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Leicestershire County Cricket Club

By Sods, in General Football and Sport

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The whole world smiles

The whole world smiles

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Posted
1 minute ago, MaidstoneFox said:

You do start to wonder how much last season was down to Pete Handscomb. Obviously it's not that simple, there's lots of moving parts.

Not having that, they were a well coached, hungry, aggressive side last season with loads of players looking right at it and The coaching staff deserve credit for that however lots of the key components of it have been squandered by them and now questions need to be asked. 

 

Budinger - dropped, underminded then injured. 

 

Patel - he's seen enough off to hamshire

 

Holland - asking too much of him with the captaincy and moving up the order looks a shell of last season. 

 

Van Beek - not retained which when you think what happened with Handscombe and Maharaj was an utter disaster. 

 

Cox - Thrown under the bus publicly looks like he's off too. 

 

Scriven - not been given enough opportunitys. 

 

Hull - gone backwards

 

The new signings have been unerwhelming Ben Green aside. 

 

I think we desperately need success in the one day cup without it we are going backwards in all 3 competitions and the squad needs major surgery at that point the coaching staff positions should under severe scrutiny. 

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Mark 'expert' Lawrenson

Mark 'expert' Lawrenson

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8 minutes ago, The whole world smiles said:

Not having that, they were a well coached, hungry, aggressive side last season with loads of players looking right at it and The coaching staff deserve credit for that however lots of the key components of it have been squandered by them and now questions need to be asked. 

 

Budinger - dropped, underminded then injured. 

 

Patel - he's seen enough off to hamshire

 

Holland - asking too much of him with the captaincy and moving up the order looks a shell of last season. 

 

Van Beek - not retained which when you think what happened with Handscombe and Maharaj was an utter disaster. 

 

Cox - Thrown under the bus publicly looks like he's off too. 

 

Scriven - not been given enough opportunitys. 

 

Hull - gone backwards

 

The new signings have been unerwhelming Ben Green aside. 

 

I think we desperately need success in the one day cup without it we are going backwards in all 3 competitions and the squad needs major surgery at that point the coaching staff positions should under severe scrutiny. 

That’s a good summary.

 

Bert

Bert

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Posted
53 minutes ago, The whole world smiles said:

Not having that, they were a well coached, hungry, aggressive side last season with loads of players looking right at it and The coaching staff deserve credit for that however lots of the key components of it have been squandered by them and now questions need to be asked. 

 

Budinger - dropped, underminded then injured. 

 

Patel - he's seen enough off to hamshire

 

Holland - asking too much of him with the captaincy and moving up the order looks a shell of last season. 

 

Van Beek - not retained which when you think what happened with Handscombe and Maharaj was an utter disaster. 

 

Cox - Thrown under the bus publicly looks like he's off too. 

 

Scriven - not been given enough opportunitys. 

 

Hull - gone backwards

 

The new signings have been unerwhelming Ben Green aside. 

 

I think we desperately need success in the one day cup without it we are going backwards in all 3 competitions and the squad needs major surgery at that point the coaching staff positions should under severe scrutiny. 

Ben Green has been awful. 

The whole world smiles

The whole world smiles

Posted
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15 minutes ago, Bert said:

Ben Green has been awful. 

He's been ok in the championship must the leading wicket taker by some distance. Dreadful in the blast But I was on about him as a signing and I will stick by the fact that he's a good signing and we are lucky to have him for on a 3 year deal. 

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Officer Doofy

Officer Doofy

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Starting to think a reset behind the scenes might be needed. 

 

A coach can have success but lose their impact after time, it's not always a scenario if good v bad. 

 

 

I'd love to see someone with genuine decent class A coaching history come in and shake things up a bit. 

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MaidstoneFox

MaidstoneFox

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12 hours ago, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said:

He was probably the glue and a sensible head between the playing staff and coaches. 
I cannot understand the lack of a game plan, poor choices both with batting, bowling, captaincy and team selection, it’s a total failure. 
Key players leaving as well, things aren’t right off the field either. 
Id like to hear from the DOC regarding the abject failure of our T20 campaign 

I think that could be right. They often talked about how calm he was. 

