Stanford Cup

[CREDYGRECIAN]

Watched England struggle past Middlesex last night , anyone else see Strauss drop ?

the worse ive ever seen id say...

Loads of dropped catches under the lights , could be 1 million pound drop on saturday night.

 

[ECFC TOM]

I watched bits of the match last night. Slow starts from both teams, not exactly explosive stuff.

 

[CREDYGRECIAN]

The wicket seems very slow , spinners paradise...

 

[Brian Moore]

How many dropped catches last night! The "lights" look very dodgy, what a way to lose $100,000!

 

[Jason H]

Apparently both Middx and England stayed behind after the match the other night to practice their catching as they found it impossible under the lights.

Day/Night Cricket is great in theory but bad in practice if you ask me.

 

[Brian Moore]

Wouldnt be a problem with better lights though - baseball copes fine but then again there isnt quite the money in cricket for lights like that, Allen Stanford or no Allen Stanford, so its carrots all round instead.

 

[Jason H]

Baseball is a doddle compared to Cricket, though. Fielding is extremely straightforward, a dummy could be a decent outfielder in Baseball.

 

[Brian Moore]

I can already see Monty in a Braves jersey next season then.

 

[Antony Moxey]

a dummy could be a decent outfielder in Baseball.

Rubbish. I know you have a mitt, but you still have to catch or retrieve the ball and get it back to a base as quickly as possible. I bet it taks some doing to throw that flat, that fast and that accurately.

 

[Jason H]

The throwing, yes, but the catching part is a doddle compared to Cricket.

When I played a bit (mainly Softball but a little Baseball) my compadres couldn't believe I didn't want to use a mitt when fielding.