04.08.2018… Eng v Ind (D4)…

England v India

Edgbaston… Day 4 – Saturday August 4th

England won by 31 runs (D4)

Ticket: £56 – Programme: £6

Day Four, and a memorable win for England…

Requiring 88 runs with 5 wickets in hand, India started the morning as favourites…

An early breakthrough though, James Anderson removing Dinesh Karthik in the first over of the morning. The momentum began to swing once again…

India rallied, creeping past 140. Then the pivotal moment, Ben Stokes trapping Virat Kohli lbw just past his 50. He reviewed but the decision stood. 141/7, Edgbaston in full voice, goosebumps…

Later in the same over Mohammed Shami followed Kohli back to the dressing room, caught behind. From that point on it all became a little bit of a formality, India bowled out for 162, England winning by 31 runs…

You really can’t beat test match cricket…

The England Huddle…

Teams… 

England; Alastair Cook, Keaton Jennings, Joe Root (cpt), Dawid Malan, Jonny Bairstow (wkt), Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Adil Rashid, Sam Curran, Stuart Broad, James Anderson

India; Shikhar Darwan, Murali Vijay, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli (cpt), Ajinkya Rahane, Dinesh Karthik (wkt), Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma

141/8… England in the Ascendency…

Stats…

2nd Innings

India; Vijay (6 – lbw Broad), S Dhawan (13 – c Bairstow b Broad), Rahul (13 – c Bairstow b Stokes), Kohli (51 – lbw Stokes), Rahane (2 – c Bairstow b Curran), Ashwin (13 – c Bairstow b Anderson), Karthik (20 – c Malan b Anderson), H Pandya (31 – c Cook b Stokes), Shami (0 – c Bairstow b Stokes), I Sharma (11 – lbw Rashid), U Yadav (0 – n.o.)

Did Not Bat; H Pandya, Shami, I Sharma, U Yadav

Extras; 0nb 0w 1b 1lb – 2

162 all out (54.2 overs)

Bowling; Anderson (16 / 50 / 2), Broad (14 / 43 / 2), Stokes (14 .2 / 40 / 4), Curran (6 / 18 / 1), Rashid (4 / 9 / 1)

FOW; 10 – 22 – 46 – 63 – 78 – 112 – 141 – 141 – 154 – 162

As usual, more pictures to follow on flickr…

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03.08.2018… Eng v Ind (D3)…

England v India

Edgbaston… Day 3 – Friday August 3rd…

England won by 31 runs (D4)

Ticket: £66 – Programme: £6

Day Two… and  India had made 274 all out in their reply. Not bad considering that they had recovered from 100/5, largely down to Virat Kohli’s innings of 149. Frustratingly from an England perspective, 92 runs were added for the final two wickets…

Alistair Cook fell to the final delivery of the day, leaving England to start Day Three on 8/1…

Day Three… And things then went fom bad to worse, a steady succession of wickets fell during the morning to leave England on 87/7. Enter Sam Curran, who with support from Adil Rashid and Stuart Broad made 63 runs in 102 minutes, pushing England to a slightly more respectable total of 180 all out. More importantly though, a defendable target of 194…

In pursuit of that target, India lost wickets as regularly as England. They finished the day on 110/5 but with Virat Kohli still at the crease, and only a further 84 runs required to win…

96/7… England in Trouble…

Teams…

England; Alastair Cook, Keaton Jennings, Joe Root (cpt), Dawid Malan, Jonny Bairstow (wkt), Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Adil Rashid, Sam Curran, Stuart Broad, James Anderson

India; Shikhar Darwan, Murali Vijay, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli (cpt), Ajinkya Rahane, Dinesh Karthik (wkt), Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma

94/5… India Chase Down 194…

Stats…

2nd Innings

England; Cook (0 – b Ashwin), Jennings (8 – c Rahul b Ashwin), Root (14 – c Rahul b Ashwin), Malan (20 – c Rahane b I Sharma), Bairstow (28 – c S Dhawan b I Sharma), Stokes (6 – c Kohli b I Sharma) Buttler (1 – c Karthik b I Sharma), Curran (63 – c Karthik b U Yadav), Rashid (16 b U Yadav), Broad (11 – c S Dhawan b I Sharma), Anderson (0 – n.o.)

