thats a good call root opening worth a try :thumbup:
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I think I'm in a minority of 1, judging by this forum and Facebook. But I actually don't mind Salter opening. He's worth his place in the team for his bowling, and he's facing an average of 32 balls per innings. OK, his average is rubbish at present, but when I look at some of the early collapses we've endured over the years I don't mind him being there. If he wasn't bowling well I'd be a lot more receptive to looking at his place as opener.
Salts is a decent bowler in the shorter form of the game but in first class cricket his bowling average at just below 48 is pretty poor. I know he got a good haul of wickets in one innings this season but in the main he does very little in the longer form of the game with the ball. Batting wise his average is around 24 which is fine if he were coming in at 8 but nowhere near up to it as an opener. I think his batting average is around 13 this season.
We’ve still got Byrom to come in and you’d think he’d be pencilled in for the opening job, but I remember him batting at number four or five when he played last season and he didn’t go in first for the seconds, so maybe Maynard sees him as a middle order batsman?
I think he's a bit of a late bloomer , watching him towards the end of last season and this season he just seems to have a bit more of a zip. Bowling to plans and looking to take wickets, rather than just playing a holding role. Not sure if the emergence of sisodyia and Taylor gave him a kick up the bum, or if something just clicked for him.
Billy Root in for Glamorgan who have won the toss and put Durham in - as usual, plenty of online coverage of the game.
I may be slightly biased. But all this glam v stokes, stokes v marnus stuff that keeps popping up on previews is winding me right up. Stokes v Neser fair enough, decent comparison. But Marnus is on another level, best test batsman in the bloody world!!
Durham 81-2, looks a good pitch despite its green tinged appearance.
I see an ex Glamorgan player, Brendan McCullum ( he played for them in 2006) seems likely to become the coach of England's red ball team according to the Telegraph and Guardian.
Matthew Mott the former Glamorgan coach is an outside bet for the white ball job (Paul Collingwood appears to be favourtie)
A bit late with this but it was nice to see Aneurin Donald get some runs the other day in his first first-class match since 2019.
https://www.thecricketer.com/Topics/...y_lay-off.html
I was surprise he is now 25, but of course he has missed several years sadly.
Very inconsistent for Glamorgan I remember but he was only 22 when he left them.
I hadn't realised he invented the scooping slap shot often seen in the IPL these days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m37xcgjNJy8
99-3, a wicket for Hogan off the first ball of his second spell.
Presumably, Donald will have, or has had, a contract extension after being injured for so long, but I was wondering if we’d be interested in taking him back at some time, but the gossip I heard was that he didn’t leave under the best of terms.
Like the idea of McCullum as England coach, but I’d have thought he was better suited to the one day stuff.
Actually I believe he studied meterology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where his lecturer was also called Matt Mott,who incidentally had a dog.
I have never met either Matt Mott but I have met the dog. So as I once told a mate of mine........
I met Matt Mott's Mit Met Matt Mott's mutt, mate
McCullum gets the job.
Yes McCullum has built a reputation as a white ball coach (although KKR aren't doing so well in the IPL this year).
However this trbute from Kane Williamson albeit from when McCullum was still a player but was NZ test captain suggest that he does have the people skills to do the job ( not sure that has always been the case with England coaches)
My favourite touring side of recent years was the one McCullum captained in 2013 it might have been (far more enjoyable than the yet another bloody Ashes series which followed it). They were the epitome of playing the game the right way, if he could achieve half of what he did there, England are going to be fun to watch in the coming years.
2 in 3 for Hogan to leave Durham 290/9. Great effort considering Durham has been a batting paradise so far this year.
The bowlers have done well
Unsurprisingly Salter already gone though. This must be the last match he opens the innings. It was silly experiment.