Davies and Stirling get another chance, need to show they deserve it tonight

Unfortunately our two weakest players should be our strongest..our overseas players.

Selection is really costing us at moment. Its about time we dropped Stirling and Daviss. Would like to see Lamb and Burgess given a go for Wednesday and Friday

My wife wasn't interested until I told her the Batsman doing so well was an Irish man..

Fellow Irish and suddenly interested in what an over is...what a good strike rate is 🤣

First game of the season for me, over from Dublin for the week

Nothing has changed (well maybe worse)

The beer and food are incredibly overpriced and the staff haven't got a clue!

From the warm up game today it looks like Bethall will open

Seems fair enough from this showing!

So how would you line up ?

Think I'd go

Stirling
Davies
Hain
Hose
Braithwaite
Benjamin
Bethall
Brookes
Brings
Linott
Miles

When stone is fine I'd bring him in for Miles

I thought McAndrew was seen as a Bresnan replacement ? Certainly has no where near the same ability with the bat

Batsman who have failed...have failed again

Games come along too quickly to wait/hope fortunes will change.

Poor start, need a big Hain innings now !

Type of innings Hain really needed it

He has the talent to do this consistently

there's grim reading, then there's this scorecard.....

Highveld wrote:

Considering how many chances people were willing to give Vihari last season, when he was out of his depth and a meant we were, effectivly playing with 10 men, it is extremely harsh to want to discard McAndrew after one game, where he made a contribution with the bat.

If the wicket looks likely to assist spin, it might be worth replacing Yates with Bethell, and, if fit, Norwell should be included, probably for Miles.

Something tells me you really don't like Vihari 🤣 he's a test match batsman playing for India, in no way was he out of his depth..many good batsman have struggled initially, I don't think he was close to a world beater but you were far more harsh to him than anyone has been to Macandrew so far...very odd

Disappointing game so far

Great that we have batsman waiting in line to push our current first team

Currently watching the game from Maldives..dedication there!

Think I'll just check for score later, the half hour I've watched hasn't been great to say the least!

Way too early to judge McAndrew, when did he arrive ? He doesn't look the type of bowler we'd need to rush into the squad

looks like a car park without parking spots... just empty space.

If they were serious about sustainability i'd have liked some really high quality secure cycle parking, also docking station to tie in with the West Midlands Cycle Hire scheme right in the heart of that plaza.

Some greenery wouldn't have gone a miss....

As a fairly young (34) supporter, a key issue is the lack of advertising

Unless you have a real passion for the club you wouldn't have a clue when we play.. what we're playing for...who are warwickshire. Birmingham bears..phoenix etc

County cricket should be shown on sky sports and really bigged up, I still believe there's an appetite for the county championship but you have to sell it ! If the counties and ECB can't be bothered, why should potential supporters ?

Interesting to see how Woakes is managed this summer. I hope we will have him available for our second match which is still well over 2 weeks away.

Think he needs to find his groove early this summer as I hope he still has a big role to play. If past history is anything to go by, he will be sitting around wasting another summer

Never know could be a Patel similar style signing

Not going to push it and say similar success levels but a very reliable overseas signing who if does well, could be with us long term

Handy he can be used in T20 if required

sounds great !

Our bowling stock is looking impressive

Seems bit of an odd one.. I assume he's going to bat at number 7 and we go in with 5 bowlers (excluding Rhodes)

I think Rhodes is a great option as 5th bowler particularly in early season conditions and as our captain he won't be dropped

So for second game we could go in as:

Sibley, Davies, Yates, Hain, Rhodes, Lamb/Mousley/Burgess, Mcandrew, Briggs, + 3 seamers