Somerset
Lewis and Sajid raise spirits
By Farmer White et al
September 21 2022
After a poor performance where Gloucestershire gave us a 'Get out of Jail Free' card when they ought to have put us away we went to Birmingham with trepedation.... and played quite well with Lewis Gregory and late signing Pakistan's Sajid Khan providing some interest at the start of the game. Here is Farmer's take on the beginnings
County Championship 2022. Division 1. Warwickshire v Somerset. 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th September 2022. Edgbaston.
Jack Leach was unavailable for selection by Somerset due to being on international duty and Craig Overton had not fully recovered from his injury.
Warwickshire. D.P. Sibley, A.L. Davies, R.M. Yates, W.M.H. Rhodes (c), S.R. Hain, Y. Yadav, M.G.K. Burgess (w), D.R. Briggs, H.J.H. Brookes, M. Siraj, O.J. Hannon-Dalby.
Somerset. T.A. Lammonby, Iman-ul-Haq, T.B. Abell (c), G.A. Bartlett, L. P. Goldsworthy, J.E.K. Rew (w), L. Gregory, K.L. Aldridge, J.H. Davey, Sajid Khan, J.A. Brooks.
Toss. Somerset. Elected to bat.
First day 12th September – Gregory and Khan raise the spirits
The day began with the players, coaches and officials lined up facing the Pavilion. The two or three hundred people in the crowd, there were no more to my eye, joining them as respects were paid to the late Queen Elizabeth II. A short statement was read before a perfectly observed minute’s silence was held. The silence, a passing lorry apart, was palpable. Every minute’s silence I have witnessed being observed by a Championship crowd, even ones more than ten times the size of this one, is the same. Not a person moves. Not a syllable is spoken. This morning, for that minute, peace and intensely quiet contemplation reigned.
And then, the day moved quietly into the cricket. Oliver Hannon-Dalby bowled the first over to Tom Lammonby. No appeals disturbed the peace, no runs disturbed the scoreboard. From beyond the boundary the pitch looked uniformly brown, the sky looked uniformly grey, and the outfield displayed cricket’s ageless alternate stripes of bright and dull green. It was cricket in England, autumnal cricket to mark the modern age to be sure, but as restful as it would have been at the start of the latest Elizabethan age. Were it not for the expanse of the modern sports stadium that Edgbaston has become and the quality of the cricket, the start might have had the ambience of a league cricket match in the backwoods of any of the 18 shires that form the first-class game in this country. I quietly watched it all unfold from the heights of the square of the wicket Hollies Stand along which, at the start, housed myself and two others.
In the second over, Lammonby drove Mohammed Siraj, Warwickshire’s end of season fast-bowling Indian Test signing, straight back to the Pavilion boundary for four, the innate smoothness of the stroke reflecting the early tranquillity of the morning. Siraj and Hannon-Dalby, pacey and accurate, now held the Somerset openers to little more than one run an over as the morning moved into a slow, unruffled awakening. At least, it looked unruffled from the vast emptiness of the Hollies Stand. On that brown, innocuous-looking pitch more was happening. “Siraj is swinging it and Hannon-Dalby is cutting it,” said the incoming text from the online watcher. That explained the focused intensity displayed by Lammonby and Iman, and the expectant line of four slips placed by Warwickshire. Only a straight-driven three by Iman off Hannon-Dalby broke the slow accumulation of singles which took Somerset to 12 for 0 at the end of the ninth over.
By the end of the tenth, the floodlights were on and Iman, perhaps trying to break the shackles, essayed a sharp cut at Siraj. He was caught by Mark Burgess moving to his left behind the stumps. Somerset were 12 for 1, Iman was gone for 5 made in 40 minutes and the morning had woken up. Lammonby responded for Somerset by pulling Siraj through wide midwicket to the Family Stand boundary on the far side of the ground from the Hollies Stand. Two balls later, like a flurry of leaves being blown horizontally from a tree by an autumnal gust, the umpires and players left the field while spectators from the uncovered City End fled for the cover of the Hollies Stand’s high winged roof.
“It’s raining,” one of them said, a fact not immediately distinguishable from bad light if you were already under the roof. Soon though there was no doubt. As the great hover-cover was floated into place and its supplementary covers rolled out, the volume of rain falling became apparent as the roof sounded as if all the tin tacks in heaven were being emptied onto it. Half an hour later the rain was still falling, and the announcement of an early lunch came as no surprise. With Somerset on 17 for 1, a further announcement that Northamptonshire had reached 58 for 0 against Surrey tended to confirm the view that avoidance of the second relegation spot would be contested between the two teams that had started here, and Kent who were not playing in this round of matches.
