Pollock opening in his last game for us. Michael Booth is in again, but Bradley Currie is playing for Gloucestershire!
"You can take the boy out of Atherstone, but you can never take Atherstone out of the boy !"
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A good victory by 10 wickets today
Manraj Johal 10fer, he's finishing the season strongly.
Andy wrote:
Manraj Johal 10fer, he's finishing the season strongly.
The game had a good stream on Play, so I managed to see a fair bit.
Yep, Manraj was the stand out performer, but there were also some very decent bowling performances from Booth and Ryan S. Garrett was OK, very economical, but didn't cut through much.
I think the last couple of 2nds games will give management some difficult decisions for the bowlers. Stick with Sidebottom and Garrett for a bit longer, give Booth a contract?
With the exception of the increasingly promising Amir Khan (and to a lesser extent, Velani and the departing Pollock), the batsmen (like the 1sts) didn't pull up any daisies. Probably a difficult wicket for batting (the time of year ?), but few others stood out. Hose got 23 (in an hour and a half batting !), so the jury is very much still out on him and Ethan B looked OK (though he had a cracking game in the previous 2nds match against Hants, so his future is assured).
Callum Hawkins looked good behind the stumps - and will probably compete with George Maddy, to take Kelley's role as our 'coming through' keeper.
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