Lancashire Lightning Vitality Blast T20 Finale at Trent Bridge

 

18/07

Silver Fox talking about exposure, adds Sam Seecharan back into the squad, surely to get a game this time. Likewise with Ben Martindale.

Sam had a strike rate of 182 for the SET competition, only bettered by Dane Schadendorf. Ben's 158.

Full stats here

Joe Clarke

Ben Martindale
Freddie McCann
Jack Haynes
Moises Henriques

Sam Seecharan
Tom Moores
Lyndon James
Matt Montgomery
Daniel Sams
Liam Patterson-White
Calvin Harrison
Rob Lord
Olly Stone
Dillon Pennington
Farhan Ahmed

Billed as a"finale", yet circumstances mean this is effectively a "dead rubber" with nothing other than four points at stake.

Win, lose or draw Lancashire will probably win the group and certainly will have a home quarter-final to look forward to, unless their own particular shaped county cricket resenting executives have scheduled some other event for Old Trafford at the beginning of September and the match is taken to another venue (again).

Notts are playing for pride, not Pride, this week as Silver Fox believes an end result of 7 wins and 7 losses holds no shame - its all part of the [team] building process but only after he allowed the old team to go to seed and had to cut the dead wood away. No gradual transition, always looking forward to the future; only maximise today and forget about tomorrow, sell them tickets! 

From the sound of it Silver Fox isn't in the ultra optimistic camp that believes Outlaws can win and qualify with 28 points, over coming the worst net run rate in the north garnered over several crushing one-sided defeats, with one cracking win tonight [is it even mathematically possible in 20 overs]and have Warwickshire suffer an overwhelming crushing defeat at Derby as well as Foxes losing. Worcester have a better chance.

So might Silver Fox be less conservative with his squad, bring in some fresh faces?