Exiled Bear
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Highveld wrote:
To, attempt to, bring this thread back onto the topic.
Possible side for Thursday, including changes I think are needed.
Rhodes, Mousley, Kai Smith, Barnard (C), Hain, Burgess(wk), Benjamin, Briggs, Booth, OHD, A.N. Other(Woakes if available)
The club needs to get 5 points to ensure Division 1 survival. The best chance of achieving that is to allow a new captain a clean slate without the negative influence that having a disposed formaer captain could create.
Yes, let’s drop our top run scorer and bring in someone that scored 114 runs in 13 innings in the T20 and that averages 24.5 in first class cricket, that should do it 😂
I thought you meant that Davies was off the field when it happened…
Players leave the field for a variety of reasons throughout a championship match. It’s hardly unusual.
Speculation is one thing but the whole “I know something that no one else does” thing is very tiresome. Either reveal your source or keep these rumours (which they will remain until they can be backed up with evidence) to yourself
The_Lickey_Banker wrote:
2 match loan from Leicestershire, to cover injuries (Booths & Simmons) and departures (Rae). Apparently, you can only take loans from a different Division and players who have played less than 2 CC matches
https://www.leicestershireccc.co.uk/news/walker-joins-warwickshire-on-loan-until-end-of-season
I understand the reasons for that rule but it seems pretty harsh at this point in the season when many more players will have played at least two games!
GerryShedd wrote:
Gloucestershire were very worthy winners. They peaked at the right time, winning their last five matches in the competition.
Reminds me of the year we won it.
With the emergence of Archie Vaughan, Somerset now have three spinners (though I suppose Vaughan is more of a batsman). I wonder if one of them could be persuaded to move?
Yes our fans do like a moan, that’s for sure! Most comments levelled at the management/coaching are fair I think but in the championship I think we’ve just been one strike bowler away from being towards the top in my opinion. It’s the lack of being able to take 20 wickets that’s cost us, turn a couple of our 7 draws into wins and it makes a huge difference. Rushworth being injured certainly harmed us a lot and yes, this goes back to the management relying on an ageing seam attack.
Also worth mentioning that Alex Davies passed 1000 championship runs for the season and is only the second player to do so in Division 1. He's had a lot of stick since joining us but has definitely been a lot more consistent this season.
I’ve generally been one of the few to defend Robinson over the last couple of years but unfortunately I think time has run out. As others have said, to concentrate so much on this competition and not even make it to finals day just isn’t good enough. On paper our side is good but once again we just choked. Don’t think the captaincy is the issue though as others have suggested, we haven’t lost many under Davies’ watch.
Have to say that I think we were a bit screwed by the scheduling this year, with such a long break since the last game and going into this one cold - it was the same for Gloucestershire but I feel like the underdog is always favoured in this scenario.
That was a truly awful batting performance. I don’t think Gloucestershire earnt any of their wickets, we just gave them away time and time again.
I like Danny Briggs a lot but he’s got to just get a single first ball of that 19th over
Time for Benjamin to make a contribution for once
Now Bethell as well, such a stupid shot
Very surprised we chose to field first given that we don’t usually chase well…
Why did Gleeson not open the bowling?
We did win the one day cup quarter final earlier this season! But that was the first one for a while.
Looks like it’s on us to represent the north group, all three qualified teams are from the south group…
I’d like to go with Benjamin, Foulkes/Garton and Miles to miss out, but that only gives us two seam bowlers, so I suspect one of Garton or Foulkes will be included. Maybe Yates misses out?
Tayls79 wrote:
I think we need 70-80 overs. We've struggled to bowl teams out this year and the rumour was Rushworth was a bit out of condition yesterday. How many overs is it last day? As Paul says, if they want to win (and Worcs are well placed so we could with one) I think it's a ten over smash around tomorrow AM?
96 overs on the final day. Minus 2 for the change of innings of course (unless this happens over lunch)