As speculated in the Ed Pollock thread, Hose really does have to watch out, he is getting dangerously close to serial failures - and the possibility of being released. I don't know how long he's got left on his contract, but if its up at the end of this season, he could be gone. He has done nothing in his time with us in the red ball game (including in the 2nd team - a duck again today) and has had a poor year or two in white ball. I know he has had injury problems, but that only compounds the doubts about his long term suitability for us. I think management will be seriously considering whether he should be kept.

His contract runs until the end of 2022.
If memory serves, he had a good T20 last year which resulted in his selection for the hundred, and then he got picked in 1 or 2 overseas winter t20 or t10 franchise tournaments.
But this year he’s been nowhere. Injury obviously didn’t help, but it appears he’s severely out of form, probably low on confidence, as at the start of the season he was fighting for a place in the red ball side. Whereas now he’s found himself having fallen behind Mousley and Benjamin in the hierarchy, and probably even Bresnan in terms of who they’d bring in if a batsman in this team got injured.
With Davies arriving next year, Hose really becomes a white ball specialist, because even if Davies does keep, which I don’t think he will, I’d have Burgess in the side as a pure batsman ahead of Hose.

I must confess I'd forgotten all about him. He's all but 29 years old and has a FC average of 21.9 so I reckon red ball cricket is over for him and it doesn't look great for white ball either.

Another one who has failed to kick on within our coaching framework. True, he never looked like a red ball player but he came to us with a growing reputation as a hitter. Sadly, he just seems to be fading away.

He scored 0 playing for Kiderminster in the Birmingham League today.