Heino Kuhn was in the 14 for this match but wasn't picked. The three batsmen who have failed to get a score in either game are the captain, DBD and our two England players namely Crawley and Denly. I doubt that we will drop any of them but don't see how Kuhn can come back if they don't - Cox, Leaning and Robinson have all done well.
Stevo has been in amazing form with the bat this season, an aspect of his game which had slightly declined as his bowling got better and better. A ton and a 50 in his 2 innings so far, top scoring as well!
Milnes, by no means the worst night watchman, is 56 not out which does beg the question why so many of our established batsman are struggling so much to consistently get a score this season - DBD, Crawley, Denly and Leaning have scored 216 in total from 14 innings combined.
Milnes, by no means the worst night watchman, is 56 not out which does beg the question why so many of our established batsman are struggling so much to consistently get a score this season - DBD, Crawley, Denly and Leaning have scored 216 in total from 14 innings combined.
By comparison, our soon to be 45 year old has scored 215 runs for twice out!
Batsman Joe Denly Zac Crawley Daniel Bell-Drummond Jack Leaning Heino Kuhn Alex Blake (white ball contract only) Tawanda Muyeye
Batsman/Keepers Sam Billings Ollie Robinson Jordan Cox
Pace Bowlers Darren Stevens Matt Milnes Harry Podmore Grant Stewart Tim Groenewald Nathan Gilchrist Fred Klaassen Miguel Cummins (first 8 CC games only) Mohammad Amir (Vitality Blast only)
Spinners Imran Qayyum Hamidullah Qadri Marcus O'Riordan
Groenewald, Qayyum, Podmore and Stewart are all out injured for the CC match against Lancashire starting today. From the last match, Podmore and Stewart have been replaced by Kuhn and Klaasen so we have strengthened the batting at the expense of one less bowling option:
Groenewald, Qayyum, Podmore and Stewart are all out injured for the CC match against Lancashire starting today. From the last match, Podmore and Stewart have been replaced by Kuhn and Klaasen so we have strengthened the batting at the expense of one less bowling option:
The good news for us (but not so much for England) is that Jimmy Anderson was due to play but has been ruled out with a calf injury
With the unusually dry and sunny weather for April, spinners will play more of a part than they usually do at this time of the year. Both Denly and Leaning bowled quite a few overs in the last match
Groenewald, Qayyum, Podmore and Stewart are all out injured for the CC match against Lancashire starting today. From the last match, Podmore and Stewart have been replaced by Kuhn and Klaasen so we have strengthened the batting at the expense of one less bowling option:
The good news for us (but not so much for England) is that Jimmy Anderson was due to play but has been ruled out with a calf injury
With the unusually dry and sunny weather for April, spinners will play more of a part than they usually do at this time of the year. Both Denly and Leaning bowled quite a few overs in the last match
It's probably just as well that Leaning and Denly are bowling - one because we've gone in with just four front line bowlers today and two because our main red ball spinner, Qadri, has returned figures in the 2nd XI this season of 36-2-165-0. In fact, Marcus O'Riordan may well now be ahead of him in the pecking order given his return of 16-2-54-3 in the game against Hants that finished yesterday.
Groenewald, Qayyum, Podmore and Stewart are all out injured for the CC match against Lancashire starting today. From the last match, Podmore and Stewart have been replaced by Kuhn and Klaasen so we have strengthened the batting at the expense of one less bowling option:
The good news for us (but not so much for England) is that Jimmy Anderson was due to play but has been ruled out with a calf injury
With the unusually dry and sunny weather for April, spinners will play more of a part than they usually do at this time of the year. Both Denly and Leaning bowled quite a few overs in the last match
It's probably just as well that Leaning and Denly are bowling - one because we've gone in with just four front line bowlers today and two because our main red ball spinner, Qadri, has returned figures in the 2nd XI this season of 36-2-165-0. In fact, Marcus O'Riordan may well now be ahead of him in the pecking order given his return of 16-2-54-3 in the game against Hants that finished yesterday.
Qadri is still very young, but I'm they would have hoped he'd make more of an impression
You imagine Denly will have the opportunity to hone his red ball bowling skills this summer...
Interesting that, I believe, Cummins has yet to take the new ball given that he is our quickest bowler. 20 overs in and we've stuck with the other three seamers so far today.
Comments
156-6
205-7
254-8
Cummins out for 13
Milnes 26*
A decent recovery with 179 put on for the final 4 wickets but we really shouldn't have been 86-5 and have a deficit of 114
🗣️ A frank assessment of Day Two from Stevo
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Milnes, by no means the worst night watchman, is 56 not out which does beg the question why so many of our established batsman are struggling so much to consistently get a score this season - DBD, Crawley, Denly and Leaning have scored 216 in total from 14 innings combined.
Dom Bess has bowled 32 wicketless overs in the match
Some of us have to just make do 😁
Batsman
Joe Denly
Zac Crawley
Daniel Bell-Drummond
Jack Leaning
Heino Kuhn
Alex Blake (white ball contract only)
Tawanda Muyeye
Batsman/Keepers
Sam Billings
Ollie Robinson
Jordan Cox
Pace Bowlers
Darren Stevens
Matt Milnes
Harry Podmore
Grant Stewart
Tim Groenewald
Nathan Gilchrist
Fred Klaassen
Miguel Cummins (first 8 CC games only)
Mohammad Amir (Vitality Blast only)
Spinners
Imran Qayyum
Hamidullah Qadri
Marcus O'Riordan
https://www.kentcricket.co.uk/news/match-preview-kent-vs-lancashire/
The good news for us (but not so much for England) is that Jimmy Anderson was due to play but has been ruled out with a calf injury
You imagine Denly will have the opportunity to hone his red ball bowling skills this summer...
14-1
Bowlers have bowled well this morning and restricted Lancs to 30-2 off 18.3