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OldTimer wrote:
While Sam Hain can be relied upon to get a decent score,his strike rate is too low.Just 86 in the one day games and 127 in t20.He needs to step up a gear,take it up a level.It needs to be 100 and 140 respectively,simple as that really.
That’s the same strike rate as Joe Root!
GerryShedd wrote:
Looks like Danny Briggs may be in for England and out for the Bears, maybe Carse and definitely Stokes for Durham. But Hain misses out.
If that's the case, what does Hain have to do to get an England call-up?!
Will those substitutes have to be from the original 13-man squad? If so we're a bit stuck as OHD and Bresnan are both injured!
This is the problem with scoring so slowly, the opposition are in the game for a lot longer. Even scoring at just 3 an over would have got us to nearly 300 today. I don’t mind scoring slowly if it means we bat the other side out of the game (a bit like we did when we won the second division a couple of years ago) but at the moment we’re not batting for long enough to make it a good tactic. Of course, there is the chance that if we tried to score faster we’d get out faster as well, but I still think we need to try and keep the score ticking over better.
That was very very bad.
That is all.
In fairness, Brathwaite’s bowling has been pretty good but he’s only had one decent innings so far. I think the run out of Rhodes was the turning point as he was looking good.
We look a lot stronger with Lintott in the side.
Yes, I took advantage of this when we played there in 2018, a real treat.
Bald_Reynard wrote:
It will be interesting to see what the squad will be. There were (quite) a few disappointments last night - but particularly, Hose (who hasn't really done it this season - yet) and Norwell. I can't see them dropping Hose, but I would - and bring in Malan, who looked good in his second T20 (and he does give an extra bowling option - untried yet). I would defo drop Norwell - he just doesn't look the part in T20 - this season or last. The back up bowling options are not good though. OHD & Sidebottom have never bowled well in T20 (and their batting doesn't help !). Given what George Garrett did for the Seconds in their T20 Final yesterday (5 for 19 in 3.2 overs), I'd certainly bring him into the squad - and seriously consider him to start. He also has done well batting in the Seconds T20 this season - and played OK for the First's in his two T20 games last year.
I think it's harsh to say that OHD has never bowled well in T20 - he was a key part of the team that won it in 2014!
He hasn’t been playing because he’s injured.
The pictures on Twitter really don’t look good. Hopefully the muppets responsible are banned. I can’t think of something like that happening in the recent past so not sure why it has happened now? I’m sitting in the Hollies on Saturday so hopefully it won’t happen again.
Highveld wrote:
the working link
It's really annoying, and a waste of time when people post non functioning links,
No need to be no snarky, we all make mistakes.
Highveld wrote:
Who here would actually refer to have Viahari instead of Malan?
Well given that Vihari has currently scored more runs than Malan, I’d choose him!
Another good win, I feel that this is definitely a game that we’d have lost last season - I think we’d have fallen short at the end. Our batting looks a lot better this year.
BristolBear wrote:
Excellent performance by all. Great win.
1 thing, I would like to see Brookes back ASAP. If that had been closer, I’d be concerned about who’d bowl the death overs. Brookes was so good at that last year.
Isn’t Brookes injured?
Superb win, nice to get a huge score for once! Must be one of our highest T20 scores, I can only think of the McCullum 158* match when we scored more.
Bring back Vihari 😉 😜
It’s my first visit to Edgbaston today since 2019 and it’s made me realise just how much I’ve missed a day of county championship cricket! Great last wicket partnership and I agree about the odd field placement - at one point they had both a mid-off and long-off at the same time!
Nice to see the addition of number of balls faced/overs bowled to the live stream - a big improvement in my opinion. Shows that the club do listen to feedback as I emailed Tom Rawlings to suggest it a few weeks ago so if anyone has any suggestions it's worth dropping the club an email!
Do we know for sure that it's the ECB that have prevented Woakes from playing? Given how much he's been away from home/in bubbles over the last year there's a chance that he may have chosen to spend some time with his family.
I don't suppose there's any chance of us trying to go for the win in this game? If Notts win today it will really put the pressure on us to beat them next week.
What an awful start to the day.