surrey vs glamorgan & gloucestershire twenty/20

Kevin Pietersen is included in the fourteen man squad named by Chris Adams for the Surrey Lions’ Friends Life t20 matches against Glamorgan and Gloucestershire this weekend:
The full Surrey Lions squad to face Glamorgan at The Kia Oval on Friday 10th June and Gloucestershire at the Kings School, Gloucester on Saturday June 11th is:
Rory Hamilton-Brown (Captain)
Steven Davies (Wicket Keeper)
Jason Roy
Tom Maynard
Zander de Bruyn
Kevin Pietersen
Matthew Spriegel
Gareth Batty
Chris Schofield
Tim Linley
Yasir Arafat
Dirk Nannes
Jade Dernbach
Gary Wilson
with pietersen the extra batsmen we all wanted which of the bowlers do you think will miss out?

Wilson is the only one I can say will definitely miss out!

If it were me deciding, the other two would be Spriegel and maybe Arafat.

Batty and "the other spinner" have been doing alright so far. Spriegel has done little apart from one performance in the Pro40. Also his overs can be covered by de Bruyn or RHB if necessary.

Arafat has not been fully fit of late, while Linley has been in great form recently which is in his favour, but Arafat is a proven performer in limited overs.

Tough call!

Davies
RHB
Le Roi
KP
De Bruyn
Wine Gums
"spinner who must not be named"
Batty
Dernbach
Linley/Arafat
Nannes

Hard hats will be required in the crowd...

Good squad, will be very interesting too see who misses out. Wilson and Spriegal would be certainties for me but final one is interesting, for me its between Schofield and Batty but more likely Schofield or Linley. Would be harsh to leave the Viscount out on current form compared to Arafats but the latter is a proven T20 performer!

1.RHB
2.Davies
3.Roy
4.KP
5.Maynard
6.De Bruyn
7.Schofield
8.Arafat
9.Dernbach
10.Linley
11.Nannes

Above would be my selection, plenty of bowling and probably the most powerful T20 batting line up in the tournament with KP added in. A spinner light but KP and Hyphen can bowl if needed and some very good seamers in there aswell!

Looking positive!

JimBob - thanks again for kicking off the thread.

I very much go along with Tibor's comments and expected team. This of course assumes that all in the squad are fit to play tomorrow night. I still wonder about Nannes and Arafat on that score.

Unusually, won't be at the Oval or on this thread for the game. Wedding anniversary. No further comment.

I'd agree with the majority opinion - Wilson, Linley and Schofield to miss out for me:

R Hamilton-Brown (c)
S Davies (wk)
J Roy
K Pietersen
T Maynard
Z De Bruyn
M Spriegel
G Batty
Y Arafat
J Dermbach
D Nannes

I would suggest Wilson, Spriegel and Linley/Arafat to miss out.

I think Schofield will play as he seems better able to score rapidly from the outset than Spriegel.

Let's hope Roy strikes some mighty 6s to mark the occasion of Guildford's wedding anniversary. It would be fitting if it is Guildford's "willow" anniversary. Hopefully it will not be a "flannel" anniversary in which he is called on to justify to Mrs Bat how much time is spent on 606v2

surrey have won the toss and will bowl

the team line up is in:
Hamilton-Brown (C), Davies (W), Roy, Pietersen, de Bruyn, Maynard, Schofield, Batty, Arafat, Nannes, Dernbach
viscount Spriegel and wilson miss out

Team selection largely as predicted ...

A bit late to the party but the team that are playing is probably what I would have chosen. Perhaps Viscount for Arafat but now way our overseas player wouldn't play. Glam batting - 13/0 after 2.

nannes gets the 1st wkt 35 for 1

glamorgan 50 for 1 after 6 overs

Glam look set for a substantial score - rattling along at 9 an over....

88 for 1 after 10, poor bowling from everyone apart from nannes

de Bruyn strikes in his 1st over 92 for 2

97 for 3 a wkt for dernbach

2 in 2 for dernbach on a hat trick come on jade

And another for Dernbach!

wright survives the hat trick ball 98 for 4

De Bruyn strikes for a second time

114 for 5 after 15

Excellent comeback from Surrey, Dernbach and de Bruyn take a bow. Need to finish the job though. KP took a fine catch right on the boundary edge to get rid of Cosgrove - very important.

de Bruyn went for 14 from the 17th over

Now comes the deluge!

arafat finishes with 0 for 41 ouch

jade gets a wkt off his last ball 3 for 30 off his 4
1 over to go 159 for 6

Good comeback from Dernbach to finish with 3 for 30.

Then Arafat goes for 18! He really isn't very good is he?!

168 to win.

Odd sort of performance. We have the power to reach this target, but will need some intelligent hitting,,,,

How would the Viscount have bowled?!

No worse than Arafat I would suggest Corporal.

tibor how are you able to read my mind

nannes finishes with 1 for 20 from his 4

Good score but also a good pitch from what I can gather (been away so only just checked!).

If anyones got the batting line-up to chase it then its this one! Also what figures from Nannes 1 for 20 off 4, cant ask much more than that!

i think how we play the wiley spin of croft & cosker will decide this

Well bowled by Nannes, Dernbach and De Bruyn. Arafat has been a disappointment all season, Batty should get back to bowling well in T20, but I reckon Schofield should only continue in T20 if he an justify his place as a batsman.

raining vera duckworth/chris lewis to decide it

right chaps if there is no more rain the revised target is 111 of 12 overs

and now the rain has come back again

match abandoned 1 point each
a shame for everone there that would have been a good run chase

Frustrating!

On a slightly different subject I think it would be worth Surrey supporters looking out for people venturing onto other counties' pages, (as some of us do with eg Chris from Stroud!) To give a bit of friendly encouragement!

I am thinking of the likes of Connor who posted today on the Notts page - there have been a few others - it would be good to see if we can do anything to encourage more viable activity on the county pages....

With tonight's rain I imagine it was more a case of the "walk off girls" at the Oval....

Corporal - thanks for your kind and splendid comments about our anniversary. Mrs Bat and I actually have a few more miles on the clock than either of the anniversaries you mentioned. Three more years and it will be our 'Aravinda'!

All - clearly, a wash out all round at the end. Disappointing and frustrating with the match seeming so well poised. Just looking at the scorecard, a very mixed performance from our bowlers. Adams can only support Arafat so far ....

Same team as last night Surrey win the toss and will bowl

Arafat 1st over goes for just 2 runs and a run out that's more like it

dernbach strikes in his 1st over 14 for 2

20 for 2 after 4 overs

You are doing a fine job, JimBob.

Great line from Churchy earlier: 'Hamish Marshall was looking to go out of the ground - the only thing that went out of the ground was his off stump!'

Churchy very impressed by Dernbach's 'really good slower ball'.

cheers guildord

80 for 3 after 12 overs need to keep them under 150