Alistair20000
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An easy win for Somerset helped by some fairly abysmal cricket from the Welsh who had got off to a good, quick start and looked set to post at least the par score for this ground of 177 but rather like Hampshire on Wednesday they lost focus and collapsed losing their last 9 wickets for 82 on a pitch that was much less spicy than the one used then. A bit of panic set in with van der merwe and Green slowing down the scoring with pace off the ball and I lost count of the number of aerial shots that went straight to fielders. Catching practice as Mr Dozen suggests. In the end they got to 153 with a few late runs from Hatzoglou the Strine leggie including some streaky edges. A wholly inadequate score.
Glamorgan were scruffy in the field and gave away a lot of runs with sloppy fielding and poor bowling. It was either brave or foolish to bowl the spinners in the power play; probably foolish as Hatzoglou went for 50 off his four overs. Banton and Smeed duly cashed in with some big hitting but it looked to me that Banton should have been stumped off the second ball, a leg side wide, but the keeper fumbled it.
The flurry of late wickets was down to a continued assault on the bowlers when singles and boundaries off bad balls would have done the job but I guess with so many wickets in hand it was worthwhile to keep the net run rate up as there was never a danger of defeat.
Hard to see Glamorgan getting out of the group on the evidence of tonight.
The games come thick and fast. Canterbury on Tuesday night before a brace of home games; Friday against Jason’s boys who don’t look very good to me and then Essex, who have yet to play, on Sunday.
An easy win for Somerset helped by some fairly abysmal cricket from the Welsh who had got off to a good, quick start and looked set to post at least the par score for this ground of 177 but rather like Hampshire on Wednesday they lost focus and collapsed losing their last 9 wickets for 82 on a pitch that was much less spicy than the one used then. A bit of panic set in with van der merwe and Green slowing down the scoring with pace off the ball and I lost count of the number of aerial shots that went straight to fielders. Catching practice as Mr Dozen suggests. In the end they got to 153 with a few late runs from Hatzoglou the Strine leggie including some streaky edges. A wholly inadequate score.
Glamorgan were scruffy in the field and gave away a lot of runs with sloppy fielding and poor bowling. It was either brave or foolish to bowl the spinners in the power play; probably foolish as Hatzoglou went for 50 off his four overs. Banton and Smeed duly cashed in with some big hitting but it looked to me that Banton should have been stumped off the second ball, a leg side wide, but the keeper fumbled it.
The flurry of late wickets was down to a continued assault on the bowlers when singles and boundaries off bad balls would have done the job but I guess with so many wickets in hand it was worthwhile to keep the net run rate up as there was never a danger of defeat.
Hard to see Glamorgan getting out of the group on the evidence of tonight.
The games come thick and fast. Canterbury on Tuesday night before a brace of home games; Friday against Jason’s boys who don’t look very good to me and then Essex, who have yet to play, on Sunday.