Wayne is almost certainly going to be replaced by either Wood or Matt Lamb for the game. Having already beaten Warwickshire twice in the Vitality Blast, Derbyshire will be full of confidence ahead of the game.
Their hosts don't have an overseas player for this competition, but Ed Barnard has been in sparkling form with both bat and ball. They have lost a lot of players to the other competition and so I would look at this game as one that is winnable, from a Derbyshire perspective
I would also like to see the return of Anuj Dal for this match and Derbyshire revert to an eleven that includes two spinners, with Wood's slow darts as another option.
Hoped for team:
Came, Reece,Lloyd, Wood, Ali, Guest, Dal, Thomson, McKiernan/Watt, Conners, Lakmal
Lamb and Moore also in squad.
There is no news as yet of the home squad, but they are unlikely to change a winning side, one that has won four from four so far.
Likely side:
Barnard, Yates, Burgess, Rhodes, Brookes, Smith, Shaikh, Booth, Lintott, Miles, Hannon-Dalby
Despite all the absentees, they have a good side, but three young players in the middle who we might hope to expose if we can take early. wickets. Their full strength side sailed through the Northern group of the T20, yet we still managed to beat them twice.
If we don't win tomorrow, my gut feeling is that the rest of this competition is to offer experience only, but there is enough talent in the Derbyshire side to turn expectations on their head.
It looks like there will be some rain around tomorrow, so both skippers will probably hope to win the toss and bat second, knowing what the challenge is going to be.
We will see soon enough.
Postscript - Henry Brookes and Jacob Bethell have been released from The Hundred to play...
Think you should get yourself on the selection committee PF 😉. We were so obviously a batter short today. McKiernan only bowled 2 expensive overs where Wood/Lamb/Wagstaff may have made the difference with the bat. This season seems to have been full of strange selection calls.
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