Due to the runaway sucess (!) of this feature, I have put it on the Raggybear archive as a permenent post.
Warwickshire's start to the season has been disrupted somewhat by various injuries and problems with availability of key players. As usual news is a little patchy and in various places, so this is where the Raggybear comes into its own (with its patented traffic light system for availability, specifically for those people who are in a rush, or who are illiterate but with the capacity to recognise names). News as at today is:
Tim Ambrose - was available and waiting on Sunday, will play in the Championship game against Northants this week.
Ian Bell - will join up with the team for this week's championship match
Monde Zondeki - due to join the squad this week and expected to make his debut in the Championship
Boyd Rankin - missed out on last week's game through a lack of match fitness following his recovery from a broken foot but has now picked up a new shoulder injury which is ruling him out for now. He is due to have a scan this week.
Jim Troughton - continues to be troubled by the back injury he picked up before last week's game. Is due to begin training today, but is very doubtful for the game on Wednesday.
Naqqash Tahir - has begun light training following his shin splints problem, is unlikely to play this week.
Jimmy Anyon - has started training again, following recovery from a torn muscle in his right forearm but could still miss out this week. - updated, in the squad for CC match against Northants
Ian Salisbury - is in the squad for the CC game against Northants.
Stuart Hole - last reported to have a hamstring strain on 9th April, still out as far as I know.
Nick James - has fully recovered from the broken toe he suffered in the nets and played for the seconds last week and was in the squad for the FP Trophy game on Sunday.
Monday, 21 April 2008
Injury Update
Sunday, 25 November 2007
A quiet month?
I have to confess to not keeping this blog as up to date as I might since the Loudon retirement. Rest assured that I was not so broken by the news that I found myself unable to continue writing the blog, it was merely that will no England cricket tours going on it is hard to stay focused on the goings on at Edgbaston.
The big issues of the past month are the confirmation that Dougie Brown is going to be involved in the coaching set-up as the academy director, which is a good bit of news. I'm not sure whether he is any good as a coach or not, but quite frankly he should be kept at Edgbaston even if he's pretty useless at everything post-playing; they could just build him a little flat in the prioy stand and he could live there with Dermot.
Ian Salisbury has to be a fairly big punt as a signing, I can't see him playing every game and he didn't have a fantastic year last year. It looks as though we'll be better off with out fancy boy Van Jaarsveld who has decided that he does like South Africa after all and seems to have refused to come back. He seems such a mercurial character that I'm not sure he will go on to develop into much anyway, he certainly seems to have a fairly good idea of his own worth and at the time of writing is reported as refusing to answer calls from Warwickshire.
Finally the membership prices have gone up for this year and may well price a few people out. I for one will have to very carefully decide whether to renew my membership. As new school cricket administrators are fond of labouring, cricket is a "product" and quite frankly that product was overpriced in its last offering to the marketplace, and your correspondent found it personally just about the same in price as individual tickets for last season. For myself and the missus it will involve going to two more games to "make our money back". Combined we will have to attend at least 20 days of cricket next year. As we both have full time jobs we may well not renew our membership and keep some flexibility about when we pay and when we don't.
Oh, and I have updated the playing squad post below with all the new news.