1) good bowling
2) poor shot selection
3) pressure on the team due to the abysmal brainless captancy allowing Worcester to get significantly more runs than they should
4) Scoreboard pressure
5) Mediocre players allowed to fail consitantly and not be replaced in the team.

A message for Alex Davies, if you have any respect for the club you resign as captian now.

That was, yet another totally inappropriate shot for his dismissal.

Thank you, good to know I'm not the only person who can see who our main negative factor is.

The captaincy this morning was worse than abysmal, it wouldn't be acceptable in a club 4th xi side, as this is meant to be one of the leadingg first class sides in the country.

The position of Davies has now become totally untenable, and change is needed now.

the 990's squad were a group of players who, mainly grew up together, had long term overseas players, and did not have mercanries coming in to play, or not play, just one form of cricket.

They also had a captain who led by example.

What is actually worse, a young keeper dropping a chance, or experienced batters regularly getting out cheaply to totally inappropriate shots putting the side under pressue, or an experienced bowler delivering numerous full tosses and wides in a short spell?

All keepers drop chances, but if we want our young players to develop to reach their full potential, they have to be encouraged, supported and given the chance to improve to achieve their potential.

Live scores link https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/?tab=m_summary#m80f2527d-848e-481f-aae6-596e78f3d862

From the squad anounced yesterday I would in clude Kai Smith, to keep and Dan Mouseley in the side, as well as Webster for Latham.

I'm think he has been available less than 50% of the time he has been contracted to play for the club.
Was the elbow injury incurred while playing for Warwickshire, or was it a case that like his colleague last year, he arrived with a concealed pre existing injury?

Yes, he has done reasonably well when he was on the field, but that was not often enough, and has provided a pretty poor return on the high investment.

With Gilchrist and Thompson joining there is no need to waste the money giving Hassan Ali another paid holiday at the clubs expense, and the club will be able to sign an overseas player who intends to fully honour his contract with the club.

Very poor start, been 2-2 with both Burle and Lintott playing very poor shots. Now 36-3 with Jani also failing to make a significant score.

Live scores link https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/?tab=m_summary#m1a4095e4-6ea3-4f88-afdd-4254d1479def

Warwickshire 2nd XI
OM Burle, JB Lintott, TO Wylie, VL Jani, AS Nahal, OG Dandy†, LS Gekis, BSM Blakemore, AR Sylvester, TN Walallawita, C Cater, LJH Backhouse
Middlesex 2nd XI
NS Fernandes, JA Isbell, JLB Davies†, CM Falconer, PN Wijesinghe, JA Nelson, HJH Brookes, RJ Crawford, MS Johal, ZM Choudhry, N Bhandari

Hopefully the WCL promotors will ensure that Warwickshire/Edgbaston suffer no financial loss as these are circumstances totally beyond the control of the club.

A very strange announcement overnight that todays WCL India v Pakistan game is off, and for spectators not to go to the stadium as it will be closed.

No explanation for the cancellation was provided.

I wonder why the game was called off, Have WCL failed to pay the stadium hire fee etc? Was there an expectation of serious crowd disorder and violence?

Will the rest of this private tournament take place?

The comentators have said it is a very used wicket.

THe camera work and vision mixing on the Derbyshire live stream isn't the best.

Live scores and video link

https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/?tab=m_summary#m814f7d24-c35b-43bf-9998-7f53ebdcae4c

For some reason Sam Hain is not included in the side.

Highveld wrote:

If we were to get a young player from Glous, I'd be looking at getting one of Tommy Boorman, a 19 year old batter/off spinner with captaincy experience, Archie Bailey, a 19 year fast bowler or Armand Rao, also 19 ex Somerset a seam bowling all rounder with captancy experience.

It's a useful indicator of character and cricketing IQ in many cases. Both the examples I quoted have had extensive captaincy experience though age group cricket, and in the case of Tommy Boorman county 2nd team level.

Having seen all 3 of the players named play from the middle I'm sure they have the potential to have good cricketing careers.

If we were to get a young player from Glous, I'd be looking at getting one of Tommy Boorman, a 19 year old batter/off spinner with captaincy experience, Archie Bailey, a 19 year fast bowler or Armand Rao, also 19 ex Somerset a seam bowling all rounder with captancy experience.

live scores and video link https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/?tab=m_scorecard#m160303c2-8f13-4a51-85c2-e55de20e31c5

If, as we should, be using the 50 overs competition as a development exersize, the keeping gloves should be given to Kai Smith for the entire competition. His development so he can become the everyday first choice keeper is essential.

Effectively we lose just two everyday players, as Woakes, Mousley and Bethell have been missing for England calls & Garton and Gleason are absent, for injury or other reasons, significantly more than they are available.

Apart from Barnard that group of batters is concerning, and doesn't suggest consistant scoring. It might be an idea to see if it was possible to get a batsman on loan if their own county are not planning to use them.