The Red Telephone
Striker
Hot on the heels of our 16 point draw at Chelmsford comes our home match against Worcestershire commencing Sunday. We currently lie in 4th place on 99 points while The Pears are 9th on 72 and are one of two teams who are still without a win (the other being Warwickshire) and are, along with Kent, becoming slightly detached from the other teams.
Earlier in the season at Kidderminster we won in three days by 185 runs in a very enjoyable match with a century from Bedders and seven wickets for Coggs. Their coach Alan Richardson has stated that they are 'down to the bare bones' with their seam attack and as a result have signed Ben Allison on loan from Essex along with England spinner Shoaib Bashir who was actually on 12th man duties for Somerset in our last home game. In their recent defeat against Surrey, D'Oliveira, Leach, Gibbon and Singh were all ruled out while Kiwi all rounder Nathan Smith (leading wicket taker with 19) was rested. Their leading run scorers are Jake Libby (489) and Kashif Ali (482).
As for Durham, well Ben Stokes is due to be playing in his third appearance in red ball cricket this season and if his bowling is anything like his sensational spell against Somerset it will be worth the admission alone. Its a nice selection headache for Cambo to have as to what our starting line up will be. I think it's definite that de Leede will be stood down but will the coach keep Jones in as opener or will the captain move back up from No.3 ? What about the bowling attack - Coggs sat out the Essex game but was really impressive against our opponents in April, Pottsy looked more like his old self in the Essex first innings so maybe Siddle to miss out? Who knows!
Of course with us playing at home the current decent warm weather spell is due to end although the first three days look OK (at the time of typing this) if somewhat cloudy.
We've had a bit of a hold over Worcs in recent seasons so let's hope this continues so as ever....HAWAY DURHAM !!!
Earlier in the season at Kidderminster we won in three days by 185 runs in a very enjoyable match with a century from Bedders and seven wickets for Coggs. Their coach Alan Richardson has stated that they are 'down to the bare bones' with their seam attack and as a result have signed Ben Allison on loan from Essex along with England spinner Shoaib Bashir who was actually on 12th man duties for Somerset in our last home game. In their recent defeat against Surrey, D'Oliveira, Leach, Gibbon and Singh were all ruled out while Kiwi all rounder Nathan Smith (leading wicket taker with 19) was rested. Their leading run scorers are Jake Libby (489) and Kashif Ali (482).
As for Durham, well Ben Stokes is due to be playing in his third appearance in red ball cricket this season and if his bowling is anything like his sensational spell against Somerset it will be worth the admission alone. Its a nice selection headache for Cambo to have as to what our starting line up will be. I think it's definite that de Leede will be stood down but will the coach keep Jones in as opener or will the captain move back up from No.3 ? What about the bowling attack - Coggs sat out the Essex game but was really impressive against our opponents in April, Pottsy looked more like his old self in the Essex first innings so maybe Siddle to miss out? Who knows!
Of course with us playing at home the current decent warm weather spell is due to end although the first three days look OK (at the time of typing this) if somewhat cloudy.
We've had a bit of a hold over Worcs in recent seasons so let's hope this continues so as ever....HAWAY DURHAM !!!
