Saqib's brother plays for Attock in the Warwickshire league. I've umpired him several times.

Ed Barnard would be a very good signing.

I have no doubt that if he played for one of the ECB's favoured counties he'd have had many England test and ODI caps by now.

His record, in all forms of the game, is better than many in the England squad

Yates and Davies should have been dropped with Bethell and Mousley as the replacements.

Neither Davies or Yates are performing at the level of a specialist batsman.
We did win the championship last seasn, effectively playing with 10 men, in many games. Perhaps trying to win it with just 9 players is a challenge to far.

live batting averages https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/averages/batting_bowling_by_team.html?id=14444;team=1479;type=tournament

RM Yates 7* 10 0 133 55 13.30 Excluding the highest score of 55, the average is 8.67.

That is not an acceptable level of performance for a specialist batsman.

Yates must be very greatful he signed a multi year contract last season, as the performances this year would not get a new deal.

Real red ball cricket resumes.

Will Stone be condiered fit enough to play a four day game?

Will Yates and Davies, who have been mediocre at best, so far this season in championship cricket be replaced? Bethell and Mousley would be the obvious replacements.

Any other changes to the team?

I did read that Dodgers consistantly win about 66% of their games.

A thread where we can discuss baseball, especially as some of us have visited games on our travels.

That is very true.
Was at a game in San Francisco in April and the locals were great in explaining things, but also interested in how Brits viewed the sport.
A great thing at many clus is allowing kids to "Run the bases" after a game.
At LA Dodgers on a sunday game literally hundreds of kids were allowed to run the bases after the game, in a very organised and safe way.

While there is a massive range of ticket prices, it is possible to get seats with a good view for well under $50

If you can, try to get tickets when the LA Dodgers are playing the Rockies, they are the strongest side and very good to watch.

There is a great family atmosphere, especially at the Sunday afternoon games.

There is a lot cricket could learn in terms of marketing the sport from baseball.

Perhaps we need to have a seperate thread for baseball.

Good to know there is someone else on here that appreciates baseball.

It may have been an exhibition game of Japanese league game.
The majority of the position players are in action everyday.

There are some tactical substitutions, but the rules about replacing pitchers has changed which reduces the substitutions a lot.
Baseball is a very enjoyable sport to watch, definately better than, almost all, franchise cricket.
The stadiums are very good, and ticket prices are reasonable.

MLB has a 162 game regular season, the active roster is 24 players, of which at least 12 are specialitist pitchers. that expands to 40 in September, to allow promising young players from the minor leagues an opportunity.

The link is invalid.

Positives from the game were the excellent all round performance of Jacob Bethall, he was great in the field. Also the way Craig Miles kept his cool in the tight final over.

We have the core for a really good team.

Yes, a batsman/batter/batsperson can retire (Out) at any time.

Live scores link

https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/#m128cf5b9-d9dc-4fe8-9e34-c3b765e3ca2b

Sam Hain is back in the team.

George Furrer was playing in Worcestershires 2nd xi T20 game at Cheltenham today.

that suggests he has been, or will be, released at the end of his contract.

that was published 7 days ago on May 24th!!!!!

Quite possibly the best innings ever by an Ireland qualified player for Warwickshire.
However it is ridculous that a British Citizen is forced to play as an overseas player.

Link for Todays game

https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/#me186d056-dec3-4726-818e-91db7cbf6877