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Durhamfootman wrote:that's a strong looking line up, Red, packed full of players who are bang in form

sadly for me, Samit, Hales, Hogan, Wallace aren't playing
Finn and Billings will be on England duty
Raine pulled up early in the last match and might not be a starter, Stevens didn't play last week, nor did Ryder in his last match.

I have a feeling my little team will get blown away, so I'll probably need the misfits to do me a favour against the ianternationals

knowing my luck this season, you'll be fine ...

3 of my certain first XI starters have been injured pretty much all season, and I don't know why Dilshan's not playing now

and somehow I've got more bonus points than anyone else but am still way adrift in 4th place

I'm looking at McKay, Kleinveldt, and Shantry and I'm thinking...... 15 wickets easy, and probably a few runs too. At GR, O'Brien seems to take about 5 catches in every innings, whilst Rankin always seems to take a 5fer in the second innings. Hastings has been a bit off colour recently, but he'll probably do well in home conditions against Hants. Bird unlikely to play, but Edwards (his replacement) will like conditions at the Riverside, especially given that Durham have barely managed 200 in any first innings this season.

I reckon that 30 wickets is not unrealistic. I won't get close to that. It's been a while since since I took a big wicket haul

Team week 16

Malan
`Fell
Burns
Westley
Richardson
Roland-Jones
Overton C.
Morris
Azharullah
Murtagh
Shreck


Faulkner
Westwood
Trescothick
Dernbach

And so forth.

Harris, JAR
Clarke, R
Patel, JS
Trego, PD
Rashid, AU
Hildreth, JC
Crook, SP
Bopara, RS
Wright, CJC
Dexter, NJ
Wood, MA

Wright, LJ
Godleman, BA
Franklin, JEC
Roy, JJ
Wilson, GC
Thakor, SJ
Cooper, TLW
Bailey, TE
Gale, AW
Rutherford, HD

Who to pick at 11

Lyth, Gidman, Patel or a left field selection in Thomas

Hopefully this isn't the occasion where I leave points on the bench

Durhamfootman wrote:I'm looking at McKay, Kleinveldt, and Shantry and I'm thinking...... 15 wickets easy, and probably a few runs too. At GR, O'Brien seems to take about 5 catches in every innings, whilst Rankin always seems to take a 5fer in the second innings. Hastings has been a bit off colour recently, but he'll probably do well in home conditions against Hants. Bird unlikely to play, but Edwards (his replacement) will like conditions at the Riverside, especially given that Durham have barely managed 200 in any first innings this season.

I reckon that 30 wickets is not unrealistic. I won't get close to that. It's been a while since since I took a big wicket haul

There's no "unlikely" about it. Bird went back to Australia about two weeks ago, and will be replaced by Ryan McLaren as our overseas player for the rest of the season. But absolutely, Edwards will play against you. He's basically our only hope of surviving.

Provisional XI:

Miles, CN
Brooks, JA
Patterson, SA
Cox, OB
Ansari, ZS
Roderick, GH
Lilley, AM
Footitt, MHA
Browne, NLJ
White, WA
Duckett, BM

Patel, RH
Dawson, LA
Lyth, A
Thomas, IAA
Gidman, APR
Hodd, AJ
Davies, SM
Claydon, ME
Meschede, CAJ
Mustard, P
Riley, AEN
Lloyd, DL
Mullaney, SJ
Willey, DJ
Naik, JKH
Bates, MD
Tremlett, CT
Burke, JE
Dunn, MP

In danger of overthinking the order of my bench, so here we go

Brown KR
Mitchell
Madsen
Ryder
Stevens
Brown BC
Raine
Gregory
Batty
Hunn
Palladino

Cobb
Overton J
Sibley
Briggs
Pringle

nothing there for Red to worry about

Bit of a re-think.... I have no idea what I'm doing

Durhamfootman wrote:In danger of overthinking the order of my bench, so here we go

Brown KR
Mitchell
Madsen
Ryder
Stevens
Brown BC
Raine
Gregory
Batty
Hunn
Palladino

Cobb Middlebrook
Overton J Cobb
Sibley
Briggs Overton J
Pringle

nothing there for Red to worry about

If it all goes horribly wrong, I'm going to blame Alviro Patterson for announcing that Yorks have included Middlebrook in a 12 man squad with 5 seamers in it

Powelly and I are currently in a dead heat so this is a big match for us both.

hopeforthebest wrote:Team week 16

Malan
`Fell
Burns
Westley
Richardson
Roland-Jones
Overton C.
Morris
Azharullah
Murtagh
Groenewald


Dernbach
Westwood
Trescothick


And so forth.

Revised as Shreck and Faulkner are out injured.

ntini77 wrote:Harris, JAR
Clarke, R
Patel, JS
Trego, PD
Rashid, AU
Hildreth, JC
Crook, SP
Bopara, RS
Wright, CJC
Dexter, NJ
Wood, MA

Wright, LJ
Godleman, BA
Franklin, JEC
Roy, JJ
Wilson, GC
Thakor, SJ
Cooper, TLW
Bailey, TE
Gale, AW
Rutherford, HD

New line-up:

Harris, JAR
Clarke, R
Patel, JS
Trego, PD
Wright, LJ
Hildreth, JC
Crook, SP
Bopara, RS
Wright, CJC
Dexter, NJ
Godleman, BA

Franklin, JEC
Cooper, TLW
Wilson, GC
Thakor, SJ
Gale, AW
Wakely, AG
Fuller, JK
Bailey, TE

7 first innings wickets for my Yorkie boys

It appears that I have already lost my game this round.