Carl Greenidge / Twenty20

[Neil]

Fair play, was that the worst last over ever :tosser:

[Tonkertoy]

yep pretty poor good excitement though

[Noah]

Sorry to criticise Lewis, but questionable captaincy to leave Greenidge to bowl the last over. I seem to remember that there has been an occasion when he came up trumps before, but he had not had a good night up to this point.

Maybe the coach too should have been planning a better resolution. I fear that whenever Greenidge bowled his final over, we were done for. So at least it kept the game alive to delay it until the twentieth. I doubt that overs from Fisher would have helped the cause either.

[Growlithe]

Have just returned home and cannot believe CG bowled that last over. Fisher did ok in semi and to be honest Jon Lewis cocked it up particularly as Greenidge had been hammered in his previous 3 overs.
Tantrum from Key entertaining and good to beat big time charlies from Lanky again.

[TigerMark]

I was there too, Gloucester threw away that game that Kent handed them on a plate. Everyone round us was saying that Fisher had to bowl that over, but you just knew Greenidge was going to get it and I wasn't really surprised when he managed to throw away 13 runs in 3 balls. That takes some doing.....

Lost me £20 :( Where was Anthony Ireland out of interest? Whenever, I have seen him, he always looks a better bowler than CG. I'm not sure who was worse - Mutya or Greenidge :brickwall:

[Joe]

What a waste. Not Greenidge's fault- it's not his fault he's useless.

But Lewis'. Why pick Greenidge to bowl your final over in a final?! It was always going to go badly wrong.

[Tonkertoy]

I'm not sure who was worse - Mutya or Greenidge :brickwall:


Heh :thumbsup:

[Neil]

You know, I can ban people from this forum ;)

[Woody]

Bad captaincy from Lewi there, he should never have let Greenidge bowl that last over. The game had been handed to us on a plate by Kent up to that last over! It was a shocker, 4 off the first ball, then a wide! Truly awful. :(

[Growlithe]

Unfortunately Ireland injured.
As for Mutya would have been better off with Maria Bueno!
Went to Trent Bridge for first 20/20 and least Atomic Kitten put on proper show.

[Tim]

I was there with Billy and I think it's the easy option to blame Greenidge for our defeat.

OK, so it was a bad over, but why not blame the other bowlers for bowling too short in their overs? Why not blame the batters for not scoring enough runs? Why not blame the toss for us batting in the gloom, and then having to field in the dew, which made it impossible for Fisher to grip the ball? Why not blame the inside edge that bowled Marshall, but gave Walker and Key four runs each?

Don't forget, too, if it wasn't for Greenidge we wouldn't have made it to the final. Cricket is a team game and everyone has to play their part. They win and lose collectively, so let's not blame an individual.

On a lighter note, I managed to miss the entire Mutya experience by meeting friends in the bar, so my day was merely disappointing as opposed to ruined!

[Noah]

I think the main point is the decision for Greenidge to bowl the last over, Tim. Was there an alternative, and at what point might that alternative been employed ? Are all decisions taken by the captain, or is it a collective thing ?

Anyway, there are always elements of lottery about 20-20 aren't there. Players falling on their backsides as the grass gets slippy for instance.

And we came second of eighteen not two.

[RegCubit]

I think we are all forgetting the other team, and a certain bowler called Ryan McLaren who took a hat trick.

Greenidge was awful, he needed to watch McLaren; all his hat trick came from bowling the ball straight, and to lose because of a no ball was dreadful. However at the end of the day, fate had played a hand, the Spitfire had won the mascots race earlier in the day, so our fate was sealed.

[Dommotyger]

England squad for ICC World Twenty20: Paul Collingwood (Durham, capt), Ravi Bopara (Essex), Stuart Broad (Leicestershire), Andrew Flintoff (Lancashire), James Kirtley (Sussex), Darren Maddy (Warwickshire), Kevin Pietersen (Hampshire), Matt Prior (Sussex, wkt), Chris Schofield (Surrey), Owais Shah (Middlesex), Ryan Sidebottom (Nottinghamshire), Jeremy Snape (Leicestershire), Vikram Solanki (Worcestershire), Chris Tremlett (Hampshire), Luke Wright (Sussex).

Yet again no Glos players

[Neil]

Or Kent.

[Joe]

After announcing 20-20 specialists would be called up for the tournament, I expected to see very few England regulars, as they just don't play as much 20-20 as the regular county players do.

I was wrong.

[Dommotyger]

After announcing 20-20 specialists would be called up for the tournament, I expected to see very few England regulars, as they just don't play as much 20-20 as the regular county players do.

I was wrong.

Your always wrong Joseph