While Sam Hain can be relied upon to get a decent score,his strike rate is too low.Just 86 in the one day games and 127 in t20.He needs to step up a gear,take it up a level.It needs to be 100 and 140 respectively,simple as that really.

OldTimer wrote:

While Sam Hain can be relied upon to get a decent score,his strike rate is too low.Just 86 in the one day games and 127 in t20.He needs to step up a gear,take it up a level.It needs to be 100 and 140 respectively,simple as that really.

That’s the same strike rate as Joe Root!

As long as a player has a reasonable strike rate, the number of runs scored should be more important.
Someone who scores 6 and then gets out next ball has a strike rate of 300, but overall is of little value to the team!

Hain's strike rate in T20 the past couple of years in around 140, thats elite.

I just don't think England are very keen on Warwickshire players. Remember when they originally picked Rob Key etc over Bell initially. Look how long it took Woakes to get a proper go. Further back 1994 treble winning side, not one Warwickshire player made the Ashes tour that winter.

Now here we are again!

I am having flashbacks to the time, a decade or so ago, when our dear late friend Kim would leap to the defence of Jonathan Trott whenever he was accused of slow scoring. Kim always had a statistic or two on hand to show how often a big score from Trotty led to a win for England or the Bears, regardless of his scoring rate.

Whatever happened to Lamb's legspin?

Exiled Bear wrote:

Whatever happened to Lamb's legspin?

It got a one over trial in the blast against Derbyshire, which went for 9 runs.

Strange to not use it otherwise, albeit for this game it's not exactly a worn pitch so no problem from me with going for seamers only so far.

Mikkyk wrote:

Exiled Bear wrote:

Whatever happened to Lamb's legspin?

It got a one over trial in the blast against Derbyshire, which went for 9 runs.

Strange to not use it otherwise, albeit for this game it's not exactly a worn pitch so no problem from me with going for seamers only so far.

I'd say its pretty likely we'll see a bit of it in the 50 over competition. No Briggs or Lintott, spin duties will be handled by Yates, Mousley, Lamb and Bethell - depending on who's there as a batsman (probably all 4, given how short we'll be!).

Exiled Bear wrote:

Whatever happened to Lamb's legspin?

I seem to remember that Dom Sibley was dabbling with leg spin at one time.

Durham deducted 2 points for slow over rate on Monday. I noticed they were -4 behind the over rate for most of the day and going into the final half hour. No spinner used with Borthwick in the side?? Also unlike Notts they didn't have a couple of backroom staff stationed on the square leg boundary to ferry kit and equipment on and off the field between each over which would have sped things up at that city end

mad wrote:

Durham deducted 2 points for slow over rate on Monday. I noticed they were -4 behind the over rate for most of the day and going into the final half hour. No spinner used with Borthwick in the side?? Also unlike Notts they didn't have a couple of backroom staff stationed on the square leg boundary to ferry kit and equipment on and off the field between each over which would have sped things up at that city end

It's not as though the rate needed is all that quick. The need for someone to come on and off the field with kit, drinks etc. seems to be out of control. As the great Tom Dollery said on a hot day when someone called for drinks: "Drinks? What do you mean, drinks? When we were in the desert during the war, we only got two pints of water a day - and one of those was for the tank."

Fortunately sports science has developed since then, and the importance of staying well hydrated is now understood.

So this comes down to getting a draw and then the bonus points now.
I think I’m right in saying that a draw and 6 bonus points is enough in basically every scenario.