Just having a look at your squad and yeah despite your relatively low EPV of the teams in division - seeing 2 bats at above 40 skill is eyecatching - my best is Tweddle at 39 and then Mthombeni is a very good keeper with 15 keeping/37 batting, Coetzee at 36 too. Seems like perhaps you lack that bit of depth if those 4 fail with the bat although imagine more often than not at the very least 1 of those batters will come off.Its difficult for me to really say... i`m lucky at the moment because my two best bats and wk are still 20 but have very high skill and some decent experience. Also Coetzee (who is slowly finding touch again) and Jupp add a strong allrounder presence. Coetzee's wickets today an unexpected surprise. Nkumane is already heading into senior team for the experience if nothing else, and seems to be holding his own. Passmore gives top SOD a sides problems. And Watts today was super great, I may have inadvertently got a good one with him, even if he is a finger spinner....
I have lost some powerful components though compared to the beginning of the season... sales and aging out. Just hope I can keep punching above my weight.
Watts coming off with the ball could be big for you too - Coetzee, Nkumane, Passmore and Jupp all seem very strong bowling options on paper (doesn't always translate to results but would prefer the extra skill than not). 3 at 35+ rating and 1 at 31 but then 27 for Watts its hardly terrible but not ideal. Although it probably looks worse that his batting is passible but not top 6 standard yet although crucial 25 not out for him in CWC6. In contrast Paul Hailstone plays for my side (Winton CC) and has a key role of being my 5th bowler - will share overs with Tweddle and has 27 bowling rating too.
Not to make excuses as the nucleus of my side is still intact but I do think if I had my CWC5 side - virtually the same but I had Bernard Mayer who was one of our better bats, a good bowling option and unlike Hailstone bowled seam so was more suited to our home pitches. Meant it felt like we had 5 genuine bowlers without weakening the batting by having 5 specialist bowlers. Also, its not a problem yet but Horn is 21 and 9 weeks. Alisson and Jawad sold after they turned 22 which means in a few weeks I'll need a new wicketkeeper as Horn will be 22 and ineligible in latter half of CWC6.
I see you do have 2 quality 22 year olds though so you have probably missed out more in that regard.
My Charminster captain Dilshan Jayawickrama having quite the impact in my DEV friendly v Ashgrove Astronauts - 47 off 56 from number 9 before getting out to the last ball coming in at 112/7 with number 8 Jacob Dickins (45*) at the crease alongside Jayawickrama.
Then getting 3/20 from 7.3 overs.