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Post by joe on Dec 18, 2015 17:57:38 GMT
My starting XI would be: Joyce Nash Taylor Wright Machan Brown Jordan Shahzad Robinson Hobden Magoffin Looks pretty healthy to me. Why do we need five seamers? Your fifth man is only going to get a few overs up hill into the wind around the 70th over mark while the four senior quicks have a blow before fighting it out for the new ball. Even the seam-obssessed Robinson only ever played four ! This would be early season, Briggs would come in if/when wickets were favourable. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2015 18:09:44 GMT
But joe, you still haven't explained why we need FIVE seamers. Even "early season" four will do. When have you ever seen a team play five ? Jordan too high at seven. You need one fewer seamer and one more batsman in there!
Apart from anything else, with five seamers Sussex will lose pts every game for slow over rate.
When Briggs plays, he supplements three seamers not four, with Nash/Wells making up the fifth bowler.
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Post by coverpoint on Dec 18, 2015 18:25:10 GMT
Joyce
Nash
Machan
Taylor
Wright
Brown
Jordan
Shahzad
Robinson
Briggs
Magoffin
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Post by jonboy on Dec 18, 2015 19:01:49 GMT
Joyce Nash Machan Taylor Wright Brown Jordan Shahzad Robinson Briggs Magoffin Unless he has hidden batting talent, Im not happy with Jordan at 7. Early season especially, you need that extra batter in there to combat favourable bowling conditions. |
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Post by joe on Dec 18, 2015 19:36:49 GMT
Why do we need five seamers? Your fifth man is only going to get a few overs up hill into the wind around the 70th over mark while the four senior quicks have a blow before fighting it out for the new ball. Even the seam-obssessed Robinson only ever played four ! This would be early season, Briggs would come in if/when wickets were favourable. Six batters, four bowlers and an all-rounder. |
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Post by coverpoint on Dec 19, 2015 6:43:05 GMT
Joyce Nash Machan Taylor Wright Brown Jordan Shahzad Robinson Briggs Magoffin Unless he has hidden batting talent, Im not happy with Jordan at 7. Early season especially, you need that extra batter in there to combat favourable bowling conditions. We need five bowlers to stop the eighth wicket partnership which ultimately cost Sussex relegation. It's the top six job to score the runs and five bowlers job to take the wickets. |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Dec 19, 2015 13:43:02 GMT
An inspired signing by Sussex and finally, perhaps, we have a replacement for Goodwin? Meanwhile, Luke Wells can spend
time in the 2nd XI next season learning how to build more consistency by improving his overall batting skills.
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Post by jonboy on Dec 19, 2015 14:16:51 GMT
An inspired signing by Sussex and finally, perhaps, we have a replacement for Goodwin? Meanwhile, Luke Wells can spend time in the 2nd XI next season learning how to build more consistency by improving his overall batting skills. While who would open, Ed? |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Dec 19, 2015 14:39:36 GMT
Cps team suggestion looks strong to me. Joyce and Nash as the opening pair is the sensible option, imho.
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Post by fraudster on Dec 20, 2015 18:47:01 GMT
Odd signing in my view too. I can't see how we need him in the longer form, which is his weakest suit, I reckon. For a county that's meant to be budget restricted I think it's a pointless expensive signing. Hope he proves me wrong though.
I see many contrasting views on balance already. It's obvious numbnuts, four seamers until the sun comes out then add Beer/Briggs for a batter.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2015 21:25:11 GMT
I can't see how we need him in the longer form, which is his weakest suit Yeah, a weak red ball player as shown by a Test average of 45 and the 290 he made last month v Australia, the higest score by an overseas batsman in the 139 years that touring sides have been playing Test cricket there. Jeez. Some people. |
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Post by fraudster on Dec 31, 2015 13:20:56 GMT
Weakest suit doesn't necessarily mean weak, smart-arse. My square cut is my weakest shot but it's still *** amazing.
We're gonna annihilate div 2. Shouldn't be there, and wouldn't be had we done the right thing and sack Robbo a year or two ago. We're gonna make the same mistake as last time though with stop-gaps like Joyce and Taylor rather than future planning with Finch, Jackson and Wells, among others. Same balls-ups, different coach. Or is he different? More like a Robinson clone I reckon.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Apr 22, 2016 14:37:36 GMT
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Post by fraudster on Apr 22, 2016 19:22:51 GMT
Well, I only checked in to see this latest post but got to reading the ones before it and found it very interesting. It's like reading the last couple of pages of the Essex game thread and the number seven thread. Comments and personnel all matching up nicely. At least we're all consistent.
Although, is there as much praise of the signing, or more accurately the need for that particular signing, now? If, and more likely when he blasts a few runs, most will say yes I spose. There is a very similar situation with Fizz, who I've now seen a few times at IPL and he does look very interesting. But are we gonna be left wondering why we signed these particular players, however well they do.
The comms keep saying nobody can pick Fizz. Something like 70 odd percent of his latest pitch map was good or full - get forward.
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Post by jonboy on Apr 22, 2016 23:02:11 GMT
Well, I only checked in to see this latest post but got to reading the ones before it and found it very interesting. It's like reading the last couple of pages of the Essex game thread and the number seven thread. Comments and personnel all matching up nicely. At least we're all consistent. Although, is there as much praise of the signing, or more accurately the need for that particular signing, now? If, and more likely when he blasts a few runs, most will say yes I spose. There is a very similar situation with Fizz, who I've now seen a few times at IPL and he does look very interesting. But are we gonna be left wondering why we signed these particular players, however well they do. The comms keep saying nobody can pick Fizz. Something like 70 odd percent of his latest pitch map was good or full - get forward. There's no doubting Taylor is a class batsman, who can deliver in all formats. Was he what was needed though? First of all, we aren't so stuffed with talent, that we could turn our noses up at a player of Taylor's quality. However, when we were all pontificating about what we might need for the season ahead, few will have come up with a middle order batsman. A spinner, an opening bat, a seam bowling all rounder, yes, but what we had plenty of were, middle order batters. Hell, even our opening bats aspired to be middle order batters. Of course, we ticked the first one off on the list when we managed to sign Briggs, who should turn out to be a shrewd signing. Taylor's signing, also enabled Joyce, albeit reluctantly, to move back up the order, and there can't be too many better opening partnerships than him and Nash. So, in the short term anyway, the signing of Ross Taylor has temporarily solved our opening bat problem. Just leaves the all rounders position to fill now. |
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