Good stuff.
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**Official** County Cricket 2018
- Thread starter Bijed
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It is a big shame for him. He needs practice and plenty of it. Right now he's just a white ball specialist with no real understanding of FC cricket. A great talent nonetheless, but he needs to help himself a bit more. He needs practice.
GoodAreasShane
Cricketer Of The Year
I hadn't seen Rory in a while, looks like he should probably go easy on the boerewors and Castle lager
Impressive bowling though.
SeamUp
International Coach
It's impressive that he plays the English and SA season. Fair play for him wanting to be the senior pro at both Northants and Cobras. Could do with a few more like him.
But I came to terms long time ago that the bloke just can't control his weight. Appropriately nicknamed The Big Show.
Anyone seen much of the Leicestershire duo Chappell and Raine ?
Chappell been bigged up for a while but just can't seem to put things together. Amazingly Notts are set to sign him when they really need batsmen.
Raine and Gleeson to Yorkshire seems like they happening too.
Division 2 pick-ups.
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wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
He's having a decent season isn't he? If Bairstow is out of the next test, I wouldn't be against picking Vince to play at 3.James Vince 77* off 94 balls and looking for another re-call
Based on this game, in both innings he's made runs when the rest of the top order failed, so he couldn't be accused of cashing in.
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Groundking
International Debutant
Does this give Jennings another chance or do we just say **** it he's not working and you can't have somebody so incompetant in the field and make multiple changes?
Cook
Burns
Vince
Root
Pope
Stokes
Butler
Moeen
Woakes
Broad
Anderson
SeamUp
International Coach
We all laugh but like Ramprakash there must be some stubbornness when you got back to County after being dropped and you produce the goods.
I see on twitter , quite a few people are calling for the return of the Sherminator.
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Now that really is silly. I'm guessing most of them were from the Birmingham area.
Going back to Vince, in an ideal world there would be viable alternatives to bat in England's top 5. The presence of a 20 year old at number 4 who's played less than 20 FC games and normally bats at 6 for his county suggests otherwise.
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Yeah, but I'd rather not be bringing back a 36 year old (iirc).
Can you dig out Vince's stats?
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Thank you.
Groundking
International Debutant
Yeah, but we all know that division 2 runs don't count
S.Kennedy
International Vice-Captain
I can see why there advocates of the idea. Bell can bat time. He can construct an innings. This part of batting seems to have been lost among the upcoming youngsters. Even more of the type of player required is a Trott type player but Trott is retiring this season (he is having an Indian Summer - no pun intended - also).
I suppose people thought Hameed was that sort of player but...
I suppose people thought Hameed was that sort of player but...
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Yes but ……
I'm with those who are hugely dubious about runs scored in D2. I suppose if someone was averaging about 80 I might be interested. And Bell is 36.
I would actually pick Vince for the next test. Maybe he's gone away and worked on his game; his average this season is way higher than his career average.