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Post by liquidskin on Jul 3, 2019 13:33:08 GMT
As I'm off sick and bored I'm starting a thread about our one hope for success this season - T20 cricket - soon to be taken away. Despite our management's baffling attempts at squad assembly in Championship cricket, potentially we have a strong side for this comp. If only it was obvious where our priorities lie. Anywho, my best side. Feel free to have a crack yourself. If not, sod ya, don't like any of you anyway except Fraudster, who doesn't seem to come on any more.
Salt
Wright
Haines
Evans
Carey
Rawlins
Jordan
Archer
Rashid
Garton
Mills
Actually batting looks possibly sketchy, potentially dynamic.
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Post by flashblade on Jul 3, 2019 14:06:30 GMT
Topley for Garton?
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Post by joe on Jul 3, 2019 14:12:09 GMT
My line up would be
Salt
Wright
Rawlins
Evans
Carey
Wiese
Jordan
Archer
Rashid
Briggs
Mills/Topley/Garton. One of them MUST be fit!
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Post by liquidskin on Jul 3, 2019 14:40:42 GMT
Well I thought my batting line-up was vulnerable but Joe's managed to sure it up for me. Without really adding anything to the bowling except the obligatory under used bowler. Gotta be stronger batting Joe surely? I say Haines because he's young and attacking minded, and mainly because there's nobody else. It's the one position we're short in on the face of it. Putting a big gun there would make so much difference. Machan on a T20 contract?
Now Flash, that looks reasonable to the naïve eye but are you trying to raise old Frawdy's blood pressure?
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Post by tatesgate on Jul 3, 2019 15:16:40 GMT
Carey too low, Wiese should be in there &, depending on conditions, we might need to get another spinner in there for the fit leftie. Aneesh Kapil I think will also feature. Looks an OK squad, (maybe a gun batter light?)
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Post by magik on Jul 3, 2019 15:52:16 GMT
Can't see Archer playing much blast given the likelihood he is going to be part of the Ashes this year.
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Post by flashblade on Jul 3, 2019 16:24:54 GMT
Well I thought my batting line-up was vulnerable but Joe's managed to sure it up for me. Without really adding anything to the bowling except the obligatory under used bowler. Gotta be stronger batting Joe surely? I say Haines because he's young and attacking minded, and mainly because there's nobody else. It's the one position we're short in on the face of it. Putting a big gun there would make so much difference. Machan on a T20 contract? Now Flash, that looks reasonable to the naïve eye but are you trying to raise old Frawdy's blood pressure?Not at all, old chap. I think Garton's been injured (and injury prone, maybe). Besides, with Topley and Mills being shoo-ins, I don't think we want 3 left arm seamers. |
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Post by lovelyboy on Jul 3, 2019 17:42:35 GMT
Salt
Wright
Evans
Carey
Rawlins
Wiese
CJ
Rashid
Garton
Briggsy
Mills
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Post by ashingtonmartlet on Jul 5, 2019 8:57:41 GMT
Interesting that no-one has Van Zyl in their team? Do we know that he’s being rested or has he just been forgotten about?
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Post by grandavefan on Jul 5, 2019 9:42:12 GMT
Mills unlikely to play more than say 4 games?
Is he the shoo in some of you think? I seem to remember he pretty much failed to get a batsman in the top 5
out whenever he played. Is that what the team needs/
Garton, injured. When is he likely to be fit?
Briggs? Injured. Ditto.
Why no mention of Beer? Some of you failing to remember he started the wickets falling against Middx,
got the big guns out at Durham and the wickets in the final!
I think he's in a better position than Briggs this year.
VZ, needs to look after his knee?
Topley, interesting. Could be that magical signing that gets Sussex wickets at the top of the order.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jul 5, 2019 13:28:56 GMT
Sussex have such a strong T20 team, people are forgetting the depth. While Archer will be part of the Ashes and won’t appear, Chris Jordan is a shoo-in, Alex Carey could be dynamite for us and, hopefully, Rashid Khan’s confidence won’t be dented by his World Cup bashings.
As for Mills, who knows who will turn up to the matches, but Wright has much to prove, Delray is back in favour and finding form... I haven’t felt this excited by our T20 team since the days when Prior opened the batting and Sussex were shoo-ins for at least the QFs.
Re: Van Zyl, the rigours of T20 batting and fielding might be too much for his knee?
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Post by jonboy on Jul 5, 2019 14:52:37 GMT
We kinda need Van Zyl as somebody to keep the innings ticking over We could use Evans in that role, but I’d rather give him a free hand The big issue is, whether or not we go with 6 bowlers, and would those bowlers include Rawlins. Personally, if we do go with 6 bowlers, then I’d favour Rawlins as a compromise. Yes he could go for runs, but so can anyone in this competition, but his power hitting, and his athleticism in the field, more than make up for that My side would be,
Salt
Wright
Van Zyl
Evans
Carey
Rawlins
Wiese
Rashid
Jordan
Briggs
Mills
With Beer the next cab on the rank
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Post by liquidskin on Jul 14, 2019 8:47:09 GMT
Well I thought my batting line-up was vulnerable but Joe's managed to sure it up for me. Without really adding anything to the bowling except the obligatory under used bowler. Gotta be stronger batting Joe surely? I say Haines because he's young and attacking minded, and mainly because there's nobody else. It's the one position we're short in on the face of it. Putting a big gun there would make so much difference. Machan on a T20 contract? Now Flash, that looks reasonable to the naïve eye but are you trying to raise old Frawdy's blood pressure?Not at all, old chap. I think Garton's been injured (and injury prone, maybe). Besides, with Topley and Mills being shoo-ins, I don't think we want 3 left arm seamers. Shoo-ins? Topley & Mills have worse injury records than Garton. Admittedly there's not much in it. If Garton's fit, he's ahead of all of them. People are quick to forget his talents on here. Topley for Archer if anything. Can't see anything wrong with the left arm quicks myself - what's the difference? |
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