Derbyshire travel to Canterbury for the final match and play Kent, who are bottom of the table. Mickey Arthur has announced a squad of thirteen, which includes Yusaf bin Naeem and Nick Potts, although having said he intends to play his strongest side, it seems likely that they will be sharing twelfth man duties on this occasion.
The likely Derbyshire side:
Reece, Donald, Came, Madsen, Guest, Basra, Dal, Andersson, Chappell, Aitchison, Morley
Wayne Madsen is forty short of a thousand for the summer, while Luis Reece is currently top wicket-taker in division two. Rory Haydon is missing with a side strain.
That is very different from the preview of the Derbyshire side on the Kent website, which I can only assume was written weeks ago, as there are so many inaccuracies. You may want to have a look yourselves here
As for Kent, they are skippered by Harry Finch, who had a few games for the Derbyshire second eleven a few summers ago. Mikey Cohen is also in the squad, as is Joey Evison, so there is a strong East Midlands flavour to their squad of thirteen, which reads:
Finch, Cohen, Compton, Curtiss, Dawkins, Jaydn Denly, Evison, Flintoff, Garrett, Parkinson, Rizvi, Singh, Stewart
The forecast looks good and there should be four days of cricket. If that is the case, I would like to think that Derbyshire have enough in the squad to overcome a young home side.
It would be nice to finish on a win and in third place, but we will take nothing for granted..
What do you think?
We travel strong for this one. I doubt many batters will fancy facing up to Reece and Aitchison, with Dal and Chappell to come. Aitchison is bowling beautifully currently and is loving life with the Duke, after his comeback with the Kookaburra. Kris
ReplyDeleteI know what you're saying, and they're doing OK, but I can think of plenty of batters that probably wouldn't mind!
DeleteWould like us to make room for Bin Naeem somewhere…though admittedly I’m not sure where.
ReplyDeleteFor Morley perhaps? Grant from Telford
DeleteWould like to think we are far stronger then Kent who are going through a very transitional period. Dawkins looks a very good young batter. But in general they do look a very weak team hence the bottom of the table position. We do badly need to finish with a win to help forget about the last couple of months of quite poor cricket
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