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***Official*** County Cricket 2019
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theegyptian
International Vice-Captain
Notts showing their bowling reserves strength already. Let Luke Wood and Mark Footitt leave on loan to Northants and Lancs respectively for the first month or so.
SeamUp
International Coach
Squads as they come in.
DIVISION ONE
Hampshire v Essex
Looking after Chappell for the slow early season pitches ?
Somerset v Kent
Jamie Overton still injured ? Only the one spinner early season.
DIVISION TWO
Derbyshire v Durham
Northants v Middlesex
Sussex v Leicestershire
DIVISION ONE
Hampshire v Essex
Notts v Yorkshire
Looking after Chappell for the slow early season pitches ?
Somerset v Kent
Jamie Overton still injured ? Only the one spinner early season.
DIVISION TWO
Derbyshire v Durham
Northants v Middlesex
Sussex v Leicestershire
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SeamUp
International Coach
Their main squad will come from these guys. Only Lloyd, Murphy, Bull and Carey are Welsh. Donald (Hampshire) & Harris (Middlesex) the other Welshman playing for other counties ?
Nick Selman
David Lloyd
Jack Murphy
Shaun Marsh/Marnus Labuschagne
Charlie Hemphrey
Billy Root
Chris Cooke
Craig Meschede
Graham Wagg
Kieran Bull
Lukas Carey
Marchant de Lange
Timm van der Gugten
Michael Hogan
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theegyptian
International Vice-Captain
Going back and forth on who I think will win div 1.
Surrey are the strongest. Excellent squad with a mix of driven quality young players, and some more experienced established pros many of whom have had success at international level. They turned 2 wins ( and yet still a 3rd place finish) in 2017 into 10 wins and a first place finish in 2018, much of that was down to the signing of Morne Morkel and some more bowler friendly home wickets. Should Morkel get injured they might struggle with the bowling firepower.
Notts odds are narrowing imo. Pattinson is obviously quality and their chances may depend on how many games they get from him. Ball and Broad should play a good deal of the summer. Plenty of depth in bowling. Batting is more questionable- Some lack experience in div 1, others mediocre results over the last couple of years. Mullaney, the captain, is an impressive individual imo.
Somerset have a greater degree of home advantage where they generally produce turning wickets. With more cricket played in the middle of the summer than recent times, this may play into Somerset's hands as other teams may struggle to get results in June and July whereas Somerset have Leach, Bess and VDM to potentially win games on turners. Don't have the depth of others at the top of the table.
Essex, like Somerset are reliant on a smaller squad but they have three quality players in Porter, Harmer and Sir A Cook who if they stay fit will contribute more than the fair share to their team.
Don't think the others will win it. Hampshire have a quality squad on paper but it's gelling all the parts together that is a struggle. Yorkshire, even with Olivier coming in, are missing one or two good players to really challenge.
Warwickshire don't have the batting to win. With Bell injured and Trott gone a lot falls upon Rhodes, Sibley and Hain for the first time in their careers. Bowling is good, maybe really good. They should avoid relegation though because...
Kent bowling is terrible (admittedly I said the same last year and they were promoted). They surely will be the one team to be relegated. They could maybe look to loan a fast bowler or two from div 2, Bamber for instance at Middlesex who is going to struggle now that TRJ is back. Batting isn't bad but Denly and Billings will miss parts of the season.
Surrey are the strongest. Excellent squad with a mix of driven quality young players, and some more experienced established pros many of whom have had success at international level. They turned 2 wins ( and yet still a 3rd place finish) in 2017 into 10 wins and a first place finish in 2018, much of that was down to the signing of Morne Morkel and some more bowler friendly home wickets. Should Morkel get injured they might struggle with the bowling firepower.
Notts odds are narrowing imo. Pattinson is obviously quality and their chances may depend on how many games they get from him. Ball and Broad should play a good deal of the summer. Plenty of depth in bowling. Batting is more questionable- Some lack experience in div 1, others mediocre results over the last couple of years. Mullaney, the captain, is an impressive individual imo.
Somerset have a greater degree of home advantage where they generally produce turning wickets. With more cricket played in the middle of the summer than recent times, this may play into Somerset's hands as other teams may struggle to get results in June and July whereas Somerset have Leach, Bess and VDM to potentially win games on turners. Don't have the depth of others at the top of the table.
Essex, like Somerset are reliant on a smaller squad but they have three quality players in Porter, Harmer and Sir A Cook who if they stay fit will contribute more than the fair share to their team.
Don't think the others will win it. Hampshire have a quality squad on paper but it's gelling all the parts together that is a struggle. Yorkshire, even with Olivier coming in, are missing one or two good players to really challenge.