When play finally resumed at 2.15, 28 overs had been lost from the day and Warwickshire’s opening bowlers were completely rested. Two balls after the restart, 17 for 1 became 17 for 2 as Tom Abell came forward in defence to Hannon-Dalby and was bowled. A look at a replay showed the ball cutting in sharply. It was a devil of a ball. It was a reminder too of the risks inherent in batting first, especially at this autumnal end of the modern elongated season. My instinct though remains that that risk is outweighed by the risks of bowling first, for so often sides winning the toss and fielding seem to find themselves facing a larger opposition total than they had bargained for. Who would be a captain at the toss?
Tom Abell’s departure brought George Bartlett to the wicket. Bartlett has had a tough two years and some Somerset supporters will tell you he has had sufficient opportunity. When he gets it right though, he plays with an engaging freedom and style and scores quickly. He has too scored five centuries for Somerset and tends to score his runs when Somerset need them most. Here, he was immediately on the offensive, glancing his first ball to fine leg for a single, and in Hannon-Dalby’s next over calmly guiding a ball between gully and backward point to the gap between the Hollies Stand and the Pavilion where spectators gather to talk. Had there been any spectators there they would have talked of that stroke. Lammonby, quietly establishing himself, then drove Hannon-Dalby through the covers for three as the wet outfield applied the brakes and then drove straight along the ground to the Wyatt Stand for four. Bartlett continued by leaning beautifully into an on drive off Siraj which raced along the ground back to Hollies Stand/Pavilion gap.
That stroke took Somerset to 36 for 2. A stand developing, the hopeful thought. Warwickshire turned to Jayant Yadav’s off spin. Lammonby, who does not always invoke confidence against spin, advanced down the pitch to his second ball. The bat was pushed forward, missed the ball and Burgess had the bails off with Lammonby hopelessly out of his ground. Before the numbness of spirit resulting from that dismissal had had a chance to subside, Bartlett attempted to pull a ball from Siraj, now in the 11th over of his rain-interrupted opening spell. The ball veered wide down the leg side, Bartlett followed it, connected with the top edge, and the ball looped just beyond the empty leg slip position. Michael Burgess, from behind the stumps, took off after the ball, his body looping through the air as he went, took the catch, landed on one hand, and almost completed a cartwheel in retaining the ball. It was an ugly stroke, a brilliant catch, and Somerset were 46 for 4. James Rew, who has made an immense impact in his five County Championship matches for Somerset, attempted to turn his first ball from Siraj to leg. The ball, angled across him, straightened sharply off the pitch, struck the pads and the appeal left no doubt as to the outcome. 46 for 5. It all left a numbing despond in the hearts and stomachs of Somerset supporters as they faced the prospect of defeat, and with it the thought of relegation to the second division for the first time in a decade and a half. A glance at the sky revealed a cloud base a little higher than earlier, but a degree of humidity beginning to make itself felt did nothing to challenge the pessimism.
At the wicket now were the two Lewis’s, Goldsworthy and Gregory. The first has recently enjoyed a series of, perhaps career-establishing, fighting innings for Somerset and now brought the hope that he might stem the cascade of wickets. The second is capable both of stunningly attacking match-turning innings and, less remembered but equally valuable, obdurately defensive match-saving ones. But all too often it seems to many, he can fall early in an innings to a less then judicious stroke. At his best he bats as if he has an average of 40. In fact, his average is 24. Watching the start of a Gregory innings in circumstances such as those he faced on this morning involves an uncomfortable combination of hope that an exceptional innings is about to start, and dread that a bat hung outside off stump will edge a ball to the keeper.
Against the spin of Yadav, the pair made progress, Goldsworthy nicely cutting one ball fine of backward point to the gap between the Hollies Stand and the Pavilion for four. Against Siraj they struggled. In one over, Gregory twice edged short of slip, once for four, was beaten and, finally, struck on the pad to a loud appeal. “Gregory didn’t know much about that over,” said the text from an online watcher, “Siraj is swinging and seaming it,” and balls beating the bat, at either end, were not an uncommon occurrence. When Henry Brookes replaced Siraj he drifted to leg, Goldsworthy followed the ball and edged it to Burgess behind the stumps. He departed for nine and Somerset were 66 for 6. Gregory, as he is inclined to do, briefly counter attacked against Yadav. In successive balls he went up onto the back foot to drive through the covers to the Hollies Stand for four and then lofted an on drive over midwicket to clear the Raglan Stand boundary. But when Aldridge attempted to play Brookes through midwicket he was struck on the pad and departed lbw for 6. Somerset were 82 for 7 and the innings was in complete disarray.
