I would be surprised if Came can break into the batting line up, as Mickey Arthur will look at the top seven and feel there is little wrong with that side of the team. Only Nye Donald and Wayne Madsen have yet to get going in this competition and I can't see either of them being left out, much the same as you, I assume. He will also consider the attack from which Harry took his runs and probably keep his powder dry on a line up that has scored 190+ in the two games so far. The same goes for Yusuf Bin Naeem, but if tomorrow ends in another defeat Derbyshire would need seven wins from nine games to have a chance of qualification, which would be a very tall order.
Rory Haydon may come in, either in place of Nick Potts or Ben Aitchison, who might benefit from a breather. But I don't otherwise see a change from the side that threw the game away at Headingley on Sunday.
Leicestershire have also lost two from two, so this is a big game for both sides. They have announced the following squad:
Green, Budinger, Cox, Davey, Eskinazi, Green, Holland, Hull, Kelly, Mike, Patel, Tattersall, Trevaskis, Turner
They also lost to Durham as well as to Worcestershire and their batting has so far struggled to get going.
Derbyshire will need to bowl much better than at the death on Sunday to win this one, or they will need to bat them out of sight. I am not overly confident of either, right now, but perhaps someone will step up and do something special.
I am otherwise engaged tomorrow, so might give observations later, or those comments may need to wait until Thursday morning. I will leave the usual place for comments so yours are all in the same place.
We all know Derbyshire don't win many T20 games, or any games for that matter, but out of interest i checked the number if T20 wins since and including 2020 upto now (including the 2 games from this year), and Derbyshire have won 30 out of 80 games. A win rate of 37.5%. It puts into perspective what the expectation is in the T20 Blast.
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I think people believe that we lost on Sunday, through "bottling it". The real answer is that we have no power play bowlers and no death bowlers. Pre injury, Pat Brown had the variations for that role and Ghazanfar is also great in the power play. We will continue to concede 200 runs often this year, T20 is just not our format currently. We have a chance of 4 day promotion still, all our focus should be on that. Kris
ReplyDeleteYet Yorkshire were about 50-3 after the powerplay on Sunday. Our death bowling was atrocious, and yes we currently don't have enough experienced bowlers for this format.
DeleteDon't torture yourself, 4 day promotion is highly unlikely....it's the hope etc!
Very much has the feel of a wooden spoon game. FWIW I think they are even weaker than us. Having said that our attack appears incapable of conceding less than 200 and unless Haydon makes a difference most games are going to be tough. I think with the change above we win.
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I think a problem is that we are short of bowling in the team. There seems to be too many batsman who either don't bowl or cannot (fitness) bowl. So far in the two matches we have had only 1 (not very good) over outside of the 5 main bowlers. If Basra is not going to be used as a bowler we may have to (unfairly) sacrifice him to bring in someone like Wagstaff who we could get a couple of overs from.
ReplyDeleteI think things will look a bit more rosey when Donald clicks. He didn't in the first 3 last year. Maybe today will be the first of the year.
ReplyDeleteIdea for your blog after each game , you could rate the players from 1-10 . Ethan
ReplyDeleteOh I think they know when they have done badly without me marking them, Ethan...thanks for the idea though!
DeleteThis current Leicestershire team must rank as one of the worst anywhere in T20 cricket
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