Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
Its strange, but slow left armers can suffer from a version of golfs yips. The most famous example I can think of is Phil Edmonds who played plenty of test cricket for England yet for a time on a tour of India I think it was, had to abandon his run up to the crease and bowl from a standing start so to speak because it was the only way he could release the ball. Edmonds was back to bowling normally pretty quickly, but this was towards the end of his career and, from memory, he was never quite the same player. Im probably adding two and two and making five here and Sisodiya has some sort of injury that is preventing him bowling, but it seems very odd whats happening currently - Sisodiya has made little impact in the longer version of the game so far, but hes been pretty good for us in the shorter stuff.
He seems to have been bowling in most of the 2nd XI games so I'm not sure what happened last week.

This is blindingly obvious but it had never really dawned on me before, it can't be easy to break into a settled first team at cricket. We're over two months into the season but there have been very few chances for the fringe players lately. No international call-ups or injuries, no League Cup ties to experiment in. No chance to come on as a sub and make an impression either in cricket. The 2nd XI stuff seems to be quite a way from the standard at first team level (similar to u-21 games in football) so if your face doesn't fit for some reason it must be hard to make progress. Especially when loyalty gets shown to players out of touch, as has happened to Byrom lately.

A heavy defeat like Sunday's seems the best chance for the fringe players. Surely Byrom's time is up for now. Will Smale scored some quick runs again today in the second team's win, I'd expect him to start tomorrow. Podmore added four more wickets to his 65 not out, maybe he'll come in for Gorvin? Details of the 2nd's win here.

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