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...Division two :soapy tit wank: Had to post really,know there are some Somerset fans out there,Fatbury and Johno spring to mind :D Anyway your lot are playing my lot today at Taunton,first game of the season,lets hope Middlesex can take advantage of winning the toss and bat you lot into submission :beers:  :wink:

I feel like Middlesex could do something this season,we're got Richard Pybus in as coach,Vass and Kartik are our overseas players,Richard Johnson and Tim Murtagh are good signings,plus Shah is a class act.Just hope we can improve on last season,shouldn't be too hard considerng how dire the last one was though :(

Somerset for the easy win.  :D

we are stuffing kent as usual :beers:

Damn we are crap - Somerset that is!

Looks like Cricket team i follow is doing well against Lancashire. Good old Darren Maddy scores 71, Jimmy Troughton 100 and Alex Loudon 81 NO. Get In. 550 Plus looks on the cards.

leicestershire all out for 299 against notts. Maunders top scored with 89, perhaps we wont miss maddy that much

  Last season Somerset were terrible....this year the batting looks like it should be strong if Tresco and Langer are playing most games, but the bowling outside of Caddick looks weak.....what's Steffan Jones coming back all about?   Personally I refuse to acknowledge Middlsex as a county...a gender perhaps but a county...no.

gloucs don't start till next week but a pretty poor season is in the offing from what i see. i'm really hoping durham go well in div 1 this year, they are a really progressive club brining through plenty of young england players. the title challenge between hants, sussex and lancs (maybe warwicks as well) should be fascinating.

Things that pleased me today:

The new Darren Lehmann (Adil Rashid) scored 86, Loudon 81 not, 155 not for Diva, Worcestershire on the rack, 120 not for Harv (dead set legend), 160 not for Shahro.

Oi!This thread is for the Liverpool Victoria league Divsion two,you lot in the higher league will have to make your own thread :wink:

Going well as i had hoped 457-4, :beers: winning the toss down at Taunton is such a massive advantage though so i'm not getting too excited ...yet :D

Middlesex is my team too. Dont know any of the players anymore. Used to love it when Gatting, Ramps and Tuffers were there :beers:

well strauss, joyce and shahrooooooooo have all represented england in the last year

Jason Gillespie is 122* against Surrey.  :shock:

Should come down to Lords for a one dayer,its ace :beers: Planning on going to the Rose Bowl this Saturday to watch the boys take on Warne's Hampshire,if the weather stays fine that is.

Are you sure?  Not mansfield then?  I'm planning to amble down to the Rose Bowl this sumer with my Dad as he now lives quite close.[/b]

:D
I mean Sunday of course,just so excited at seeing Warne again.It'll probably piss it down anyway :(

Can we change the name of the forum to the 'Swindon Middlesex CCC Supporters Club'?

COME ON THE GLOUCESTER!  8)

600-4 declared,life is sweet,three count them,three centurions :beers:

Still going to be a draw though :)

haha I didn't know Dizzy was playing for Yorkshire now, jokes.

I need someone to support in county cricket, booooo.

support sussex, you can get in for free with me, crash at mine, and be a glory hunter.

played for them last year as well

all the tracks are absolute roads due to the amazing weather for this time of year. except at worcester where it is always a seamer's paradise

Were gona take all your pubs for that Twenty20 game. Its number 1 on my hitlist. Youre gona get done.

Ive formed a Middx firm.

Larwood...did you say 'richard johnson is a good signing' you have got to be jokiong, he bowl half trackers at 0mph...he is crap to be nice to him.

btw, its looking like a draw as usual at taunton, hildreth looks like he is back on form, if he is, we have a good season to look forward to. and Langer, oh and trescothick of course  8)

Wonder if Tres has wet himself again?

He's going to get through a lot of whites this summer.

going back to Dizzy's unbeaten century, it was a year exactly to the day of his double century against Bangladesh...scary 8)

Opening batsmen for Australia next April then.

Somerset made 850-7  :shock:  replying to Middlesex 600-4dec. If the pitches are that good in April what they going to be like in the late summer.

taunton is a fucking disgrace

i dont know, theres a rather nice girls school there.

Taunton is quality. how ODI are not held there i do not know. and how bristol gets them, i again do not know.

8 tons it was in the end and what a poor advert for 1st class cricket that Taunton track is. cricket has to be somewhat a battle between bat and ball or else it is all-but meaningless

there is a set criteria for becoming a ground capable of holding odis, ask your county chief exec what taunton is lacking if you want to know

Sussex really struggling against future champions Warwickshire at Edgebaston.  :D

Maybe because the match would be stupidly favouring the batsman, i can see it now, Australia set England 746 to win.  :?

Nice Innings and 34 runs win for Warwickshire over Sussex. Can't wait for Kumar Sangakkara to play for the Bears.

Micky Vaughan made a good comeback to 4 day cricket by making 72 against Hampshire, cruely run out by batting partner Younis khan who made 100. Harsh.

