Surrey v Hants - rain for four days

This will be most annoying. Absolutely vital we wrap things up in Canterbury tomorrow.

I say we “rest” Foakes for Hants to use up his England commitments of time off, as there’s no chance of anything like a result.

Saturday and Sunday are ok.

Not according to BBC:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/6690601

Ben Foakes.

Sir Winston Churchill wrote:This will be most annoying. Absolutely vital we wrap things up in Canterbury tomorrow.

I say we “rest” Foakes for Hants to use up his England commitments of time off, as there’s no chance of anything like a result.

Might be wrong but think there will be less of a need to rest Foakes. We have a week off after Hampshire and I think it is going to be unlikely that he will play masses of T20 for us, which means a lighter load in June. Gus/Pope much more likely to be involved in the White Ball games for England at the end of May, Foakes won't be needed until July if selected for England.

Sir Winston Churchill wrote:Not according to BBC:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/6690601

Never look at the BBC forecast. ACCU is far more accurate and says for Sat-Mon just a passing shower or two.

Chinaman wrote:

Sir Winston Churchill wrote:Not according to BBC:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/6690601

Never look at the BBC forecast. ACCU is far more accurate and says for Sat-Mon just a passing shower or two.

Weather looks good now

Confident we can continue the trend of Hants opposition scoring 450+ in their first innings. (Lancs 484/ Worcs 455)

Jackers wrote:I think "good" is pushing it. Bowling conditions I'd say.

week on week lowering my expectations this season. Good means no thunder and lightning or torential rain.

Why is the BBC online weather site so different to others?

Doesn't match what they say on their weather forecast here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001ykny/weather-for-the-week-ahead-24042024

Friday looks OK, Saturday bad, Sun/Monday should be OK rain-wise, potentially 17 degrees Monday

Better weather forecast now. Looks like at least two dry days and a couple of patchy ones. No dilly dallying, Burns.

I wonder if those nice people at the ECB will let us use Gus, John Paul and Ben in this game.

As they are the c word I bet we arent allowed to use one of them you watch!

John Paul Jackers the Pope! Next time I will just call him Ollie or Pope!

The 5 out of 7 surely includes missing matches for England?

We've played 3 of which Atkinson has missed 2 and Pope 1, Foakes 0:

So Atkinson should be available for all 4 of:

Hampshire (h)
Warwickshire (h)
Worcestershire (h)
Hampshire (a) (which clashes with England T20 series v Pakistan)

So does Atkinson know he's not being selected for the England T20 World Cup squad already then?

Also its been mentioned the players playing in the IPL will not be selected for the Pakistan T20 series (so no Curran, Jacks or Topley appearing at the Oval then)

Considering no Jacks or Buttler we'll presumably field 2 openers who won't be going to World Cup? Jason Roy? would be ironic if he excelled and forced his way into the squad ahead of say Bairstow!

So no Foakes even though the first test is 2 and a half months away. This resting of players when they should be playing is total bollocks.

I agree I'd go with selecting Blake, I think we need to expand the squad options and see if he can fill in when Foakes is actually unavailable during the Test series later in the season.

Hopefully the dulcet tones of Mr Church will be back on the airwaves for this game.

I have to say that I am slightly surprised that its only a 12 man squad, as not many options. I suppose as we are at home if someone was to pull up injured/sick this morning another player could come in at short notice.

seems obvious what the starting XI will be though

Here's my preview of the County Championship clash between @surreycricket and @hantscricket which starts today at the Oval http://www.ovalworld-online.com/prevsurhamcc2024.htm

First-class stats sheet for @surreycricket vs @hantscricket http://www.ovalworld-online.com/fc_stats_surrey_hampshire.pdf

For Surrey's fixtures and scorecards go to: http://www.ovalworld-online.com/cards.htm

Peter.M.Gardens wrote:I agree I'd go with selecting Blake, I think we need to expand the squad options and see if he can fill in when Foakes is actually unavailable during the Test series later in the season.

It’s not a given that Foakes will play in the Tests,he was essential in Indian conditions,but I think they might return to picking Bairstow in English conditions.

Surrey won toss, put Hampshire into bat

Rory Burns(c)
Dom Sibley
Ollie Pope
Jamie Smith(wk)
Dan Lawrence
Ryan Patel
Cameron Steel
Jordan Clark
Gus Atkinson
Dan Worrall
Kemar Roach

dougieginn wrote:

Peter.M.Gardens wrote:I agree I'd go with selecting Blake, I think we need to expand the squad options and see if he can fill in when Foakes is actually unavailable during the Test series later in the season.

It’s not a given that Foakes will play in the Tests,he was essential in Indian conditions,but I think they might return to picking Bairstow in English conditions.

Even if Foakes isn't selected we need to know at some point whether Blake can make the step up, and imo this is the ideal opportunity for him to come in at 6 rather than Patel. We have to give squad players opportunities when we can or are they just here to play Metro Bank stuff?