So that time of the year for predictions !
So here we go
Where will we finish in championship?
Where will we finish in Blast/Royal London?
Who will be player of the season? Feel free to pick batsman and bowler
Who will be breakthrough player of the season?
What will be the team for our first game of the season ?
So my answers
We will finish 3rd in Championship
We will get to quarters in Blast
No idea about the blast !
Yates player of season closely followed by Miles
Breakthrough will be Mousley
Team for first game
Sibley, Davies, Yates, Hain, Rhodes, Mossley, Burgess, Briggs, Miles, Norwell, OHD
2nd in the championship.
T20 Semi-finals.
Royal London 4th in the group
Player of the year: Batsman- Hain. Bowler- Miles.
Breakthrough: Johal
Team for first match:
Yates, Sibley, Hain, Rhodes, Mousley, Lamb, Burgess, Briggs, Miles, Norwell, OHD. (Davies in for Lamb in the second match)
Mar 29, 2022, 06:10 PM
So that time of the year for predictions !
So here we go
Where will we finish in championship? 3rd
Where will we finish in Blast/Royal London? Blast winners, RL Cup Play off stage
Who will be player of the season? Feel free to pick batsman and bowler Hain and Briggs
Who will be breakthrough player of the season? Che Simmons - looked very decent today will play lots of 2nds cricket and may be useful on harder pitches in June/July so a shoe in for the Oval methinks
What will be the team for our first game of the season ? Yates, Sibley, Hain, Rhodes, Benjamin, Lamb, Burgess, Briggs, Miles, Henry Brookes, OHD
5th/6th in the Championship.
Blast, finals day. RLC, no idea, we'll be competitive.
Sibley player of the season.
Breakthrough player, Mousley.
Team:
Yates
Sibley
Rhodes
Hain
Lamb
Mousley
Burgess
Briggs
Miles
Norwell
OHD
Can see them wanting an extra bowler though so H Brookes may play instead of Mousley. Would just mean that Rhodes gets underbowled however.
The better performances seem to come when we play 6 specialist batters.
I think our squad is ridiculously stacked and we can cope with injuries. I've got us mid table in the championship simply because defending it is so hard. Remember Essex won it in 2017 and dropped off a bit in 2018 before roaring back in 2019. I expect us to be similar.
You'd have to be stupid to try and predict county cricket: so here goes.
Champo = 3rd
T20 = Winners
Player of the season = Danny Briggs
Breakthrough = Henry Brooks
Team for game 1 = Sibley, Yates, Mousley, Hain, Benjamin, Rhodes, Burgess, Briggs, Miles, Norwell, OHD
Championship: Winners (seeing as no-one else has gone for that!)
T20: Finalists
RLC: 3rd, knocked out in the next round
Player of the season: Liam Norwell (if he doesn't get poached by England and can stay fit)
Breakthrough: Jacob Bethell
Team for game 1: Sibley, Yates, Mousley, Hain, Lamb, Rhodes, Burgess, Briggs, Miles, Norwell, OHD with Davies in for either Mousley or Lamb for the second game
Here's the season preview from my Deep Extra Cover colleague Seth Nobes:
https://deepextracover.com/2022/04/warwickshire-ccc-season-preview-2022/
I don't agree with everything he has written but it's worth a read.
He's way off with some of that.
Late to the party but hey ho:
Where will we finish in championship? 5th - got a feeling we're in for a season of bad luck with bowler injuries
Where will we finish in Blast/Royal London? Semi's of Blast, won't get out of group in RL
Who will be player of the season? Batsman - Yates, Bowler - Briggs
Who will be breakthrough player of the season? Mousley (although we have a number of potentially exciting young players)