Warwickshire don't have the batting to win. With Bell injured and Trott gone a lot falls upon Rhodes, Sibley and Hain for the first time in their careers. Bowling is good, maybe really good. They should avoid relegation though because...
Kent bowling is terrible (admittedly I said the same last year and they were promoted). They surely will be the one team to be relegated. They could maybe look to loan a fast bowler or two from div 2, Bamber for instance at Middlesex who is going to struggle now that TRJ is back. Batting isn't bad but Denly and Billings will miss parts of the season.
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SeamUp
International Coach
Sorry if it has been posted already but a real good read on Haseeb Hameed on the eve of the new season.
https://www.wisden.com/stories/county-cricket/curious-case-haseeb-hameed
https://www.wisden.com/stories/county-cricket/curious-case-haseeb-hameed
theegyptian
International Vice-Captain
Allott speaks a bit too frankly for my liking regarding Hameed, given his position as director of cricket at lancs. He's spoken a few times about Hameed in the last year - really should be keeping it a bit more private. Wouldn't be the worst thing in the world imo for Hameed to leave Lancs at the end of the season. It appears that he works harder than anyone on his game. Maybe a move to a new county and away from his family roots would give him something else to focus on other than his cricket.
Worcestershire have a group of young fast bowlers who it will be interesting to see how they develop. Scrimshaw, Tongue, Finch, Barnard, Brown, Pennington. All look to have the potential to play for England.
Barnard has got to be one of the most valuable players in county cricket. Medium fast bowler. Quality lower middle order bat who strikes the ball cleanly. Outstanding fielder. Only 23 and rarely gets injured. His relative lack of pace means he's unlikely to be playing for England anytime soon, so even better for Worcestershire.
Looking forward to seeing how Bracey and Hankins do at Gloucestershire. Both promising bats. Bracey is quite like Chris Rogers - compact left hand bat who likes a punchy drive - keeps wicket too. Hankins a more powerful upright bat who plays in a pretty conventional style. Could see both moving away from the county in 2 or 3 years to first division counties.
Worcestershire have a group of young fast bowlers who it will be interesting to see how they develop. Scrimshaw, Tongue, Finch, Barnard, Brown, Pennington. All look to have the potential to play for England.
Barnard has got to be one of the most valuable players in county cricket. Medium fast bowler. Quality lower middle order bat who strikes the ball cleanly. Outstanding fielder. Only 23 and rarely gets injured. His relative lack of pace means he's unlikely to be playing for England anytime soon, so even better for Worcestershire.
Looking forward to seeing how Bracey and Hankins do at Gloucestershire. Both promising bats. Bracey is quite like Chris Rogers - compact left hand bat who likes a punchy drive - keeps wicket too. Hankins a more powerful upright bat who plays in a pretty conventional style. Could see both moving away from the county in 2 or 3 years to first division counties.
theegyptian
International Vice-Captain
Yorkshire look light in bowling with a four man attack and Waite as the fourth seamer.
Northants have an interesting look. Rossington, Holder, Luke Wood lower middle order is powerful and fun to watch if they get going.
Northants have an interesting look. Rossington, Holder, Luke Wood lower middle order is powerful and fun to watch if they get going.
GoodAreasShane
Cricketer Of The Year
Waite averaged 39 with the ball in Sydney grade cricket this summer. Inspiring stuff.
theegyptian
International Vice-Captain
Hampshire after all their struggles to find openers are now batting South Africa opening bat Markram at 3. Surprised they didn't just bat Weatherly at 3. Vince opening to try and boost his England chances. Hildreth moving upto 3 at Somerset for similar reasons, although you'd think he'd have done that earlier in his career.
Gremlin
U19 Vice-Captain
Not quite sure why no Bresnan today. Yorkshire look light all round this season in my view.
Gremlin
U19 Vice-Captain
And now the ton. Delighted for him. Hope it gives his confidence the boost it needs before Lancs kick off their campaign.
Borges
International Regular
Before the commencement of the Ashes. This guy is made for test cricket; would turn out to be a worthy replacement for Cook.
GoodAreasShane
Cricketer Of The Year
Nope, think Hameed needs at least a full strong county season before being considered for international cricket. It would be hugely risky to rush him back off a couple of good scores alone, a couple of failures for England and he may well fall straight back off the cliff again.
Am pleased for the bloke though, even though it is a no account attack a ton is still a ton, should be a nice confidence boost for him
Am pleased for the bloke though, even though it is a no account attack a ton is still a ton, should be a nice confidence boost for him