Rankin and Miller build a target
Lunch: Warwickshire 207 for 9 (81 overs). Rankin 12. Miller 2.
44 in front.
Numbers ten and 11 having played with diligence and relative comfort for the last seven overs it makes you wonder what some of the chaps higher up were doing.
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Brian - apologies if you answered this elsewhere, but who is supposed to be the Bears' batting coach? Another lamentable performance suggests that said individual might want to up his game a touch...
Hi Ian - and also in response to Steve's comment earlier - Neil Abberley is the batting coach. I have just put the concerns of supporters about batting coaching to Ashley Giles and he feels that different coaching is not the answer to the current situation as the batsmen's problems are more mental than technical.
Brian,
When you next speak to Ashley can you please ask him what steps he will be taking to improve the batting performance for the Durham game, but also long term.
Over the last 5 years we have lost the following first team batsmen, Knight, Brown, Powell, Penney, Wagh, Moeen, Loudon and Frost with only Maddy and Chopra been added to the squad.
Would it not better to have a younger batting coach who has had experience of batting in all forms of the modern game?
We have no acceptable alternatives in the second team so the first team batsman are able to fail in the knowledge that, like an incompetent currupt MP is a safe seat, their job is safe. This weeks performance is in many way as bad as the low points of the 'Badbatch' era.
Paulo - Ashley will be addressing many of the points you make in the Mail over the next two days. I have some sympathy with him regarding the lack of alternatives pushing from the 2nd XI. Such an unproductive system is unhelpful.