Really not helpful to shout rubbish when Mousley is struggling to get through an over..

What Corey and OHD must think when he's gone to Mousley who just been smacked for two sixes..

We trying to throw the game away here

Think the game is 50/50 at the moment. Thought we bowled well.

Sad day for the region however R.I.P Ozzy

Mattmike66 wrote:

Nothing from club again ,not even a mention about match tommorrow on website .
No explanation why Bethall isn’t playing ,no Hain or any other news on player availability.
Is Latham unavailable and where is Simmons ?
Strange .
Surely Garton could be made available for selection .

Yep it's shocking. If they really wanted to increase attendances they'd be advertising this game all over the Internet with the kids off school.

Fairly clear they have no interest in promoting the county championship

Why no Bethall ? Surely he needs some cricket

Also..they will just drop the 4 day games in June and July so OHD and the like will be spending pretty much the entire summer playing 2nd cricket or the odd one day game

I wouldn't be offering players 12 month contract when they are only playing in April, May and September

LeicesterExile wrote:

I find it hard to understand the players wanting time to prepare and recover and at the same time do not complain about the season having 4 different formats = c/c. blast, odc and hundread and then are happy to chase the dollar in the IPL etc. If needing a more spread out workload why have they jumped to play the Hundread?
A spread out playing the c/c and blast through the season would achieve that - 5 days a week cricket maximum and I am sure there would still be time to play the ODC games. Of course it would need the players to say they do not want to add the Hundread to an already full schedule!!

They want to play as little cricket for the most amount of money. Likes of OHD are doing future red ball specialist out of job because all they will do is reduce red ball cricket further and play the hundred in July August...maybe even June

Andy wrote:

Too many games in too short a space of time I'd say. Hundred will be played during the school holidays and get much better marketing too.

I'd say it's a mixture of choosing where to spend money (Hundred winning due to six week holidays)

Then awful marketing and promotion of T20 compared to the Hundred

It will all be used to justify a much longer Hundred and potential scrapping of T20 blast

We have prioritised this competition but been left with players who do not turn up for the whole competition and when they do, they provide average performances

Time and time again..the only one who doesn't bottle it is Hain

That was awful

Amount of full tosses..including from our specialist t20 bowlers

Fingers crossed our batsman can save us somehow

Good luck to him if so.

Can be a very decent bowler on his day but not good enough for Div 1.

Comes across as a good bloke so hope it works out for him.

Devon_Bear wrote:

I think Bethell will come in for Miles or Gleeson (if he needs a rest again) - possible team:

Davies
Latham
Mousley
Hain
Bethell
Barnard
Yates
Garton
H Ali
Briggs
Gleeson/Miles

This is the side id go with. 3 front line seamers and 1 spinner and then you have Mousley Bethall and Barnard

UrsaMinor wrote:

white-lightning wrote:

... why couldn't England release Bethell last night to play for us as he's not selected for England at Lords today? He hasn't played for about two weeks now - isn't there a danger of him being a bit rusty if called upon? The ECB prevent our players from playing for the Bears too much!

Yes, this bothers me. Since coming back from injury, Bethell has spent a lot of time not playing for RCB, not playing for England and not playing for Warwickshire. He's lost half a year's development which could be very damaging. England should be desperate to find him a game somewhere.

Same issue with Woakes being repeated

Would help If we promoted the county championship even a little bit..

When they cut the July four day games games out of the schedule they will use all these draws as a reason...

Yeah unfortunately I can't see myself renewing next season.

Reabank wrote:

Hello all

I'd echo Gerry's sentiment that the only way to prevent a 12 game county season with no four day cricket in July and August is to call a SGM. For that we need 250 members to sign up. I'm happy to collect names from this forum. As to what the SGM would be about I'd say, a proposal to change the club rules to prohibit the board from voting for any ECB plan to either reduce the number of days of first class cricket in a season or reduce the number of days played in June, July. If you would like to sign then I think you can message me directly from this forum by clicking on the blue "message" underneath "Reabank." I think I need names and membership number only.

Sent my details over

Highveld wrote:

I asked a legitimate question, based on the multiple times senior members of the team let themselves and the team down with irresponsible dismissals.

Surely it should & would be expected for the captain of a side to set a good example to the rest of the team?

Or do some here think having differing standards for some players is acceptable?

Nope you're being fair, Davies has to set thr standards and he's played some irresponsible innings.

SC_Bear wrote:

What I find interesting is that all of the counties seem to think it ends here. I suspect that the global partners that are buying up the 100 franchises will soon want to see an expansion of the competition to maximise ROI. I doubt many of them will be satisfied with 5 home games per season. I suspect this process will be repeated again within a few years to accommodate an earlier July start and an expanded set of franchises.

Players who aren't involved in the Hundred regularly need to be very careful, they should be looking to maintain the existing structure rather than a reduction which will strengthen franchise cricket and weaken County cricket