Ian Bell never had a season averaging 12!

That was just "wonderful" from Davies, 15 minutes gone and 2 out.

I was wrong, we are effectivly playing with 9.

4th over and 1st wicket down.

Effectively we are playing the game with 10 men.

However, Rob Yates should be congratulated on getting his average up to 12.21 !!!!!

Siraj missing for "personal" reasons.

Seems yet again the corrupt BCCI have used us to prepare one of their players.

Hopefully the new coaching regime will be more careful when selecting overseas players.

Also, Yates keeps his place when his performances this season do not justify it.

Great to see Jacob Bethell getting a chance.

Live scores link

https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/#m84f2ee2f-83bc-48df-94b6-e38d6b2e24c3

That could be a possibility, but very unlikely.

I hope that isn't the case, and it is just a serious error of Judgement by Robinson/Farbrace who continue to play the badly under performing Yates and Davies over one of our best players.

To keep selecting specialist batsmen who are under performing so badly does raise serious questions of the judgement of the selection group.

Mouseley and Bethell have played a total of 4 championship games, so they haven't had the opportunity to show what they can do.

Yates has played 8 games with an Average of 11.75. I'd suggest that is not an acceptable level of performance for a specialist batsman.

Lamb has an average of 48.7 having scored almost 500 runs from this 8 games.

If that is "not good enough" how would you describe the abysmal perfromances from Yates and Davies?

It would be interesting to know why Yates, who is averaging 11.69 is included in the squad again.

Squad announced, still no Lamb, also no Burgess, so Davies keeps his place and keeps.
Jacob Bethel in the squad, hopefully he plays in place of Yates, he couldn't dontribute less.

I would suggest that people read the full job description pack.

It is not a "hands on" coaching role, but a senior board level one, setting strategies and structures.

Probably not, as some here didn't accept that Jacob Bethell increased the diversity of the team!

It is not about "deserveing", it is essential the best candidate for the job is appointed, regardless of their ethnic background.

Director of cricket is not a role where fitting "diversity quota's" should be placed above ability to do the job.

Reducing the number of championship games will lead to job losses, not just for players, but coaches, support staff and umpires, as you need less for the reduced number of days played.

That was, for us, a decent opening partnership, for any other side barely acceptable.

Surely it is the job of the top order players to score the runs, not rely on OHD at 11?

The fact is that two of the top three have not contributed at an acceptable level all season.

Yates is averaging less than 12, excluding his one decent innings, less than 9 from 20 innings, so effectively meaning we are playing a man short when batting.
Likewise for Davies, he's played every game and excluding his best innings is averaging under 20, that is totally unacceptable for a specialist batsman.

Both may perform better in future, but their current performances mean they are not worth a place in the team, and their continued selection harms the overall performance of the team.

Umpires can and do get dropped from the first class panel, also if they have poor gradings they won't be given high profile D1 and one day games.

So there are consequences for umpires.

Yates and Davies seem to be totally imune from the consequences of playing badly!

Reminds me of the siuation you see in club cricket
Howzat Dad?

Thats out son :-)

In most games the players make very significantly more mistakes than the umpires.

As I said, going into the game two batsmen short.

Meanwhile Matt Lamb with an average of 48.70 is sat at home.

The selection of Yates is looking totally justified, his average for the championship is now 11.7 and excluding his one decent innings, is just 7.81

With Davies and Yates in the side it effectively means we start each game two batsmen short.