George Hill has been prolific for about 3 seasons now, gets a wicket almost every spell.

Mousley, excluding best score, average is about 12, so over 5 times higher than Davies for the same criteria.

I'm not happy with Kai Smith being dropped in favour of davies keeping as he needs to play. Pretty sure he averages more with the bat than davies this season too!

I think there was some great recruitment in the winter, but a top order bat to open or play at 3 was the glaring omission.

Kai has scored more runs, from a lot less innings and averages almost 42.

Is Davies's keeping really 80 runs per game better?

I have said for some time that we are desperate for quality top order batters. We won't win anything with the current top three. This should have been addressed in the winter but we just keep signing more seam bowlers.

Its like a re run of the Essex game. Hopefully we see the same outcome.

Barnard opens in the one day game. Maybe him in for Davies with Smith WK.

Keep Yates & Mousley to rotate the RH, LH. Malik needs a run to see if he can do it, he is 28 not 18.

We have to start showing that we will make changes if players consistently fail to perform, starting with Davies.

What's happened to Kai Smith? His batting was looking promising a couple of games ago.

It was decided to play Malik, a specialist batsman, who has a poorer record than Smith who is a batsman keeper.

whether malik should be in or out or davies should be in or out , Kai Smith has to start. His batting is good enough, and he is still a 21 year old who needs games to get his keeping sharper (which I presume is the reason he is dropped). For me he is a player who should always play, like Hain, Barnard, Webster, Bamber. Part of the core.

When the last wicket stand is the highest of the innings, you know that OHD is back.