Strange old day, we bowled poor up front, no doubt. Incredibly difficult bowling/fielding conditions though with distressingly fierce winds. So cold. Brookes bowled well without luck. Pitch looks flat.

Sibley
Yates
Rhodes
Hain
Lamb
Mousley
Burgess
Briggs
Miles
Brookes
OHD

?

He's way off with some of that.

1st game of the season starting Thursday.

Any ideas on the XI?

Do we have any injuries?

Weather?

Surrey might be strong, Pope, Foakes, Burns, all have a point to prove. Roach is a terrific signing.

What injury has Davies got?

Jeets had already played about 10 Tests, 30 ODI's, and some T20i's when we first signed him. He was an experienced player already.

This guy has played 11 First Class matches.

If he ends up half as good as Jeets he'll have done really well and we'll all be happy but right now it just looks bizarre. The County Champions should be able to bring in genuine proven quality.

Can only assume there's injury concerns over our seamers.

I wish the lad well, I really do, but I'm so underwhelmed by this.

Overseas.

11 FC matches across his career. He's 28.

No, I don't know either...

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.

I disappointed that game hasn't taken place.

I think that's entirely fair too. Start the season with the guys who are already here, the champions.

And if we're struggling we can maybe look at things.

Only get quality in though. No average punts like Malan or Holder. I suspect Vihari is ok but just not in early season conditions. He's not quality though.

Love it

Jansen will be at the IPL. Mumbai Indians I think...

Has he got off lightly here? Maybe? I'm not sure...

Yeah I don't like how all this is going. I don't want to see Yorkshire go to the wall but there does need to be some pretty tough sanctions imposed.

I read that opening post and got a bit self conscious for a moment, haha!

Misses 1st game of the season now right?

Vihari, Malan and Holder were all useless let's not get away from that! The fact that we won the Championship with 10 men in most games remains the biggest achievement. Without trying to sound unkind.

Overseas player for next year, unless it's somebody proven and almost guaranteed to contribute in most games i wouldn't even bother getting one in.

The Cricketer, for some reason, has reported that all of our one day matches at home will be at Portland Rd.

No mention of this in the fixture announcement as far as I can tell...