On this seasons performances, I'd rather have Ed Pollock than Yates with his average of 12, below 8 if his one fifty is dicarded.

It is understandable players, who have a short career, will want to move if a better opportunity is available. It is demoralising to know you can perform well, but players performing at an unacceptable poor level are allowed to continue underperforming in the team with no consequences.

It's possible that Hain and Rhodes are pshychlogially worn down from having to rebuild the innings everytime, and have retreated into their "shell" while batting.

It's a lot easier to play attacking shots when the top 3 have put a couple of hundred runs on the board.

Remember that Matt Lamb hat the best strike rate of our middle order players, another reason why his omission is illogical.

Perhaps Hain and Rhodes are having to bat defensively to try and rebuild the innings from the abysmal start that the early dismissals of Yates and Davies cause everytime?

The club issued a lot of three year contracts last season, none of them have looked to be good decisions so far.

Remember Ian Bell was 18 when he became a first team regular, Yates is now 23 so over four years older.

I think he did well last season, and was given a contract extention that, on reflection, was not deserved.

I don't think Bell or Hain were ever allowed a long run of games when they were consistantly underperforming so badly.

An average of 12 for a specialist batsman is never acceptable.

Ian Bell never had a season averaging 12!

That was just "wonderful" from Davies, 15 minutes gone and 2 out.

I was wrong, we are effectivly playing with 9.

4th over and 1st wicket down.

Effectively we are playing the game with 10 men.

However, Rob Yates should be congratulated on getting his average up to 12.21 !!!!!

Siraj missing for "personal" reasons.

Seems yet again the corrupt BCCI have used us to prepare one of their players.

Hopefully the new coaching regime will be more careful when selecting overseas players.

Also, Yates keeps his place when his performances this season do not justify it.

Great to see Jacob Bethell getting a chance.

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That could be a possibility, but very unlikely.

I hope that isn't the case, and it is just a serious error of Judgement by Robinson/Farbrace who continue to play the badly under performing Yates and Davies over one of our best players.

To keep selecting specialist batsmen who are under performing so badly does raise serious questions of the judgement of the selection group.

Mouseley and Bethell have played a total of 4 championship games, so they haven't had the opportunity to show what they can do.

Yates has played 8 games with an Average of 11.75. I'd suggest that is not an acceptable level of performance for a specialist batsman.

Lamb has an average of 48.7 having scored almost 500 runs from this 8 games.

If that is "not good enough" how would you describe the abysmal perfromances from Yates and Davies?

It would be interesting to know why Yates, who is averaging 11.69 is included in the squad again.

Squad announced, still no Lamb, also no Burgess, so Davies keeps his place and keeps.
Jacob Bethel in the squad, hopefully he plays in place of Yates, he couldn't dontribute less.

I would suggest that people read the full job description pack.

It is not a "hands on" coaching role, but a senior board level one, setting strategies and structures.

Probably not, as some here didn't accept that Jacob Bethell increased the diversity of the team!

It is not about "deserveing", it is essential the best candidate for the job is appointed, regardless of their ethnic background.

Director of cricket is not a role where fitting "diversity quota's" should be placed above ability to do the job.

Reducing the number of championship games will lead to job losses, not just for players, but coaches, support staff and umpires, as you need less for the reduced number of days played.

That was, for us, a decent opening partnership, for any other side barely acceptable.

Surely it is the job of the top order players to score the runs, not rely on OHD at 11?

The fact is that two of the top three have not contributed at an acceptable level all season.

Yates is averaging less than 12, excluding his one decent innings, less than 9 from 20 innings, so effectively meaning we are playing a man short when batting.
Likewise for Davies, he's played every game and excluding his best innings is averaging under 20, that is totally unacceptable for a specialist batsman.

Both may perform better in future, but their current performances mean they are not worth a place in the team, and their continued selection harms the overall performance of the team.