Howzat

[Drog]

I blame Mowbray!

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Blame Boris.

 

[Husky]

So. The T20 Blast is back.

Lancs y Yorks tomorrow (Friday).

Weather looks cold (isn't it supposed to be summer?) yet dry so should get a full game on (last time I booked to go the fixture was a wash-out).
At the time of writing it is practically a sell-out (as expected).

Anyone going?

 

[Drog]

Nope. btw Husky it's still spring.

 

[Husky]

I'm going. A small number of tickets still available via the resale on the website. . . .

TV isn't real life after all.

"New for 2022, we have a limited number of seats in Stand E that offer a 'Service to Seat' ticket option, that will allow you to order refreshments to be delivered to your seat"

-Bit too pricey that option. But the massive beer queues at T20 have always pissed me off. . . . .One time I went someone missed 3 wickets.

Who remembers the good old days when you could take your own beer/wine in? Sighs!

 

[OnlyOneTugay]

I'm going. A small number of tickets still available via the resale on the website. . . .

TV isn't real life after all.

"New for 2022, we have a limited number of seats in Stand E that offer a 'Service to Seat' ticket option, that will allow you to order refreshments to be delivered to your seat"

-Bit too pricey that option. But the massive beer queues at T20 have always pissed me off. . . . .One time I went someone missed 3 wickets.

Who remembers the good old days when you could take your own beer/wine in? Sighs!

I didn’t go , first one I’ve not bought a ticket for , for some time . Obviously I missed a belter and another tie ! Are you going to write a review Husky ?

 

[Husky]

I didn’t go , first one I’ve not bought a ticket for , for some time . Obviously I missed a belter and another tie ! Are you going to write a review Husky ?

A quick review I guess, as the games come thick and fast, as I type we are batting at home to Worcs (looks like 183 is on the cards again)

Got to the ground over an hour before the start (which is unusual for me) but the metro was already rammed. Bloody freezing too especially before the warmth of the surging crowd and beer (of course) kicks in.

Hadn´t been to Old Trafford for a while (due to the 2019 August games being rained off (the typical 11 month and 2 weeks English winter time) and the ensuing plandemic). Needless to say things had changed a bit in 3 plus years . . .
On ground approach from the metro station it was about as inviting as a Coldtitz prison/an abattoir with all the terrible metal fences herding the cattle towards the entry gates watched by the many (too many) guards in their pound shop hi viz jackets.

Food was crap and expensive (£6.95 for a tiny burger) as expected. Beer was crap and expensive (now up to £5.50 a pint of that watered down Amstel crap) as expected. Perhaps the worst thing was that they have joined the many places that do not accept cash - this was made worse by the fact that the "system was down" at one of the bars and at the other one it took about 10 minutes to buy a beer due to "connectivity issues" . . . do they take cash? NO, as I flashed the £20 note and said it would be so much quicker and easier to pay in cash. Anyway I had already drank half a beer so by the time the machine came back online I had ordered another (maybe that is a deliberate tactic)?

Never heard that stupid snowflakey message they kept repeating on at the start about "discrimination will not be tolerated IN ANY FORM blah blah"", so that must be new thing. Fortunately this did not stretch to things like "Sheep shaggers, We all hate Leeds scum and Jimmy Saville is one of your own" as was belted out at regular intervals in the Fosters Party Stand.

As for the game. I had never heard of our new signing David as I have zero interest in the IPL, but the guy next to me informed me that he is "Siggaporean? born in Hong Kong" or something more of a 19 off 5 balls kind of guy and very immobile in the field. Which is alright for T20 betting I guess and he actually did better than that. . .
I was hoping for 200 at one stage but the innings tailed off a bit (I literally cannot remember a Lancs game where we finished better than we started). Though I guess Rashid bowled pretty well.
Still, 183 was enough, right? Well, almost.

Same guy next to me said he things Villas is a shit captain, and pointed out that he must have miscalculated as our best T20 bowler Parkinson did not even bowl his full allocation. WTF?
More drink (thanks to the mate of the guy next to me I was able to give him some cash and he want to the bar - good lad - and no extra money spent on the service to seat ticket), 100 partnership, Dropped catch(es), only 3 wickets down. . .it was looking ropey for Lancs, even though the run rate never seemed to drop below 2 a ball (so there was always hope).
Then of course 13 to win off the last over - a decently bowled one wins you the game. But that dodgy no ball was the difference. . . . Game over!?!?

