Michael Vaughan

And that's got to change.

But that's one of the changes that has to come.

No, I agree.

I mean, sure, they're not, you know, strike rates in the longer format of the game for me, they're not irrelevant, but at the top of the order they are.

Yeah.

We need players that can bat a long period of time to be the number one test team in the world, which has to be the goal for this side.

You need so many facets to be really good.

And one of them is you need players to bat a long period of time.

Guess what?

To wear the opposition bowlers down.

So fancy 30s and 40s.

They've never won any big series.

So I just hope that's the message that they send on March the 30th, that we want players that can bat for a long period of time.

And you know what?

Playing the big drive on the up probably is not going to give you that chance.

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, I look at someone like Jamie Smith and think it's going to be quite an interesting scenario that he'll go back to play for Surrey and he's not going to keep.

No.

Now, the one thing that I think Jamie Smith needs to improve, I think he's a very talented batter, but there's areas of his batting that needs to improve, but there's certainly lots of areas of his keeping and he's the kind of player that you just need him to be keeping for day in, day out in the county game, but he's not going to get that opportunity to do so.

of players but coming back to what is going to be up for grabs at the start of the season Zach Crawley needs a good start Ben Duckey it's difficult for because he could be warming the bench for Delhi Capitals right up to the I think he's had enough to guarantee a slot Ben Duckey that would be my thinking that Ben will definitely play it's just if Zach Crawley goes back to Kent and wins that race so to win that race Zach needs a few hundreds in that opening burst of matches then you're looking at likes of Hasib Hamid you've got Dom Sibley