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braveneutral wrote:Am I right in thinking that we wanted him to leave?

Yes. I'm sure the only reason he wasn't released was because he had a year left on his contract because he was given permission to speak to other counties.
Willey had a good over today! Was it 3 wickets in 4 balls?

captaincolly wrote:

braveneutral wrote:Am I right in thinking that we wanted him to leave?

Yes. I'm sure the only reason he wasn't released was because he had a year left on his contract because he was given permission to speak to other counties.

That's correct. His record last year was abysmal. However he has had a good world cup. Peters also was given permission to speak to other counties and stayed. He was selected for the current match.

Another late order recovery needed.

DiligentDefence wrote:Another late order recovery needed.

And achieved.

Willey scores his maiden 1st class century.

Big season for him?

Not too big a season, hopefully. I'd rather he was scoring points for my fL team, than be dragged around sitting on his hands with the England set up

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Big season for him?

I think so. He needs to push on. As I've said previously, I'm not convinced that he is international standard although he is a very good county player. Given his age (25)
if he is going to make the next step I think it has to start this year.

Coetzer scores a double century for the seconds. Will that be enough to get him into the first XI?

he should be in there anyway..

Good win today with all the seam bowlers contributing. As ever I want to see bigger contributions from the top order but the lower order produced the goods.

Well that was a much more comfortable draw than I was expecting after close yesterday.

I find Crook a hard one to work out. Huge contribution in this match, and yet not a regular starter. In fact he only seems to play when Willey is not available. Last year when Willey was out injured for a bit, and Crook was getting regular starts, I had him in my county manager team, and he was flaming useless

Durhamfootman wrote:I find Crook a hard one to work out. Huge contribution in this match, and yet not a regular starter. In fact he only seems to play when Willey is not available. Last year when Willey was out injured for a bit, and Crook was getting regular starts, I had him in my county manager team, and he was flaming useless

He certainly had a poor season last year, along with almost everybody else. I don't think his bowling is penetrative enough to nail a place in the best XI.

96 ball ton for Willey.