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A great couple of days cricket at Portland Road:-
Worcester put us in, and there were good scores yesterday from Arjun Nahal, opening (52), another ton from Zen Malik (107), a ton from Taz Ali, going in at 8 (104), 66 from Che Simmons and 30's from Vansh Jani & Olly Dandy. We got to 458.
Bowling today, the stand out performers have been Che (10-2-48-2), Michael Booth (13-3-37-2), spin from Thilan Walallawita (8-2-17-2) & Taz (19-2-63-2) and a decent bit of left arm seam from 23 year old, James Trodd (9-2-39-1). We've picked him up, after a couple of pretty successful seasons with Hampshire & Gloucester 2nd's, following a serious elbow injury in 2021. Worcester, nearly at the end of the day, are 258 for 9, with Gibbon holding us up on 62NO.
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The_Lickey_Banker wrote:
A great couple of days cricket at Portland Road:-
Worcester put us in, good scores yesterday from Arjun Nahal, opening (52), another ton from Zen Malik, (107), a ton from Taz Ali (104), 66 from Che Simmons and 30's from Vansh Jani & Olly Dandy. We got to 458.
Bowling today, the stand out performers have been Che (10-2-48-2), Michael Booth (13-3-37-2), spin from Thilan Walallawita (8-2-17-2) & Taz (19-2-63-2) and a decent bit of left arm seam from 23 year old, James Trodd (9-2-39-1). We've picked him up, after a couple of pretty successful seasons with Hampshire & Gloucester 2nd's, following a serious elbow injury in 2021. Worcester, nearly at the end of the day, are 258 for 9, with Gibbon holding us up on 62NO.
Thanks LB, nicely set up for the remaining 2 days.
Trodd is an interesting addition, we need a decent left arm seamer in reserve. Presumably, at Hampshire, he would have been under Pop Welch's tutelage (and perhaps learned a thing or two about left arm bowling from Keith B). No doubt, Pop's knowledge of his potential, is why we've given him a chance to prove himself, now.
And I'm pleased Walallawita is back this season. His left arm spin showed great promise last year and with Middlesex cutting their staff in 2024, he came to us and did well. His First team experience at Lords could prove valuable.
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Trodd is contracted? I missed this.
Andy wrote:
Trodd is contracted? I missed this.
No, I don't think he's contracted, there's been no announcement (I could be wrong, it might be a Summer contract); I guess, just on Trial.
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