Exiled Bear wrote:

Andy wrote:

Unbelievably poor dismissal from Hamza.

It was there to hit, just got it completely wrong.

Yeah exactly

Unbelievably poor dismissal from Hamza.

Westley has released that ball from pretty wide on the crease too, would have almost certainly been sliding down. Still don't think the shot was on.

Anyway, remarkable how Barnard seems to have carried on from last year's ODC.

Quite why he was trying to sweep a ball that full I'll never know...anyway poor decision, I'm not sure Westley could believe it either.

He just cannot bowl 6 serviceable deliveries consecutively. Always be a 4 ball, you see in 4day cricket captains can't really set fields for him.

He does bowl the odd jaffa where he gets one to lift or nip off the surface.

I feel a though that last over has put it beyond us. Miles, when you factor in that he also bowled 6 or 7 wides has had a bit of a mare. Imagine the effigy burning last season if Henry Brookes had bowled like that?!

Craig Miles bowling half trackers at the death to a lad who is demonstrably very good on the pull.

Essex have managed a really good total without doing anything too outrageous, just good sensible batting and proactive running.

I don't fancy us here I must say, but it's a great opportunity for someone to make a bit of a name for themselves.

I've mentioned it before but we have a couple of below par fielders in Benjamin and Booth.

Essex teams looks decent with some extremely promising youngsters in it with some older heads like Westley and Nick Browne. All 11 have come through the Essex pathway and academy I believe.

You'd like to think it could work that way but the T20 side looks fairly settled. Yates can maybe force his way in.

I've never known Amir Khan play 1st team cricket?

Sounds like we'll have Simmons, Kai Smith and Rushworth available at some point but yes we could do without more Hundred call ups.

Interesting squad

XI could be

Yates
Barnard
Rhodes
Shaikh
Burgess+
Benjamin
Wylie
Booth
Lintott
Miles
OHD

?

One Day Cup time, great comp, great format.

Any squad news yet?

It's definitely increased in size!

Yes I had a gander at this this morning, that illustration of the hotel etc has changed a bit from the one we saw last year.

Very much a huge (absolutely massive actually) hotel stuck onto a cricket ground whereas in the original it looked like a redeveloped stand with a hotel inside.

Excellent news

I don't want to read too much into this team selection but I'm a bit disappointed Simmons isn't getting more of a look in.

Think we released Haydon?

Paul Best?

Strong start by the Bears openers much to the annoyance of bearsfans.org.uk