surrey vs gloucestershire & hampshire twenty/20

Chris Adams has named a fourteen man squad for the opening two fixtures of the Friends Life t20 competition. The Surrey Lions face Gloucestershire at The Kia Oval on Thursday and Hampshire at The Rose Bowl on Friday.
Notably the squad features the inclusion of Surrey’s new acquisition, Dirk Nannes
The recently capped Jade Dernbach doesn’t appear in the fourteen after his call up to the England squad for the second Test at Lord’s, but Pakistani Yasir Arafat returns after a slight hamstring injury.
If Arafat and Nannes take the field together, Surrey will boast two of the top five wicket takers in T20 history on the same side.
Spinning all-rounders Chris Schofield (allowed to mention him in this thread)and Matthew Spriegel return to the squad, as does Gary Wilson, fresh from International duty with Ireland.
The full Surrey Lions squad to face Gloucestershire at the Kia Oval on Thursday 2nd June and Hampshire at The Rose Bowl on Friday June 3rd is:
Rory Hamilton-Brown (Captain)
Steven Davies (Wicket Keeper)
Jason Roy
Tom Maynard
Zander de Bruyn
Matthew Spriegel
Gareth Batty
Chris Schofield
Gary Wilson
Tim Linley
Yasir Arafat
Dirk Nannes
Matthew Dunn
Tom Jewell
jade dernbach has been added to the squad for the hampshire game after being released by england
same as normal chaps your 4 to miss out
happy now guildford

So much firepower with the bat this year.

Rory, Davies, Roy and Maynard could pummel the opposition!

What do we think, Jewell/Dunn/Wilson to miss out? gives us 3 seamers and 3 spinners with 5 good batsmen plus Spriegel and Schofield to hit lower down the order. Feeling positive about this one, especially as Gloucestershire aren't the force they used to be.

Linley, Wilson and Jewell out for me

hi carrot i think the 3 you choose will miss out for the 1st game and maybe the 2nd if we win well.i think dunn after today has the best chance of playing out of them 3

I have to say that I honestly don't know much about Dunn in terms of his pace, is he more of a Meaker or a Dernbach? I would sady that although his pace could go for more runs, Linley's accuracy and recent good form keeps him ahead of Dunn for the first game at least.

Extremely happy, JimBob. Fine work. Although you've only been with us a short time, JimBob, I'm sure you'll get a very good first appraisal.

Very hard to choose the 3 to miss out but my guess - assuming Yasir is fit to go - is Jewell (he'll get a chance to sparkle later in the tournament ), Batty and Dunn.

Going tomorrow, chat after that.

guildford you think wilson will play with the form he is in

Interesting to see whether Spriegel plays, or more likely how he gets on. He's had an excellent CB40 with the bat. I have a feeling that needs time to play himself in before launching the fireworks. I think he will play, but we may find that he's not quite so adept at scoring quickly from the beginning.

I think that Jewell, Wilson and Dunn are the ones most likely to miss out. Hopefully all our bowlers will come to the party

JimBob - I originally had Wilson in my 3 to miss out rather than Batty.

However, I thought we could do with an extra batsman and Wilson did reasonably this week for Ireland against Pakistan. We have a shedload of possible bowlers (I think de Bruyn will bowl tomorrow) and Batty's form with bat and ball has fallen off recently.

All thoroughly worked out and no doubt entirely wrong!

Wilson, Jewell and Schofield.
Batty is probably the more reliable bowler and Schofield's batting is not that much better to justify a place. Jewell or Dunn? Yesterdays performance will probably give him the edge. Wilson, not quite good enough to force a place in the top six. Will probably miss tonight but try tomorrow.

Batty (J) keeping to Murali...
Glos fingers crossed.

Batty (J) batting to Batty (G)...
Glos fingers still crossed.

crystal-purley wrote:Wilson, Jewell and Schofield.
Batty is probably the more reliable bowler and Schofield's batting is not that much better to justify a place. Jewell or Dunn? Yesterdays performance will probably give him the edge. Wilson, not quite good enough to force a place in the top six. Will probably miss tonight but try tomorrow.

crystal after being man of the match in our last one day game vs hampshire at whitgift there is no way schofield will miss out.

I'm hoping for two wins out of two to nget us off to a flyer. Unfortunately I'm working tonight but will be online for the Hampshire game. Team should be

Hyphen
Davies
Roy
Maynard
De Bruyn
Wilson
Spriegal
Batty
Arafat
Nannes
Dunn

Jewell, Scholfield and the viscount to miss out. Though I would have liked to have seen Lancefield in instead of Wilson, he had a decent first season last year and can hit the ball miles.

the team line up is in:
Hamilton-Brown (C), Davies (W), Roy, de Bruyn, Maynard, Spriegel, Schofield, Batty, Arafat, Nannes, Linley
well done carrot spot on

surrey won the toss and will bowl

only 5 off the first good start by Arafat.

Nannes gets his first wicket this could be a marriage made in heaven!!!!

depressedsurreyfan wrote:Nannes gets his first wicket this could be a marriage made in heaven!!!!

depressed are you looking foward to some tight bowling from schofield

15 off arafat's 2nd over

Jimbob

Schofield can be useful in one day cricket picks up a few wickets ( though to many are catches on the boundry rope)

I just hate it when he gets anywhere near our four day team as he has not taken a cc wicket since 2006

Nannes looking a good signing already

2nd wkt for nannes

Hoorah! Coughtrie keeping instead of Batty (J).

ChrisfromStroud wrote:Hoorah! Coughtrie keeping instead of Batty (J).

chris i take it you dont like j batty then

34 for 2 after 5

Good to see Schofield keeping our good start going!!!

depressedsurreyfan wrote:Good to see Schofield keeping our good start going!!!

Corporal H-B knows my views on Batty (J)...

O'Brien gone to the Viscount could be a big wicket

The Viscount is on fire again!!!!!!!!!

50 for 4 after 7

JimBob

What do you think of our lineup, I think we are a bowler to many, Arafat,Nannes,Linely,Batty and Spriegal could have covered the twenty overs letting us play an extra batsman instead of Schofield (Lancefield possibly)????

depressed how about ramps?

also dont forget de bruyn is a good one day bowler

the viscount finishes with 2 for 28

Great throw by Arafat

depressedsurreyfan wrote:Great throw by Arafat

are you sure about that depressed

ChrisfromStroud

Bet you wish Batty J had played now!!!

Fairly confident Batty (J) would have managed one less...

batty finishes with the excellent figures of 1 for 17 from his 4 overs

now i'm getting angry

I still fancy us Jimbob but we should never have let them get up near 150

150 up

155 for 8 after 20 overs schofield & arafat the guilty culprits

nannes finishes with 3 for 25 off his 4 overs

13 off the 1st over

15 off the 2nd

9 off the 3rd

Yeah, OK, we get the idea!!

7 off the 4th