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***Official*** County Cricket 2019

theegyptian

International Vice-Captain
Notts showing their bowling reserves strength already. Let Luke Wood and Mark Footitt leave on loan to Northants and Lancs respectively for the first month or so.
 

SeamUp

International Coach
Squads as they come in.


DIVISION ONE

Hampshire v Essex

Hampshire Squad:

A 13-man squad has been named for this week’s first fixture, with a handful of new faces in contention to make their first Championship appearance for James Vince’s side.

New recruits Keith Barker and James Fuller have had a positive pre-season and are both included, whilst overseas batsman Aiden Markram is in line to make his Hampshire debut after arriving at the Ageas Bowl earlier this week.

Fresh from their off-season exploits, Rilee Rossouw, Liam Dawson and Kyle Abbott are all available. James Vince is expected to continue in his opening role after a successful pre-season at the top of the order.

Full Hampshire Squad:

Tom Alsop (9)

Oli Soames (27)

Aiden Markram (16)

Rilee Rossouw (30)

Liam Dawson (8)

Joe Weatherley (5)

Gareth Berg (13)

James Fuller (26)

James Vince (14) Captain

Fidel Edwards (20)

Keith Barker (10)

Kyle Abbott (11)

Sam Northeast (17)
Essex squad to face Hampshire:

Ryan ten Doeschate (C)
Aaron Beard
Ravi Bopara
Nick Browne
Alastair Cook
Sam Cook
Simon Harmer
Dan Lawrence
Aron Nijjar
Rishi Patel
Jamie Porter
Matt Quinn
Tom Westley
Adam Wheater
Notts v Yorkshire

Looking after Chappell for the slow early season pitches ?





Somerset v Kent

Jamie Overton still injured ? Only the one spinner early season.

Somerset squad in full:

Tom Abell (Captain)
Azhar Ali
Jack Brooks
Eddie Byrom
Josh Davey
Steve Davies
Lewis Gregory
Tim Groenewald
James Hildreth
Jack Leach
Craig Overton
Marcus Trescothick
Paul van Meekeren
Kent squad in full:

Heino Kuhn (Captain)
Daniel Bell-Drummond (Vice captain)
Alex Blake
Mitchell Claydon
Zak Crawley
Sean Dickson
Fred Klaassen
Matt Milnes
Harry Podmore
Matt Renshaw
Adam Riley
Ollie Robinson
Darren Stevens




DIVISION TWO

Derbyshire v Durham



Cameron Steel misses out as he returns to full training following a concussion picked up during the pre-season tour of South Africa, while Cameron Bancroft is set to arrive in the country over the weekend.

Squad vs Derbyshire (5-8 April)
Alex Lees (c), Gareth Harte, Will Smith, Michael Richardson, Jack Burnham, Stuart Poynter, Ned Eckersley, Ben Raine, James Weighell, Liam Trevaskis, Josh Coughlin, Matt Salisbury, Chris Rushworth

Northants v Middlesex






Sussex v Leicestershire

Sussex squad to face Leics:

Ben Brown*+
Danny Briggs
Michael Burgess
Harry Finch
Tom Haines
Mir Hamza
Chris Jordan
Ollie Robinson
Abi Sakande
Phil Salt
Stiaan van Zyl
Luke Wells
David Wiese
Leicestershire CCC has named a 13-man squad for the trip to the south coast, with Lilley one of four players looking for a maiden Specsavers County Championship appearance for the club.

Fellow new signings Chris Wright, Will Davis and Hassan Azad, who impressed with a fine century in the game against Loughborough MCCU last week, are also in the travelling party.

Muhammad Abbas will not link up with his teammates given that he has been on ODI duty for Pakistan against Australia recently, Callum Parkinson has stepped up his recovery from a thumb injury, Sam Evans (hamstring) is side-lined, while Neil Dexter is currently unavailable for personal reasons.

Sussex CCC (to follow):

Leicestershire CCC (from 13): Horton (capt), Ackermann, Azad, Cosgrove, Davis, Dearden, Griffiths, Hill (wk), Javid, Lilley, Mike, Taylor, Wright.
 
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SeamUp

International Coach
Glamorgan hasn't picked Glamorgan natives for years.
Their main squad will come from these guys. Only Lloyd, Murphy, Bull and Carey are Welsh. Donald (Hampshire) & Harris (Middlesex) the other Welshman playing for other counties ?

Nick Selman
David Lloyd
Jack Murphy
Shaun Marsh/Marnus Labuschagne
Charlie Hemphrey
Billy Root
Chris Cooke
Craig Meschede
Graham Wagg
Kieran Bull
Lukas Carey
Marchant de Lange
Timm van der Gugten
Michael Hogan
 
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theegyptian

International Vice-Captain
Going back and forth on who I think will win div 1.

