Lrrr

County championship cricket in the first week of April and all home 50 over games done before second week of May that's sure to help the turn out ? See all the lads played in a winning lions team today, bowling wise Bess 0-55 off 10, Joverton 2-44 off 7 and Gregory opened the bowling 1-52 off 9. Lewis was also 32* off 22

Somerset just need to say they'll apply for test matches for a pay off then Hildreth and Matt Renshaw named in county championship team of the season.

Bess, Gregory and both Overton's in the lions squad

I'm okay with Henry, 75 wickets makes him highest wicket taker in either division. However Denly has a couple more wickets and less runs than Abell for example so shouldn't be there and Clarke is averaging 30 and has around 40 odd wickets. Only 4 players have passed 1000 runs this season so I'd say either Bell or Hildreth should have got a nomination and Ollie Robinson on 74 wickets.

So nominations for players player of the year 2 from Surrey and 2 from Kent.... ? Burns, Clarke, Denly and Matt Henry. Denly and Clarke somewhat poor choices I feel.

He's averaged 25 this season, Byrom only averages a little less so give him/Banton more experience and look to bring in a new opener

Another year for Tres, I would hope its as a back up option to others though rather than first choice.

Get the pitch inspector down there

Hildreth doing what Hildreth does, Tres is a batting scout but presumably now a case of reluctance by England to pick someone of his age.

Well that's one way to get a draw

Just seen that, ouch!

We gone from spinning deck to road have we?

Wow thats a silly way to get run out

Only 1 comment in that BBC article which indicates someone may have looked at us being Gregory one to watch out for with the bat. Overall we largely get ignored in the predictions and players to watch out for.

Below average rating was purely down to excessive turn, will laugh when we can't play spin in the sub continent and pundits ask what can be done. May as well bookmark this for a few months time. Also a ruling that the pitch was under prepared, well as the head groundsman pointed out we lost preparation time due to heavy rainfall before the game and there were no indicators that we had deliberately poorly prepared the pitch.

There going to be any outrage on social media about how many wickets are going down today?

Someone get the pitch inspector to Hampshire....

So the flip side of Taunton's pitch at Trent Bridge Notts got 448 and 93/1 v Yorkshire's 498. How does that help English bowlers? 21 wickets in 4 days and hands shook just after tea on day 4 because there's no chance of a result...

Yeah Renshaw popped into mind, could then get an international to stick around post world cup probably

Getting an overseas player would be difficult for next summer as its the world cup so you'd need to find a test international but not ODI really. Wonder whether we may try Tom Lammonby next summer.

Really we needed to go the opposite way, produce very good batting pitches to get max batting points and back our bowlers, that's the only way to think we'd have a chance to catch Surrey, not dropping all bonus points hoping we'd win.

Well 538 runs scored in just over 5 sessions, the run scoring rate was pretty much the same as any deck just wickets were falling. There was no variable bounce it just turned, I guess we should take a pitch inspector with us to Sri Lanka and object when it turns day 1.

Point someone made on social media, after Leach has skied it, what if they run the first and are able to cross for a second before the catch, would we have got the 1 to win?

Has the patience for a test 50 but not for a ball to take 1 off, brain dead