surrey vs Derbyshire county championship division 2 1st cup final

First topic message reminder :

right on to the 1st of the cup finals this week and Chris Adams has named an unchanged squad for Surrey's decisive final game of the LV= County Championship season against Derbyshire at the Kia Oval.
The full Surrey squad to play Derbyshire at the Kia Oval is:
Rory Hamilton-Brown (Captain)
Steven Davies (Wicket Keeper)
Mark Ramprakash
Zander de Bruyn
Tom Maynard
Jason Roy
Gareth Batty
Chris Jordan
Stuart Meaker
Pragyan Ojha
Tim Linley
George Edwards
zafar ansari
same 11 as last time then

thegooch7 wrote:

Corporalhumblebucket wrote:Some (none too young) joker in the crowd called out: ''He thinks he's Gary Sprake!''

he he - classic! I'm sure the Corporal and Guildford will remember that when the great keeper threw one into his own net at Anfield in front of the Kop, the dj at half time played 'Careless hands'!!

Thought you would like that, Goochie.

''Careless hands'' at Anfield certainly another classic!

Hi Guildford

Was it a late one last night at the forum?!

YEEEEES Le Pew takes a wicket...........39-2

Another one! S&M this time............40-3!!

Come on Boy's!!!!!!!!!!

4 down! 6 to go!

metters isnt turning the ball at all for warwickshire, hampshire are 133-2, dawson 77no

depressedsurreyfan wrote:Come on Boy's!!!!!!!!!!

It's the lesser spotted Depressed!!

thegooch7 wrote:Hi Guildford

Was it a late one last night at the forum?!

YEEEEES Le Pew takes a wicket...........39-2

Hi again Goochie,

Not sure if your question stems from me only seeing the scores recently or my remark to someone else.

I'm at the mines currently which never makes for the best of moods and nor does it lend itself to easy following of the cricket scores!

Anyway, we're doing bloomin' well. We needed 13 more wickets at the close of play yesterday. 6 more now ....

thegooch7 wrote:Hi Guildford

Was it a late one last night at the forum?!

YEEEEES Le Pew takes a wicket...........39-2

It wasn't that gooch he got some from Mrs bats last night

depressedsurreyfan wrote:Come on Boy's!!!!!!!!!!

A very warm welcome back from me as well!

mckenzie gone hampshire 3 down rankin gets him lbw.

Thanks, JimBob.

As Surrey get nearer to their greatest success in recent years, we can always depend on you to provide an insightful and appropriate comment ...

guildfordbat wrote:

thegooch7 wrote:Hi Guildford

Was it a late one last night at the forum?!

YEEEEES Le Pew takes a wicket...........39-2

Hi again Goochie,

Not sure if your question stems from me only seeing the scores recently or my remark to someone else.

I'm at the mines currently which never makes for the best of moods and nor does it lend itself to easy following of the cricket scores!

Anyway, we're doing bloomin' well. We needed 13 more wickets at the close of play yesterday. 6 more now ....

Aaaaah I see Guildford - 7 wickets in the session, Derby still 219 behind, it couldn't have gone better
Northants have won...........Their Dilley and Botham didn't last long...............undone by a swinging Willey!

jimbobgooner wrote:

thegooch7 wrote:Hi Guildford

Was it a late one last night at the forum?!

YEEEEES Le Pew takes a wicket...........39-2

It wasn't that gooch he got some from Mrs bats last night

After a stisfactory point in Germany last night, and (hopefully) a Surrey win tonight, I presume Mrs Gooner will be getting the same!!

good luck if ya go up fellas..

just remeber me, being an essex fan and being stuck in the 2nd divison again

Well, Goochie, we not only have a game show host in ''Richard'' Whiteley but an assistant as well - ''Anthea'' Redfern!

Come on Pepe. ''Give us a twirl!''

''Didn't he do well!''

Pepe - that is!

''Groenewald started batting at 10:30 this morning and he's at the crease three hours later. Fortunately for Surrey, ten wickets have fallen since then!'' - Churchy.

Brilliant.

Following on from a miserable 183-10 first innings, Gloucs made a much improved 185-10 second time around...
... the day brightened only by the fact that Lewie's final innings was 8 off 2 balls.

As far as nicknames goes, may I suggest [subject to the military democracy that exists here] "Never Knowingly" (as in "John Lewis. Never Knowingly Underbowled".)

Big thanks to him for wonderful service over the years, and I hope you get your money's worth from him.

Still, at least that means you have the pleasure of earning promotion yourselves, rather than relying on others; and it looks like your earnings are coming along nicely so far!!

Pepe has certainly twirled and done very well! If only we could keep hold of him for next season
I'd like the Viscount to come on now and finish it off, would be very fitting for the season he's had!

Just 2 more for a return to the promised land

thegooch7 wrote:
I'd like the Viscount to come on now and finish it off, would be very fitting for the season he's had!

Totally agree.

One wicket to go....!!!!!

6th wkt for Pepe

Hello First Division cricket, oh how we've missed you!

Nora sends us up

Brilliant performance in this game, and a really strong finish to the season.
Well done to one and all!
One more win for some very sweet icing on the cake please

Lets not forget too that if Leicestershire hold Middlesex to a draw (they're batting much better second time around!), then Surrey could still claim the title of Division Two.

