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Post by newby on Apr 25, 2024 17:27:59 GMT
Weather doesn't look too promising.
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Post by newby on Apr 25, 2024 18:38:26 GMT
Derbyshire 12 man squad for the game.
46. David Lloyd (c) 04. Harry Came 10. Luis Reece 12. Aneurin Donald 13. Blair Tickner 15. Alex Thomson 18. Jack Morley 29. Brooke Guest (wk) 32. Zak Chappell 36. Pat Brown 65. Anuj Dal 77. Wayne Madsen
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Post by karma on Apr 26, 2024 5:11:44 GMT
Looks a strong squad from Yorkshire, I would have liked to see Milnes in there and Bess too but then that wouldn't be a squad but practically all the fit Yorkshire first-team players.
Pleased Revis is in included, Wharton too, but don't think either will make the cut. But no Bess? Gibson must be as prejudiced as am I. Still, no Edwards, I'd like to think because he's been 'found out' rather than the ankle upon which they operated being crocked.
I've looked at different weather forecasts and although there will be rain , not as much as I'd first feared. Don't quote me.
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Post by newby on Apr 26, 2024 7:59:39 GMT
Difficult to see any other outcome other than Revis and Wharton being left out, unless Fisher isn't 100% after the warm-up, or they decide to go without a recognised spinner and leave out Moriarty.
Going without a spinner isn't a totally off the wall idea at this time of year, I haven't counted the number of left handed batters Derbyshire have, that might be a factor. If the wicket is such that playing a spinner is merely insurance to save losing points if the seamers can't keep up with the bowling rate, then of course Lyth and/or Root could do that job.
So some small chance of Revis getting a game.
I can't make a case for Wharton in any circumstances, I think he will just have to wait until Root and Brook are out of the picture.
Showers of course could come at any time, hopefully not too often, if at all. Sunday Leeds looks to be on the edge of a band of more persistent rain but that could always change. Here's hoping.
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Post by davemorton on Apr 26, 2024 8:56:00 GMT
What has happened to send Revis plummeting down the pecking order, in our minds if not in the Club's?
Answering my own question...obviously Root and Brook's presence puts more emphasis on the all-rounder's bowling, and if Milnes is fit, which he wasn't last season. that's another bowler ahead of him, on paper (but read Ottis Gibson, regarding paper).
Revis is huge in our long term plans, isn't he? And Wharton, ton this week already.
I see Derbyshire have picked up a couple of decent players since our last meeting, but not enough to offset du Plooy's departure. I think Zak Chapell is a very good cricketer, plus they've a Kiwi, and Donald from Glamorgan-Hampshire. But if we can't beat them, we won't beat anyone.
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Post by newby on Apr 26, 2024 9:38:25 GMT
Revis and Fisher in, Moriarty and Wharton miss out. We have lot the toss again and have been inserted.
Derbyshire's strength is their bowling so no surprise.
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Post by slowleftarmer on Apr 26, 2024 9:57:55 GMT
I will go on record and say I would have picked the same 11 from that squad, whilst Moriarty gives a spin option, this time of the year spin with the Dukes is not taking wickets so you may as well have a 5th seamer like Revis who is going to be more threatening than a spinner doing nowt, with added benefit of strengthening our batting.
Mind you if Brook and Root deliver it may not matter who comes in from 7 onwards.
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Post by donnylad on Apr 26, 2024 10:42:38 GMT
I think that the seamers here represent the best available options - 4 + Hill. If and when Milnes is fit then he, Revis and Thommo vie for a place. Without Brook and Root it changes and I would select Revis and Wharton.
The option would then be Bess or Moriarty and a seamer could be rested.
That of course assumes an awful lot about the selection process currently at YCCC.
Please to see Duke getting some action.
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Post by newby on Apr 26, 2024 10:50:25 GMT
Derbyshire had some issues with dropped catches last week and it looks like that is continuing today very much to Finlay Beans benefit.
Cold job slip catching this weather.
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Post by tykemania on Apr 26, 2024 11:02:48 GMT
Bean has been stitched up.
The LBW looked a reasonable decision. But he shouldn't have been on strike...
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Post by slowleftarmer on Apr 26, 2024 11:30:53 GMT
can you expand on why he should not have been on strike?
Masood batting like T20 here, 10 fours from 24 balls faced!
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Post by tykemania on Apr 26, 2024 13:43:31 GMT
can you expand on why he should not have been on strike? It was the first ball of the over. The last ball of the previous over, Bean faced - he hit it down the ground, Pat Brown picked it up a yard inside the rope but slid back on to the rope. Despite Brown seeming to signal this to the umpires, it was given as three.
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Post by donnylad on Apr 26, 2024 14:30:47 GMT
I didn't think Brown made much of an effort to signal - the umpire(s) (Saggers??) should have asked him directly.
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Post by tykemania on Apr 26, 2024 15:02:32 GMT
I think it would be reasonable to say that Brook doesn't really rate the Derbyshire bowling...
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Post by karma on Apr 26, 2024 15:39:53 GMT
can you expand on why he should not have been on strike? It was the first ball of the over. The last ball of the previous over, Bean faced - he hit it down the ground, Pat Brown picked it up a yard inside the rope but slid back on to the rope. Despite Brown seeming to signal this to the umpires, it was given as three. I can confirm that from my position in the NE Upper, it was clearly a four as the Derbyshire fielder slid onto (and over) the boundary rope,ball in hand and indicated to the umpire it was indeed a four. The umpire waved his hand as though he was catching flies and I don't think the four was actually recorded correctly. There was a also a persistent and pleading series of LBW appeals, one good shout, the majority trying to persuade the umpire by weight of numbers rather than accuracy of appeal
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