chris read

Glammy'd have him

not been great to say the least, TTT. have you made 100 yet this season ?

104 out of 162 in the end, next best score 10, pretty incredible knock

cracking effort from someone who was deemed not good enough a bat for test cricket

To be fair, Zum are missing Philander and Dibble.

I love Pete Five-Fer Trego, but a century off him and an ancient Steve Kirby, even at Trent Bridge, may not be all it seems. Looking at the way Zum are comfortably knocking off the runs even with Tresco in hospital, I'd suspect that the Notts scorecard says more about how over-rated the likes of Alex Hales and James Taylor are than how under-rated Chris Read might be.

should have been the england keeper the last 10 years

Lol nillsson

guess it wasn't that great a knock after all then.

might still be the difference between zum winning and drawing though

compton been scoring massive runs, think he has scored about 500 runs in the three games so far.
before that also scored some double hundreds in university matches i think.

is he english as in have english parents or is he part saffer?

685 so far

is of course the the grandson of the great denis

saffer born. not sure about his parents. been in england since he went to harrow school

mm just read about him, seems like both his parents are british. his father played first class cricket in safferland but probably worked there as well

It's hard to see how anyone could argue with Denis Compton's grandson playing for England, regardless of where he happened to be born.

It just shows up how pointless and short-sighted people are who insist your birthplace must determine your affiliation for the rest of your life.

Chris Read averaged 18 for England across 23 test innings (4 of those were not outs inflating that figure even more!!). Remember him trying to duck underneath a Chris Cairns bouncer at Lords!!

He had a terrible character - I remember him standing there like a lemon while Collingwood was getting sledged by Warne in Adelaide - no team spirit at all. He ended with 3 ducks in a row - a man out of his depth. County cricket is fine for him.

Sorry I meant trying to duck underneath a Chris Cairns "yorker" at Lords!! Yes you read that correctly!

i got him out when we were playing schools cricket, he was the skipper of torquay boys grammer, had him caught on the boundry hooking one off his eyebrows lol!! safe to say he got a good send off from us!!

thorpe did that too,

was in the time when the england selectors made a regular thing of ruining careers by picking players far too early

Did they ruin cooks career by picking him too early?

think read was only 19  and far too young when first picked and it certainly didn't do him any favours playing during that shambolic summer of 1999

Was at Edgbaston for Read's first day in test cricket. Remember thinking that he wasn't bad keeping to the seamers but looked very untidy to Tufnell. Did look young as well.

Still think the best English keeper (as opposed to batsmen/keeper) of recent times was Foster.

foster was unlucky in that he looked set for a decent run in the side until he broke his arm in about 2002. alec stewart took the gloves back and he never really got a look in again.

rob_dylan • April 23, 2012 7:11 PM BST
Did they ruin cooks career by picking him too early?

yes good comparison, lets compare him with tendulkar, lara and ponting too

True, but I'm not convinced Foster would have ever made enough runs to have a long run in the team. Sooner or later England would have needed felt they needed an extra batsmen, Foster would have been out and Stewart would have been keeping again.

Not sure how you can compare notts 1st innings to somersets, given that the zummers won the toss and put them in, you would be barmy to suggest that the conditions were the same given that hales, patel, taylor and lumb managed 15 between them and where as Suppiah scored 124. Reads innings was a sensational knock in the context of the conditions and as posted bellow probably earned Notts the draw. The guy is nowhere near the England side, and despite his fantastic 1st class record Prior has done miles better than Read could have ever managed at international level. That however does not take away from what a stunning knock it was last week.



As for the match, another lucky toss for somerset is what it looks like to me.

notts coach basically said their performance was a total shambles and they were very, very poor and extremely lucky that the weather saved them. he slammed some of shots their batsmen played the likes of taylor and patel and bowled some absolute rubbish too. don't think much of it can be put down to the toss

if the conditions were so great and not at all different to when somerset batted i would imagine Zums would have batted 1st

it's april in england, there was more rain than cricket over the 4 days and at trentbridge it swings round corners at the best of times. i doubt it suddenly flattened out into a batting paradise when zum had their turn.

no it probably wasn't flat but i imagine they chose to bowl for a reason, which would suggest the conditions were likely to be at their toughest 1st up.

Game involves 2 evenly matched teams, Team A win the toss and insert, knock them over for 150 odd then rack up 400 would suggest given my limited cricket watching knowledge that conditions changed somewhat no matter how woeful team A's shot choices supposedly were. Still makes read's ton a bloody fine knock. And no amount of 1 eyed somerset propaganda is gona persuade me otherwise.

Nottinghamshire v Somerset, Trent Bridge, 4th day

Newell thanks rain for 'hopeless' Notts
George Dobell at Trent Bridge
April 22, 2012

Nottinghamshire 162 (Read 104*, Trego 5-53) and 169 for 4 drew with Somerset 445 for 2 (Compton 204*)

Mick Newell admitted Nottinghamshire had been "pretty hopeless" after the rain came to their rescue against Somerset.

Newell, the Nottinghamshire director of cricket, described his side as "a shambles" in the match and conceded that they had endured "a very, very poor four days." But the rain that curtailed the first three days of this game returned to cut another 40 overs from the final day and a Somerset side weakened by injuries was unable to press home their advantage.

Somerset, coming into this game without seamers Vernon Philander, Gemaal Hussain, Adam Dibble and Alfonso Thomas were also forced to do without Steve Kirby, who was kept off the field with a "quad strain" on the final day.

...

"The weather has done us a massive favour," Newell said, as he reflected on the fact that his team are now - along with Worcestershire - one of only two top division clubs who have yet to pick up a batting bonus point this season. "We are going to lose matches if we don't make decent first-innings scores and Hales, Patel and Taylor were all out to poor shots. And I told them that.

"A first innings score of 160 was a pretty poor return and we didn't look threatening with the ball. That's a worry."

http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-2012/content/story/562172.html