Surrey are the strongest. Excellent squad with a mix of driven quality young players, and some more experienced established pros many of whom have had success at international level. They turned 2 wins ( and yet still a 3rd place finish) in 2017 into 10 wins and a first place finish in 2018, much of that was down to the signing of Morne Morkel and some more bowler friendly home wickets. Should Morkel get injured they might struggle with the bowling firepower.

Notts odds are narrowing imo. Pattinson is obviously quality and their chances may depend on how many games they get from him. Ball and Broad should play a good deal of the summer. Plenty of depth in bowling. Batting is more questionable- Some lack experience in div 1, others mediocre results over the last couple of years. Mullaney, the captain, is an impressive individual imo.

Somerset have a greater degree of home advantage where they generally produce turning wickets. With more cricket played in the middle of the summer than recent times, this may play into Somerset's hands as other teams may struggle to get results in June and July whereas Somerset have Leach, Bess and VDM to potentially win games on turners. Don't have the depth of others at the top of the table.

Essex, like Somerset are reliant on a smaller squad but they have three quality players in Porter, Harmer and Sir A Cook who if they stay fit will contribute more than the fair share to their team.


Don't think the others will win it. Hampshire have a quality squad on paper but it's gelling all the parts together that is a struggle. Yorkshire, even with Olivier coming in, are missing one or two good players to really challenge.

Warwickshire don't have the batting to win. With Bell injured and Trott gone a lot falls upon Rhodes, Sibley and Hain for the first time in their careers. Bowling is good, maybe really good. They should avoid relegation though because...

Kent bowling is terrible (admittedly I said the same last year and they were promoted). They surely will be the one team to be relegated. They could maybe look to loan a fast bowler or two from div 2, Bamber for instance at Middlesex who is going to struggle now that TRJ is back. Batting isn't bad but Denly and Billings will miss parts of the season.
 
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theegyptian

International Vice-Captain
Allott speaks a bit too frankly for my liking regarding Hameed, given his position as director of cricket at lancs. He's spoken a few times about Hameed in the last year - really should be keeping it a bit more private. Wouldn't be the worst thing in the world imo for Hameed to leave Lancs at the end of the season. It appears that he works harder than anyone on his game. Maybe a move to a new county and away from his family roots would give him something else to focus on other than his cricket.

Worcestershire have a group of young fast bowlers who it will be interesting to see how they develop. Scrimshaw, Tongue, Finch, Barnard, Brown, Pennington. All look to have the potential to play for England.
Barnard has got to be one of the most valuable players in county cricket. Medium fast bowler. Quality lower middle order bat who strikes the ball cleanly. Outstanding fielder. Only 23 and rarely gets injured. His relative lack of pace means he's unlikely to be playing for England anytime soon, so even better for Worcestershire.

Looking forward to seeing how Bracey and Hankins do at Gloucestershire. Both promising bats. Bracey is quite like Chris Rogers - compact left hand bat who likes a punchy drive - keeps wicket too. Hankins a more powerful upright bat who plays in a pretty conventional style. Could see both moving away from the county in 2 or 3 years to first division counties.
 

theegyptian

International Vice-Captain
Yorkshire look light in bowling with a four man attack and Waite as the fourth seamer.

Northants have an interesting look. Rossington, Holder, Luke Wood lower middle order is powerful and fun to watch if they get going.
 

Tom Flint

International Regular
Duckett is going to be the man to partner burns in the ashes this year. Unless cook scores well for Essex and makes a return
 

theegyptian

International Vice-Captain
Hampshire after all their struggles to find openers are now batting South Africa opening bat Markram at 3. Surprised they didn't just bat Weatherly at 3. Vince opening to try and boost his England chances. Hildreth moving upto 3 at Somerset for similar reasons, although you'd think he'd have done that earlier in his career.
 

Borges

International Regular
And now the ton. Delighted for him. Hope it gives his confidence the boost it needs before Lancs kick off their campaign.
Before the commencement of the Ashes. This guy is made for test cricket; would turn out to be a worthy replacement for Cook.
 

GoodAreasShane

Cricketer Of The Year
Nope, think Hameed needs at least a full strong county season before being considered for international cricket. It would be hugely risky to rush him back off a couple of good scores alone, a couple of failures for England and he may well fall straight back off the cliff again.

Am pleased for the bloke though, even though it is a no account attack a ton is still a ton, should be a nice confidence boost for him
 

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