Wednesday, 2 June 2021

Derbyshire v Warwickshire preview

Luis Reece makes a welcome return for Derbyshire tomorrow, taking the place of Leus du Plooy, who has been out of touch.

Brooke Guest keeps the gloves but moves down the order and Ben McDermott looks like batting three. There is at least a 'round pegs and round holes' look to the side, with the final place likely again to be between Dustin Melton and Michael Cohen. Fynn Hudson-Prentice is rested ahead of the T20. 

The Derbyshire 12:

Godleman, Reece, McDermott, Madsen, Critchley, Guest, Hughes, Dal, Cohen, Aitchison, Conners, Melton

Warwickshire have named 13 for the first 'return' of the season, that opener at Edgbaston seeming a long time ago now.

Their squad:

Rhodes, Burgess, Bresnan, Briggs, Hannon-Dalby, Hain, Lamb, Malan, Miles, Mousley, Norwell, Sidebottom, Yates

I am not going to make a bold prediction of a home win, because I need to be convinced we can play four-day cricket again. When our batsmen bat time and build an innings (honourable exceptions for Messrs Madsen and Critchley) I will be more positive in my forecast...

We are capable of a draw here.

Whether we get it requires a return to the graft of Edgbaston. But I will be watching, either way.

Go well, lads. 

3 comments:

  1. Another unbalanced team too many bowlers packing the team with medium pacers hasn’t worked so far

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  2. As above why do we need 6 seamers is there not 3/4 we can trust? Wood has too play in place of Hughes or Dal surely.

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  3. Have Derbyshire not signed another all rounder on loan? Surely a batsman should have been the priority

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