by st_brendy » Sun Jul 01, 2018 2:47 pm
Feels like the season only started 2 minutes away, but we're already in July and the t20 Blast starts this Wednesday. So to do my usual summary:
DATES
The group games go right through to Friday 17 August (with the QFs a week later). So other than the first two weeks of the competition, England's white-ball only players (Hales, Roy, Rashid, Wood, Willey, Plunkett, Moeen, and no doubt one or two others) will be available. The test players though can pretty much be ignored.
BETTING
Odds as per Skybet
Notts 7/1
Hants 8/1
Surrey 8/1
Sussex 8/1
Yorks 10/1
Birmingham 12/1
Essex 12/1
Middlesex 12/1
Lancs 14/1
Northants 14/1
Glamorgan 16/1
Kent 16/1
Somerset 16/1
Gloucs 20/1
Derby 25/1
Durham 25/1
Leics 33/1
Worcs 33/1
Given that they've just made the one-day final, and have some very good batting power, Kent's odds look quite attractive. And I would suggest that, beyond any doubt, Sussex will have the best bowling attack - although their batting does look very light.
But as I seem to say every year, I struggle to look beyond Surrey and Notts.
OVERSEAS
Birmingham - Patel & De Grandhomme
Derby - Riaz & Ferguson
Durham - Lathan & Tahir
Essex - Zampa & Wagner (then replaced by Siddle)
Glamorgan - Marsh & Khawaja
Gloucs - Tye
Hants - Mujeeb & Munro (then replaced by Steyn)
Kent - MIlne & Brathwaite (then replaced by Stoinis)
Lancs - Mennie & Faulkner
Leics - Abbas & Nabi
Middlesex - Bravo & Agar
Northants - Kleinveldt & Prasanna
Notts - Christian & Sodhi
Somerset - Anderson
Surrey - Finch & Maddison
Sussex - Khan & Bruce
Worcs - Guptil & Ferguson (then replaced by Head)
Apologies for anything incorrect with the above.
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