Barnard bowled well in very favourable conditions as you would expect.
If he's batting at 6 he's in the side for his batting more than his bowling
Merely stating it would be good tor Bethell to get a good run of games and think that should be elsewhere.
Just like to see more fight.
Davies for one..Barnard has done little as a batting all rounder. Bethell needs a loan in a Division 2 side
When the going gets tough, we crumble.
Not that we have the squad depth but some of these players need dropping
Back to our Day 1 batting
Very eventful day but poor quality pitch and some awful batting.
Need better pitches than what we've seen today if we want to produce quality players.
Who knows how tomorrow will go, here hoping for some partnerships and bat for the day..unlikely after today !
Enjoying some quality batting
Shame it's the other side.
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If we bowl our way back into it we are likely to be docked points - Catch 22.
And I'd suggest we deserve it
Points deduction for a shocking pitch
Flight from Dublin at 8am this morning..should have booked a return for this evening..lucky to get two full days at this rate
What a woeful start, surely has to be down to a very poor pitch
Off the top of my head
Rhodes
Barnard
Yates
Burgess
E Brookes (first team ish)
Miles
OHD
Rushworth
Lintott
Basically not many, like to think we'd bring in at least one overseas.
Very dissapointing, felt like not enough experience heads in the side and with OHD bowling the last over it demonstrates a lack of depth
H Brookes..Benjamin and Maxwell were very dissapointing and we are far too reliant on Hain
Group stage seems bit pointless when the top side after 14 games doesn't get to Finals day.
That was shocking
Miles..brookes..Ali..Davies..carrying too many players
Nice if Maxwell fancies showing up to
Only Hain seems to have turned up.
Need a reset which includes dropping Moeen.
All the batting talent we have, Davies and Yates up top seems abit of a waste
Yates for Benjamin
Rhodes for Barnard
Maxwell to up his game
Great result and agreed, Davies was spot on today.
I know it was a bank holiday but that was a very impressive attendance today.
I'd suggest refraining from playing songs during the game that are played by football clubs..just a suggestion. Even as a Villa fan I don't want to hear footie chants at a cricket game
Stirling hasn't worked has he !
Hoping to watch tha game on YouTube. Doesn't seem to be any audio at the moment, same for others ?
Really poor today but predictable unfortunately. Surrey with Roach are just better than us
Rhodes.. questions need to be asked now, hopefully he can answer them. I'd be tempted to move him up to open and see how he goes.
Now I have a 9pm flight back to Dublin tomorrow with no cricket to watch..cheers guys!
Yep Rhodes is likely a good all rounder in a second division side ..hopefully proves otherwise.
We have a seriously lack of competition in the batting order which is likely to get worse with Bethall injured.
I'd go for Rhodes up top and see If he can rekindle the form he had with Sibley back in 2019 I think it was..
We can't carry anyone so I do hope he comes good over the coming months