Re: County Cricket 2010 : Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:57 pm  

Somerset take the draw

Notts win the title as they get the 3 wickets needed to gain a bowling bonus point and means a draw leaves them tied with Somerset but they have won more games (7 to Somerset's 6)

Chilts should've declared after the 2nd wicket went down ...

Re : Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:19 pm  

Well they can't do it for themselves but this season Lancashire have proved they can win the championship, for Nottinghamshire....

Re: County Cricket 2010 : Thu Sep 16, 2010 5:44 pm  

John_D wrote:

Congratulations to Somerset.

What for, finishing second in every competition?? Hopefully anyway

If only Yorkshire had batted sensibly today they could very easily have sneaked the title

Re: County Cricket 2010 : Fri Sep 17, 2010 9:52 pm  

An excellent county championship season though with a top draw finish too.

Re: County Cricket 2010 : Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:39 am  

Yorkshire have agreed to release Jacques Rudolph from the last year of his contract apparently - that's a lot of runs we'll need to somehow replace next season.

Re: County Cricket 2010 : Thu Sep 23, 2010 11:09 am  

AvA wrote:

Yorkshire have agreed to release Jacques Rudolph from the last year of his contract apparently - that's a lot of runs we'll need to somehow replace next season.

Any reasons why? Is he going to try and get back into the SA squad?
What about Sayers, has he got the capabilities to bounce back and get runs for you?

Still no concrete news on where Owais Shah and Ryan Sidebottom are going. Would be good signings for whoever they sign for.

Re: County Cricket 2010 : Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:20 pm  

Ordsall Quays Red wrote:

Any reasons why? Is he going to try and get back into the SA squad?
What about Sayers, has he got the capabilities to bounce back and get runs for you?

I think that's his intention, he wants to give it another shot and it means that if he came back to Yorkshire short-term he'd be an overseas player rather than a Kolpak.

Sayers never got back into the side after losing his place through injury as we were going OK batting wise. He's got the ability, it's whether he kicks on in the same way Adam Lyth has done.

I'd love to have Sidebottom back, particularly now he's given up his international career. Whether I would be prepared to give him the 3 year deal he wants though is another matter...

Re: County Cricket 2010 : Thu Sep 23, 2010 2:35 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

I think that's his intention, he wants to give it another shot and it means that if he came back to Yorkshire short-term he'd be an overseas player rather than a Kolpak.

Fair do's to him. Says on the BBC report that he and his wife never settled in England too which is a bit odd considering he was at Yorkshire for 4 years?!

Andy Gilder wrote:

Sayers never got back into the side after losing his place through injury as we were going OK batting wise. He's got the ability, it's whether he kicks on in the same way Adam Lyth has done.

Lyth has only done it this season though hasn't he? What if this season was a flash in the pan, that would be a huuuuge amount of runs missing.

Andy Gilder wrote:

I'd love to have Sidebottom back, particularly now he's given up his international career. Whether I would be prepared to give him the 3 year deal he wants though is another matter...

I think the 3 year deal thing is the deal-breaker for everyone so far to be honest. Will his body hold out for another 3 years? Will quitting England mean he lasts 3 years? I have my doubts.

Re: County Cricket 2010 : Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:44 pm  

Yorkshire have turned down the chance to sign Wasim Jaffer (32) and are probably looking at a home grown replacemnet for Rudolph, and it seems likely we'll sign an overseas bowler rather than a batsman. We're also going to confirm the signing of Ryan Sidebottom in the next week.

According to the Yorkshire post.

Re: County Cricket 2010 : Thu Sep 30, 2010 12:03 pm  

Hope so, it will be nice to see Ryan finish his career off well for Yorkshire.