GerryShedd
Super Moderator
Good news.
Thanks for going to so much trouble to put this fixture list together.
I've just watched the highlights of the game v West Indies and both of them looked good - Shaikh with the bat (a cover drive like Ian Bell's) and Tazeem with the ball.
Still no announcement about the out-ground to be used; and the fixture list that I received with my membership pack says TBC against the games v Surrey, Yorkshire and Notts, with only the Glamorgan game at Edgbaston.
After all the (justified) complaints last year, the Club seem to have got their act together - I received my membership pack yesterday.
An amazing win for England; and West Indies beat Australia by 8 runs. This thing called Test cricket might just catch on.
It's the International League T20 in Sharjah/Dubai/Abu Dhabi - not exactly a tournament to get excited about.
Tazeem Ali comes on as seventh bowler (!) and stars for England:
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/icc-under-19-world-cup-2023-24-1399722/south-africa-under-19s-vs-england-under-19s-10th-match-group-b-1399733/full-scorecard
Bearing in mind that, in some ways, this appointment was the logical one in that he was T20 captain last year, I'm surprised that it has taken until the second half of January for the announcement to be made.
Better to be out of form now than in April - but still must be very disappointing for him.
I somehow think that this won't be greeted with unqualified acclaim on here:
https://edgbaston.com/news/davies-pride-at-being-named-new-bears-club-captain/
A really interesting post.
There are three categories of players from a particular county picked for England - those who have come through the county youth systems, those who didn't come through the age systems but joined without appearing for another county and those who represented another county but moved before being picked for England. Population sizes are only particularly relevant for the first category.
It would be interesting to see the figures for white ball internationals (but not suggesting that you owe us that information, Random Bear - you've done a great job already).
As for naming the 13 Warwickshire players making their Test debuts in the last 50 years, I've only managed nine so far but I'll continue to search my memory banks rather than cheat and look up the answers.
To be fair, he only scored 79 runs in seven innings for the Hurricanes (his 'match winning 80' was actually 51) and his last two innings were ducks so I'm not that surprised he was dropped.
He has made it clear in interviews that he wants at some stage to have a head coach role, possibly as a prelude to the England job. So I'm not sure that a full time batting coach role would suit him. He has gone out of his way to take on as many part time roles as possible - last year he coached England Lions in red and white-ball cricket, Derbyshire in the County Championship and Vitality Blast, Birmingham Phoenix in the Hundred, at the T10 league in the UAE, and was an assistant for New Zealand on tours of England and Bangladesh. He is currently coaching Melbourne Renegades.
Anyway, it will be interesting to see what his next move will be.
Ethan making an impact Down Under:
https://wccc.co.uk/worcestershire-signing-ethan-brookes-smashes-146-in-t20-fixture/
It's interesting that he said nothing about the captaincy.
Mark Robinson gives an update on injuries, team selection etc.
https://edgbaston.com/news/bowler-is-top-target-as-robinson-plots-2024-campaign/?utm_campaign=14289425_WCCC%20Newsletter%20-%20Robbo%20%285.1%29&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=DotDigital&dm_i=1AFS,8I9SH,8II8VY,Z6IAP,1
Happy New Year to all Bearsfans!