Haha. Works every time. A bit of criticism in my last post and the bowlers conjure up two quick wickets. Glam 19/2 with 4 tricky overs left before stumps. CoyK.
It's a bit worrying that a new contract hasn't been announced or, for that matter a county cap, for Stewart. He is a big part in both white and red ball and has cemented that place as the all rounder batting at 8. With Dudgeon to follow at 9 next season, we really will have some depth to our line up albeit it is time for the top 7 to consistently step up.
Glamorgan win by 5 wickets. We lost this game through our awful first innings score of 155. That has been true of any number of games in recent seasons.
Interesting times and good to see us taking this opportunity to blood Jaydn, Ekansh and Dawkins. With Crawley unavailable and DBD, Joe Denly, Benjamin, Cohen and Jas all injured, we might have selected the likes of Kashif Ali, Leaning, O'Riordan or Gilchrist but have resisted doing so because it's all about next season rather than this one. Should they all play, that would mean us having three players in the side 19 or younger. For that reason we should, perhaps, embrace anything positive they do in the knowledge that this will help them as stepping stones, hopefully, to next season and beyond.
Interesting times and good to see us taking this opportunity to blood Jaydn, Ekansh and Dawkins. With Crawley unavailable and DBD, Joe Denly, Benjamin, Cohen and Jas all injured, we might have selected the likes of Kashif Ali, Leaning, O'Riordan or Gilchrist but have resisted doing so because it's all about next season rather than this one. Should they all play, that would mean us having three players in the side 19 or younger. For that reason we should, perhaps, embrace anything positive they do in the knowledge that this will help them as stepping stones, hopefully, to next season and beyond.
All three youngsters are, indeed, playing. Quinn has been omitted from the 12. Kent won the toss and have elected to bowl.
It does feel a bit silly to have Gilchrist on our books if we're not going to play him. We might as well loan him to Warwickshire.
I suspect that the reason for not doing this is in case we get another couple of injuries to our seamers. Equally, Gilchrist is not necessarily certain to walk into the Warwickshire side.
This week the counties vote on reducing the CC to 12 games, which will effectively mean the end of summer CC games. Apparently needs 12 counties in favour. 10 have so far come out in favour with 2 in the balance. We are amongst the 6 against. Not hopeful
Haven’t been able to watch recently but sounds like Agar might be finding some of his old form again?
He has been in the last two games - took 5-98 in the last match. As I've said previously, he hadn't played for three months or so when he joined us whereas, with a minor break, he played continually between the two seasons last year as he joined us much earlier.
This week the counties vote on reducing the CC to 12 games, which will effectively mean the end of summer CC games. Apparently needs 12 counties in favour. 10 have so far come out in favour with 2 in the balance. We are amongst the 6 against. Not hopeful
Some of those 10 counties are doing so despite the feelings of their supporters. The ECB will then blame the counties for not playing spinners when the all the CC matches are played in April, May and September.
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Compton 977 at 51
Stewart 639 at 49
Benjamin 371 at 42
Muyeye 570 at 36
DBD 670 at 34
Two notouts help the average, but then Muyeye has two notouts also.
The bowling by contrast looks grim
https://www.espncricinfo.com/records/tournament/averages-batting-bowling-by-team/county-championship-division-two-2025-16857
40-3
Glamorgan require another 149
https://x.com/kentcricket/status/1948707137791680776?s=46&t=MojDVxh_AjG5taAWPQn6Tw
dawkins in the squad for tomorrow game, hoping he is included
185-0
37-1 (10.4)
https://www.kentcricket.co.uk/news/kent-cricket-receives-eight-point-championship-penalty/