The T20 averages for the season so far

https://countycrickethub.net/team-averages.html?teamid=16&comp=3&year=2025

for all the abuse Davies gets 393 runs at SR151 is a good return. again there are multiple players in the 100 with inferior output this year.

for context, there are 27 players who have scored over 350, and only 14 of them have scored at 150 or above.

That's a good return from Davies and that strike rate would get you to 180 if the whole team batted at the same rate. A few of us discussed Ross Whiteley yesterday and why he keeps getting T20 contracts and his strike rate of 136.36 would only get an average score of just over 163. We have good strike rates for quite a few batsmen but our bowling does worry me at times as we do leak a few runs and players like Mouseley have conceded a few compared to last season. We must tighten up when we play Somerset as they have some really fast scorers in their side.

Tom Latham scored a very similar number of runs, at a similar strike rate, without the stupid dismissals, but some here claimed he was too slow.
I know who most people would prefer to haver in the side.

The figues show some of our more exprienced players have fqailed to perform and contribute at an acceptable level, for some that is the case in all 3 forms of the game.

Highveld wrote:

Tom Latham scored a very similar number of runs, at a similar strike rate, without the stupid dismissals, but some here claimed he was too slow.
I know who most people would prefer to haver in the side.

Latham's strike rate was greatly increased by a single innings (the ton, plus another against Notts), though, Davies's was consistent across most of his innings. The comments on here about him scoring slowly were, firstly, made before the season, secondly, based on a significant sample size across his T20 career, and thirdly, born out in 12 out of 14 of his innings last season.

Without the 2 innings as outliers, and they very much were outliers, he'd have been right back to his career strike rate in the mid-130s

As for 'without the stupid dismissals'?, they were both dismissed 14/14 innings, and I recall plenty of unnecessary or poor shots from Latham getting him dismissed. At this point it looks like you're just inventing reasons to shout about Davies I'm afraid because Latham played his fair share of shockers too.

I'd also suggest you are misunderstanding somewhat the role Davies has been given/given himself. Latham was the 'play through the innings' opener and Davies the quick scoring one. Same as Mousley's role was clearly to come in and score quickly (his strike rate went up about 20 from last year) and hain's, as ever, was to bat through. Getting out earlier is somewhat built into Davies's role the same way it was for Neil Carter. Teams nowadays don't have batsmen each coming in hoping to anchor the innings and get a NO from wherever they are in the order. They have players for different roles. Even given that, I'd personally like to have seen Davies kick on past 50 much more often in his time with us, but you aren't looking at the stats through the right lens in my opinion.

given his role as quick scorer in my opinion, with the risk taking that implies, Davies getting nearly 400 runs is a good/very good gross total matched with SR.

as for 'most people' would prefer Latham, well for one thing it never fails to amuse seeing people's assumption of the universality of their own viewpoint but that aside, there is a perfectly reasonable standpoint saying they actually complemented each other beautifully, and I think formed the highest-scoring opening partnership in the whole competition.

it may be a scandalous idea but- they don't have to be either/or, and you can praise both at the same time, or one of them without deriding the other. Opening partnerships can work badly or well, we had a partnership scoring 800 between them and you're slagging the guy who got half the runs? ah well.

The above was a "party political broadcast" from the "Alex Davies fan Club", membership 2, Alex Davies & ITE7376.

Remembering the infamous "Jean" from the previous boad, perhaps they are the3 same person?

Anyway, to return to the topic.

The game will be played at Taunton, under floodlights, so allowing for the twilight period, there ,may be an advantage of batting second on the day.

Great post ITE7376, so many good points. The numbers would suggest the batters have batted well this comp, most strike rates there look good.

But no you have to pick a side and be staunch over it. If you don't hate Alex Davies and criticise him at every available opportunity you won't get on on here. Pick your favourites and stick to them. Don't do in depth discussion and debate.

as a different context, across 18 counties there were 60 top 5 batsmen. Davies was 22nd in the scoring. in the top 3rd, pretty impressive stuff. imagine how many bad dismissals the 48 below him must have had

Highveld wrote:

The above was a "party political broadcast" from the "Alex Davies fan Club", membership 2, Alex Davies & ITE7376.

Remembering the infamous "Jean" from the previous boad, perhaps they are the3 same person?

your comments about Davies are now saying far more about you than they are rationally saying about him.

Actually, i'd have said that daring to critise Davies was the minority view on here, there were times whern North Korea allowed more vbariation of opinion than thios board, but as the great Lady Thatcher once said, "hasving a minority view does not mean you are wrong".