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[Cricket] Sussex batters showing what to expect this season
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This side looks like a county second xi. None of the Kolpaks here or Sharma even though season starts in less than two weeks. Our best player is in India.
Whole squad looks parlously light on top order batting. If Wells gets injured, we have no proper opener. Whilst we have a promising crop of young seam bowlers, the player who should be our attack leader - Jordan - will be carrying the drinks on the sub continent. Gillespie is going to have his work cut out.
Whole squad looks parlously light on top order batting. If Wells gets injured, we have no proper opener. Whilst we have a promising crop of young seam bowlers, the player who should be our attack leader - Jordan - will be carrying the drinks on the sub continent. Gillespie is going to have his work cut out.
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- #4
Yeah, none of the Kolpaks are here and we're missing the IPL players but the only batsman we're missing is van Zyl. The side we're picking against Loughbrough includes Salt (first full season), Finch (who's not been a success despite several chances, average last year 22), Burgess (the reserve keeper) and Evans (failed at Warwicks, average last year 6). It looks likely that three of these will be in our opening line-up - it doesn't look good.
Papa Lazarou
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The most curious thing..
Is Gillespie being tapped up for the Australia job
Mackenzie
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With so little batting available, yet again, it’s sink or swim for the young players. Salt, Finch, Rawlins simply have to perform as there isn’t anyone else.
On the plus side, the bowling attack is going to be decent when Jordan and Archer return.
On the plus side, the bowling attack is going to be decent when Jordan and Archer return.
studio150
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171/5 Finch 70* Brown 35*
Early morning issues due to wet weather ahead of the game
Early morning issues due to wet weather ahead of the game
Please don't hit us with the brutal reality this early
studio150
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313/7 Brown 113*
and relax
and relax
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- #11
Yes but Brown is one of our decent batsmen. Basically, we have Wells, van Zyl and Brown (and perhaps Wright if he can stop getting out for breezy 20s). If these three fail, we're in the deep brown sticky stuff.
And this is a score against an attack that's probably not 2nd XI standard.
ForestRowSeagull
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When do our Kolpaks arrive? Add Van Zyl and Weisse to that line up and it's not so bad. As above, we could do with one of Finch or Salt establishing themselves as a first team batsmen.
Burgess averaged a shade over 48 in the Championship last season. He can play as a specialist batsman.
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- #14
Yeah maybe, I could be being harsh on him. His average was boosted by a daddy hundred against a Notts team already on the beach, but even without that he'd have an average of around 40. Let's see if he can do it in the second season.
Sussex are also without Rawlins for this match, he may well be ahead of Salt or Evans in the pecking order.
Don Tmatter
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And didn’t Gillespie say last week that there would be no batting recruitment and we’re giving the youngsters a go?
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- #17
An average of 31 is not great - and that's boosted by a double ton against us on an Edgbaston road. And a ton for the students against a second XI attack.
To be fair, Rawlins looks a pretty decent prospect and people at Hove are really hopeful of Haines but they're awfully young - not really ready for another year or so.
It is hard to be critical of Sussex: they've lost Joyce, RHB, Prior and Yardy in a couple of years but it does make the decision to jettison Nash even more bizarre.
It is not that hard. The club has got so much wrong in the last few years. Some of the performances by established, well-paid players have been embarrassing . And it’s not as if the exits of those batters were not on the cards.
Then there’s Mark Davis, who was a bad call.
Not to mention questionable decsions off the pitch.
I would say it is hard NOT to be critical.
That said, I do think Rob Andrew and Gillespie are good appointments.
In time, they will turn it around but it could get worse before it gets better .
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- #19
Not sure that the departures of RHB and Prior were on the cards, they were relatively young - you can't predict injuries. And it also couldn't predict what happened to poor Matthew Holden - he'd have been well established by now.
But, yes, Davis was a bad call and dumping Nash was bonkers. The obsession with signing bowlers is also questionable....
Yeah, you're right. There's plenty to be critical about
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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There's a good chance most of our 4-day matches will be over by lunch on the third day.
On the plus side I expect most of our squad will improve their golf handicap no end.
On the plus side I expect most of our squad will improve their golf handicap no end.