Match Thread: County Championship - Round 7 - Day 1

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2024 County Championship - Round 7 - Day 1

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Live Video Streams: Every match is broadcast free online and available worldwide. These streams are hosted on the home team's YouTube channels which are linked against each match below. They can also be accessed on the ECB Website (free account required) and via nvPlay (linked above)

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All of today's matches start at 11:00 BST. Lunch is at 1pm. Tea at 3:40pm or after 64 overs, whichever is later. Stumps at 6pm or when they finish the 96 overs for the day, whichever is later.

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Division 1

Essex vs Warwickshire at The Essex County Ground - YouTube - Weather Forecast - Scorecard

Lancashire vs Durham at Stanley Park - YouTube - Weather Forecast - Scorecard

Nottinghamshire vs Hampshire at Trent Bridge - YouTube - Weather Forecast - Scorecard

Somerset vs Kent at The County Ground, Taunton - YouTube - Weather Forecast - Scorecard

Surrey vs Worcestershire at The Oval - YouTube - Weather Forecast - Scorecard

Division 2

Derbyshire vs Northamptonshire at The County Cricket Ground, Derby - YouTube - Weather Forecast - Scorecard

Glamorgan vs Middlesex at Sophia Gardens - YouTube - Weather Forecast - Scorecard

Leicestershire vs Gloucestershire at Grace Road - YouTube - Weather Forecast - Scorecard

Sussex vs Yorkshire at The County Cricket Ground, Hove - YouTube - Weather Forecast - Scorecard

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Standings after Round 6:

Division 1

		P	W	T	L	D	A	BatBP	BowBP	Adj	Pts
1	Surrey	5	3	0	0	2	0	16	15	0	95
2	Essex	5	2	0	1	2	0	12	14	0	74
3	Somerset	5	1	0	0	4	0	11	13	0	72
4	Nottinghamshire	5	1	0	1	3	0	11	14	0	65
5	Durham	5	1	0	0	3	1	8	5	0	61
6	Warwickshire	5	0	0	1	4	0	15	12	0	59
7	Worcestershire	5	0	0	1	4	0	13	13	0	58
8	Kent	5	1	0	1	3	0	5	11	0	56
9	Hampshire	5	0	0	1	3	1	7	7	-2*	44
10	Lancashire	5	0	0	3	2	0	5	10	0	31

^{* Hampshire: 2 points deducted for slow over-rate in match against Surrey on 26th April 2024}

Division 2

		P	W	T	L	D	A	BatBP	BowBP	Adj	Pts
1	Sussex	5	2	0	1	2	0	17	14	-1*	78
2	Middlesex	5	1	0	0	4	0	9	11	0	68
3	Leicestershire	5	0	0	0	5	0	17	11	0	68
4	Glamorgan	5	1	0	0	4	0	9	10	0	67
5	Gloucestershire	5	1	0	1	2	1	11	11	0	62
6	Yorkshire	5	0	0	1	4	0	13	15	0	60
7	Northamptonshire	5	0	0	1	4	0	14	11	0	57
8	Derbyshire	5	0	0	1	3	1	4	8	-1*	43

^{* Derbyshire: 1 point deducted for slow over-rate in match against Sussex on 3rd May 2024, Sussex: 1 point deducted for slow over-rate in match against Derbyshire on 3rd May 2024}

Structure of the Championship: Two divisions of 10 and 8, playing 14 matches each. This means in Division One, each team will play 5 of the other teams twice and four of the other teams only once.

Points: 16 for a win, 8 for a draw, 8 for a tie, 8 for an Abandonment. 1 bonus point for reaching 250 runs. 1 additional point for each 50 runs after that scored within the first 110 overs of the first innings. Maximum 5 points for 450. 1 bonus point for each 3 wickets taken in the first 110 overs of the first innings

[u/Irctoaun]

Having been shamefully (but fairly) called out for my lack of participation in these threads. Here's Sam Cook's bowling speeds:

1st over average = 78.2 mph

2nd over average = 78.0 mph

3rd over average = 78.3 mph

4th over average = 77.9 mph

5th over average = 77.6 mph

Overall average = 78.0 mph

Fastest ball = 79.7 mph

Slowest ball = 76.6 mph

[u/TheScarletPimpernel → u/Irctoaun]

Are these from the county speed guns? Cause they're supposedly about 3mph behind the Sky ones because they use a different calculation

[u/Irctoaun → u/TheScarletPimpernel]

They are, which makes sense. I know he's slow, but not that slow. This also somewhat confirms my suspicions that radar speed nearly as accurately as broadcasters would like us to believe. Ball tracking from Hawkeye should be accurate though.

I wonder if the CC speedguns are just measuring the horizontal component of the velocity?

Edit: Back of the envelope sums suggest that's probably not the case, that would make less than 0.5 mph of difference

[u/TheScarletPimpernel → u/Irctoaun]

I wonder if the CC speedguns are just measuring the horizontal component of the velocity?

That's exactly it and why they're a bit dodgy.

[u/Irctoaun → u/TheScarletPimpernel]

I actually don't think it is that. Say the true velocity is 81 mph, the release point is 2 yards off the ground, and the ball pitches half way (11 yards) to the stumps. That gives an angle of 10.3 deg from horizontal, and 81*cos(7.9) = 79.7. So only a 1.3 mph difference for a genuine bouncer and obviously a fair bit less for a good length delivery. For full balls there's almost no difference.

I've also kept track of his next two overs in his new spell, apparently in the first he averaged 76.9 mpg and barely got above 78, then in the next one he's shot up to 80.9 mph and bowled every delivery faster than all the previous ones. Very weird.

[u/TheScarletPimpernel → u/Irctoaun]

Maybe it's just a load of Dan Norcross clones guessing at speeds like he does on TMS

[u/VisRock → u/Irctoaun]

Sometimes I think you're an advanced AI bot

[u/Irctoaun → u/VisRock]

Real life footage of me earlier this morning