Surrey vs Somerset NATWEST T20 BLAST

SURREY HAVE NAMED A THIRTEEN MAN SQUAD FOR THE NATWEST T20 BLAST GAME AGAINST SOMERSET AT TAUNTON ON FRIDAY.
Steven Davies is unavailable for selection after injuring his hand whilst fielding in the LV=County Championship game against Leicestershire. 17 year old Surrey Academy all rounder Sam Curran is named in a NatWest T20 Blast squad for the first time.
The Surrey squad to play Somerset at Taunton in the NatWest T20 on Friday 12th June:
Gareth Batty (capt)
Zafar Ansari
James Burke
Rory Burns
Sam Curran
Tom Curran
Matthew Dunn
Ben Foakes
Moises Henriques
Aneesh Kapil
Azhar Mahmood
Kumar Sangakkara
Gary Wilson
2 new openers needed
hard to call the two to miss out so over to you guys

Curran the younger and Kapil to miss oot

Pretty sure Kapil will play. Kid Curran (probably mainly there this time to get a feel of being around the firsts) to miss out imo. Maybe Dunn as well although that makes the choice of number 11 as hard as who opens!

Fair chance this one will be completely rained off if BBC forecast accurate.

Corporalhumblebucket wrote:Fair chance this one will be completely rained off if BBC forecast accurate.

Although I detest the part of my brain that uses this logic, the rain could have saved us from a tough evening there with a few key players missing.

Match abandoned without a ball being played.

It would have been interesting to see the line-up and batting order though that's for sure. Would Foakes or Wilson have opened? Or maybe both with Third Degree in the middle?

1.Burns or Ansari
2.Wilson
3.Sanga
4.Mahmood
5.Foakes
6.Ansari or Burns
7.Henriques
8.Kapil
9.Burke or Dunn - order would need to reshuffle again depending on which!
10.Batty
11.Curran the slightly older

Like Carlos, I am not too unhappy at playing away to Somerset a batter light being taken away by the rain....

king_carlos wrote:Although I detest the part of my brain that uses this logic, the rain could have saved us from a tough evening there with a few key players missing.

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Hi Carlos - understandable thinking and probably right. That said, we've now only won one out of five. If that's not two out of six after tomorrow at Arundel, it's ''start the car'' time for this year's tournament.