Danny Briggs

[Weston Saint]

On tour with England Lions in West Indies.

 

Just taken 6/45 with match figures of 9/96 his best bowling figures in First Class Cricket.

 

Top wicket taker for England on tour with 24 from five matches average 18.58.

 

Also recored his highest score - 38no in a previous game on tour.

 

Jimmy Adams also in team as opening bat has 350 runs (4th highest for England) from 5 matches with 1 century and 2 fifties averaging 43.75

 

Adams has also taken 5 catches and Briggs 3

[Evil Monkey]

Fantastic. Surely a call up to the full England team could be on the cards for Briggs in the summer?

 

I'd love to see what he could do in India right now actually. Swann, Tredwell and Briggs would be a great spin line up.

[Window Cleaner]

Fantastic. Surely a call up to the full England team could be on the cards for Briggs in the summer?

 

I'd love to see what he could do in India right now actually. Swann, Tredwell and Briggs would be a great spin line up.

 

Never mind the England call ups, what we need is someone available to finish off stubborn opposition 7,8 and 9s.It's been a big problem for Hampshire these last couple of years.

[Eastcowzer]

Fantastic. Surely a call up to the full England team could be on the cards for Briggs in the summer?

 

I'd love to see what he could do in India right now actually. Swann, Tredwell and Briggs would be a great spin line up.

 

EM, you are surely the world's greatest optimist. Neither will play for England while the present selectors remain in place and continue to select on good attendance rather on merit. They could'nt pick the winner in a one-horse race

They,(the selectors) took Panesar to Australia and only played him in warm up games before the First Test, much prefering to fly Plunkett half-way round the world for what ?.

a ten minute cameo in the last ODI. Likewise the latest air-miles collector, Dernham, of whom I personally had never heard of before, but apparently has some merit with the round thing that other countries call a cricket ball, though England have difficulty in knowing what it is for

[Berkshire Saint]

Dernbach you mean? He is a pie-chucker, bizzare decision to call him up ahead of Woakes.

 

Whilst it's great to see Briggs doing well and I really rate him, I wouldn't get too excited. West Indies cricket is pretty weak and the pitches are notoriously spin friendly these days for some reason. Or maybe it's because the West Indies are usually so awful at playing spin. Five of the top six leading wicket takers in the competition (including Briggs) are spinners.

 

Imagine he'll be a bit jaded by the start of the season after a long stint and a lot of cricket in the West Indies so I doubt he'll play much at the start of our season. He should look to establish himself in the one day team (his one day stats aren't great yet despite his amazing T20 record) and hopefully from July onwards he'll play as a second spinner along with Tahir in some Championship matches. I think South Africa are touring England in 2012 so we won't have Tahir back then which means Briggs will get a full run in the side as the main spinner that year. He's not 20 until next month amazingly! He'll definitely play for England at some point, potentially the winter tours of 2012/13?