SomerSex - County championship 2021

[ursus arctos]

Lost their last seven wickets for 30 runs, with a mix of bowlers doing the damage

Would not have expected half of these matches to produce a result given the weather

[Sporting]

Essex looks likely to win this by an innings having lost only three wickets, which can't have happened that often

I've googled a bit but can't find any relevant stats.

[ursus arctos]

StatsGuru doesn't include the County Championship, which eliminates the primary route for this kind of query

[Sporting]

Maybe there's some forum somewhere...

[ursus arctos]

CricArchive might have something, but I haven't yet stumped up for a subscription.

I might write in to CricInfo's stats column.

[pebblethefish]

England have on 3 occasions won a Test match while only losing 2 wickets, the most recent being 1974 (England 459/2, India 165 & 216)

[Sporting]

Ta

[pebblethefish]

While searching, I did discover that Derbyshire once lost a game without losing a wicket.

OK, it's cheating a bit because they both forfeited an innings because of rain, but Derby scored 180/0 declared, then saw Northants overtake it.

[Levin]

Wait, there's cricket started today? Is this because the out of town bowl is being used for tests?

[Ray de Galles]

Afternoon OTFers, afternoon everyone.

Surrey put in by Middlesex but managed 95/0 by lunch. Only two runs since though (allowing for a twenty minute delay for a small shower).

[ursus arctos]

Following on Levin's question, has anyone heard an explanation for why Hants started yesterday?

There are no events listed on the Ageas Bowl website for Sunday

[Ray de Galles]

Surrey collapsing, 141/5 and only 6 runs have been added for the five wickets.

Pope, Foakes and Jamie Smith with consecutive ducks undoing all the good work by Stoneman and Burns this morning.

[pebblethefish]

Must be like watching England in the 80s. I see another one has gone too.

[Ray de Galles]

Rain set in at tea halting the fall of wickets so I'm on the train home. Pleasantly surprised to see 56 overs today, not sure how many I'll get tomorrow.

[Ray de Galles]

Surrey's worst collapse since 1903!

[pebblethefish]

Darren Stevens's 160 out of Kent's 9th wicket partnership of 166 (the other bloke got 1, there were 5 extras) is apparently the highest percentage of a partnership of over 100 in first class cricket.

[ursus arctos]

And he just got Labuschagne, who has been struggling since his arrival

[ad hoc]

I'm astonished to learn that there's any cricket going on anywhere on this godforsaken island

[ursus arctos]

Canterbury is the only venue in the country at which play is going on.

It is grey and windy, but not wet.

[ursus arctos]

And they have just been taken off for bad light

[Ray de Galles]

My sole highlight of around three hours noodling around The Oval and surrounding area was discovering in Nando's Vauxhall branch that they have a new Garlic BBQ level of spice.

Still, had they managed two more overs of play today I wouldn't have got a refund which is a small crumb of comfort

[S. aureus]

Fairly absorbing stuff in the Hampshire - Leicestershire match right now, as the latter are 54-8 in reply to Hampshire's 233, under conditions that are quite challenging for the batsmen. They seem to be getting a handful of overs in between periodic showers.

[Levin]

Hants have forfeited their second innings
I'm sat at The Oval, a bit to the right of Ray's seat yesterday, waiting for play to resume. Maybe I should have stayed at the demo.

[S. aureus]

Leicestershire's last wicket pair held out for 12 overs, which has almost certainly put paid to Hampshire's chances of taking the 15 wickets they needed today. They were pretty remote anyway.

[Levin]

Morning all, back at the Oval again which may be the mostly likely game to end in a result of Surrey accelerate for an hour and then set Middlesex a target.