Worcestershire v. Derbyshire preview

Mickey Arthur has named a squad of thirteen for the four day game that starts against Worcestershire later today

Came, Reece, Guest, Madsen, du Plooy, Ali, Dal, Thomson, Potts, Aitchison, Scrimshaw, Khan, McKerr

Conor McKerr had been signed on loan for this match as injuries start to bite, Chappell and Conners currently hors de combat. It is his third time with us and he has been doing the round of counties this summer. 

They wouldn't take him on loan as a stand by, so he will play. I would be surprised if  Zaman Khan did, as he hasn't played any first class cricket and he is so essential to our hopes in the Vitality Blast. So too is Scrimshaw, but I see the final place being between him and Nick Potts.

Our hosts have named the following 13:

Brett D’Oliveira 
Jake Libby
Gareth Roderick (W)
Azhar Ali
Jack Haynes
Adam Hose
Ed Pollock
Kashif Ali
Matthew Waite
Joe Leach
Dillon Pennington
Navdeep Saini
Ben Gibbon
Josh Baker

I am going for a draw in this game, with rain set to take considerable time from the match on the 3rd and 4th days.

Fingers crossed we see an improved top order performance to the ones we saw at Chesterfield last time out.

What do you think?