Well with one ball to go and only 1 to win with the set batsman on 70 odd on strike the beer fuelled Yorkshites really chirped up as it was their game. Then . . . . the wonder ball (well, still haven´t seen it back) but looked like a perfect yorker from my side on view.
Cue many celebrations and the usual drunks that even thought Lancs had won (as they did not register the no ball).

Weird one! As both sets of fans had a right to be disappointed . . . Then ran off for the tram as those that have been know the score, if you do not manage to get on the platform first up you can be waiting what seems like ages. . . .

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Did they take the knee before the game?

 

[OnlyOneTugay]

A quick review I guess, as the games come thick and fast, as I type we are batting at home to Worcs (looks like 183 is on the cards again)

Got to the ground over an hour before the start (which is unusual for me) but the metro was already rammed. Bloody freezing too especially before the warmth of the surging crowd and beer (of course) kicks in.

Hadn´t been to Old Trafford for a while (due to the 2019 August games being rained off (the typical 11 month and 2 weeks English winter time) and the ensuing plandemic). Needless to say things had changed a bit in 3 plus years . . .
On ground approach from the metro station it was about as inviting as a Coldtitz prison/an abattoir with all the terrible metal fences herding the cattle towards the entry gates watched by the many (too many) guards in their pound shop hi viz jackets.

Food was crap and expensive (£6.95 for a tiny burger) as expected. Beer was crap and expensive (now up to £5.50 a pint of that watered down Amstel crap) as expected. Perhaps the worst thing was that they have joined the many places that do not accept cash - this was made worse by the fact that the "system was down" at one of the bars and at the other one it took about 10 minutes to buy a beer due to "connectivity issues" . . . do they take cash? NO, as I flashed the £20 note and said it would be so much quicker and easier to pay in cash. Anyway I had already drank half a beer so by the time the machine came back online I had ordered another (maybe that is a deliberate tactic)?

Never heard that stupid snowflakey message they kept repeating on at the start about "discrimination will not be tolerated IN ANY FORM blah blah"", so that must be new thing. Fortunately this did not stretch to things like "Sheep shaggers, We all hate Leeds scum and Jimmy Saville is one of your own" as was belted out at regular intervals in the Fosters Party Stand.

As for the game. I had never heard of our new signing David as I have zero interest in the IPL, but the guy next to me informed me that he is "Siggaporean? born in Hong Kong" or something more of a 19 off 5 balls kind of guy and very immobile in the field. Which is alright for T20 betting I guess and he actually did better than that. . .
I was hoping for 200 at one stage but the innings tailed off a bit (I literally cannot remember a Lancs game where we finished better than we started). Though I guess Rashid bowled pretty well.
Still, 183 was enough, right? Well, almost.

Same guy next to me said he things Villas is a shit captain, and pointed out that he must have miscalculated as our best T20 bowler Parkinson did not even bowl his full allocation. WTF?
More drink (thanks to the mate of the guy next to me I was able to give him some cash and he want to the bar - good lad - and no extra money spent on the service to seat ticket), 100 partnership, Dropped catch(es), only 3 wickets down. . .it was looking ropey for Lancs, even though the run rate never seemed to drop below 2 a ball (so there was always hope).
Then of course 13 to win off the last over - a decently bowled one wins you the game. But that dodgy no ball was the difference. . . . Game over!?!?

Well with one ball to go and only 1 to win with the set batsman on 70 odd on strike the beer fuelled Yorkshites really chirped up as it was their game. Then . . . . the wonder ball (well, still haven´t seen it back) but looked like a perfect yorker from my side on view.
Cue many celebrations and the usual drunks that even thought Lancs had won (as they did not register the no ball).

Weird one! As both sets of fans had a right to be disappointed . . . Then ran off for the tram as those that have been know the score, if you do not manage to get on the platform first up you can be waiting what seems like ages. . . .

Great read Husky , many thanks , the catering and bar service obviously hasn’t improved since I was there last .

I remember going to Lords around 10 years ago to watch a T20 , think it was Middlesex v Essex . From memory we took a ‘ picnic ‘ which included beer and wine . Very civilised.

 

[Drog]

Anyone going to this on Friday? ..............

Lashings – Cherry Tree Cricket Club

 

[OnlyOneTugay]

No I’m off to WGC on Friday for HM Queen Elizebeth’s 70th Jubilee Party featuring the Soul Searchers ( love a bit of Soul , Motown and Disco ) and a BBQ .

It looks like a decent day and evening out at Cherry Tree - well done to them . Having said that it saddens me that The East Lancashire Club isn’t hosting an event like this . In the late 1960s I was at Alexandra Meadows to watch a Lancs League X1 v The Cavaliers featuring Ted Dexter . Times change I guess .

