Comments on: Old Trafford Test pitch preview with Private Hudson https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/old-trafford-test-pitch-preview-with-private-hudson/2023/07/18/ Independent and irreverent cricket writing Thu, 20 Jul 2023 07:48:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.3 By: JJE https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/old-trafford-test-pitch-preview-with-private-hudson/2023/07/18/#comment-272958 Thu, 20 Jul 2023 07:48:37 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28803#comment-272958 In reply to Ged Ladd.

Heather “they come at” Knight, mostly

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By: Ged Ladd https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/old-trafford-test-pitch-preview-with-private-hudson/2023/07/18/#comment-272957 Thu, 20 Jul 2023 07:27:03 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28803#comment-272957 In reply to JJE.

Andrew “Private” Hudson,
James Cameron Bancroft,
James Cameron Green,
Corporal Graeme Hicks,
Private Vasbert Drake…

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By: JJE https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/old-trafford-test-pitch-preview-with-private-hudson/2023/07/18/#comment-272956 Thu, 20 Jul 2023 05:58:27 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28803#comment-272956 Putting together an Aliens XI but only have three bolwers so far.

Ian Bishop the robot (RF)
Gubby Alien (RF)
Ellen ‘gives the ball a good rip’-ley (OB)

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By: Bert https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/old-trafford-test-pitch-preview-with-private-hudson/2023/07/18/#comment-272955 Wed, 19 Jul 2023 11:08:54 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28803#comment-272955 In reply to A P Webster.

Yeh, Saturday doesn’t look too great – 80% “chance of precipitation”, according to the Met Office.

That made me wonder, though, about what exactly they mean by “chance of precipitation”. So I clicked their little info icon thingy:

Chance of precipitation represents how likely it is that rain (or other types of precipitation, such as sleet, snow, hail and drizzle) will fall from the sky at a certain time.

So there you have it. 80% is the chance that the precipitation (rain, sleet, snow, hail and/or drizzle) will fall FROM THE SKY. There is only a 20% chance that the precipitation (rain, sleet, snow, hail and/or drizzle) will fall from the roof, from the ground, from overexuberance, or from sheer bloody-mindedness. So no need to take your downbrellas on Saturday.

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By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/old-trafford-test-pitch-preview-with-private-hudson/2023/07/18/#comment-272952 Wed, 19 Jul 2023 08:11:10 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28803#comment-272952 In reply to Ged Ladd.

We’re taking the position that Saturday’s forecast has already hit rock bottom and now can only improve.

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By: Ged Ladd https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/old-trafford-test-pitch-preview-with-private-hudson/2023/07/18/#comment-272951 Wed, 19 Jul 2023 08:04:51 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28803#comment-272951 In reply to A P Webster.

Cheers APW. Here’s hoping that you get a super day’s play on Friday, for your sake and also my own. While I won’t be at the ground that day (lucky you), it is a day when I should be able to follow much of the action from home.

Saturday is the one projected to be a potential washout. The rest, as you say, depends on which weather app you choose. I like the more optimistic ones. BBC is relentlessly pessimistic on weather these days, ever since Michael Fish failed to predict a storm in 1987.

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By: A P Webster https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/old-trafford-test-pitch-preview-with-private-hudson/2023/07/18/#comment-272950 Wed, 19 Jul 2023 07:43:37 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28803#comment-272950 In reply to Ged Ladd.

It’s currently looking OK in Salford (about 2 miles from the ground, as the rented helicopter flies) but there’s been a bit of rain.

Met Office and BBC forecasts round these parts have been wildly divergent recently, as I type this the BBC forecast for today features quite a lot of ‘Thundery Showers’ icons , particularly for the morning session whereas the Met Office doesn’t show any point with more than a 10% of precipitation.

One guarantee is that there will be uncertainty about the weather on Friday, when I am due to be there. After a full day’s play when I attended Headingley, my luck is surely going to to run out.

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By: Ged Ladd https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/old-trafford-test-pitch-preview-with-private-hudson/2023/07/18/#comment-272949 Wed, 19 Jul 2023 05:59:28 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28803#comment-272949 Thanks for sharing your Private thoughts ahead of the Old Trafford test, KC.

Local weather forecasts – especially rain radar readings/projections – might come in handy this week. Is that within the remit of a Private First Class such as Hudson or do we need a Commissioned Officer / Regular Contributor to supply those?

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