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Highveld wrote:
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Team:-
Barnard
Wylie
Rhodes
Shaikh (Captain)
Burgess (Keeper)
Amir Khan
Miles
Booth
Norwell
Ali
OHD
We won the toss and chose to bat.
'The only good banker, is the Lickey Banker!'
A win for the Bears, but not by much - 5 runs.
We made 161 for 7 off our 20. Good performances, from Barnard (22 off 16 balls, with 2x6's), Rhodes (31 off 22, with 5x4's), Captain Shaikh (25 off 16 balls, with 2x6's) and a late flourish by Miles (18 with 1x6), but the stand out knock was 46 from Amir Khan (off 38 balls, with 4x4's & 1x6).
Worcester were going really well, with Pollock & Libby putting on quick runs - at one stage, 134 (for 5) off only 16 overs, needing just 28 off 4, but some great end bowling from Miles & Booth, took all the remaining wickets. That's not to say Miles & Booth weren't hammered a bit to start (both conceding over 10 an over at the beginning) - Miles finishing on 3 for 39 off his 4 and Booth, 3 for 31. The other wickets were taken by OHD (1 for 34 off his 4), Ali (1 for 28 off 3) and - wonderfully, economically, Norwell (again !), 1 for 10 off 3 overs. Barnard bowled 2 overs for 14 runs.
If I were to take anything away from this, in terms of First team needs, Barnard (or Rhodes) might well deserve a call up instead of Benjamin (of course) - and obviously either will help with some bowling if required. And 3 Seconds games in, with no pull ups, or apparent after effects, Norwell could soon easily warrant a First team place (taking 7 wickets for 63 runs, in 11 overs).
'The only good banker, is the Lickey Banker!'
Hopefully Liam will be back fairly soon, starting off in the T20's? A pace attack of Woakes, Gleeson & Norwell looks pretty tasty to me.
We somehow seem to have gone from having no fit bowlers to more than we know what to do with. I had a quick look at his stats, Norwell hasn't played many T20s and I'm not sure if he's played any for us? His record isn't great - going for almost 10 an over but perhaps a bit unfair to judge him on that. I'd expect us to be focused on getting him back for the second half of the championship - think there's a second xi game coming up and maybe he'll be OK to go in that.
Yeah I'd be shocked if Norwell played in any t20's, he doesn't have a yorker and has no variations. I remember him playing just the 1 t20 for us against Derbyshire in 2021 and he got pumped.
Reabank wrote:
We somehow seem to have gone from having no fit bowlers to more than we know what to do with. I had a quick look at his stats, Norwell hasn't played many T20s and I'm not sure if he's played any for us? His record isn't great - going for almost 10 an over but perhaps a bit unfair to judge him on that. I'd expect us to be focused on getting him back for the second half of the championship - think there's a second xi game coming up and maybe he'll be OK to go in that.
I was thinking that, almost certainly, he'd be given a run out in the 4 day Second XI Championship game against Worcester on Monday (24th) - and IF he comes through that, unscathed, could well be in line to return to the First team SQUAD for the Somerset Championship game at Taunton, on 30th June (though a start, could be a 'bridge too far' at the the moment).
'The only good banker, is the Lickey Banker!'
2’s start a 4 day 2nd XI Championship game today v Worcester.
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