Durham a good side who have recruited fairly well alongside some excellent homegrown players. Typically a hard place to go, a ground we seem to struggle on. Will Bedingham be back, will Doggett debut?

Any changes? Forecast seems decent again.

Booth not from the academy I don't think? But yes still more than we ever used to.

Signs rookie contract, about we had some more homegrown seamers on the books.

Pitch started to grip then in the last hour...

This pitch is pedestrian to say the least.

Openers did well, Highveld we having this?

Big test now against one of the better new ball partnerships.

Hard to say. NZ have a Test series v Zim in late June (I think), Aus have the WTC final in June then an all format series v West Indies in July. And I still think prior to all this Cricket Australia are going to have something to say about the amount of game time Webster potentially has with us.

Off the top of my head they'll be a 2 or 3 week period around the start of the Blast when all 3 are available. Latham probably the one who sits out in T20?

ajones1328 wrote:

When it comes to Hasan Ali, when will he play?

We will already have Latham and Webster, am I missing something?

Yes at some point all 3 will be available at the at the same time.

Sussex are stacked with left handers so a spin combo of Lintott and Yates with a bit of Mousley thrown in might work. Mousley has a decent record v left handers albeit in white ball cricket.

Squads up, 14 man. Looks like a shootout between Booth and Simmons. Taz Ali and Lintott are in the squad though...Smith obviously keeping, all the batters who we expected to be there are there. Simmons has impressed pre season apparently.

Miles must be miles off it to not even get in the squad here.

Has an ankle injury, might be available v Yorkshire on May 2nd. According to Dobell.

Remember when people on here wanted him dropped from the 4day side

Has a broken hand im hearing?

Also, Test series away in Zimbabwe confirmed to start on July 30th and end on Aug 11th. 2 Tests.

Would say this rules Latham out of Worcestershire at home and Essex away in the Championship and the first 4 or so games in the ODC.

The pitches at Edgbaston have been low and slow for years now. I said it on here a couple of years ago and a few people got very emotional over it, its not a knock of Barwell (he is a bit sensitive though), it's just a very tired square.

Any talk on his availability during the early stages of this season? Hasn't played any competitive cricket since January. Wasn't on pre season tour, hasn't taken part in either game v Northants.

Yeah lovely action, reminds me of Woakes, saw him last season and was shocked how young he was/is.

The Bears team of the early/mid 90s absolutely LOVED the packet.

Exiled Bear wrote:

We established at the end of last season that our opening partnership is actually statistically one of the best of any county

Yes, 2nd best after Surrey.

Highveld wrote:

First wicket falls on the 8th ball of the innings, 6-1, and the second on the last ball of the 7th over, 34-2.

Yet another example of the openers failing and putting presure on the middle order.

For the second game in a row the only dismissal not available as a video clip is Davies, are his dismissals so bad that they have to be censored?

Your commitment to driving this narrative is incredible. Fair play.