Somerset (A)

[Perov]

I have never been convinced by our batting coach, who mainly performed at minor county level.
Pettini, who is  trailing around with the seconds, but has much more first hand experience at county level,  was a decent white ball player. Maybe a swap?

[Valentines Park]

Pettini was a good captain so you'd think he would be a good coach.

[mawallace]

‪I’m being deadly serious here, get Alastair Cook out of the commentary box and back in the T20 side. No way we lose that with him at the top of the order. ‬

Agreed.
Name the batsman with the highest T20 average for Essex, since records began.
Sir Chef with an average of 37 and a strike rate of 131.58.

Not too sure. His last T20 match was in 2015! that was one match when he made 8! 2014 he played one and got 22!

[bwildered]

It seems to me that batting has been an issue for us ever since T20 was first dreamed up. The occasional spectacular innings (Napier, Delport, Chopra) but mostly we've been a bit below par, usually relying on 30s and 40s rather than major innings. Even when we won the comp in 2019, our batting was just about good enough rather than truly dominant. When you scroll through the scores from other counties, there generally seems to be someone who has scored something like 80 off 35 balls, and not always overseas stars either - often it's middling county players who have worked out how to play this format, in a way very few of our guys ever have. In recent times, Pepper appears to be the only one who's worked out how to go about it. Which is odd, since there are, at least in theory, much more accomplished players than him in our line-up.

There's also the need to adapt to the match situation - yesterday's chase didn't actually need big-hitting firepower, but it did need players to keep their heads and not keep holing out going for glory.

Dunno.. am I being unfair? Would supporters of other counties say the same about their teams?

 Yesterdays game was a glimpse into the past on how to acquire a JPL win .
 Apart from Harmer and Westley no others seem prepared to work the ball around the field when the game dictates. Common sense seemed to go AWOL with the others .