Mikkyk wrote:

Poor match all round for Barnard - I'm unconvinced by him as a T20 player and fear that's because his nous in this format isn't what it is in red ball.

Poor performance with the bat, dropped a crucial catch and then made a mistake bringing Mouseley on

Yeah he's had a mare.

Gutted, if it wasn't for that Thompson over...

Yates what a grab!

He's a noted a t20 player though, i dont know whats gone on with him here however...

It may not end being enough but were fighting hard here...

An absolute seed to get Woakes

The openers put on 54 in 5.4 overs. We've gone 51 for 6 in 11.2 since.

ITE7376 wrote:

oh FFS Hain injured?

He always gets insane runs at TB, too, his T20 average there is well over 100 IIRC

Blame Westwood.

Think he's been formally named in the squad so id imagine he'll be available for the 3rd Lions game? Possible the ECB have released him due to Hain's injury?

Hope Hain injury isn't too serious...

So he's only gonna play the 3rd Lions game?

Highveld wrote:

Last season he played 10 championship and 10 T20 games at Somerset. With that level of availability he would be worth signing.

And this season?

How much would we actually see of Banton? What with IPL and Hundread etc.

Tayls79 wrote:

Totally - was looking forward to that last year but as I recall that was just the point when he got ill...

Andy wrote:

If Simmons can be involved in the ODC it could be huge for his development.

I don't recall him being ill, not sure what happened with him. Can't remember.

If Simmons can be involved in the ODC it could be huge for his development.

So many of those will definitely be staying at their current counties and are probably way down the line with renewing. Probably not actually very 'available' at all.

Our guys

Yates - keep. Decent opening bat, fantastic slip, best years ahead of him, plays all 3 formats.

Shaikh - keep, has to perform though when he next gets a chance.

Wylie - I remember watching him open with Ben McKinney in an u19 WC in one of the matches and he looked the better player. What has gone wrong here?

Zen - keep, he's done enough I think.

Garton - he may well want to move on.

Simmons - just dont know, probably keep, you can never have too many seamers. Is he actually that quick? He had an amazing debut a couple of year ago under difficult circumstances.

Barker - yeah keep. Bit different with him as he's coaching too.

Cheers

Is he captain still?

Just looked back, indeed he opened for 8 games in 2022 scoring 81 runs with a S/R of 106.

Other things I noticed:

Adam Hose was our highest runscorer that year, by a distance.

Paul Stirling played for us, so did Carlos Brathwaite.

Alex Davies sometimes opened, other times batted 5.

We used just 14 different players across 15 games that year.

Highveld wrote:

Both have batted at 3 a lot of the time, and Jacob played a lot of International cricket, at U19, as an opener.

Yeah fair, Theo Wylie opened with Ben McKinney in the u19 World Cup, get him in...

Yeah agree ive wanted Hain opening in this format for years, gotta get yer best bat in early.