I think Rocco’s parting comments were more of an “au revoir” rather than “Goodbye”, so you never know…..

MalmesburyBear wrote:

I think Rocco’s parting comments were more of an “au revoir” rather than “Goodbye”, so you never know…..

he seemed perfect- really good but not quite good enough for international callups. I feel like we got a bit unlucky with Beau Webster on that score as I'm not sure he will be an absolute fixture in the aussie team

I'd be happy to see Latham, Rocci and Webster return if available. All 3 performed well, made very positive contributions to the side, and were good value for the money invested. It looks like Will Young might fall into that group too, based on his first day in the side.

for white ball cricket a younger version of Ashton Agar would do nicely, if one exists. we got unlucky with him, too.

Been saying since Jeets retired we should be looking at Keshav Maharaj.

I see that Sean Dickson, our quarter final nemesis, is leaving Somerset to join Glamorgan.

Yeah may have been a late change of heart as I thought it was an open secret he was joining Derbyshire.

I guess having to play for Glamorgan is a suitable punishment for having deprived the Bears of a Finals Day experience.

Which is worse Derbyshire or Glamorgan?

Having to play home games at Derby would be truly depressing.

But Chesterfield....

So much pain for a few moments of joy!

Highveld wrote:

So much pain for a few moments of joy!

I think that's what my wife said about being married to me.

Poor woman :-)

regarding our serial failures in QFs i was wondering if my memory has it right. My perception is that they are generally rooted in batting failures which have been pretty much all-encompassing and spanned the whole batting unit in most games. Other than Davies's 70, I don't recall any other batsman even getting so much as a 50 across all 5 QFs. Gloucester was obviously the worst example

I would maybe make an exception for the Kent game, IIRC Adam Milne was on dominant form with the ball that whole white ball summer and was near-unplayable and IIRC he ripped our top order out and made the game pretty much null and void from an early point.

As far as the bowling, I don't recall any particularly wretched bowling displays to match the abjectness of the batting, I mean Gloucs we actually bowled well, even. And we bowled pretty damn well for the vast majority of 18ovs against Somerset.

Andy wrote:

Been saying since Jeets retired we should be looking at Keshav Maharaj.

Has signed for Leicestershire for the first 4 months of next season. Championship and entire Blast campaign.