4.55pm next Thursday
I am indebted to Radio WM's excellent sports reporter Mike Taylor for the following:
If Warwickshire, who closed at Gloucester tonight on 151 for 4 from 73 overs, were to maintain that rate of scoring then, assuming enough wickets remained in hand and the over-rate was 16 overs per hour, they would overhaul the world record first-class total of 1107 (Victoria v New South Wales, 1927) at 4.55pm next Thursday.
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Yes slow but quite solid. Jim is finding his touch and Tony has some making up to do after his slip ups behind the stumps. I hope they have a good day today. Wish I was there.
An apt moment to pay tribute to the great Frank Morton.
Morton remains the only man to come in to bat in a first-class match with the score 1,043 for 8.
Alas, in this mammoth innings, his contribution was to be promptly run out for 0.
Worse still, as his side won by an innings and 600-odd, he failed to take a wicket in 26 eight-ball overs as well.
Pay tribute too, to Ray McNamee, NSW's opening bowler, who legend has it dropped a straightforward return to the bowler's end with both opening batsmen stranded at the other when the total was only 17. The first wicket fell at 375.
On a serious note of comparison though, Victoria made their monstrous total of 1,107 at a rate of only 72 runs per 100 balls - just over four runs per six balls (they played eight-ball overs). Yet they made the runs in only two whole days. That's because even while they were getting the biggest slaughtering in the history of the game, NSW still managed to bowl 18 8-ball overs an hour - that's equivalent of 24 6-ball overs an hour. When were you last at a game when that happened that you weren't playing in?
Arthur Mailey (64-0-362-4) complained that he had several catches dropped in the crowd.
In defence of Arthur, bowling eight-ball maiden overs is a big ask.
Brian,
Have we met before?
Perhaps, Frank. Some Franks I have met, other I have not.
Sounds like a plan Frank.
Mind if I pop along as well?