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  2. The County Cricket Thread

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    Visiting captains will again be given the option of bowling first without a toss in both divisions of the Specsavers County Championship in 2017, after the ECB Board this week ratified a recommendation from the Cricket Committee to retain the playing condition for a second year.

    The regulation generated headlines, and some controversy, when it was announced last autumn, with the stated aim of encouraging home counties to produce better four-day pitches –within which was a goal of restoring the balance of matches to include spin, but a more general aim of reinforcing the Championship’s role in preparing players for the challenges of international cricket.

    The Cricket Committee – which included Yorkshire’s director of cricket Martyn Moxon, Leicestershire’s chief executive Wasim Khan and David Leatherdale, the chief executive of the Professional Cricketers’ Association – decided that it had succeeded in those objectives after studying a range of data comparing the 2016 season with what had gone before.

    Key statistics included:

    • 85% of matches went into a fourth day, compared to 74% in 2015 – the 2016 figure was the highest percentage since 2009;
    • The average score for the first innings of a match was 332, slightly up from 325 in 2015 and the highest in the last five years;
    • The average score for the second innings of a match was 343, well up from 290 in 2015, and again the highest in the last five years;
    • A total of 10,094 overs of spin, compared to 8,643 in 2015 – the highest since 2011;
    • A total of 843 wickets taken by spin in 2016, up from 752 in 2015;
    • Of these, 545 were in Division One, meaning spinners took almost 26% of all wickets;
    • Warwickshire’s Jeetan Patel and Somerset’s Jack Leach were the leading wicket-takers in Division One, with 69 and 65 respectively – the first time since 2009 that spinners have occupied the top two positions;
    • 50 out of 72 matches in Division One had a toss – meaning the visiting captain declined the option of bowling first without a toss;
    • The figure for Division Two was 38 out of 70 (two matches were abandoned without a ball being bowled), producing a total of 88 out of 142 – 62%;
    • 71 of the 142 matches in both divisions were drawn, discounting the two abandoned matches, meaning there was a positive result in the other 71 – whereas in 2015, there were 93 results and only 51 draws.

  9. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    19 hours ago, Rob k said:

    What do you call obsessed?

    I openly admit the first result I'm interested in after ours is Rovers!

    Makes the weekend that little bit better if we win and they lose!! 

    Yeah - that is what I would call obsessed

    It drives me nuts on the way out of a game on a Saturday when our fans seem more interested in how Rovers got on, compared to any of our rivals

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  12. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    Now this did make me laugh 

     

    Bristol Rovers pride themselves on strict policing fans at the Memorial Stadium to reduce the amount of illegal activity ever occurring at the ground.

    So far this season the club has already banned two separate groups of fans, for very different reasons.

    The club's security officer Dave Parker has given details of the bans that have already taken place at the club this season.

    Read more: Bristol Rovers set out plans for when they want to relocate to proposed new training base

     

    He said: "We have already banned a group of eight people up to Christmas, over a smoke grenade that was released during the pre-season game against Aston Villa.

    "It has been the yellow card approach with them. We have also banned six people who were caught live streaming the match as part of a betting syndicate.

    "The group has been banned for the rest of the season, their details have been passed to the police. On that front we are one of the leading clubs in the country with cracking down on that issue."

    Read more: What were the 'security reasons' that left Yeovil Town boss Darren Way bemused at Bristol Rovers?

    Mr Parker also highlighted what might lead to fans being banned and even life-time bans in some serious cases. Here is a rundown of activity which might lead to some of the most serious punishments:

    LIFETIME BANS

    DISCRIMINATORY BEHAVIOUR OR LANGUAGE

    There is a zero tolerance approach on discrimination. Anyone found guilty of racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, anti-disability language, chanting or abuse will receive a minimum season-long ban. In the worst case scenario, it will earn you a lifetime ban from the ground.

    DISORDER

    Anyone found fighting or physically assaulting someone will be banned from the stadium for a minimum of six matches. In more serious cases this can be extended to a lifetime ban.

    ABUSE/AGGRESSION TOWARDS STAFF

    Any verbal or physical abuse towards staff will mean fans are immediately ejected from the ground with a minimum sanction of three matches. This can be punished by a lifelong ban from the ground depending on the scope of the offence.

    TICKETING

    Abusing the ticketing rules can range from a written warning to a lifetime ban. Touting and the misuse of tickets or concessions all breach the rules set by the club

    OTHER BANS

    Smoking a cigarette or an e-cigarette is also a breach of conduct at the Memorial Ground. Fans can expect to be ejected from the stadium with a maximum ban of six matches if found breaking the strict smoking rules. Anyone considered to be drunk in the stands, hospitality areas or found drinking in view of the pitch can also incur the six-match sanction.

    Throwing coins and drinks or setting off flares in the stand can mean anything from a three-match ban to a three-season ban for supporters. Anyone caught on the pitch at any time without permission could also be on the receiving end of a three-season exclusion.

    Persistent foul and abusive language can also mean a season-long ban. This includes any abuse aimed towards players, staff and home or visiting fans.


    Read more at http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/how-many-bristol-rovers-fans-have-already-been-banned-from-the-memorial-stadium-this-season/story-29787001-detail/story.html?afterReg=Y#0V5OYOPE6KXVx9EG.99

  24. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    6 minutes ago, st andrews gas said:

    I guess the only real thing I actually laugh at on here is how some of your fans, and again I say some...like to say that fans of clubs like Swindon, Cardiff, Plymouth say they hate us more than you lot- complete utter joke talking to fans of those clubs over many years in my experience.

    Possibly correct - but no doubt the reason that they dislike us is because we a much more successful than most of those tin pot clubs - yourselves included.

    I do wonder if you would really expect someone you were talking to about local football to actually say they preferred City to Rovers as it would be clear to them they were talking to a Rover fan !

    Clearly as you mention #gaslogic

  25. The County Cricket Thread

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    Was a really strange day at Taunton yesterday, for most of the day it actually looked like we might do it, 240 off 40 looked tight and hoped they keep wickets in hand then fall short. 

    Was talking to Trescothick he went for a sleep mid afternoon, he hadn't seen the latest score at this point and didn't want to know it. 

    Players obviously getting nervous as they had a game of football on the pitch at one point. 

    It was strange how many people were so tense they were sat in the ground staring into the distance. 

    Was great to speak to Lavendar, Abell, Bess, Hildreth (reckons he could play in 3 weeks), Rogers (said he was surprised so many there yesterday) and Ian Blackwell, there is real passion to go one better next season. 

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