Highveld
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It seems Ed is moving on from Worcestershire, understandable with their current crop of young batters.
He was always an entertaining player to watch, and seems to have been a good person around the team here, at Worcester and at his club Barnt Green.
Hopefully he is successful in whatever he decides to do next.
Im terms of cricketing development for our young players, surely a link with a side in Australia, South Africa or New Zealand would be more productive, and give better opportunities?
I remember we used to have an exchange scheme with Transvaal a few years ago which worked well.
Jacob is in the England squad for the games v South Africa and Ireleand. He will be captain for the Ireland games.
Back to the 1/4 final, I do not think thast playing two wrist spinners on a small ground would be a good idea, so a decision between Tax or Lintott needs to be made, and Kai Smith should be in the side, ideally with the gloves.
Garton has claimed he wanted to play red ball cricket, but was never available.
Garton and Gleason are mercanaries, who appear to have no real commitment to Warwickshire. I'd rather spend the money on players available all season.
I've experienced that with the Sainsburys website, but only if the VPN is set to a non UK IP Address.
I quite often set the VPN to non UK locations to live stream sports from other countries.
A very good question, I'd be interested to know the total cost of emplying Hassan Ali, including flights, housing and work permits.
Unlike pro sports in the USA salary figures aren't disclosed.
Sadly people can become very tribal indeed, particularly around footbasll. During the 1970's it was observed that in counties that did not have a football league teams, a more rowdy type of supporter, who would normally attend football, was attracted to the Sunday league games, creating a less than pleasent atmosphere at some games. Although the tribalism is more a problem for society overall, not just sports.
Nuneaton CC is nowhere near viable for professional cricket, the pavillion is poor for a club ground, and the ground is part of a large area of unfenced open ground which would require substantial fencing to be errected to secure the ground, as well as temporary stands, catering and hospitality facilities building..
The Cov & N Warwicks ground has very limited parking, and again would need stands and other facilities to be built to cater for spectators. There is also the issue that the cricket club are not the primary tennent of the ground, so members of opther parts of the C&NW club would still have the right to access the ground, and parking spaces while hosting a game. The parking on the ground is limited for a normal club game, so there would, effectively be, no onsite parking for anyone exept players & officvials during the game.
I just considered the use of the Birmingham title as been similar to having a title sponsor on other sports, eg Mclaren Mastercard F1 team or Petronas AMG Mercedes in F1., or Newcastle Red Bull in Rugby Union or RB Leipzig in football.
The club is Warwickshire County Cricket Club, the players and staff get paid by Warwicksshire CCC Ltd, so the use of the title sponsor was temporary and was a neccessary evil to obtain the funding needed to safeguard the stadium's Elite ground status, and untimately the long term survival of the club
Actually, i'd have said that daring to critise Davies was the minority view on here, there were times whern North Korea allowed more vbariation of opinion than thios board, but as the great Lady Thatcher once said, "hasving a minority view does not mean you are wrong".
The above was a "party political broadcast" from the "Alex Davies fan Club", membership 2, Alex Davies & ITE7376.
Remembering the infamous "Jean" from the previous boad, perhaps they are the3 same person?
Anyway, to return to the topic.
The game will be played at Taunton, under floodlights, so allowing for the twilight period, there ,may be an advantage of batting second on the day.
Wardens is a nice ground, with plenty of space for parking and to build tempoorary stands and hospitality facilities.
The site includes a large area used asw a 3rd team ground, asnd as a rugby field, so there would be plenty of parking space.
As the ground is in a residential area, there may be limited public transport to the grouond, and I'm nopt sure if the train service to Kenilworth is viable for spectators, as to get there from Birmingham would require a change at Coventry or Leamington Spa.
I'd say that Pickwick was almost an "inner city" ground, as it's about the same distance to the city centre as Edgbaston.
Also, When I last umpired there, c 14 months ago, the outfiled resemblecd a badly ploughed field with dangerous ridges and indentations, the wickets there are very slow and low, and, in my opinion, the ground does not have the infrastructure or space to host professional cricket.
Apart from Rugby School I'm struggling to think of a ground with the facilities, space and quality of playing area that would be suitable, without a multi million pound investment? Possible Wardens in Kenilworth, but I undertand they are selling that site for housing soon.
Tom Latham scored a very similar number of runs, at a similar strike rate, without the stupid dismissals, but some here claimed he was too slow.
I know who most people would prefer to haver in the side.
The figues show some of our more exprienced players have fqailed to perform and contribute at an acceptable level, for some that is the case in all 3 forms of the game.
The T20 averages for the season so far
https://countycrickethub.net/team-averages.html?teamid=16&comp=3&year=2025
CVC the organisation he came from ran F1 for many years, not very successfully. It seems that CVC and it's staff are only interested in the maximum profit, not the sustainable health of a business.
New signing for the last few championship games
I would say that the Metro Bank cup has shown that Taz has moved ahead of Lintott as a spinner, and that Kai should be classed as the best keeper on the staff.
It is not easy going into a competition when you have three toally inexperienced batsmen, plus your two senior batters underperforming, and consistantly getting out to poor shot selection. Senior experienced players are meant to provide leadership and set an example to the younger, less experienced members of the team. Can you honestly say that was the case this season?
Ed Barnard was carrying a greater load this season, and apart from Kai Smith, Michael Booth and OHD didn't really have anyone else in the side he could be sure would deliver a good performance every game. He showed great leadership qualities throughoutthe competition, and would, in the opinion of many, be an excellent club and team captain going forwards. Ideally from Today.
Final averages after game 8
https://countycrickethub.net/team-averages.html?teamid=16&comp=2&year=2025
The figures show some "senior" players did not contribute as much as would be expected from experienced players. The video clips of dismissals on Nv Play also show the nature of dismissal, and that in many cases they were playing shots that were totally inappropriate for the game situation.
Some of our "specialist" batsmen should be ashamed of their lack of performance during the competition.