Sussex lost again :o By an innings again :o

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: Sussex are not playing very well at the moment

Oh dear Mex .. 2nd innings defeat in a row for Sussex .. whats gone wrong?

Vaughan retired hurt .. no news on what it is tho ... or how serious??? Is it the dreaded knee?

oh FFS. he had a good first innings to  :-))(

another mental day at taunton...

http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/countycricket2007/engine/current/match/268130.html

X-Ray on a damaged finger after getting hit by Stuart Clark delivery.

also Tim Ambrose Legend. 251* against Worcestshire. 610-6. Get In.

I know this is the Div 2 thread but seeing as somebody already mentioned Vaughan....

It's a close game between Yorks and Hampshire. Hopefully Vaughan's injury won't hamper Yorkshire too much as they are already 49-2. Pitch doesn't sound to be quite as flat as at other grounds!

What a fucking joke of a pitch Taunton is!

A batsman paradise.

grrrrrrrr. we're fucking up against gloucestershire. :evil:

Seen SSN earlier Surrey 34-6 at old trafford at close of play.  :shock:

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: i hate Surrey!

it looks like Vaughan has Fractured his Finger.  :-))(

great he'll be out of the first test then

M J Hoggard not out   61 runs, 126 balls, 8 fours

They being serious?!  :o

he is out for 62 for now.

Tres made 185 * today for Somerset against Northants.

Middlesex bowled Glamorgan out for 60 off 34 overs today :shock:  :o

Why the hell can't we do that kind of stuff in one dayers when i actually watch them  :-))(

Somerset stormed to victory over the shitheads that play in Bristhole....if Caddy can get wickets at Taunton he should be recalled by England.

somershite decalred on 50-8 batting first  :? whats going on there

Baffled. Something to do with the weather maybe. Trying to make a game out of it.

I thought that was crazy, I think the rationale (if there is any!) for it was to stop Middlesex getting the extra batting point

   Not in the same class as when Brian Rose declared in  a one day game v Worcs, so that although Worcs would win they couldn't get their run rate up, and so deny Somerset a place in the latter stages of the B and H.

   Lords wasn't happy.

Bad luck Reg,was quite a convincing win for the mighty Middle against the Cider brigade Saturday,shame the same couldn't be said for the Sunday one dayer  :-))(  Still i got a good snap of Ian Blackwell so the day was a success of sorts :)
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p212/Larwood_Head/blackwell.jpg

Important win for us as well :)

Still in with a shout! I was at the Surrey-Essex match (apparently it was on Sky as well) as my aunt lives just round the corner - good day out - good match - and my mum was happy as shes an Essex fan

Somerset looked good Sunday,Langer slaughtered us and Trego finished the job off getting our top batsmen out cheaply.Probably the biggest disappointment of the day was not being able to get a pink 20/20 shirt :cry: Plenty that would have fitted Ian Blackwell left though  :wink:
I went to Chelmsford a few weeks ago,nice little set up there,saw Graham Gooch and Andy Flower in the nets  8)

did you go in the old pavillion? looks like it. quality up there.

somerset are on course at the moment do well, i just hope we don;t mess it up!

No it wasn't taken from the Pavillion,they wouldn't let working class female plebs like me in there :( It was taken from the Mound stand,where we'd gone to escape the heat from the top of the Edrich stand.

    :shock:  Johno...... :beers:

Geraint Jones made 61 today for kent. 100 last week as well. Goughie out for month after fracturing his hand. Ouch.

*Bump*

Richard Pybus has left Middlesex  :(  Meaning Emburey is taking over again in spite of the fact we were demoted twice under him last season  :-))(

looks like Worcester won't be playing their home games at New Road until late August due to the floods.

I notice the fact Somerset went up to Division one seems to have past everyone by,not sure why that is,guess Reg is too busy to bother with it now he's been 'outed'  :D

Think its looking as if Middlesex will be down there for another year,three games left to go though guess it could happen....but i doubt it :( There is a chance Slurrey could be demoted again,that would be excellent  :beers:

Haha we're shit  :soapy tit wank:

And broads leaving for nottinghamshire next season,  we're screwed  :(

top of the table clash at hove and weve stated wel!

   Although pleasing, its not something to swing from the chandeliers about...now if next season Somerset won their first ever Championship, it'd be a different matter.

The Re are going nowhere... 8)
 
Cheers

Donkey

What is happening to us (Somerset) this season just shows what can happen if you retain your international players and none go on international duty.

don't germany have a county side?

lose the 'o' and you'd be close Sonic

what like prior, yardy, wright and kirtley? who throughout the season have all left the smallest squad in the championship (1 & 2) yet sussex look like retaining their title?

Not that he'll play for us much next year if he's fit. Along with sideshow after he's got a central contract now.

Still at least we're likely to get promoted back to Div 1

Last games start today,exciting stuff with the division one title still up for grabs.As a neutral i'm hoping Lancashire finally manage to win it.

i dont care Somerset won Div 2 ! YAY! :beers:

You'll be straight back down  :wink: