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Post by hawke on Jun 23, 2024 7:51:32 GMT
Promising from Luxton but at the end of the day I think we threw that away unfortunately. Yes very good from Luxton. Indeed very encouraging.
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Post by newby on Jul 4, 2024 20:44:04 GMT
Back to T20 tomorrow night at Headingley versus the top of the pile Birmingham Bears.
No Root this time around and Luxton too has a game going on, but Masood is back after missing the Durham game.
YJB is taking a break from cricket I read, not sure of the status of Adil Rashid.
Possible XI: Lyth, Malan, Wharton, Masood, Ferreira, Hill, Thompson, Bess, Chohan, Moriarty, McKerr.
Birmingham bears squad: Alex Davies (C & WK), Ed Barnard, Chris Benjamin, Jacob Bethell, Michael Booth, Danny Briggs, Zak Foulkes, George Garton, Sam Hain, Jake Lintott, Craig Miles, Dan Mousley, Rob Yates.
Seam bowlers Richard Gleason, Hasan Ali and Chris Woakes, who all played in the reverse fixture are missing.
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Post by karma on Jul 5, 2024 6:08:09 GMT
I hope white-ball specialist Malan is back in form tonight against Warickshire's limited overs team.
I saw him for the seconds yesterday at Weetwood and another innings of big hitting followed in short order to casually being out.
We need him back showing last year's form to overcome the high flyers from Warwickshire. I'll be there to watch and I don't do disappointment well 😥
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Post by slowleftarmer on Jul 5, 2024 8:36:17 GMT
Looks like a few players have found some form since the last T20 game with Fereira making a ton for the 2nds, Wharton and Tatts centuries at Chesterfield and Bean and Lyth at Scarborough. Whether T20 is going to see Tatts, Wharton or Bean given a chance is another thing. Sadly I dont think Coad or Fernando is going to be in the T20 team so it will once again fall to Tommo to maintain the momentum he has built up in the last 2 CC games.
Lyth Malan Masood Wharton Fereira Hill Revis Bess Thompson McKerr Moriarty Chohan.... thats 12 so one of the last 6 likely to miss out and Hill seems to have been rested this season in the T20 format.
Is McKerr fit? Do we still go spin heavy?
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Post by newby on Jul 5, 2024 9:11:48 GMT
No squad announced yet so whether McKerr is fit or not we will have to wait and see.
The thing about going in spin heavy for this game is that spin is the Bears strong suit, especially with all their quick bowling injuries.
Perhaps we will have a Friday night belter of a batsman friendly wicket to please the fans, in which case it might be 55/45 in our favour and the bowlers, whoever they pick, are just cannon fodder.
Whatever, if our top 5 don't come off we're toast.
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Post by newby on Jul 5, 2024 13:36:30 GMT
Mckerr, Cliff, and Leech in the 14 man squad may indicate one of Chohan or Moriarty will miss out, then again it might not.
Should be a decent evening weather wise before the wet stuff moves in for the weekend.
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Post by davemorton on Jul 5, 2024 17:26:08 GMT
"Make some noise! Are you ready?"
And I have no bowl in which to vomit. But I do have 'mute'.
There. That's better.
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Post by tykemania on Jul 5, 2024 17:26:52 GMT
Chohan didn't make the squad for some reason. We're fielding anyway, have to cross the old fingers!
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Post by newby on Jul 5, 2024 18:00:58 GMT
Broken thumb has ruled Chohan out.
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Post by newby on Jul 5, 2024 20:58:04 GMT
Another one slips by that we really ought to have won.
A very good run chase but we were always stretching for it and I was never confident. Hain played beautifully but we let them get 20 runs too many.
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Post by hawke on Jul 6, 2024 6:47:26 GMT
Had intended to go but couldn't at the last minute. Yes Warwicks are lucky to have come across Hain, British parents, Hong Kong born, Aussie raised and then seen by a Warwicks scout when having a year at a school in Scotland....or so I just read. Bedingham at Durham is even better, South African born, British heritage, qualified for England but plays for SA, though only occasionally.
At least our South Africans, Malan and Ferreira did very well yesterday. Great run chase really but not enough from the final 2 overs, just 13. Shame about Chohan. The three spinners rota has worked pretty well. Revis took hammer but it does happen. Adil, would you like a game? Jonny?
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Post by karma on Jul 6, 2024 7:01:41 GMT
Malan's 55 off 44 when he was out, (I think after 15 overs with Yorks about 155) I found frustrating, strolling for one's hardly pressurising the fielders left me shouting 'get on with it'. We were behind the required rate for nearly all the game
Practically all batsmen outscored him some just throwing the bat from the off. If that was the plan, to have Malan bat through steadily, it didn't quite work. I realise I'm being supercritical but I find his white-ball contract only a disappointment,when it comes to performing without, to me, the required urgency
The 1st div Warwickshire white-ball team seemed to do almost everything right ( apart from conceeding too many extras) and although we came close there's no shame in missing out to this top team
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Post by hawke on Jul 6, 2024 7:44:35 GMT
Malan's 55 off 44 when he was out, (I think after 15 overs with Yorks about 155) I found frustrating, strolling for one's hardly pressurising the fielders left me shouting 'get on with it'. We were behind the required rate for nearly all the game Practically all batsmen outscored him some just throwing the bat from the off. If that was the plan, to have Malan bat through steadily, it didn't quite work. I realise I'm being supercritical but I find his white-ball contract only a disappointment,when it comes to performing without, to me, the required urgency The 1st div Warwickshire white-ball team seemed to do almost everything right ( apart from conceeding too many extras) and although we came close there's no shame in missing out to this top team I see. Didn’t check those figures. I suppose if it was a plan it nearly and should have worked. But yes on the slower side
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Post by newby on Jul 6, 2024 16:07:21 GMT
We lost by just a few runs and you can look almost anywhere and find an area to pin it on. Yes we do seem scared of running the 2's, but perhaps the two 20+ overs bowled by Revis and McKerr, too many batters trying for 6's and getting caught on the boundary when 4's would have done, Pathetic death bowling, again by Mckerr, not at least trying an over from Lyth when it became obvious that the quicks were going the distance.
On balance I think the batters were always under too much pressure because the bowlers didn't keep them down to par, about 190 I reckon.
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Post by newby on Jul 6, 2024 21:52:12 GMT
Yorkshire back to Chesterfield tomorrow for the T20 against Derbyshire at 14:30. Usually a very well supported game and I hope the showers stay away for those attending tomorrow.
Derbyshire played at Leicester this evening and managed a good win thanks to a great innings from skipper Samit Patel rolling back the years.
We must be due for a win, and we really do need one to stop the blast fizzling out as far as we are concerned.
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