Highveld
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Looks a "lively" wicket, with 15 wickets down before tea.
Live scores and video highlights here
https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/#m86d33d97-6c91-4d99-9c21-a704f57b9108
Teams
WARWICKSHIRE 2ND XI
EJ Pollock, DR Mousley, AJ Hose, JG Bethell, EA Brookes, Roshan Balaji, OP Stone, HJH Brookes, VV Kelley†, MA Johal, GA Garrett, RN Sidebottom
SOMERSET 2ND XI
EJ Byrom, BGF Green, LP Goldsworthy, WCF Smeed, SJ Young, JEK Rew†, CG Harrison, JF Thomas, EO Leonard, JA Brooks, MT Foster, H Whitlock
Live scores and video highlights here
https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/#m86d33d97-6c91-4d99-9c21-a704f57b9108
Teams
WARWICKSHIRE 2ND XI
EJ Pollock, DR Mousley, AJ Hose, JG Bethell, EA Brookes, Roshan Balaji, OP Stone, HJH Brookes, VV Kelley†, MA Johal, GA Garrett, RN Sidebottom
SOMERSET 2ND XI
EJ Byrom, BGF Green, LP Goldsworthy, WCF Smeed, SJ Young, JEK Rew†, CG Harrison, JF Thomas, EO Leonard, JA Brooks, MT Foster, H Whitlock
Why not email the club?
It's a lot colder and there's been significant amounts of rain so the atmosphere is damper, and the air is slightly denser, making swing easier.
Why not drop Tom Rawlins an email?
I'd hope he'd be open to constructive feedback, and the balls faced data is available.
Good news about Malin at the end of this article
He now has the Visa and should be here by the end of the month.
There have been over 1000 viewers on youtube both days, including people from the USA, Aus and New Zealand, as well as the annoying spammers from India.
One benefit of live streaming is that Warwickshire, and the sponsors get world wide coverage, & it's great that Sam Hain's family in Aus can see him play.
The coverage is from, i beleive, 4 remotely controlled cameras, with someone controlling the switch of angles and replays. Also the radio commentators have no controlof the images shown on screen.
For the budget available the coverage is pretty good, yes with a bigger budget and manned cameras you could do more, but funds are limited. In many ways its a bit like cricket was covered before Packer and World Series Cricket.
A few years ago we didn't even have ball by ball audio coverage of the games, so we are getting better coverage.
As for the comentators, Richard Wilford, Clike Eakin and Mike Taylor are, in my opinion, better than Rob Gurney, obviously it bepends on rota's and other commitments who gets to cover the games.
Richard Illingworth and Alex Wharf are both international umpires and two of the best on the county circuitso I've no concerns over the decisions they made today.
Overall a decent first day and some excellent catches.
Brookes and Mousley left out
Link for scorecard and live streaming etc
https://edgbaston.com/fixtures/first-xi/warwickshire-v-derbyshire-8-april-2021/
& Youtube link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mge-tP3AN2U
Live Score
https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/#m2ccf9768-f972-4d1e-bd67-16227d6fe8f8
I'd have Lamb in the side, so Miles and Mousley are the ones to miss out.
Official statement from the club
https://edgbaston.com/news/pieter-malan-update/
If we can't have a full season replacement we might be better off staying with an al English squad. I don't think a series of short term replacements is good for the team or gives the club value for the costs incurred.
Good question, I know that spectators are allowed on club grounds from the start of the local county league seasons, in groups of 6 and socially distanced etc, so I'd think it may be possible at the club grounds that are in use. Not sure what the situation would be for Portland road or New Road etc as they are not actual club grounds.
Probably best to check with the home club a few days before a game.
There will, of course, be lots of good quality club cricket played at many grounds throughout the area each weekend.
