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Durham v Yorkshire T20 Blast


Missing this one both in viewing or attending

Hope we return to the method v these last Sunday as last night was just thrown away
 
Not really sure how we go into this one in second place, as we've yet to look fluent as a batting unit.

Our bowling has been our strength. Yet Lees bowling choices continue to dumbfound.

Imagine the side will be unchanged again. So we really need to see Ackermann not be a passenger again. Could do with Clark constructing a worthwhile innings as well.

Can't see us keeping Lyth,Malan and Bairstow as quiet as last weekend in York. So we're going to need to a lot better with the bat.
 
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mackembhoy said:
Not really sure how we go into this one in second place, as we've yet to look fluent as a batting unit.

Our bowling has been our strength. Yet Lees bowling choices continue to dumbfound.

Imagine the side will be unchanged again. So we really need to see Ackermann not be a passenger again. Could do with Clark constructing a worthwhile innings as well.

Can't see us keeping Lyth,Malan and Bairstow as quiet as last weekend in York. So we're going to need to a lot better with the bat.
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Our bowling which has been quality so far in the competition, has papered over the cracks in our batting.

What's a massive stand out is our lack of power hitting, even just looking at the season stats we have hit 19 sixes as a team in our 7 games while you have players like Willey, Malan etc hitting 12-15 sixes on their own.

The batsmen need to step up as we can't just keep on relying our bowlers restricting sides to under 150.
 
Durham-Mackem41 said:
Surely have to consider dropping Clark or Ackerman or maybe both for Gay and McKinney as both are badly out of form.
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Can't drop Clark as he's the only one in the top 4 that has any power. Form has been bad granted.

Ackermann has to be dropped. Lees should move down the order(as he won't be dropped) and McKinney to open with Clark would be my change.
 
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NameRunsBallsStrikeRateAverage4’s6’s
Will Rhodes199136146.399.5185
Alex Lees161134120.123152
Ollie Robinson16012512822.9220
Graham Clark12895134.718.3164
Jimmy Neesham11888134.129.5114
Colin Ackermann108102105.915.462
Ben Raine7861127.915.671

Based off this Ackermann should be dropped, poor strike rare and average. On top of that, he’s only hit 6 fours and 2 sixes.
 
SuperSub said:
What's a massive stand out is our lack of power hitting, even just looking at the season stats we have hit 19 sixes as a team in our 7 games while you have players like Willey, Malan etc hitting 12-15 sixes on their own.
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Weve had the Same trouble for years, im not sure if its almost trained out of them with our ground being so big
 
Sillypoint said:
Weve had the Same trouble for years, im not sure if its almost trained out of them with our ground being so big
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This year they have brought in the boundaries at the Riverside, they were only 65m against Derby. It hasn't made a difference in our boundary count though.
 
Parkside said:
But we used to use that to our advantage. We haven't got power hitters so make it more difficult for opposition hitters. Large outfield should make it easier to work 2s and 3s.
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Well not so much 3s cos the boundaries are way in from what they could be.

But that's been a failure of us in our home games, that we've not made enough 2s. Was much better against Derbyshire however.
 
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