23 average was Chris Woakes in the England test team as a decent #8 or #9 plus top class swing bowling with new ball.
Prest, Organ, Gubbins et all, out of contract, move on from them all. I’d have said Ben Brown too had Giles White not been a dickhead and given him a new contract.
The likes of Mayes is worth a gamble in D2 in a side with more experience and quality by batting lower, learn his trade at #7 or #8.
Sussex must be looking around even with their troubles and thinking ‘how are some of this lot on the same pitch as us? They’re woeful’.