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Same squad as Friday

Weather forecast is for rain this afternoon in Durham, hopefully we'll get some cricket.

Lintott back in for Garton or Yates maybe?

Not sure that including a wrist spinner, with poor control, is sensible on a day when the outfield, and ball, will be damp.

We are bowling first.

Miles and Lintott come in for Gleeson and Moeen.

Miles for Gleeson sounds like a good plan? Assume we are trying to not qualify?

Strange decision - Gleeson took 2-24 at Grace Road whereas Garton bowled one over for 21. But at least Lintott comes in for Moeen

The predicted rain arrived just as the Durham batters came out. Looks dark and brooding at the moment. 60 mins till we start losing overs.

2 points for an abandoned game.

Info I have is rain is due to stop at 5.15. Looks like 2pts each. Shame when we are on a bit of a run.

Reality is play has started. C'mon you Bears

Would be interested to know how the forum members rate winning T20 or ODI Cup over the championship.
Personally I go to as many blast and ODI games as possible, but the comp that matters is winning the championship, regardless of the cash involved.

A disappointing result today, although we gave it a good go in the chase. Ultimately, Mousley's 2 overs for 31 cost us in the end.

A strange looking team selection today, with Yates batting at 6. He's hardly the type of player to come in and smash a few sixes about, is he? We'd be better off with Hassan Ali coming in at 6, or Davies dropping down the order.

Devon_Bear wrote:

A disappointing result today, although we gave it a good go in the chase. Ultimately, Mousley's 2 overs for 31 cost us in the end.

A strange looking team selection today, with Yates batting at 6. He's hardly the type of player to come in and smash a few sixes about, is he? We'd be better off with Hassan Ali coming in at 6, or Davies dropping down the order.

Agree about the line up, we don't seem to have settled on our best line up at all yet. Luckily results went our way and we are still very much in the hunt to qualify.

I thought we would have been better for Yates opening and Davies coming in lower down. We just seemed to struggle finding the gaps - excellent at finding the fielders!! Got closer than I thought we would in the end.

As for Lickey's comment I agree the CC is the main prize just unfortunate that it doesn't carry the same financial reward.

Lickey-bear, I always covet the CC more mainly because I gave up seeing us ever win it as I hated watching Warwickshire teams that were good on paper, finish very low down and I really just hoped for a cup every now and then. From the early 1980's I despaired watching Lloyd, Smith, Kalli, Amiss, Humpage, Oliver, Din, Ferreira, Small, Lethbridge, Willis get us close but not close enough in one-day games. In 1983, we floated about near the top but got to 5th and once we had a good attack from 1988 onwards it seemed on but the little bit of gameswap that Lancs/Essex did in 1991 was me thinking it would never happen. When it finally did 3 years later, it was great to see other teams jealous of our wins. Of course in between times, we did win one-day cups and the 1989 final was amazing as it has been 21 years since the last one which no one has any film of unfortunately. I do have great affection for our cup final victories but they are not as highly thought of now, not played at Lord's and very small crowds. I still prefer a CC title but having seen a very small crowd for the 4 days when we last won it 4 years ago, it makes me wonder how we can get 3-4 times that many for a meaningless T20 game where we can't qualify and yet a title decider is poorly attended. I guess not many feel the same as me but maybe that separates 'Diehard Fans' to ones who just turn up for T20.

Lickey_bear wrote:

Would be interested to know how the forum members rate winning T20 or ODI Cup over the championship.
Personally I go to as many blast and ODI games as possible, but the comp that matters is winning the championship, regardless of the cash involved.

Not interested in T20 until we play as Warwickshire again.

Passionate about the Championship.

Enjoying the one day cup games being played at Rugby which is a great development but unfortunately the Hundred has destroyed the one day cup as a showpiece these days.

So the Championship is the be all and end all for me!

A decent effort but not quite good enough; interesting and somewhat ironic that the two main contributors with the bat today were deemed unfit for T20 under previous management, just a shame that one was for the opposition.

Big week ahead if we want to progress, we’re going to have to pull out all the stops on Wednesday against Lancs - especially if Salt, Wood, Buttler et al play - and ensure we overcome the Pears on Friday.

We just have to win and we might need a bit of help elsewhere. It is a very tight group.

Disappointing not to get over the line. Why couldn't England release Jacob Bethell for this important game? He could've been the difference.

Devon_Bear wrote:

A disappointing result today, although we gave it a good go in the chase. Ultimately, Mousley's 2 overs for 31 cost us in the end.

A strange looking team selection today, with Yates batting at 6. He's hardly the type of player to come in and smash a few sixes about, is he? We'd be better off with Hassan Ali coming in at 6,

or Davies dropping down the order.

yeah, it seems pretty obvious if Yates is to play in T20 then really he needs to open

but then there would be two very similar openers, both left handed, neither being the quickest scorers.

I know Davies really obviously wants to open but I think his style of batting is clearly better suited to batting in the middle order than Yates

i wonder if the elephant in the room is that our best batsman Hain has never (other than his first season) opened. If you look at James Vince, ever since he established himself as the man at Hants, he opened, and it gave their best batsman the chance to face the maximum number of deliveries. It seems counter-intuitive that our best batsman seems to always either be under pressure to rebuild an innings with wickets down in the power play, or coming in with only 10 overs to go. Considering he almost always takes 10 balls to have a look and get going, if he comes in around 10 overs, he only needs his partner to hog the strike a bit too much and he's coming in to overs 15-20 having barely had time to knock himself in and potentially needing to go at 12/over.

personally it seems to me to have suited him better coming in 2 wickets down in the PP, at least it has given him plenty of time and he has rolled out dozens of big 8-+ innings under those circumstances.

On Mousley- his career SR has dropped as he has gone along it seems to me, and it seems to have coincided with playing him at 3. he seems very much boom or bust and seems to get stuck at the crease playing big shots and missing and allowing too many dots, he doesn't seem adept enough at rotating the strike. i thought he was a better number 5/6 than 3 to be honest.

. I guess not many feel the same as me but maybe that separates 'Diehard Fans' to ones who just turn up for T20.

or 'people who still have to go to work', in other words