I believe that Ekansh is going to play the first couple of games in the absence of Joe Denly and Jaydn will be in the side too. One would imagine that the likes of Compton, O'Riordan and Gilchrist will return at the expense of Dawkins and two from Garrett/Jas/Bhuiyan plus Parkinson with the side for the first game looking something like this:
Scrap the above I forgot that Evison and Parkinson have to return too. So does that might mean that O'Riordan will be left out in which case the side will look like this:
Ben Compton
Ekansh Singh
Jack Leaning (C)
Joey Evison
Harry Finch (WK)
Beyers Swanepoel
Jaydn Denly
Charlie Stobo
Grant Stewart
Nathan Gilchrist
Matt Parkinson
So, we have a couple of surprises and that isn't just O'Riordan being omitted as I suspected he might be. Qadri returns to the squad and Compton has been left out. This, presumably, means that Swanepoel will open as he did so successfully against Bedfordshire. Squad below (with probable team in bold):
Beyers Swanepoel
Ekansh Singh
Jack Leaning (C)
Joey Evison
Harry Finch (WK)
Jaydn Denly
Charlie Stobo
Grant Stewart
Hamidullah Qadri
Nathan Gilchrist
Matt Parkinson
George Garrett
Jas Singh
That gives us six seam and four spin options with Finch the only possible non-bowler even though he was a batter/seamer when at Sussex.
That batting lineup looks awful. Really surprised Compton was left out, unless the Charlton/Kent injury curse struck him as well
He and O'Riordan were left out I believe. They want to take a look at the likes of Ekansh and Jaydn and this is the perceived competition to do so especially as there are no 2nd XI games whilst The Hundred is going on. Compton will never be a T20 player whereas those two will be and as a stepping stone to that the 50 over format serves its purpose.
That, I'm afraid, is Ekansh at the moment. He looks a million dollars and then makes a poor decision. We do have to remember that he was only 18 in the last week or so and once he learns from mistakes like that he will be a real asset to us I'm sure.
Kent sadly not getting anywhere near a competitive total Somerset saving a few quid when they get to turn off the floodlights a coupla hours earlier than might have been
Followed by the fortunate run out of Archie Vaughan (son of Michael) out of his ground to a drive from his partner, touched onto the stumps by Stobo for a duck
I believe that Ekansh is going to play the first couple of games in the absence of Joe Denly and Jaydn will be in the side too. One would imagine that the likes of Compton, O'Riordan and Gilchrist will return at the expense of Dawkins and two from Garrett/Jas/Bhuiyan plus Parkinson with the side for the first game looking something like this:
Scrap the above I forgot that Evison and Parkinson have to return too. So does that might mean that O'Riordan will be left out in which case the side will look like this:
Ben Compton
Ekansh Singh
Jack Leaning (C)
Joey Evison
Harry Finch (WK)
Beyers Swanepoel
Jaydn Denly
Charlie Stobo
Grant Stewart
Nathan Gilchrist
Matt Parkinson
So, we have a couple of surprises and that isn't just O'Riordan being omitted as I suspected he might be. Qadri returns to the squad and Compton has been left out. This, presumably, means that Swanepoel will open as he did so successfully against Bedfordshire. Squad below (with probable team in bold):
Beyers Swanepoel
Ekansh Singh
Jack Leaning (C)
Joey Evison
Harry Finch (WK)
Jaydn Denly
Charlie Stobo
Grant Stewart
Hamidullah Qadri
Nathan Gilchrist
Matt Parkinson
George Garrett
Jas Singh
That gives us six seam and four spin options with Finch the only possible non-bowler even though he was a batter/seamer when at Sussex.
We have bowled 8 players and the only 2 outfielders not to bowl are the two 18 year olds, Jaydn and Ekansh
Comments
98-2 off 20.1
109-4 off 24
128-5 off 30.4
Somerset saving a few quid when they get to turn off the floodlights a coupla hours earlier than might have been
137-6 off 32.3
182-7 off 41 overs
But not as bad as Leicester - all out for 88 .
240-8 off 46
258-9 off 48.1
Probably not enough but might have been a lot worse than that but for Stewart and Qadri
36-1 off 5 overs
44-2 off 9 overs
165-3 off 30
165-4
205-5 off 36.2 overs
212-6
231-7 and in marches Leach