Highveld
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Live feed link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOsQEL7npa4
Sadly you won't be able to see Davies bat this morning, he was out in the first couple of overs.
Fantastic news for Charlie, hopefully the start of a long, and successful career with the club.
"Let's hope Davies keeps wicket better than he bats!"
It would be very hard not to, but would be truly horific, and probably not something to be shown before the 9pm threashold :-)
Third game of the championship season.
Hopefully Ian Westwood has done a deep root cause analysis of our issues from the previous games and is prepared to make the needed changes to resolve the issues.
Kai Smith has done enough to be assured he has the keeping gloves for the rest of the championship season, There are good reasons to rotate some of the seam bowlers, what is concerning is the lack of a top quality spin bowler. Perhaps we need to see if we can get Cory on the next flight over for the rest of the season.
Yet again, the top three in the order are consitant in their inconsistancy, and regularly fail to give us a good atart to an innings, which has a massive negative effect on the rest of the batsmen, and the bowlers, who get less time to rest between innings than they should. If the budget allows the club should be looking to see what top order players are available on the loan market, of from Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, as we currently have a second overseas player slot open.
(https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/?tab=m_summary#mc5520000-6664-a623-349c-08de2d98add0)
Live scores link etc https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/?tab=m_scorecard#mc5520000-6664-a623-9596-08de2d98ad01
Back to our usual starts, losing a wicket in the 7th over
I wonder if he's available this season?
He would give us an experienced first team spinner, who'd be selected for every game.
I think I've recovered from the shock of Warwickshire having a decent opening partnership :-)
It does make life easier for the batters that follow, and allows the bowlers more rest time, so they are stronger for bowling in the second innings.
Great to see the ton by Dan M, he justified his selection in the side, and hopefully continues to make good contributions for the rest of the season.
Overall the game is in an interesting position, early wickets tomorrow could lead to a very positive result.
Ian Westwood & Ed Barnard obviously feel he's worth his place in the side.
Live scores link
https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/?tab=m_summary#mc5520000-6664-a623-1e62-08de2d98ac35
Good to see Kai is keeping wicket, he should be backed to do the job for the full season.
Mousley is an England ODI international and bowls offspin, so contributed in two parts of the game.
It would be illogical to omit a top quality test player, while he hasn't had a pre season game in England, he has been playing regularly and will be fit to play.
I'd have Kai Smith keeping wicket, and omit Lintott, Malik and one seam bowler.
However, our batting is still weak, and the club should be looking to strengthen that part of the squad, ideally two top 3 players.
He has a young family, in the current political situation, nobody in their right mind would choose to visit a country bordering Iran, unless it was totally essentiaL.
That is wonderful news, to have a leader that will lead by example and has a good cricket brain. We now have a captain the whole club and supporters can get behind.
Maybe one of Sam/OHD or Chris as VC ?
I wonder did Davies jump or was he pushed?
Live scores link for today
https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/?tab=m_summary#m8691eb1a-0786-4fac-915c-539010b1c121
Live scorecard https://www.clubcricket.co.za/latestnews/scorecard-one/
Good to see others here have concerns about the captancy, wicket keeping and opening partnership. I am also concerned about the poor quality of the reserve batting.
If he was available for the full season he would have been an excellent choice as captain.
A brilliant innings overnight, and possibly, the first time a Warwickshire player gets to his test 100 off the bowling of another Warwickshire player.
It was good to see Ricky Ponting praising Jacob, a slightly less biased view than some of the English media and pundits.
Not having Garton or Hassan Ali would not be a negative, their availability was dreadful, and in most games the performance was less than adequate.
We have wasted too much money on Hassan Ali for the low number of games played and poor performance levels.