Seemed a very weird decision to bowl first. But the bigger issue for me is how can the club have not planned for this and had an overseas here for the Quarter Finals.
The overseas selection in the last couple of years has been very odd. Surely finding a player to be here all season isn’t impossible?
I think at the moment it probably is.
The ever changing Covid protocols continue to dog the global game, quarantine periods and the like etc, hastily arranged tours, scheduling and rescheduling. Remember the CPL was rescheduled to accommodate the postponed/delayed IPL (Carlos would have been available but for that).
We were so, so, so lucky with Jeets. He didn't play in any franchise leagues, rarely played for NZ. NZ for about a decade had a quite a light international schedule anyway.
We've just gotta rotate overseas players and cross our fingers like the rest of the counties now. Notts lost Dan Christian unexpectedly to an Aus call up, Lancs lost Finn Allen to a hastily arranged NZ v Ban tour, he got covid anyway. Yorks had no overseas at all. Somerset sort of stumbled across de Lange when Glamorgan didn't know whether to stick or twist on him.
For the record I think there's a case for not having an overseas at all unless they are available for 90% of the games that you wanted them available for.
The Vihari/Malan situation was messy (nobodies fault), both were on a hiding to nothing. Parachuting Kyle Mayers in looked odd at the time and looks utterly bizarre now. Crossing our fingers over Chemar Holder, probably a gamble worth taking with him being a seamer, but he hasn't played a competitive game for months.
BristolBear wrote:
Seemed a very weird decision to bowl first. But the bigger issue for me is how can the club have not planned for this and had an overseas here for the Quarter Finals.
The overseas selection in the last couple of years has been very odd. Surely finding a player to be here all season isn’t impossible?
Agree, very poor planning with Brathwaite. Kent had Adam Milne available. These things make a difference.
I thought the fielding was poor, the batting from the top order was shameful. The batting has been brittle for years. Some of the dismissals were plain embarrassing. Only Lintott, Bresnan and Woakes showed any fight.