I suspect the only decision he has to make is whether to restore Ben Aitchison to the side, in place of Jack Morley. The rest of the eleven I fully expect to be unchanged.
I have no real expectations of a result tomorrow, against the side that won the Vitality Blast last season. Somerset have proven a little more fallible this year and have already lost five matches, but I suspect they will have too much firepower for Derbyshire tomorrow.
They inflicted a first defeat of the competition on Northamptonshire the other night, beating them by 105 runs. It would appear unlikely that they would change a winning side and so I expect them to field the following eleven:
Smeed, Rew, Rew, Kohler-Cadmore, Goldsworthy, Sams, Overton, Thomas, Shaw, Meredith, Ball
It would be nice to be more positive, but the results have given little cause for it in this competition. While Derbyshire are a solid red ball side, I have less confidence in our white ball side, at least in this competition.
Having said that, I would be delighted to be proven wrong.
After Rew and Rew I was waiting for Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub!
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame that MA is so stubborn when clearly the current system isn't working. Morley should play. Madsen should be captain. Came and Guest should play instead of Basra and Bin Naem and Donald can concentrate solely on the one thing he's good at: slogging.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to this. Hopefully Morley plays & the pitch has a bit of grip. I would bring Came in for Basra, the latter having not done enough to retain his place in my view. I think this will be tight
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