Glammy at home

[Crisp]

I presume this for the fixtures this week?

I would suggest that a lot of this team are not available.

Walter, out of favour
Coles-injured?
Porter-With Lions
Plom-with England U19s.

I agree with Nat about needlessly flogging kids confidences in a nothing event.
Wagner should and will play as will Lawrence

[Valentines Park]

Why not just reverse the batting order?

We're so inept we can't be far off that stage. 

[Oldhasbeen]

Why not just reverse the batting order?

We're so inept we can't be far off that stage.

Now that was suggested several times back in the 70 when several of those batting at 8 to 11, especially Stuart Turner & Ray East, looked far more likely to make serious runs than a top 5 containing Graham Saville, Brian Ward and other such horrors.

Sadly it was never tried

[Perov]

We could do worse than call up young Patel from the stiffs.

A Brentwood School lad who has looked promising for a while and recently got a couple of tons at a really quick rate.

[nat]

We could do worse than call up young Patel from the stiffs.

A Brentwood School lad who has looked promising for a while and recently got a couple of tons at a really quick rate.

Agreed but he won't improve the fielding.

[Andy]

Why not just reverse the batting order?

We're so inept we can't be far off that stage.

Now that was suggested several times back in the 70 when several of those batting at 8 to 11, especially Stuart Turner & Ray East, looked far more likely to make serious runs than a top 5 containing Graham Saville, Brian Ward and other such horrors.

Sadly it was never tried

Whatever happened to Brian Ward? I heard he ended up in Argentina, but then 'a little local difficulty' arose and he had to move.  Certainly that was an era very different from the one I grew up with - Gooch, Hardie, McEwan and Fletch with room for promising bats like Prich and all rounders like Pringle. 

Seems bizarre that we now have seam bowling talent coming through regularly (given the likes of Topley Jnr and Mills alongside more recent crop) but quality top order bats are like hen's teeth when batting is the easier option.