I won’t be upset to see back of this season. The positives around the young batting crop giving me hope for the future at least…
I agree. Matt Parkinson pointed out in his post match interview that all the five youngsters (Jaydn Denly, Ben Dawkins, Ekansh Singh, Corey Flintoff and Ollie Curtiss) were born in 2006! I don’t know if all of them will make the grade, but the promise they show is exciting. However, they were in the field all day today and they didn’t really do much. A couple of them bowled ineffectively, and the fielding and catching was below par. On a day like today, Kent needed experienced hands but injuries and other factors ruled out an entire Xl. Dudgeon, Northeast and Milnes will be welcomed with open arms next season.
I won’t be upset to see back of this season. The positives around the young batting crop giving me hope for the future at least…
I agree. Matt Parkinson pointed out in his post match interview that all the five youngsters (Jaydn Denly, Ben Dawkins, Ekansh Singh, Corey Flintoff and Ollie Curtiss) were born in 2006! I don’t know if all of them will make the grade, but the promise they show is exciting. However, they were in the field all day today and they didn’t really do much. A couple of them bowled ineffectively, and the fielding and catching was below par. On a day like today, Kent needed experienced hands but injuries and other factors ruled out an entire Xl. Dudgeon, Northeast and Milnes will be welcomed with open arms next season.
So far as the season end is concerned, I'm probably guilty of looking at things very much through rose tinted lens purely because of the youngsters. I also think that the fact that Hollioake is giving them all meaningful opportunities is, perhaps, indicative that he does intend to shake things up and that reputations alone will not guarantee anyone a place in the squad let alone the team. That's something that Walker could never really do because there were no youngsters that had the potential to be knocking on the door.
Dawkins, Jaydn and Ekansh have all demonstrated plenty with the bat and do have the added skills of keeping, spin and
seam respectively, albeit that they will need to develop those to become
authentic all-rounders. Injuries have held Curtiss back and it's far too early
to judge him in any shape or form but the fact he averaged 57 in the Kent
Premier League this season does indicate that he does have something about him with the bat at the
very least. The one who hasn't shown that much to date, in the 1s or the 2s, is Flintoff but, fingers crossed, he will kick on next season too.
I would accept another poor season next year, if we continued playing the youngsters and developing them
Just not if we have the same stale players repeating a poor effort for the third or fourth year running
I honestly forgot I had clicked on the Kent thread for a second there and thought you were talking about Chralton lol. Got me a bit worried and confused
I would accept another poor season next year, if we continued playing the youngsters and developing them
Just not if we have the same stale players repeating a poor effort for the third or fourth year running
I totally agree and I think it will be another year of transition but, depending on the new recruits, might be even better than that. In terms of new players, compared to say the second or third game of this season, I do believe that we will have a host of "new" (in some shape) players challenging for a first team spot.
There were two reasons why Hollioake couldn't do that this season - too many players were tied into contracts and he would have wanted to give them a chance at this level to prove themselves. Too many have not done that.
I won’t be upset to see back of this season. The positives around the young batting crop giving me hope for the future at least…
I agree. Matt Parkinson pointed out in his post match interview that all the five youngsters (Jaydn Denly, Ben Dawkins, Ekansh Singh, Corey Flintoff and Ollie Curtiss) were born in 2006! I don’t know if all of them will make the grade, but the promise they show is exciting. However, they were in the field all day today and they didn’t really do much. A couple of them bowled ineffectively, and the fielding and catching was below par. On a day like today, Kent needed experienced hands but injuries and other factors ruled out an entire Xl. Dudgeon, Northeast and Milnes will be welcomed with open arms next season.
Putting some context against your 2006 comment. Corey Flintoff wasn’t even born when his dad had a wee wee in the garden of 10 Downing Street!
Luis Reece is one greedy bar steward. Fresh from opening and making his highest FC score (211), he's opening the bowling too. I just hope the likes of Chappell and Morley, given that neither batted, enjoyed their lunch.
Dawkins currently has an average of 54.67 in FC cricket. Would be harsh for him not to be given the opportunity to open at the start of next season even if England were prepared to release Crawley given that the latter won't be available for many games and has never been that reliable in red ball anyway.
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I don’t know if all of them will make the grade, but the promise they show is exciting.
However, they were in the field all day today and they didn’t really do much. A couple of them bowled ineffectively, and the fielding and catching was below par. On a day like today, Kent needed experienced hands but injuries and other factors ruled out an entire Xl. Dudgeon, Northeast and Milnes will be welcomed with open arms next season.
So far as the season end is concerned, I'm probably guilty of looking at things very much through rose tinted lens purely because of the youngsters. I also think that the fact that Hollioake is giving them all meaningful opportunities is, perhaps, indicative that he does intend to shake things up and that reputations alone will not guarantee anyone a place in the squad let alone the team. That's something that Walker could never really do because there were no youngsters that had the potential to be knocking on the door.
Dawkins, Jaydn and Ekansh have all demonstrated plenty with the bat and do have the added skills of keeping, spin and seam respectively, albeit that they will need to develop those to become authentic all-rounders. Injuries have held Curtiss back and it's far too early to judge him in any shape or form but the fact he averaged 57 in the Kent Premier League this season does indicate that he does have something about him with the bat at the very least. The one who hasn't shown that much to date, in the 1s or the 2s, is Flintoff but, fingers crossed, he will kick on next season too.
Just not if we have the same stale players repeating a poor effort for the third or fourth year running
466-2 (109)
There were two reasons why Hollioake couldn't do that this season - too many players were tied into contracts and he would have wanted to give them a chance at this level to prove themselves. Too many have not done that.
547-4
Pathetic. We took their third wicket well after 110 overs had been bowled.
Mind you if the wicket is still decent in theory we should be able to bat it out somehow.
Compton 11* (36)
Dawkins 19* (43)
Compton 44* (101)
Dawkins 49* (100)
Dawkins has reached his half century - 51* (105)
Cohen has come in as nightwatchman
115-1
117-2 (37.5) at close
Dawkins 53* (108)