GerryShedd
Super Moderator
The Chief Executive of Durham labels county members as Luddites:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2024/03/25/luddite-members-killing-county-cricket-durham-ceo/
By my count, there will be nine Bears players involved in the men's version of The Hundred this year and therefore not available to play for Warwickshire for a chunk of July/August.
Andy wrote:
Some absolute gibberish in that article. Sounds like he's completely lost the run of himself in the last couple or so paragraphs.
I agree. Difficult to know if it is Mr Cain or the journalist who is probably transcribing his words from a recorded interview. It certainly doesn't make the best sense.
Just my luck that, on the day that I publish saying that the Club haven't been able to get a loan to build a hotel, they announce that they've got one!
Oh, well, it's an on-line article so I can edit it and no-one will know except Bearsfans.
Here's my preview of the season:
https://deepextracover.com/2024/03/warwickshire-ccc-season-preview-2024/
As usual, (constructive) feedback is welcome!
looking at the videos, there was some dreadful batting by Notts but all credit to the Bears. Also, good to see two young guns (Bethell and Benjamin) putting the Notts bowlers to the sword.
(Bit of a mixed metaphor there, with guns and swords!)
A great start to the season.
....and Liam Norwell is bowling again at last.
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.