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CrawlingFox

CrawlingFox

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Thomas has to take the brunt of the blame.

 

Just look at the t20 campaign:

 

Even allowing for injuries selection is musical chairs. Nobody could predict our XI from one game to another.

 

The batting order is musical chairs. Players up, down and everywhere. We don't seem to have anyone with the bottle to open and then to do well. Budinger, Patel, Ahmed, Eskinazi, Mike, Green and possibly others have had a go.

 

8 players bowled last night and nobody knows who are best attack is.

 

de Swardt is another signing where he bats a bit and bowls a bit but offers no certainty to this side. Should have aimed for a gun batter or bowler to at least fill one role in a side that looks all at sea right now. It's not his fault and to be fair maybe a case of who is available and we should just be grateful they got anyone in.

 

Performances haven't helped but there is no consistency or stability. No structure to the team. It's become cyclical where we're shite so he has to tinker and rinse and repeat.

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everton carr

everton carr

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10 hours ago, Voll Blau said:

We've missed Budinger more than we realise. Stable in his role across three formats and we've not been able to replicate that.

One of the few match winners we have in the side.

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Mark 'expert' Lawrenson

Mark 'expert' Lawrenson

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On 09/07/2026 at 14:57, CrawlingFox said:

Thomas has to take the brunt of the blame.

 

Just look at the t20 campaign:

 

Even allowing for injuries selection is musical chairs. Nobody could predict our XI from one game to another.

 

The batting order is musical chairs. Players up, down and everywhere. We don't seem to have anyone with the bottle to open and then to do well. Budinger, Patel, Ahmed, Eskinazi, Mike, Green and possibly others have had a go.

 

8 players bowled last night and nobody knows who are best attack is.

 

de Swardt is another signing where he bats a bit and bowls a bit but offers no certainty to this side. Should have aimed for a gun batter or bowler to at least fill one role in a side that looks all at sea right now. It's not his fault and to be fair maybe a case of who is available and we should just be grateful they got anyone in.

 

Performances haven't helped but there is no consistency or stability. No structure to the team. It's become cyclical where we're shite so he has to tinker and rinse and repeat.

As mentioned earlier I think Handscombe was a buffer between Thomas and the players, a level head which Thomas would struggle to manipulate, no Handscombe has allowed Thomas to have free reign over the side. The captain is vital in cricket and I don’t believe Ben Green would go against anything Thomas said.

The T20 campaign smacks of incompetence and over thinking, Thomas is a very controlling individual so I can only believe the fiasco is down to him. 

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TamuffFox

TamuffFox

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12 minutes ago, TamuffFox said:

I can't find the stream on Notts YouTube channel...Anyone? I know it doesn't start until 6.30 but it should be available by now

It's on now...I may regret bothering!

Harpenden Fox

Harpenden Fox

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It seems borderline irresponsible for a Club so often struggling financially to have two fairly mundane all rounders on loan when we have two mundane all rounders on the payroll. And to be fair to Tom Scriven, he's better than mundane. 

 

Very grim

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everton carr

everton carr

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7 minutes ago, Harpenden Fox said:

It seems borderline irresponsible for a Club so often struggling financially to have two fairly mundane all rounders on loan when we have two mundane all rounders on the payroll. And to be fair to Tom Scriven, he's better than mundane. 

 

Very grim

Scrivens had  a bust up with Thomas mind you not many that haven't by all accounts

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Officer Doofy

Officer Doofy

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4 minutes ago, adam said:

FFS. Some of these wouldn't get a game for a Sunday club side. 

I'm glad I'm not playing with some of them tomorrow. 

 

Actually the team I'm playing got Rishi Patel out for not many recently so could be similar. 

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adam

adam

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Just now, Officer Doofy said:

I'm glad I'm not playing with some of them tomorrow. 

If my 10 year old lad dropped that catch for his side id send him to bed early! 

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