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.

Yorkshire really riding their luck here.

Jani is scoring tons of runs for the seconds. He must be knocking on the door. I want Malik to do well but he isn't getting scores. Davies should be the first to be dropped in any case. Dismal form.

Davies' batting is extremely worrying, when you think that last season he played every championship game and only averaged 27 so it's not just something that's happening this season. The problem is we don't seem to have a ready-made opener from the seconds to step into the team, it might mean Barnard having to move up to opener with Smith coming back into the team. I too would like to see Jani given a chance in the team, play him at 6 & Smith at 7 maybe?

One thing to take from today, apart from a few starts, Yates looks poor, Davies looks like he has never played before, Mousley is not a number 3 and Webster always appears to look like he has 'Ants in His Pants' when standing at the crease as he keeps moving about too much. A few wickets due to wafting outside off stump and when you are in trouble, you just have to stay and bat it out until you feel 'In'. If anyone remembers Stokes great innings v Australia at Headingley, he hardly scored more than 3 off his first 70 odd balls but stuck around. Batsmen today don't appear to want to fight it out, they would sooner attack their way out of trouble, today it didn't work. Harry Brook did the same but he is still there and rode his luck of which he has plenty. Quick wickets tomorrow or this one could get away from us.

The top 3 are getting slated but the worst dismissal of the day was Barnard's.

I just think, like v Essex, a batter needs a bit of luck on these sort of pitches. Hard to judge a batter. Yorkshire's openers (Lyth is extremely good) looked all at sea too.

The Davies/Kai/keeping situation is a problem, Davies is obviously a walking wicket right now but Kai's keeping is miles off. Does Davies drop down to 7?!

Also, might be nitpicking, we didnt bowl badly at all, but we didn't bowl anywhere near as well as we could have considering the helpful conditions. Give em a 'hit me' ball in most overs. Yorkshire bowlers far more penetrative and relentless.

I fully expect this post to be misconstrued.

Andy wrote:

Also, might be nitpicking, we didnt bowl badly at all, but we didn't bowl anywhere near as well as we could have considering the helpful conditions. Give em a 'hit me' ball in most overs. Yorkshire bowlers far more penetrative and relentless.

I fully expect this post to be misconstrued.

So what you're saying is that Sam Hain had the wrong boots on.
(PS - is that enough misconstruing?)

I think that we have to start concluding that we are just not good enough, I am sick of reading that we always seem to get the rough end of the stick on the toss or that the pitch has flattened whenever we bowl. We don't & it hasn't.

Bamber just taking Brookes wicket as I type but he has been very expensive this morning & Brook has chucked that wicket away, just like we did on several occasions.

Absolute seed from OHD.