Story Kent - A Cricket07 Story - Season Finished

[Slowcoach]

Give 5 star level another try before you right it off Kev, so far I've found the AI pretty good in first class games, if you bowl aggressively (lots of short stuff with the quicks) the opposition score at a decent rate and you can get some catches hit to square leg. I admit the AI in the one dayers is poor (West Indies made 156/4 off 50 overs against me in my first game, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz) but if you put a man at deep cover and leave a gap at deep point they will square drive some fours and sometimes loft a cover drive to deep cover, it may seem like you are giving the opposition cheap runs by doing this but it gives you the chance of some wickets as well so it's a fair trade.
Also you said the special deliveries are a waste of time but I've found the yorker special ball to be a good one to a well set batsman, you just need to pull the bowling marker down as short as possible in line with leg stump and it will reset on the crease line, if you try and set the yorker on the crease line it doesn't work because it resets to a full toss.
The full flight ball with a spinner is a good one too, it can cause the batsman to go for a rash slog or get an edge (I had a batsman inside edge one and the ball dribbled off his pad onto the stumps).

 

[Kev]

I am playing on 5*, At the start of each match I save it then edit the MCH with the MCHchanger.

 

[Slowcoach]

Sorry Kev, my mistake, I didn't realise you had gone up from 4 stars to 5, must be the dodgy standard of county batsmen causing the Chris Tavare like run rates then.
I'm really enjoying this story anyway, I check it every day, best presentation of all the stories on this site, just a shame the opposition always score so slowly and you never lose, though you might struggle in the 20/20 games because the opposition will probably get higher totals in those games than they do in the 50 over matches.

 

[Kev]

Yes, I am expecting to struggle there, I'm finding batting on 5* quite hard to time the shots perfectly, I'm expecting a few easy catches for the CPU.

 

[Kev]

Kent v Nottinghamshire - Liverpool Victoria County Championship - Canterbury
Day 1 - 1st Session

Its a bright and Sunny day, if a little mild and the pitch looks like a real dust bowl. So the Kent players are delighted when they are put in to bat first.

Nottinghamshire are made to regret their decision as both the openers race to their half centuries.

Hall and Key take their second big partnership in as many games through until lunch. Some of the crowd are already describing the pair as "Modern Day Leg-Ends".

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[GrayNicolls]

A lot of legside shots there.

Some good work from the mighty Kent. Poor old Nottinghamshire.

 

[Jaztheman]

come on nottinghamshire give kev a good run for his money

 

[plympilgrim]

a dominating display here by kev so far, keep it up. 300-400 should be on the coards

 

[Kev]

Kent v Nottinghamshire - Liverpool Victoria County Championship - Canterbury
Day 1 - 2nd Session

Nottinghamshire continue to rue their decision to put Kent into bat as Key and Hall both make centuries and take Kent to 296 without loss at tea.

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[Kev]

Kent v Nottinghamshire - Liverpool Victoria County Championship - Canterbury
Day 1 - 3rd Session

With the score on 322 Hall is bowled by Kent old boy Ealham.

But its a No-Ball and Hall survives.

It takes until 5pm for Nottinghamshire to get their first wicket as Key is eventually dismissed for 163.

Luckily Nottinghamshire dont have to wait another 341 runs before their next wicket. Walker fails to get his eye in and instead knocks the ball back onto his stumps without scoring.

Hall and van Jaarsveld bat until stumps and take the score to 404/2.

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[Simbazz]

This game can only go two ways, a Kent win or a draw.

Great presentation, i love the gif. work Great opening partnership

 

[plympilgrim]

great work kev, i agree with simon only two possibilities

 

[Kev]

Kent v Nottinghamshire - Liverpool Victoria County Championship - Canterbury
Day 2 - 1st Session

Hall and van Jaarsveld continue to pile on the runs. van Jaarsveld passes his fifty and when Hall reaches 200, Key calls them in from the balcony.

Nottinghamshire start their reply at 12:09 and race to 18 without loss at lunch.

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[Jaztheman]

Nottinghamshire start their reply at 12:09 and race to 18 without loss at lunch.

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they did go really quick

amazing by hall, 200*

 

[plympilgrim]

all the batsmen contributed to that mammoth total, especially well done to hall for 200