Decisions Decisions
v Surrey CC1 @ Whitgift School Friday 30 May 2008
So who the hell will play?
We can expect to see
Marcus Trescothick and Neil Edwards and Justin Langer and James Hildreth and Ian Blackwell
Number 6? Well Craig Kieswetter will play at 7. I'd put Peter Trego in at 6 and drop de Bruyn simply to make space. If he plays the options in the bowling don't change but the open spaces decrease by one.
I'd expect Charl Willoughby at number 11 - we can't even consider dropping him.
8? 9? 10? Perm from Andrew Caddick (surely he'll play if he's fit to but should it be that certain unless he is back to old ways?), Mark Turner (if fit), Ben Phillips(can we leave him out?) Should he be a straight rival for Steffan Jones? Will Alfonso be part of the equation? And what of Munday if the weather changes?
I'd go for Turner, Caddick and Jones but I'm not sure they'll be that radical. It will probably be de Bruyn, Caddick and Phillips.
What a choice.....
Friday
So we now know the position. We open this game with
Trescothick, Edwards, Langer, Hildreth, Blackwell, de Bruyn, Kieswetter, Jones, Thomas, Phillips, Willolughby
No Caddick, no Turner, no Trego and the weather precludes Mike Munday. Not really the problem we expected and worrying that the players we expected to increase our arsenal's capability are still unavailable. Peter Trego's absence is a second worry as the man was in such good allround form but it provides another chance for Jones to become indispensable.
Presently Surrey are in, put there by Justin who must have seen something in the pitch. We got Spriegal early but then Ramps helped Newman put some runs up. However, Willoughby and Phillips got amongst the big guns around the 100 mark and we saw the back of Ramps, Butcher and Afzaal with Newman following at 140 thanks to Alfonso's first Championship wicket (I think). Presently we are beig held up by Benning who has pushed them past 200 and they stand at 203/5 at Tea time-ish
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