They have fine players and will be bolstered by England man Stuart Broad tomorrow, but it is some 30 matches since they last won a four-day game. The plan over the weekend is to make sure that run continues.
Mikey Cohen and Billy Godleman are added to the eleven that played at Durham. It will be good to see both of them back and it would be nice to win the toss for the first time this season.
I expect both to play and that George Scrimshaw and either Tom Wood or Brooke Guest will drop out. It will be tough on whichever one misses out, but my guess is that Tom will be the unlucky one.
The likely side:
Godleman, Reece, du Plooy, Madsen, Critchley, Hosein, Guest, Hudson-Prentice, Cohen, Aitchison, Conners.
As for our visitors, there's no Samit Patel this year (saved for one day cricket) but Luke Fletcher is on the squad, as is South African seamer Dane Paterson. Their thirteen is:
Broad, Chappell, Clarke, Duckett, Evison, Fletcher, Hameed, James, Moores, Mullaney, Paterson, Patterson-White, Slater.
Hasib Hameed has been in good touch this summer and Ben Slater will be keen to impress on his return to God's Own County.
It is a shame that Billy Stanlake misses out due to English government guidance, while Glamorgan welcome back Marnus Labuschagne to their squad after only two days here because of the differing Welsh government advice.
Hopefully Billy will be raring to go for Essex and we might even field both overseas in that one, with Dustin Melton almost recovered from a groin strain.
It should be a good game and once more I am looking forward to it immensely. We have the ability to follow up on the win at Trent Bridge last year, but with rain projected for Saturday afternoon, I am going for a draw this year.
What are your thoughts?
Why are Derbyshire playing both of their wicketkeepers?is it because of injuries and the squad is so depleted that there are no alternatives?
ReplyDeleteWell, Billy is injured and so that leaves 2 spaces in the order. Tom Wood is a regular opener for that role, so Guest is deemed in better nick than Hughes or Dal at present.
DeleteDH said in the winter that either keeper could bat top six and Guest did a fine job at Durham. Suspect Hughes and Dal will play one dayers in due course