Hampshire Rothesay County Championship Div 1 Day 1

08/09

Day 1

07/09

The Notts squad for the must win encounter with Hampshire:

Haseeb Hameed c

Ben Slater

Ben Martindale

Freddie McCann

Joe Clarke

Jack Haynes

Mitchell Hay x

Lyndon James

Liam Patterson-White

Fraser Sheat

Farhan Ahmed

Olly Stone

Tom Giles

Dillon Pennington

c/o MAG

An interesting statistic concerning Olly Stone Home v Away

home

Matches	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	50	100
2	1	0	38	38	38.00	0	0

Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BB	Ave	Ct	St
282	7	142	3	2-68	47.33	2	0

away

Matches	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	50	100
6	6	1	44	30	8.80	0	0

Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BB	Ave	Ct	St
1097	37	571	29	6-44	19.68	2	0

07/09

After last week's benign wicket we have to hope that words have been had with the groundstaff and that the whole team have come-up with a strategy. There were result wickets everywhere else up and down the country, so you can't blame the soporific draw against Leicester solely on the loss of a day's play to the weather; 5 or 6 days would have necessary to get a result on that deck!

Whereas Leicester played for a draw from the start of play on the second morning, Hampshire are in such dire straits that only wins will suffice for the rest of their season, therefore we'll have two sides both being positive, hopefully.

What Notts squad appears tomorrow, will be dependent on whose left standing.

Lyndon James was making strides towards a return, whilst Ben Slater had obviously been rushed back too soon from his injury - so has that finished his season off prematurely?

No Brett Hutton this week as he was substituted out last week, so no miracles required there.

Kyle Verreynne has left these shores and the shock and surprise has been so great that the DoC has lost episodes of his life going back into August (perhaps a side-effect of Hundritus). Clearly by some devine intervention, a replacement had been sourced, unbeknown to guy whose job it is to do such tasks, and was seen netting with the head coach during the Leicester game (Newell, like a lot of others must have slept through that episode as well) - a miracle perhaps!

Perhaps a local Catholic priest is being lined-up to announce the blessed miracle new signing later today...