Somerset supporters I spoke to during the rest of the day described that score as the lowest ebb of a desperately disappointing Championship season in which Somerset had lost five of their first eight matches. I thought of 2002 when Somerset, having finished second in the Championship for the first time in their history the year before, slid inexorably through the season to relegation. In 2022, they had played with more conviction in the recent matches against Lancashire, Yorkshire and Essex, but now, against one of their chief relegation rivals, when it mattered most, their first innings had been damaged beyond apparent repair. My spirits were not improved by the text which read, “Yadav is getting big turn. This will not be easy to bat on,” for Warwickshire had two front line spinners to Somerset’s one, and 88 for 7 is no base from which to plan a spin attack. The gnawing in the pit of the Somerset stomach was unbearable as the very real prospect of relegation opened like a chasm.
With tea approaching, Warwickshire turned to that second spinner, Danny Briggs. It felt like a moment of truth. He came on from the Pavilion End, opposite Yadav. With the end of the Somerset first innings now in clear view, Gregory calmly defended two of the first three balls, softly driving the third to mid-on. Then, as if a button had been pressed, he launched the fourth high and long over mid-on and onto the Pavilion terrace, a hopelessly defiant gesture it seemed. But the next ball was launched higher still and squarer. It landed on, and flipped, a seat well to my left in the 21st row of the Hollies Stand, easy to count because the seat was virtually parallel to mine. For good measure Gregory lofted Brigg’s last ball back onto the Pavilion Terrace. A clip to the Raglan Stand at deep midwicket off Yadav by Davey took Somerset to tea on 117 for 7. Still a score of woe, but those three sixes from Gregory had looked so controlled and targeted on removing the threat of Briggs that my teatime perambulation, circumnavigations of Edgbaston are not possible without leaving the ground, was undertaken with the beginnings of a spring in my step. As I walked behind the Barnes Stand at the City End, another Somerset supporter said to me, “The pitch doesn’t look easy. If we could get to 180, perhaps 220, we might just have a chance.” “Indeed,” I replied. “A chance, but 220, even 180, is a long way off.”
The partnership had a different feel to it after tea. The batting was more controlled, less frenetic and the bowling seemed less threatening. References to the bat being beaten were no longer sprinkled through my notes and the total gradually began to mount. When Gregory dropped to one knee to sweep Yadav behind square to the Family Stand, the score reached 140 for 7 and 180 began to feel like a realistic, if still barely adequate, prospect. Gregory had been aided by Josh Davey, playing a typically measured innings. Most of his runs were turned or deflected behind square, including a confident clip off his legs to the Hollies Stand boundary off Siraj who had again returned to bowl. But, on 21, he was struck on the pad by Siraj and had to depart in the face of the umpire’s finger. A score of 140 for 8 felt, to a faster beating Somerset heart, a lot better than 88 for 7, but to the pit of the stomach it still felt painfully short of where it really needed to be.
And then, a partnership that, with Gregory’s three sixes, changed the feel of the day, if not of the match. Sajid Khan, in his second match for Somerset, with a combination of skill and inventiveness combined with some sterling defence and strike rotation from Gregory took Somerset past that dreamed of 180. A drive and a miss from Khan off Hannon-Dalby, bowling from the City End, was followed by four runs driven with an angled bat through the on side to the vertiginous West Stand. In two overs, Khan subjected Siraj to a flick to the fine leg boundary, an uppercut which flew over fourth slip to the Wyatt Stand, another flick towards fine leg which resulted in two runs driven by an insistent, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!” from Khan and another four from a cannon-powered pull in front of midwicket reminiscent of Nick Compton in his Somerset heyday.
As the clouds and the light closed in and began to overwhelm the lights, a late cut of perfection from Khan was matched by a glance with just enough deflection to defeat the keeper. Both were off Hannon-Dalby, and both ran to the Pavilion boundary. It was a spirit-raising late charge complemented by a flat-batted four to the Barnes Stand, again off Hannon-Dalby, from Gregory. When the weather finally demanded an end to the day a further 12 overs were lost, 40 in total in the day, but Somerset closed on 182 for 8. It was not where they would have wanted to be when they won the toss and batted, and an attempt at a detached view deemed it a barely adequate score, especially if Khan’s assault was an indicator that the pitch was losing some of its venom. However, Gregory’s three sixes and Khan’s assault had given Somerset impetus, and with Gregory on 60 and Khan on 31 from 33 balls, a chance that had not seemed possible at 88 for 7.
