Leicestershire County Cricket Club

[Sunbury Fox]

3 hours ago, Lionator said:

When we won the competition in 2011, we literally batted down to 10 with Hoggard at 11. I think you’d stand a good chance if you played 6 batters and 5 all rounders. 
 

Welch

Hill 

Patel

Ackermann

Mulder

Kimber

Budinger

Scriven

Ahmed

Parkinson

Naveen 

 

That would be a decent batting side if you could get enough overs out of Mulder, Ackermann and someone else.

I agree with this largely and feel that Nico"s team selections have been very poor so far; he's just not got the balance right at all.  

 

My one possible change to your team would be to leave out Budinger in favour of Hull, who I think gives our attack some useful variety with his height and the fact he is a left armer. If we made that change we'd still have 6 front line batters, as well as 2 all rounders who can bat pretty well (surely 8 people who can score runs is enough in a 20 over game.), 4 seamers (in case 1 or 2 go round the park) plus 2 front line spinners as well as Ackers being able to bowl a few overs of spin.

 

I worry that having a batsman at number 7 who doesn't bowl is a bit of a waste but I do get that our batting is a real issue. 

[CrawlingFox]

Scott Steel for Leicestershire in t20:

 

20 games, 500 runs, 26.32 avg, 4 50s, 114.4 s/r + 6 wickets at 49 and an economy of 7.47 from 39 overs.

 

Arron Lilley for Leicestershire prior to this season so no doubt average will have come down:

 

50 games, 1193 runs, 25.38 avg, 5 50s, 149.1 s/r + 10 wickets at 43 and economy of 8.39 from 51 overs.

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

5 hours ago, Lionator said:

But apart from Wiese you could say the exact same thing about Yorkshire? 

Absolutely, and Ben Mike who struck the ball well. The batting was awful on both sides, if it was the pitch then adapt to what you’re playing on, I just think blaming the pitch is such an easy get out in cricket.

[Graceroad]

1 hour ago, CrawlingFox said:

Scott Steel for Leicestershire in t20:

 

20 games, 500 runs, 26.32 avg, 4 50s, 114.4 s/r + 6 wickets at 49 and an economy of 7.47 from 39 overs.

 

Arron Lilley for Leicestershire prior to this season so no doubt average will have come down:

 

50 games, 1193 runs, 25.38 avg, 5 50s, 149.1 s/r + 10 wickets at 43 and economy of 8.39 from 51 overs.

Lilley average much  better then  I thought to be fair

[Beagle]

3 hours ago, CrawlingFox said:

Scott Steel for Leicestershire in t20:

 

20 games, 500 runs, 26.32 avg, 4 50s, 114.4 s/r + 6 wickets at 49 and an economy of 7.47 from 39 overs.

 

Arron Lilley for Leicestershire prior to this season so no doubt average will have come down:

 

50 games, 1193 runs, 25.38 avg, 5 50s, 149.1 s/r + 10 wickets at 43 and economy of 8.39 from 51 overs.

Scott Steel’s contract is up this autumn so, after 1st June he is entitled to start looking around for contracts elsewhere. He has only been playing club cricket in recent weeks and hasn’t featured for the second eleven since 24th May. I wouldn’t be surprised  if he has been told that he is surplus to requirements. 

[Sunbury Fox]

4 hours ago, CrawlingFox said:

Scott Steel for Leicestershire in t20:

 

20 games, 500 runs, 26.32 avg, 4 50s, 114.4 s/r + 6 wickets at 49 and an economy of 7.47 from 39 overs.

 

Arron Lilley for Leicestershire prior to this season so no doubt average will have come down:

 

50 games, 1193 runs, 25.38 avg, 5 50s, 149.1 s/r + 10 wickets at 43 and economy of 8.39 from 51 overs.

Lilley has certainly got a lot worse this season. Previously, he's typically chipped in with 15-30 runs with a strike rate of 150. This season he has been dreadful. His innings last night was laughably bad, like someone who'd never played professional cricket. 

[Beagle]

The second xi has had two T20 wins in one day away to Lancashire today. Convincing wins too. Happy days!!

[CrawlingFox]

Ackermann back for tomorrow thankfully. Squad:

 

Ackermann*, Ahmed, Davis, Finan, Hill, Hull, Kimber, Lilley, Mulder, Naveen, Parkinson, Patel, Swindells+, Welch.

 

I'd pick:

 

Welch

Hill

Patel

Ackermann

Kimber

Mulder

Ahmed

Swindells (wk)

Parkinson

Naveen

Hull

 

Bats down to 8 with 3 spin options, 3 pace options and Kimber able to chuck an over in if needed.

[Graceroad]

On 07/06/2023 at 18:59, Beagle said:

Scott Steel’s contract is up this autumn so, after 1st June he is entitled to start looking around for contracts elsewhere. He has only been playing club cricket in recent weeks and hasn’t featured for the second eleven since 24th May. I wouldn’t be surprised  if he has been told that he is surplus to requirements. 

If he can't get near the foxes side no chance any other side will want him

[when_you're_smiling]

Wouldn’t have minded going to watch the ladies first today but saw that game starts at 12.30pm, so presumably would be done for 3.30pm which would mean three hours of sitting in the stands waiting for the men to start. It’s not really that much of a double header.

[CrawlingFox]

20 hours ago, CrawlingFox said:

Ackermann back for tomorrow thankfully. Squad:

 

Ackermann*, Ahmed, Davis, Finan, Hill, Hull, Kimber, Lilley, Mulder, Naveen, Parkinson, Patel, Swindells+, Welch.

 

I'd pick:

 

Welch

Hill

Patel

Ackermann

Kimber

Mulder

Ahmed

Swindells (wk)

Parkinson

Naveen

Hull

 

Bats down to 8 with 3 spin options, 3 pace options and Kimber able to chuck an over in if needed.

So he's picked a similar side but with Scriven in for Swindells and Salisbury for Naveen.

 

Anyone know anything about Naveen taking a knock?

[Sunbury Fox]

Getting absolutely hammered again. 

[Lionator]

Hull will surely play for England if he doesn't have injury problems. Tall, fast, left armer? 

[Tommy Fresh]

Parkinson is superb

[CosbehFox]

Salisbury is the new Ben Mike then 

[CosbehFox]

Fielding is terrible again 

[Tommy Fresh]

Salisbury is shite

[Tommy Fresh]

3 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

Salisbury is the new Ben Mike then 

Offensive to Ben Mike

[Fox1norfolk]

7 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

Fielding is terrible again 

The bowling is pretty terrible too. Isn’t the idea of cricket to try and hit the stumps not keep bowling 3ft down the off side so the batsman has all the advantages? Or a few Yorkers on a length which stops the big hits

[Harpenden Fox]

Josh Hull looks decent at the moment 

[Tommy Fresh]

Patel taking player of the season already

[Tommy Fresh]

Ben Raine to get some ridiculous figures here

[CosbehFox]

Raine’s put some pudding on 

[CosbehFox]

5 minutes ago, Tommy Fresh said:

Ben Raine to get some ridiculous figures here

Good work there T

[Harpenden Fox]

So players good enough for a decent T20 side:

Patel, Hill, Ackermann, Mulder, Hull, Parkinson, Naveen. 4 short of a good team