Full Fixture list for the second eleven games
Mon
12 Apr
11:00 am
Edgbaston Community Sports Ground, Birmingham
Second XI Championship - 4 Day
Warwickshire 2nd XI
Somerset 2nd XI
Mon
26 Apr
11:00 am
Edgbaston Community Sports Ground, Birmingham
Second XI Championship - 4 Day
Warwickshire 2nd XI
Nottinghamshire 2nd XI
Mon
3 May
11:00 am
Incora County Ground, Derby
Second XI Championship - 4 Day
Derbyshire 2nd XI
Warwickshire 2nd XI
Mon
17 May
11:00 am
Edgbaston Community Sports Ground, Birmingham
Second XI Championship - 4 Day
Warwickshire 2nd XI
Northamptonshire 2nd XI
Mon
24 May
11:00 am
Newport CC, Newport
Second XI Championship - 4 Day
Glamorgan 2nd XI
Warwickshire 2nd XI
Mon
31 May
1:00 pm
Edgbaston Community Sports Ground, Birmingham
Second XI T20 - Central Group - Twenty20
Warwickshire 2nd XI
Glamorgan 2nd XI
Thu
3 Jun
12:00 pm
Barnt Green CC, Birmingham
Second XI T20 - Central Group - Twenty20
Worcestershire 2nd XI
Warwickshire 2nd XI
3:30 pm
Barnt Green CC, Birmingham
Second XI T20 - Central Group - Twenty20
Worcestershire 2nd XI
Warwickshire 2nd XI
Fri
4 Jun
11:00 am
Taunton Vale Sports Club, Taunton
Second XI T20 - Central Group - Twenty20
Somerset 2nd XI
Warwickshire 2nd XI
Mon
7 Jun
11:30 am
Edgbaston Community Sports Ground, Birmingham
Second XI T20 - Central Group - Twenty20
Warwickshire 2nd XI
Northamptonshire 2nd XI
Tue
8 Jun
11:30 am
Desborough Town CC, Kettering
Second XI T20 - Central Group - Twenty20
Northamptonshire 2nd XI
Warwickshire 2nd XI
Wed
9 Jun
11:30 am
Edgbaston Community Sports Ground, Birmingham
Second XI T20 - Central Group - Twenty20
Warwickshire 2nd XI
Gloucestershire 2nd XI
Tue
15 Jun
2:00 pm
Moseley CC, Birmingham
Second XI T20 - Central Group - Twenty20
Warwickshire 2nd XI
Somerset 2nd XI
Thu
17 Jun
11:00 am
Rockhampton CC, Rockhampton
Second XI T20 - Central Group - Twenty20
Gloucestershire 2nd XI
Warwickshire 2nd XI
Fri
18 Jun
11:30 am
Newport CC, Newport
Second XI T20 - Central Group - Twenty20
Glamorgan 2nd XI
Warwickshire 2nd XI
Mon
28 Jun
11:00 am
Weetwood Sports Ground, Leeds
Second XI Championship - 4 Day
Yorkshire 2nd XI
Warwickshire 2nd XI
Mon
5 Jul
11:00 am
Edgbaston Community Sports Ground, Birmingham
Second XI Championship - 4 Day
Warwickshire 2nd XI
Lancashire 2nd XI
Mon
23 Aug
11:00 am
New Road, Worcester
Second XI Championship - 4 Day
Worcestershire 2nd XI
Warwickshire 2nd XI
Tue
7 Sep
10:30 am
The Ageas Bowl, Southampton
Second XI Championship - 4 Day
Hampshire 2nd XI
Warwickshire 2nd XI
Mon
13 Sep
10:30 am
Rockhampton CC, Rockhampton
Second XI Championship - 4 Day
Gloucestershire 2nd XI
Warwickshire 2nd XIThe club have just posted a video of the "New Spin King" Matt Lamb.
He was a decent medium pace bowler, so would have found the conversion to leg spin a lot easier than a very occasional bowler.
The more chances Matt has to be in the side, and invoved in the game the better.
This might be a useful link to save
It's the index page for live county scores.
I'd sugest they are trying to keep Stone & Norwell fit for the first championship game.
Squad & preview from the club
https://edgbaston.com/fixtures/first-xi/leeds-bradford-ucce-v-warwickshire-3-april/?fbclid=IwAR09nJhg3PpcP-n6AcpiWJHv8WqYhVHuouDy2ctAFAW1rRhPX1byDZJhV8s#match-match-previews
I stuck by the rules that the club used for the side they had chosen, ie only including players you had seen.
Which excludes anyone before the Kanhai/Kalli era.
I was aware that Rohan started as a keeper, but he wasn't to the standard of Derryck or Kumar.
Having seen the sides selected by various current and past players over the winter, I thought about the best xi made up of the overseas players we've had at Warwickshire over the years.
I came up with this side.
A decent pair of wicket keepers and a very strong bowling attack.
1 Kumar S
2 Derryck Murray
3 Lara
4 Kanhai
5 Kalli
6 Moody/McMillan
7 Polly
8 Streak
9 AD
10 Jeets
11 Gibbs
I'd be interested to hear the views of others.