 

[Drog]

East Lancs are as poor as a church mouse at the moment. I thought they'd be flying given the asian population all around but for some reason they don't support it, nor do they seem to have any affinity with it. There was a an asian coach who said that they charge too much for coaching the kids and he wanted them to do it for nowt of course. I think it was about 10 quid a month through the summer but that's too much for the locals who have been spoiled with freebies and hand outs for too long. Like the pubs around there it's struggling to survive. The pitch is now owned by QEGS I believe.

 

[OnlyOneTugay]

It’s a crying shame . Alexandra Meadows was known as Headquarters by the other clubs in the Lancashire League back when I played . A thriving club that’s now sadly dying . Bumble was right and everyone in local cricket knows he was right , but daren’t speak the truth . It seems wrong’uns like the anti- Semite texter Azeem Rafiq hold the whip hand now

How can ELCC be saved ? It has to relocate and serve a different demographic , but outside Pleasington , Cherry Tree and Feniscowles areas , which are well served by two clubs , albeit at a lower standard , where on earth in Blackburn could it go ?

 

[Husky]

Great read Husky , many thanks , the catering and bar service obviously hasn’t improved since I was there last .

I remember going to Lords around 10 years ago to watch a T20 , think it was Middlesex v Essex . From memory we took a ‘ picnic ‘ which included beer and wine . Very civilised.

I know the alcohol thing is purely profit driven, but they once gave some kind of excuse about trying to limit "rowdy behaviour! But from memory things seemed a lot more civilised when one could take in a bottle of wine or 4 cans of beer rather than how it has been in recent times with needing to buy as much beer from the bar in one go as possible to save you having to queue up again.

As for the Lancs Yorks game, in my haste to watch the 2nd part of the Lancs v Worcs game there were a couple of things I forgot to mention - That there were a bunch of the six fingered variety a few rows behind me and they did chirp up a couple of times with some derogatory and offensive chant against the Rovers - had I been a bit more delicate I might have had to text HELP to the number given before play started to no doubt get the discrimination police to immediately swoop down with their drones and deal with those Burnl*y louts.

Secondly the 10:54pm train from Piccadilly (last train back via Bolton) was cancelled so I had to make a dash across to Victoria station where upon arrival I ran into hoards of old school moshers - I soon discovered that was because Alice Cooper had just finished at the MEN Arena (or whatever it's called these days). Wasn't that guy that used to post on the libtard forum (and here before my arrival) back in the day into old school rock like that? Forgot his name (username). Might have even passed him (assuming he is still in the land of the living).

Moving on. Notts v Lancs (or Outlaws v Lightning if you prefer women's cricket, lol) up at 6.30pm tonight. Here is the live Youtube stream.

Or audio commentary from Radio Lancs https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/cricket/60105300

Notts won the toss and have put Lancs into bat.

 

[Husky]

Lancs 178-7.

Have to say that seems an average effort with the boundaries in at a place where we regularly get beaten - 9 defeats in a row at Trent Bridge and this could be no.10.

Gonna have to bowl really well.

Edit. LOL! Great start Notts 11-4 (from 11 balls) and Hales has not faced a ball yet (keep him off strike FFS).

 

[Drog]

Lancs 178-7.

Have to say that seems an average effort with the boundaries in at a place where we regularly get beaten - 9 defeats in a row at Trent Bridge and this could be no.10.

Gonna have to bowl really well.

Edit. LOL! Great start Notts 11-4 (from 11 balls) and Hales has not faced a ball yet (keep him off strike FFS).

Seems they did! L|ancs a comfortable victory. Notts 91 all out.
Notts Outlaws v Lancashire Lightning - Cricket - BBC Sport

 

[Husky]

Over 38,000 on Youtube watching the end of the Lancs innings. Wow!

Do you think most have tuned in a bit early for the women's game? (3pm start for the men because of that).
Croft playing the finisher role with 28 off 10 balls.

 

[OnlyOneTugay]

Played 4 , won 3 and tied 1 . Lancs early leaders

 

[OnlyOneTugay]

The sun’s shining , a resplendent Lords is full to capacity , England are about to start their international test summer and the Queen has done 70 years of selfless duty .

‘ Oh to be in England ‘

 

[Husky]

Jack Leach is out of the Test with concussion after falling over the boundary rope.

Who will England call up? They have to replace like for like so I suspect Parkinson will get the nod, meaning a big gap to fill for Lancs.

New Zealand 36-6 after winning the toss and choosing to bat.