracted criticism on social media, not least from the former Kent captain, Rob Key, who felt that the Leeward Islands' batsman Marlon Samuels - no stranger to controversy where English teams are concerned - was the instigator.
"99 not out for Zak crawley and then nice bloke marlon samuels got his bowlers to bowl wides so he couldn't get 100," Key wrote in a tweet that was subsequently deleted.
The incident was reminiscent of a similar controversy in last year's Caribbean Premier League, when Evin Lewis, West Indies' T20 opener, was denied a chance to reach a hundred for St Kitts and Nevis against Barbados, when Kieron Pollard bowled a no-ball with the scores level.
Pollard subsequently denied that that incident had been deliberate, saying that he had overstepped in straining for extra effort.
Yes if it were deliberate it was poor. I watched it on line but with limited camera angles it was difficult to determine just how deliberate it was. Dickson was visibly annoyed by the whole thing.
Leeward Isles had only taken 1 wicket in 45 overs and that was a run out.
As for today Riley bowled well on a pitch that was not conducive to big hitting. Perversely he got hit for two quick sixes by a no 9, in desperation mode, but he started out well bowling 6 overs for 10 runs. He was instrumental in shutting down the US batsmen.
In contrast Qayyam's line was all over place he went for 11 in his first over. He recovered but did get away with quite a few offline deliveries where the US batsmen simply were not good enough to take advantage. Yet he does take wickets.
In terms of their respective contribution in controlling the game that they have comparable stats is an anomaly.
I have to say I was impressed with Denlys captaincy - defending a modest total with Gidmans' & Rileys' help he certainly tightened the screw little by little which was really too much for Team USA.
No game is over until the final ball is bowled but for me in reality the game was done by the 35th over of their innings.
To be honest I though Gidman was a waste of a contract last year but he is certainly contributing to this tour.
Yes if it were deliberate it was poor. I watched it on line but with limited camera angles it was difficult to determine just how deliberate it was. Dickson was visibly annoyed by the whole thing.
Leeward Isles had only taken 1 wicket in 45 overs and that was a run out.
As for today Riley bowled well on a pitch that was not conducive to big hitting. Perversely he got hit for two quick sixes by a no 9, in desperation mode, but he started out well bowling 6 overs for 10 runs. He was instrumental in shutting down the US batsmen.
In contrast Qayyam's line was all over place he went for 11 in his first over. He recovered but did get away with quite a few offline deliveries where the US batsmen simply were not good enough to take advantage. Yet he does take wickets.
In terms of their respective contribution in controlling the game that they have comparable stats is an anomaly.
I have to say I was impressed with Denlys captaincy - defending a modest total with Gidmans' & Rileys' help he certainly tightened the screw little by little which was really too much for Team USA.
No game is over until the final ball is bowled but for me in reality the game was done by the 35th over of their innings.
To be honest I though Gidman was a waste of a contract last year but he is certainly contributing to this tour.
Gidman is like one of those loan players who does very well for Charlton, but is completely Charltonised as soon as he signs a permanent contract!
Hopefully this season he can recover his "loan" form...
Clearly another difficult wicket as evidenced by the fact that only DBD has made a score and that a somewhat laboured one as he is currently 62* off 110 balls.
Well a great finish to the innings with 104 scored off the last 11 overs as we finish on 239-5, thanks to DBD with 105* (146) keeping one end together whilst Adam Rouse 75* (68) let loose at the other.
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Joe Denly top-scored with 96.
Adam Riley the pick of the attack with 3/36 off 9 overs.
Next up: Guyana on Saturday, live on @btsportcricket
And well done our lads again !
Let's hope he's properly on his way back to fulfilling the undoubted promise he showed before the England coaches ruined him.
@killerjerrylee knows Riley Snr and introduced us.
Funnily these days lots of batsmen seem to bat left handed (even though right handed), so the Off spinner is much more of a weapon than it used to be! Nathan Lyon would have been far less effective against England teams of 20 years ago with fewer left handers.
Kent's victory over the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean Super50 on Tuesday has been marred by accusations of unsportsmanlike behaviour from their opponents, after Zak Crawley, the 20-year-old opening batsman, was denied his maiden List A century in what appeared to be a series of calculated incidents.
Going into the 45th over of their innings, Kent had got the match all but sewn up. They needed four runs to win with Crawley on 98 not out, having added 99 for the second wicket with Sean Dickson.
However, that requirement was reduced to two runs by consecutive wides outside off stump from the Leewards Island seamer, Sheeno Berridge, and Berridge might have bowled three in a row had Crawley not chosen to chase his third delivery, which earned him a single into the covers to take him to 99 not out.
Visibly keen for his partner to reach three figures, Dickson then chose to block Berridge's next ball back down the pitch, before turning the fourth, a leg-side delivery, out through midwicket.
Crawley started to jog down the pitch for the winning run, but Dickson waved back him back. However, the Leewards Islands' fielders chose not to intercept the ball, which rolled over the boundary for the winning run.
The incident attracted criticism on social media, not least from the former Kent captain, Rob Key, who felt that the Leeward Islands' batsman Marlon Samuels - no stranger to controversy where English teams are concerned - was the instigator.
"99 not out for Zak crawley and then nice bloke marlon samuels got his bowlers to bowl wides so he couldn't get 100," Key wrote in a tweet that was subsequently deleted.
The incident was reminiscent of a similar controversy in last year's Caribbean Premier League, when Evin Lewis, West Indies' T20 opener, was denied a chance to reach a hundred for St Kitts and Nevis against Barbados, when Kieron Pollard bowled a no-ball with the scores level.
Pollard subsequently denied that that incident had been deliberate, saying that he had overstepped in straining for extra effort.
Leeward Isles had only taken 1 wicket in 45 overs and that was a run out.
As for today Riley bowled well on a pitch that was not conducive to big hitting. Perversely he got hit for two quick sixes by a no 9, in desperation mode, but he started out well bowling 6 overs for 10 runs. He was instrumental in shutting down the US batsmen.
In contrast Qayyam's line was all over place he went for 11 in his first over. He recovered but did get away with quite a few offline deliveries where the US batsmen simply were not good enough to take advantage. Yet he does take wickets.
In terms of their respective contribution in controlling the game that they have comparable stats is an anomaly.
I have to say I was impressed with Denlys captaincy - defending a modest total with Gidmans' & Rileys' help he certainly tightened the screw little by little which was really too much for Team USA.
No game is over until the final ball is bowled but for me in reality the game was done by the 35th over of their innings.
To be honest I though Gidman was a waste of a contract last year but he is certainly contributing to this tour.
Hopefully this season he can recover his "loan" form...
Guyana 19-1 off of 6.3 overs.
A 4th successive @FGSPlant Tour win puts the Spitfires top of #Super50 Group B.
Career-best 4/20 and gritty 29* for Will Gidman, 3 wickets on debut for Grant Stewart.
Keep on keeping on , you Kent !!!!!
Clearly another difficult wicket as evidenced by the fact that only DBD has made a score and that a somewhat laboured one as he is currently 62* off 110 balls.
Certainly a target to bowl at now.
Thomas with the first and Denly, who brought himself on first change, with the second.
14 needed off 2. Russell still there on 101