Taybha
Whalewhine
Last game of a pretty frustrating championship season starts today some pretty good unexpected results combined with some pretty astonishing losses along the way , match delayed a 11.45 inspection is planned .
Wells is the second leading run scorer in the whole of the county championship. A good start to next season and he should really get in the England set up
Second only to Kumar Sangakara as well? So the highest Englishman! He is never on any potential discussions on Sky Sports absolute selection etc.
Over 100 first class games and averages 38 as an opener. Surely he should be getting a mention?
I think this is the second or third time he has scored over 1000 CC runs in a season too.
He's playing Div 2... that's why he's not considered.
Laurie Evans averages 5.
Five.
That is all I have to say on this matter
I'm trying to think if Sussex have ever had a worse specialist batsman. I'm sure they've had in the past when someone who just went to the right school would go out to have a bash, but in the professional era? Hard to think of anyone ... and I remember Jerry Groome and the Hoadley brothers. Evans makes them look like Bradman.
He's playing Div 2... that's why he's not considered.
That is a very good question. I did a rather random trawl of my Wisden collection and the 1974 Championship averages reveal one JJ Groome averaging 11.81 over 8 games but one place higher than Johnny Barclay (who definitely did go to the right school) who weighed in with a mighty 11.57 over 10 games. Anoraks will know that Barclay (who by all accounts was a lovely bloke) also bowled some flighted off-spin filth and took 5 wickets averaging 46.20.
Nicky Wisdom (son of Norman) seemed to play a few odd games and usually scored around 2. Ah - the golden years!
John Barclay, who most definitely is a lovely bloke, played nearly 300 times for Sussex and averaged about 25 - not too shabby, particularly when he was opening batsman against fearsome pace bowlers. Marshall, Roberts, Garner, Holding, Croft, Hadlee, Procter, Daniel and Rice all played regular county cricket in that era - I don't think too many openers averaged more than 30.
Groome never really looked like a batsman and I saw his highest score. He wasn't convincing during that, either