Some other fairly extraordinary scores as well (2 double centurions for Worcester)SaintK wrote: Tue Jul 01, 2025 9:06 am Surrey scored 820-9 against Durham in the County Championship this week, their highest ever score in any match.
Dom Sibley hit 305 and there were 3 other centurions!!!!
And because it's been hot and dry, the wickets should be great for batting. As you say, a few places it would've been fantastic to sit for a couple of days and watch in a county ground - The Oval, Southampton, Hove, Canterbury. Nearly 700 runs in the first two days at Hove would've been great, then a wander down the seafront in the evening.duke wrote: Tue Jul 01, 2025 9:23 amSome other fairly extraordinary scores as well (2 double centurions for Worcester)SaintK wrote: Tue Jul 01, 2025 9:06 am Surrey scored 820-9 against Durham in the County Championship this week, their highest ever score in any match.
Dom Sibley hit 305 and there were 3 other centurions!!!!
. They're using the Kookaburra ball for this round of games and a couple of others and it has produced tons of runs and very few wickets.
Aaaahh! I wondered how Kent had scored nearly 600 runs which is probably about 300 runs more than their best score this seasonduke wrote: Tue Jul 01, 2025 9:23 amSome other fairly extraordinary scores as well (2 double centurions for Worcester)SaintK wrote: Tue Jul 01, 2025 9:06 am Surrey scored 820-9 against Durham in the County Championship this week, their highest ever score in any match.
Dom Sibley hit 305 and there were 3 other centurions!!!!
. They're using the Kookaburra ball for this round of games and a couple of others and it has produced tons of runs and very few wickets.
Kookaburra conundrum - can county cricket have too many runs?duke wrote: Tue Jul 01, 2025 9:23 amSome other fairly extraordinary scores as well (2 double centurions for Worcester)SaintK wrote: Tue Jul 01, 2025 9:06 am Surrey scored 820-9 against Durham in the County Championship this week, their highest ever score in any match.
Dom Sibley hit 305 and there were 3 other centurions!!!!
. They're using the Kookaburra ball for this round of games and a couple of others and it has produced tons of runs and very few wickets.
Over the past two weeks at county grounds around the country, players have been raising their bats with astonishing regularity.
No fewer than 59 centuries have been scored across the latest two rounds of County Championship matches.
A batter's paradise and a bowler's nightmare, with seamers left scratching their heads at how to use the unfamiliar Kookaburra ball.
Huge scores have been clocked up, none bigger than Surrey's mammoth 820-9 declared against Durham, the highest for 18 years and fourth highest in the history of Championship cricket.
But why have the runs been flowing?
And still very nearly managed to lose!SaintK wrote: Tue Jul 01, 2025 11:39 amAaaahh! I wondered how Kent had scored nearly 600 runs which is probably about 300 runs more than their best score this seasonduke wrote: Tue Jul 01, 2025 9:23 amSome other fairly extraordinary scores as well (2 double centurions for Worcester)SaintK wrote: Tue Jul 01, 2025 9:06 am Surrey scored 820-9 against Durham in the County Championship this week, their highest ever score in any match.
Dom Sibley hit 305 and there were 3 other centurions!!!!
. They're using the Kookaburra ball for this round of games and a couple of others and it has produced tons of runs and very few wickets.
Aussies lead by 33 runs, 2nd innings just startedSeales to Konstas, OUT
chopped on, and Seales has a wicket in his very first over! This is shorter outside off and Kosntas' eyes light up. He thinks this is there to be hit and to be fair to him, it perhaps is. But he tugs at it a little too much, probably extra eager to get off the mark. The bottom hand takes over and the ball cannons off the inside/under edge into the stumps. A nightmare start for Australia; just the beginning WI and Seales would have been after!
Sam Konstas b Seales 0 (4b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0
He’s a beautiful batsman to watch. So balanced and impeccable timing of the ball.SaintK wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 3:51 pm Gill has scored 420+ runs in the match so far
More than England di8d in their 1st innings :lol: :lol: :lol:
ScarfaceClaw wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 4:00 pmHe’s a beautiful batsman to watch. So balanced and impeccable timing of the ball.SaintK wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 3:51 pm Gill has scored 420+ runs in the match so far
More than England di8d in their 1st innings
You’d have to wonder what the target is for India. They are leading by 607 now with rain forecast over the next couple of days. Are they wanting to knacker the English bowlers ahead of the next test.
Oh and they now declare.
Average 31.9 and tumbling. Really hasn't repaid the faith shown.
