\u201cIn effect, we\u2019re playing a four-day game spread over two different venues, with all the squad, or as much of the squad involved in all four days as possible. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll get through that, then after a couple of days off from Cricket we play Warwickshire at Edgbaston on the Saturday, Sunday and Monday, which, again, will be pretty much a whole squad involvement and we will try and give as many people opportunities as we can. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we\u2019ll probably just narrow that focus the closer we get to the Derbyshire game, we\u2019ll see how it lands. We are very much in the lap of the gods with the weather, we\u2019ve been very lucky in the last couple of days that it\u2019s been beautiful and sunny, but we know that could easily change for us. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo, we\u2019ll take the opportunity as best we can but we\u2019ll certainly get as many guys out there playing competitive cricket as possible and just make sure that we\u2019re all really aligned with what we\u2019re trying to achieve and how we\u2019re going to try and achieve that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aside from new signing Beyers Swanepoel, who\u2019s arrival is imminent, young wicket-keeper batter Henry Cullen was the only absentee from training this week after his delayed arrival back from a successful winter stint playing in Australia.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the crucial block of fixtures starting on Sunday, much of the Worcestershire squad are fit and available for selection, all apart from three players, who will be absent from Sunday\u2019s opening match at Hove.<\/p>\n
Bowler Ben Allison and batter Dan Lategan have been ruled out due to some minor injury concerns, whilst Richardson explained the reasoning behind the planned absence of opening batter, Rehaan Edavalth.<\/p>\n
\u201cRehaan will be with Loughborough University this week. They\u2019ve got fixtures against Notts and Gloucestershire and I think it\u2019s really important for him to play there. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a huge part of the programme there and it\u2019s a real good opportunity for him to play against some really good opposition.<\/p>\n
\u201cBen Allison\u2019s got a little bit of a back niggle at the moment, so we just need to manage that, meaning he\u2019ll probably miss a little bit of time for us. <\/p>\n
\u201cDan Lategan is just subject to some ongoing investigations into some shoulder stuff with him, we just need to be careful with that. Certainly, for Dan, it\u2019ll be modified a little bit to start off with, but he should still be part of those pre-season games in some form.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIn effect, we\u2019re playing a four-day game spread over two different venues, with all the squad, or as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-488508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}