Unrelated but George Garrett 43* at lunch for Kent .

BristolBear wrote:

In hindsight it looks poor.
But if Bethell and Ali don’t throw their wickets away, you could make the argument, it’s far better to push for 500-550, accept missing the 400 bonus point to keep Hampshire out there and try only bat once.

As it is, unless we see more OHD and Burgess miracle partnerships reaching that sort of score is going to be very tough.

Agree. And the dismissals in isolation look poor but Hampshire bowled pretty well this morning I thought. We still scored over 100 runs in the session.

They've always compared fairly favourably in comparison to some other regular openers.

Yeah I've no sound either

Joel Paris would have been terrific, left armer with a pretty amazing First Class record and plays in an extremely strong WA side.

Hasan for the injured Rushworth.

Still no Hain? Surprised after he made appearance as sub v Durham on day 4.

Dukes ball back.

No Keith Barker. Appears Hampshire will line up with the same XI that drew with Lancashire.

A ground we've traditionally struggled on though we did win there last season.

Been bald as a coot for a while now I think

Tom Rogers

What did they look like?

Maybe he's still finding his way after injury? Don't think he's a top 5 batter at the moment.

Going forward how would people feel about leaving Briggs out of the side in 4day cricket whilst using Yates and Mousley/Bethell to bowl the spin overs? For sure they'd still be times we'd pick Briggs on certain pitches against certain opponents but we could also have the option of leaving him out and playing an extra seamer or batter.

ExiledBrummie wrote:

Andy wrote:

Incredible effort to give us a sniff, Yates outbowling Briggs.

I'm also impressed we used 9 bowlers.

Yeah I like that, if you have the resources use them, particularly with the spinners, you just never know.

Incredible effort to give us a sniff, Yates outbowling Briggs.

Have always admired Melinda Farrell as a broadcaster but she's been absolutely fantastic on ball by ball comes thus far, a real natural.

Yates is getting some turn

First thimg that springs to mind is back when Taunton had them silly excessively turning tracks I remember Ravi Patel took 7fer for Middlesex v Somerset, fairly sure that was on the first day. 2016 or 2017 sounds about right.

meashambear wrote:

Cracking partnership today. Durham have a bit more pace than most attacks and with it coming onto the ball nicely along with a short boundary, Davies looks like he is in his element.

It does have to be said that there are not many wickets anywhere today (2 for Garrett).

Yes it's very, very early days but it's nice to see George Garrett getting a few wickets. Another academy lad who never got a proper go at Edgbaston.

Yes let's enjoy it. Imagine being on the other end of that today?!

Fair play to them both.

We released 3 homegrown bowlers during the past close season and replaced them with T20 specialists. Now we're here.

Hampshire away I think