Did Not Bat; None

Extras; 1nb 0w 10b 2lb – 13

180 all out (53 overs)

Bowling; Shami (12 / 38 / 0), Ashwin (21 / 59 / 3),  I Sharma (13 / 51 / 5), U Yadav (7 / 20 / 2)

FOW; 9 – 18 – 39 – 70 – 85 – 86 – 87 – 135 – 176 – 180

India; Vijay (6 – lbw Broad), S Dhawan (13 – c Bairstow b Broad), Rahul (13 – c Bairstow b Stokes), Kohli (43 – n.o.), Rahane (2 – c Bairstow b Curran), Ashwin (13 – c Bairstow b Anderson), Karthik (18 – n.o.)

Did Not Bat; H Pandya, Shami, I Sharma, U Yadav

Extras; *nb *w b *lb – *

110 for 5 (** overs)

Bowling; 

FOW; 10 – 22 – 46 – 63 – 78

As usual, more pictures to follow on flickr…

02.08.2018… Leics v Warks…

Foxes v Bears

Grace Road… Thursday August 2nd…

Bears won by 8 wickets

Ticket: £16 – Scorecard: £1

A comfortable win for the Birmingham Bears, one which kept their hopes of qualification for the Vitality Blast Quarter Finals alive…

Leicestershire Bat, Colin de Grandehomme Fields…

Teams…

Leicestershire Foxes; Cameron Delport, Neil Dexter, Mark Cosgrove, Ben Raine, Colin Ackermann (cpt), Ateeq Javid, Mohammad Nabi, Ned Eckersley (wkt), Zak Chappell, Callum Parkinson, Mohammad Abbas

Birmingham Bears; Ian Bell, Ed Pollock, Adam Hose, Sam Hain, Colin de Grandehomme, Grant Elliott (cpt), Aaron Thomason, Tim Ambrose (wkt), Chris Woakes, Jeetan Patel, Oli Stone

Warwickshire Reply, Ian Bell on Strike…

Stats…

Leicestershire Foxes; Delport (0 – b Woakes), Dexter (56 – b Patel), Cosgrove (8 – c Woakes b Stone), Raine (12 – c Pollock b Thomason), Ackermann (9 – c Thomason b Elliott), Javid (6 – c Pollock b Elliott), Nabi (19 – c Ambrose b Stone), Eckersley (16 – b Stone), Chappell (7 – c Hose b Thomason), Parkinson (3 – c Stone b Woakes), Abbas (2 – n.o.)

Did Not Bat; None

Extras; 2nb 2w 0b 1lb – 5

143 all out (19.3 overs)

Bowling; Woakes (3.3 / 18 / 2), Stone (4 / 22 / 3), Thomason (4 / 49 / 2), Patel (4 / 35 / 1), Elliott (4 / 18 / 2)

FOW; 0 – 14 – 41 – 83 – 92 – 95 – 129 – 130 – 138 – 143

Birmingham Bears; Bell (34 – r.o. Parkinson), Pollock (10 – b Nabi), Hose (66 – n.o.), Hain (27 – n.o.)

Did Not Bat; de Grandehomme, Elliott, Thomason, Ambrose, Woakes, Patel, Stone

Extras; 0nb 8w 0b 1lb – 9

146 for 2 (14.2 overs)

Bowling; Nabi (3 / 18 / 1), Abbas (2 / 27 / 0), Chappell (2 / 25 / 0), Parkinson (4 / 31 / 0), Raine (1.2 / 17 / 0), Dexter (1 / 14 / 0), Javid (1 / 13 / 0)

FOW; 21 – 51

As usual, more pictures to follow on flickr…