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Post by hhsussex on Jul 4, 2015 13:53:22 GMT
Last year the first game and first defeat against Somerset saw the first fall from grace of the Sussex side that season; the second game confirmed the problem. This year we have to overcome the problems and shrug off the massive disappointments of the Warwickshire game. We can take from that the positive signs of the resurgence of the middle order batting, and we know we will need to bat well and long at Taunton. 400 is what we will need, and we will need to bat well in both innings.
No team has yet been announced. On the evidence of Edgbaston I think Nash has to return to opening, and I would like to see Cachopa back in the team to transfer the form he has rediscovered in T20 to the championship. We don't have a solution to the injury list for fast bowling so will have to be as inventive as we can with Nash, Wells and Zaidi or Burgoyne. Probably Burgoyne is the better bowler but it would be hard to drop a man who has just made a return to the team with 100, even on that awful Birmingham mattress. Zaidi (and the other spinners) will have to accept again that they will be bowling longer spells, but with slightly more hope of penetration - a few wickets have fallen to spinners, notably the 7-56 on debut of Matthew Carter.
Nash
Wells
Machan
Joyce
Cachopa
Wright
Brown
Zaidi
Robinson
Magoffin
Hobden
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Post by jonboy on Jul 5, 2015 9:17:58 GMT
Oddly, still no squad news for this one
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Post by hhsussex on Jul 5, 2015 9:38:26 GMT
The weather forecast is not promising for any of the days of this match.
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Post by jonboy on Jul 5, 2015 9:41:50 GMT
The weather forecast is not promising for any of the days of this match. No it isn't, although today's forecast has got a little better in the last hour |
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Post by hhsussex on Jul 5, 2015 9:54:08 GMT
Somerset Team
ME Trescothick*, TB Abell, JG Myburgh, JC Hildreth, PD Trego, J Allenby, C Overton, L Gregory, MD Bates†, AC Thomas, Abdur Rehman
Sussex Team
LWP Wells, EC Joyce*, Craig Cachopa, MW Machan, Ashar Zaidi, CD Nash, LJ Wright, BC Brown†, OE Robinson, SJ Magoffin, ME Hobden
That's the order shown on cricinfo but I doubt if Zaidi will go in at 5, any more than at Warwickshire where I think he was shown at 4. I wonder if Joyce will open again or will restore Nash?
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Post by jonboy on Jul 5, 2015 9:59:14 GMT
The eleven picked itself really Need the batsmen to show that Edgebaston, wasn't entirely down to the pitch
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Post by hhsussex on Jul 5, 2015 11:43:16 GMT
9* 16 0 428 82 26.75 is under-performance by any batsman, and coming from Joyce it feels all the more painful. Nice to get 50+ for the first wicket, but as at Edgbaston, the mediocre is all that seems achievable. I didn't hear what happened with Machan's first-baller, but It is beginning to look as if he too needs to be buried deeper in the order. We seem to have a team full of No5 and 6 players, fine when the shine is off and the ball has stopped doing things. I think that a priority is at least one proper opening batsman, and for Greenfield to work hard with the Academy on developing neew ball skills.
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Post by jonboy on Jul 5, 2015 12:12:00 GMT
Yes, I'm not sure why Nash has moved down the order, where to be fair, he's done OK. If it's permanent, and he wants to take his chance in the already crowded middle order, then we will definitely need to find another opening bat from somewhere. We don't have anyone else on the staff that convinces, or wants to do it, so we'll have to see what's available in the winter. Maybe BM's suggestion, that we look at Sean Dickson, is something we could consider. I like Nash at the top of the order, but if he feels more comfortable down the order, then it's his decision I suppose. A word of warning, if we are successful at finding an all rounder, or someone to bat at six and balance the side, enabling us to play with five bowlers, then Nash will have a lot of middle order competition. There could be, Nash, Joyce, Wright, Cachopa, Machan and Finch, all slugging it out for three places. Anyway, this game is evenly poised, 72-2 at lunch, and it could go either way.
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Post by jonboy on Jul 5, 2015 12:28:05 GMT
Yuk, looks a bit bleak on twitter
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Post by jonboy on Jul 5, 2015 13:34:20 GMT
Back on at three, I gather
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2015 16:38:56 GMT
At the time of posting, Luke Wells has spent over eleven hours at the crease in his last three innings.
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Post by jonboy on Jul 5, 2015 17:58:20 GMT
Meh, close of play, same old same old
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Post by fraudster on Jul 5, 2015 19:32:47 GMT
The eleven picked itself really Need the batsmen to show that Edgebaston, wasn't entirely down to the pitch I can't see how any side with three bowlers in it can pick itself but I'm obviously in the minority with that one. Somerset have five bowlers and Trego, we have three bowlers and Zaidi. Very defensive and negative thinking by the management and when you're 145-6 in the first innings it looks even more stupid. Nash is at four and we seem pretty stubborn about that but in the last game he scored a ton there so the idea of him moving, by some on here, was ridiculous given the timing - was never gonna happen. Seems we can only bat on featherbeds and on that note, 13 wickets at Edgbastard today - guess something like that was always on the cards after the last game there. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 7:37:40 GMT
The eleven picked itself really Need the batsmen to show that Edgebaston, wasn't entirely down to the pitch I think after the misplaced euphoria at close on day one at Edgbaston, we all realised pretty soon it was entirely down to the pitch. I see they have prepared a proper pitch at Edgbaston for the Yorks game and as many wickets fell yesterday (12) as fell in the four days v Sussex... In fact, the pitch they are using is probably the one intended for the Sussex game before Dougie Brown ordered the groundsman to switch it at the last minute after Warwicks were left a seamer light when they lost Keith Barker to injury! |
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Post by philh on Jul 6, 2015 14:01:00 GMT
I suppose crashing from 600+ last week to 208 is not as bad as Warwickshire's predicament
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