Derbyshire will be down in Cardiff for 4 days, starting tomorrow and Mickey Arthur has named a 13-man squad which will aim to break the season four-day duck in the wins column.
Mark Watt is named in the squad, as is Mitch Wagstaff. The former may play if the pitch looks likely to take spin later on, but otherwise the temptation will be strong to go with the eleven - sans Madsen - that did well against Sussex last week, with Wagstaff replacing the veteran.
Likely team:
Came, Reece, Guest, Wagstaff, du Plooy, Lamb, Dal, Thomson, Chappell, Conners, Brown (Watt, Potts)
Zak Chappell needs three wickets in the match to reach fifty for the season, a good effort in his first year with us, especially on home tracks.
There's no David Lloyd for a Glamorgan, still recovering from the rib injury sustained in Derbyshire colours in the one day trophy. Matthew Maynard has named his final Glamorgan squad and it is as follows:
Carlson, Root, Kellaway, Harris, Gorvin, Bevan, Morris, ul-Hassan, Sisodiya, McIlroy, Ingram, Cooke, van der Gugten, Douthwaite, Byron.
Once again, with four-day cricket pushed to the bookends of the season, the forecast is far from favourable. It would appear considerable time will be taken from this game and it is hard to see where a positive result can come from, especially when the home side have only managed one win themselves.
Derbyshire will want to at least to accumulate good bonus points and avoid the wooden spoon. They should manage that, but it will not mask or change what has been a fairly disappointing season.
More about that in my season review, in due course.
One of the oddities of this season would be, that currently we have more bowling bonus points than anyone else in the division. Thanks for all the reports over the season Peakfan. Martin
ReplyDeleteAlthough I'm a Pears fan, I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your blog this season. Many thanks. Terry W.
ReplyDeleteDerbyshire will once again be involved in the T20 Blast Off at Edgbaston in 2024.
ReplyDeleteAnd giving up home fixture again! Don’t mind it on a fair rotation basis, but there is few enough home evening fixtures already. Craig.
DeleteFinancially we cannot afford to turn down the opportunity. It also promotes good publicity for us with Sky coverage. If you're a member DCCC provide free transport to Edgbaston. The game this season gained a lot of positive feedback from many of those who attended. The only drawback, for me, was the result.
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