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Post by coverpoint on Jun 5, 2015 6:56:04 GMT
My starting XI would be: Nash, Wells, Machan, Joyce (c), Wright, Yardy (with no Jordan he is needed in the slips and can bowl if needed), Brown (+), Shahzad, Robinson, Magoffin and Hobden.
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Post by jonboy on Jun 5, 2015 6:58:32 GMT
and if no Shahzad?
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Post by coverpoint on Jun 5, 2015 7:00:23 GMT
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Post by hhsussex on Jun 6, 2015 11:20:47 GMT
The answer to those last few posts seems to be everyone except Shahzad. www.sussexcricket.co.uk/news-1/preview-sussex-welcome-south-coast-rivals-hampshire-in-the-lv-county-championship. There are no timetables for anyone's recovery from injury; perhaps Robinson has learned a lesson from the Yardy affair and the early diagnosis of Shahzad's pectoral injury. The Sussex squad is as follows: WAT Beer BC Brown (wkt) C Cachopa HZ Finch ME Hobden EC Joyce (capt) CJ Liddle MW Machan SJ Magoffin CD Nash OE Robinson SA Piolet LWP Wells LJ Wright MH Yardy SAA Zaidi Including both Beer and Zaidi in the squad suggests there is confidence that it will be a firm wicket with some bounce for the spinner, so one of them should play. The problem remains that after Magoffin and Robinson we need one reliable pace bowler to operate alongside the spinner and bowl long spells. Does that sound like Hobden who bowled 7 overs in each innings at Nottingham? It doesn't sound like Piolet in a 4 day match, though I'd have confidence in his skills at a critical time in an over-limit game. Liddle will probably have to do that job, though his previous first class games haven't impressed. I think we're just going to have to rely on winning the toss and batting long and effectively, then bowling them out twice. It is a long shot and we'll need a lot of luck, as well as a convincing return to form for the batsmen. The best 11 I could come up with on that basis would be: Wells, Nash,Machan, Joyce, Cachopa, Wright, Brown, Zaidi,Robinson, Magoffin, Liddle. |
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Post by jonboy on Jun 6, 2015 11:32:20 GMT
Think after this game, we will be looking more towards the bottom of the table, rather than the top
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Post by hhsussex on Jun 6, 2015 12:04:06 GMT
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Post by jonboy on Jun 6, 2015 12:15:02 GMT
So it's likely to be their five man attack of Bird, Tomlinson, Edwards, Berg and Briggs, against our probable five, Magoffin, Piolet, Robinson, Hobden and Zaidi. Hmmm
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Post by coverpoint on Jun 6, 2015 12:30:40 GMT
I am surprised we have named two spinners in the squad. With the exception of Jackson and Hudson-Prentice this must just about be everyone who is fit. My XI would be: Nash, Wells, Machan, Joyce (c), Wright, Yardy, Brown (+), Beer / Piolet (depending on the wicket), Robinson, Magoffin, Hobden.
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Post by hhsussex on Jun 6, 2015 18:45:21 GMT
I am surprised we have named two spinners in the squad. With the exception of Jackson and Hudson-Prentice this must just about be everyone who is fit. My XI would be: Nash, Wells, Machan, Joyce (c), Wright, Yardy, Brown (+), Beer / Piolet (depending on the wicket), Robinson, Magoffin, Hobden. Just retweeted by Will Beer: Oxfordshire Cricket @oxoncb 3m3 minutes ago
Looking forward to @willbeer18 making his debut for us tomorrow in the Unicorns Championship - #greatlink @sussexccc
So if we do play a spinner it will be Zaidi. |
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Post by hhsussex on Jun 7, 2015 6:27:03 GMT
A fine, bright morning in Mid Sussex and the same weather forecast for Hove throughout the day - maybe a touch cooler with the sea breezes but, I hope, no sea fret. I'm looking forward to the game for it's own sake, as always, but I cannot really see how we can get twenty wickets with the bowlers available unless there is another superhuman effort from Magoffin or Robinson. I'd love to see Hobden cruise through a side and take 6 or 7 wickets and one day he will, but on the showing so far this year he had a lot of work to do on avoiding no balls and that restricts the dynamics of his run-up and his action.
If the wicket is a relaid pitch then we should be wary of an attack containing Edwards - hugely erratic but genuinely fast still - Jackson Bird, Tomlinson and Garth Berg. I'm assuming that on a pacy pitch they would probably leave out Briggs, which is a pity, because he does seem to be an authentic left arm spinner and we need them around. Our counter to that must be to include Zaidi and encourage him to bowl long containing spells to relieve the faster bowlers in the first innings and hope that he can get some bounce in the second.
Nevertheless, it will be pleasant to enjoy the last proper match at Hove until mid August, and meet old friends and have my sandwiches too early. The borderman threatens to make a rare appearance and I've unearthed some of the first new potatoes for him - not to munch at the match, of course.
A nice piece of Kipling, from The Land:
"Hev it jest as you've a mind to, but"—and here he takes command.
For whoever pays the taxes old Mus' Hobden owns the land.
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Post by hhsussex on Jun 7, 2015 8:57:38 GMT
I was totally wrong as usual. The scorecard includes Piolet but npt Zaidi and Machan is 12 . So Hobden should play again and perhaps between Machan Cachopa and Yardy.
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Post by hhsussex on Jun 7, 2015 9:30:59 GMT
Toss won by Sussex and we will bat.
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Post by hhsussex on Jun 7, 2015 9:35:58 GMT
Machan in for Cachopa and Hudson-Prentice for Piolet.
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Post by jonboy on Jun 7, 2015 9:52:53 GMT
The selection of Hudson-Prentice must be a little concerning for Piolet
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Post by howardh on Jun 7, 2015 10:16:33 GMT
But .... loooking to the future....
So disappointed that I went fishing this morning instead of going to Hove.
Might be a wrong decision if we score 350+., but the carp were good!
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