Close. Somerset 182 for 8.
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We will probably go with roughly the same if not the same side as last week unless Craig Overton IS available and fit to play.
Personally I'd like to see the guy we signed because he is a supposed specialist opener open with the international guy we signed as a specialist opener Umeed with Ul Haq. Is he any good? Don't know. We signed him for a reason, if it wasn't to open then what was it?
Would also possibly go with Banton at 5 but that is certainly more of a maybe. The whole Lammonby, Bartlett, Banton issue is going to be further complicated when KTC arrives.
Sonny Baker? Well we are looking after him but if we're bowling him in the seconds then bowl him in the firsts!!
Anyway enjoy those who are going. Hope the weather and the Somerset cricket is better and more promising than last week. We need this one for safety.
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Just Sonny In, Banton OUT
Possible showers tomorrow, set fair days 2, 3, 4.
Kent playing Hampshire next week should keep us alive until the last round regardless of the next 2 weeks, but 20/25pts from the next 2 games keeps us in much better shape.
Again the question is asked... what was the point of signing Umeed if he isn't being considered to play red ball cricket in a failing batting attack? If he isn't good enough then why? If he is considered good enough then why not blood him with a confident international opener? Not really sure what the plan is to be honest.
Certainly not sure Tom Lammonby will ever be a solid opening punt but he is welcome to prove me wrong.
So the questions remain. Where is our Number 2 bat? Will Bartlett or Banton play? Plus the Sonny & Umeed queries
Roelof will not play unless they produce a pitch with enough for the double spin option.
Will the batting fold and who the hell in that squad is going to take the lion's share of 20 wickets?
Here
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They have signed Indian Test quickie Mohammed Siraj and spinning all-rounder Jayant Yadav for the last three matches of the season.
Squad: Rhodes (c), Briggs, Brookes, Burgess, Davies, Garrett, Hain, Hannon-Dalby, Johal, Sibley, Siraj, Yadav, Yates.
Not words you want to read after last week. In fact, not words you want to read after the last 12 months.
Imam
Rew
Goldsworthy
Banton
Lammonby
Abell
Gregory
RvdM
MdL
Davey
Khan (or Brooks depending on pitch)
So much more batting strength and bowling no worse.
Quote:Scrumper
But MdL is still here costing us money....
And the difference from the rest of the season is...?
That could even be that for the day depending on how long it takes to mop up (May rain until 3pm per Met Office)
[www.metoffice.gov.uk]
This season? History repeating itself
Should probably have given Abell a run out in the seconds instead of playing Vs Gloucs.
I smell an innings defeat here, already.
The worst batting side in Christendom playing down to its usual standards.
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Now Gibson has just said:
“Cove very unlikely to be available for either of Somerset’s remaining games.”
So which is it?
He should be ok in the morning, fingers crossed.
No one has said I’m unavailable for the rest of the season to me so not sure where this has come from. I’m doing my best to be available for the next game. This week came too soon for me
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Grizzers
At a rough guess about 400 here yesterday, at a push.
And that includes a good sprinkling of familiar Somerset faces.
Lewis batted well, we have got "a score"
If we can push it to 220+ who knows.
The pitch was doing all sorts, it is very unlikely to get better.
We used to get 180/200 regularly at Taunton when it spun and win matches comfortably. Sometimes cricket games are about finding a way to win, not batters scoring 100s and it going past tea on day 4.....
The sun is out already so roll on day 2 here 👍☀️🏏
You jinxed it wsm. But I'll take 219, good recovery
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Just switched on in time to see Josh strike.
Sounds like very very good batting from Sajid.
Aldridge is our “height,” option so it will be interesting to see how he goes.
Grizzers
We’ve played pretty well *since* then - but when you start a game like that…
If they knew that pitches here get better for batting on, why didn’t Tom Abell seem to know? I.e we could have put them in..
How many of our top six will we contrive to lose tonight?
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Either or both could be out injured or anywhere from excellent through average to useless. What they do next year will ultimately determine whether the calls were the right ones.
Grizzers
They made 51 runs between them in the first innings.
And they've managed to add 13 for one in the second.
So that gives them a running total, thus far, of 64 for 7 for the match..
You love pointing out their failures, but it feels it would spoil your agenda should the 2 Tom's get 50 each this morning or even more.....
Anyway sun is out already on the outskirts of Birmingham and no rain is due so let those of us here risk turning up today & seeing what our abject top 6 can muster.
Any target over 140 will not be easy, towards 200 and it would look very tricky.
