Livingstone's own bowling has denied him the chance to score the first 100 100, whilst also making the biggest team score.
Scary to think how many more he could have got from those 26 unused balls No question that he deserves to be in the final based on group game performances
At least he got the highest score, and I’ll bet he tries for a ton at Lord’s. Glad Tom Abell got a run out too, he hasn’t played any cricket for a while.
Good news for you ahead of the resumption of the t20s and CC. Although if the ECB release Moeen, unfortunately for Tom it'll surely be him who makes way. (I'm expecting the ECB to make all three of Moeen, Root and Overton available. But whatever they decide, they need to make it the same for all three. Personally, no offence to Overton, but I'd be fine if they insist that all three need to rest!)
De Kock (wk) (os) Smeed Livingstone Duckett Moeen Patel Evans Khan (os) Jordan Milne (os) Mills That would be my XI of the group stage, when confirming to somewhat normal rules - eg number of overseas, balance of bowling attack, batters playing in roughly the correct position. Malan for Smeed, Brooks for Evans, and Howell or Tom Curran for Jordan, were all very strong possibilities. Rashid and Lintott miss out because there are already four other spinners in the side. De Lange misses out due to being limited to three overseas. Bairstow misses out because he only played twice. I couldn't stick Malan in down at no.6 or 7, because that isn't his role at all.
Agreed. The only options are Garton or Whiteley. But Garton has done little wrong, and Whiteley would leave us having to play Garton and Overton as proper batters. As mouth watering as it would be to have that six man bowling attack, it would be too big a risk to rely on so few batters.
Tim David has been in serious form for Surrey though. Not that it helps our QF next week though. That is a blow. I did say after the group stage that we might be thankful for selecting Abbott in that one group game, to make him available if needed.
I'm relaxed at the news for Brave. Like I say, David is bang in form (albeit I'm still to actually see him - I'm just going by the numbers), and Birmingham are losing Allen. Beddingham is solid, but I presume he won't play - more likely I'd have thought is that Abell will keep his place now, with a straight swap from Allen to Moeen. So overall I see that as a win for Brave. But it's very much the opposite for Hants. Regardless of what Abbott's brings with the ball (assuming we do pick him!), I don't see how we replace Colin's batting. We're already having to cope without Dawson. One option is: Vince, Short, Prest, Weatherley, Alsop, Fuller, McManus, Wood, Abbott, Crane, Wheal. But that requires Prest, Short and Fuller to bowl four overs between them. So probably more likely is: Vince, Short, Prest, Weatherley, Fuller, McManus, Currie, Wood, Abbott, Crane, Wheal. But a bad powerplay for us with the bat, and the match would be over already with that XI. So maybe could go Organ for Currie.