What an amazing scenario that would be!

And that's just for the Viscount (73 and resting!) ....

You know what pleases me most?
Ramps 0
Maynard 123
Roy 45
Hamilton-B 6

The genius that is the Gaffer has clearly been teaching your lot how to count!

Wish someone would come and teach our lot how to play cricket for a whole four days.

Tibor wrote:Lets not forget too that if Leicestershire hold Middlesex to a draw (they're batting much better second time around!), then Surrey could still claim the title of Division Two.

What an amazing scenario that would be!

Tibor - As always, I like your style and ambition but I'm happy to settle for promotion and a one day final.

Churchy made a good point about Saturday. It won't do us any harm at all to have tomorrow off for extra rest and/or preparation.

Great perfomance from the lads today
Ironically, the only day's cricket I've seen this year was a rainy day at Guildford... Middx started about 80 - 4 & ended up getting over 300 with the last wicket putting on well over 50... the best thing about the day was sharing a few beers with the Corporal & catching up with him! We were fairly despondent about Surrey that day & if you'd told me that Surrey would end up getting promoted, I'd have thought that you'd had a few more beers than we did!!
I sneaked off early at lunch today & heard Churchy's commentary & by the time I returned back to work, I was just in time to hear the last wicket go down (don't tell the boss!) with Churchy understandbly getting very excited... its been a memorable last few weeks... so much so that I might have to get the howzat dice out tonight Looking forward to next season already.. & Saturday would be the icing on the cake... but who really cares..

Well done to the whole team & to Chris Adams.... Linley's been supurb all season... Guildford Bat, I remember Gary Sprake very well... he was my goalie in Subutteo Football.... I had a team all in white, so it had to be leeds with the goalie in green... with a wire coming out the base of his feet... (if you're familiar with SF you're know what I'm on about.....
Anyway, enough of my rambling.... Well done Surrey

Excellent post, Chichester.

From memory I think you and the Corporal were at Guildford on the Thursday. I went Wednesday and Friday. No matter, I felt equally despondent then. Amazing how things have worked out since! Very well done to all!

Would be good if a few of us could meet up at Guildford next season - for a Division One county game of course!

Congrats on promotion lads, unfortunately we wont be playing you next season

Hi Guildford Bat.... you've got a good memory....yes lets make a date for Guildford next year! - Its starting to be a bit of a tradition for the Corporal & I to meet up at Guildford, assuming he can get the time off from his duties for the service of this Country!! We'll meet you in the beer tent if you are released from the Saltmines??!!

My word, if you were at Guildford on that Friday you must have been 10 times more despondent than we were Heard an excellent interview just now with the hyphen... talking about team spirit ... looking in from the outside it certainly seems like a very happy bunch with not too many ego's. & a genuine team spirit. something that you can't always have said about the team in the past... Meaker & Linley could be a pretty potent force in Div 1??? What does everyone think??

jimbohammers wrote:Congrats on promotion lads, unfortunately we wont be playing you next season

dont worry jimbo you will be back

What a fantastic day, not only did we win but we absolutely smashed them! The last 4 games must be as well as a Surrey side have played for many a year, very proud to be a Surrey fan right now and so much more to come from them all.

I also want to say it has been a pleasure to enjoy it with everyone on here, I'll definitely throw my hat into the ring for a day at Guildford next year, would be excellent to put some faces to some (user) names!

With the momentum we have and the extra day off I am pretty confident we will do well on Saturday, in fact I would say that if we bat first I think we'll win. Honestly though whatever happens this season has been a monumental success

Depressed - you simply HAVE to change your name now surely!?

thegooch7 wrote:

jimbobgooner wrote:

thegooch7 wrote:Hi Guildford

Was it a late one last night at the forum?!

YEEEEES Le Pew takes a wicket...........39-2

It wasn't that gooch he got some from Mrs bats last night

After a stisfactory point in Germany last night, and (hopefully) a Surrey win tonight, I presume Mrs Gooner will be getting the same!!

congrats to surrey for going up

just remeber me the essex fan stuck in div 2 next year ..

cricketfan90 wrote:congrats to surrey for going up

just remeber me the essex fan stuck in div 2 next year ..

chin up cricketfan your time will come again

jimbob, hopefully essex and your lot go up next year

wow just saw the interview with gareth batty what a top top man

Evening All!

Magnificent performance by the team over these recent games. Fully deserved promotion. for doubting it would happen! all round

evening corporal as mrs jimbob would say make mine a large one

Corporalhumblebucket wrote: Evening All!

Magnificent performance by the team over these recent games. Fully deserved promotion. for doubting it would happen! all round

Not a night for apologies, Corporal. Just keep those coming!

same here corporal

jimbobgooner wrote:wow just saw the interview with gareth batty what a top top man

Yes excellent comments from both the Viscount and Batty. Nora gave an honourable mention to everyone including the catering staff for helping to achieve promotion.

jimbobgooner wrote:evening corporal as mrs jimbob would say make mine a large one

cricketfan90 wrote:jimbob, hopefully essex and your lot go up next year

Jimbob's lot have gone up this year - and Jimbo's lot have gone down!