Great game this 4 day cricket lark hey.....
I'm not so impressed with folks running up scores on tracks like Chelmsford (the track we played on this year, I mean).
Batsman who only score when conditions are loaded in their favour are the equivalent of bowlers incapable of taking wickets on tracks that aren't minefields - not so useful!!
I'm not so sure about your target, sums, WSM. After all, I think they were about 140/4 in their first innings. A team that knows it got to 140/4 in its first innings is most unlikely to be unduly intimidated by a target score of 140 unless the pitch has deteriorated sharply in the intervening period ( I don't see any signs of that - I thought that batting looked easier, yesterday afternoon, than it had done for most of our first innings).
Warks have also only been bowled out for less than 200 three times this season although, admittedly, a problem for them could be that two of those three occasions have been vs Somerset!!
There are, obviously, some issues with Lewis Gregory and his knee. It is not predictable whether or not he will be able to play a full part, with the ball. I'm not convinced that Sajid has looked particularly threatening, tbh.
I think Warks will feel comfortable with anything under 180 and will probably win with any target between 180-220.
I wouldn't feel fully confident unless we had a good 275 or so to defend.
I want to see our top six at least manage to get us to a point where we're 150 ahead...... because expecting what's left of numbers 7-11 (there are only four of them now, in this innings) to make, say, 70 or so might not be totally unrealistic. Expecting the final three wickets to put on 137 again, would clearly be unreasonable. So if we're only 80 or 90 ahead by the time the top six are gone? I don't think we will be prevailing in this match.
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Good, sensible stuff from the two Toms, thus far. Just got to keep denying them any possible breakthrough.
We need to make sure we don’t get carried away with the aggression now, though. The greater priority remains keeping them out.
Still so very vital we squeeze more runs out of this pitch.
Grizzers
Quote:Flyboy
Feel like we're not gonna declare to be honest, could be wrong
I'd imagine we'll aim to bat till stumps today and depending on the lead throw the bat tomorrow for an hour.
Warks have Gloucs next so I’m not sure they’ll be as desperate for a win as some seem to think.
And this track now looks very, very flat, so I see little prospect of our forcing a victory.
After the absolutely disastrous start to this match, we have done well to salvage a draw from the game…. and one that extends our advantage by one point.
Quote:Devonboy70
For those who maligned the new one year contract for Jack Brooks in my opinion it’s far more deserving than the extension to George Bartletts !
Warwickshire are no bastions of first class cricket in the same way Glos weren't last week. Do it against Northants then we can start discussing merit.
Having said that both are contributing well to this game so 'things are looking up'
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So often in the past we have folded when it really mattered, so to achieve that innings score was superb.
Well done especially to George Bartlett whose confidence must surely have been bolstered by his achievement today.
Would be wonderful if we could squeeze a win, but hopefully we’ve gone a long way to ensuring at least a draw.
Grizzers
Quote:Shepton Paul 2
Best day’s batting this season? 👏👏👏
Certainly the best application we’ve showed all season. Careful work in morning before reaping the benefits of a softer ball and tired bowlers.
Quote:Devonboy70
For those who maligned the new one year contract for Jack Brooks in my opinion it’s far more deserving than the extension to George Bartletts !
You were saying???
George is class, we have to give him a run & back him because he has IT for red ball, great temperament.
All 4 batters did a great job today, Lammers blocked the £&#@ out of it which was a joy to watch live.
His innings helped the rest later on.
Roll on tomorrow, who knows.....
What does tomorrow hold, a Somerset win.
I do not.
I think that we might well take it down to just a two session game. I think Tom can see there’s not a lot left in this track and we want zero chance of losing.
Not sure as to the first question, but I assume maybe 96? It could also be 80 before the final hour starts.
Edited to say I believe the answer is 80 plus one hour
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Quote:AGod
I believe the regulation is that no extra time May be added to the final day.
Correct, as we'd have won the championship at Durham many years ago otherwise..
Shabash, Sajid!
Tbh.. once this ball goes soft, I think a stalemate will ensue.
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We went on the defensive very early in this innings - after only about 12 overs or so.
That suggests we had little conviction about winning… which makes it a surprise that we declared as early as we did.
Still, a much better effort than last week. A big achievement by George and plenty of other good supporting performances , especially from Tom A & Jack.
Really hoping that Craig might be available for the Northants game.
We're not safe yet, but our destiny is definitely in our own hands.
Grizzers
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I’m pretty sure we’ll try to produce an absolute Road Vs Northants, in the hope of a high-scoring draw (with the expectation that Kent will fare poorly Vs Hants).
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