Derbyshire vs Warwickshire, Royal London One-Day Cup, Today Match Prediction 27 July 2021

derby vs warks Match Prediction & Analysis

Royal London One-Day Cup is up and running successfully despite a lot of obstacles coming their way and is truly feasting the audience with good action packed one-day cricket. Derbyshire and Warwickshire the two teams in the contention in this match are not having a great tournament so far losing all their matches played so far. They need to end this slide and get back to winning ways to resurrect their campaign. The team losing this match will have their third straight loss and both teams will look to avoid this unwanted streak.

TEAMS PREVIEW

Derbyshire Preview

Derbyshire recovered from 36/3 to post a good total of 298 runs on board in the last game courtesy of a brilliant 142-run partnership between Hudson-Prentice (93 runs) and Brooke Guest (74 runs). Some late order 20+ cameos from lower order boosted their scoring rate in the final overs.  

Their bowlers did not challenge the opposition batsmen effectively as they lost the match by 6 wickets with one over remaining. Alex Thomson and Hudson-Prentice took 2 wickets each while no other bowler picked up wickets and wen t for runs at over 6 RPO.  

Top players to bet on:

Hudson-Prentice – Hudson was brilliant all-round in the last match scoring 93 runs off 87 balls counterattacking and claiming 2 important wickets inside the batting power play. But very little support from other bowlers cost them the match. .   

Alex Thomson – Alex Thomson tried his best with bowling figures of 10-0-48-2 and he broke two 100+ partnerships but his team could not capitalize on neither of it.   

Derbyshire Predicted Playing XI:

Billy Godleman (c), Harry Came, Brooke Guest, Fynn Hudson-Prentice, Anuj Dal, Harvey Hosein (wk), Matt McKiernan, Connor Marshall, Nils Priestley, Ben Aitchison, Ravi Rampaul

Warwickshire Preview

Warwickshire batting unit has been bowled out for sub-240 scores in both the matches. Robert Yates put on spirited showing last game with a century while Michel Burglees and Chris Benjamin scored half-centuries in the first match. Mathew lamb and Will Rhodes have played some camos but are yet to get a big score.

Their bowling attack was taken for 323 runs in the last game. Will Rhodes picked up 3 wickets while Ethan Brookes claimed 2 wickets respectively. Robert Yates, Ryan Sidebottom, and Jacob bethel picked up a wicket each but were taken for runs at 6 RPO.

Top players to bet on:

Robert Yates – Yates played his first game this season scoring 103 runs alongside his bowling figures of 8-1-48-1 in the match. He will look to repeat his brilliant performance in this match too.

Will Rhodes – Will Rhodes was the pick of the bowlers with 7-0-40-3 claiming crucial wickets in death overs and he looked good for his 39 runs with the bat at the No. 3 position.

Warwickshire Predicted Playing XI:

Ed Pollock, Robert Yates, Will Rhodes (c), Michael Burgess (wk), Matthew Lamb, Jacob Bethell , Ethan Brookes, Ashish Chakrapani, Kiel van Vollenhoven, Manraj Johal, Ryan Sidebottom

PITCH AND WEATHER CONDITIONS

Weather Conditions

Derby weather looks dark and gloomy with nearly 90% chances of rain as per the forecasters.  We expect rain to make a big appearance in this game.   

Venue Details

Derby is a high scoring ground with batsmen making merry time in most their matches last season. Teams scored 290+ runs in 4 of the 6 matches played here last season. We expect a placid pitch with an average score of 300 runs in this match.

Toss: To Bowl

Chasing is the best option on batting friendly pitches and with rain threat looming we expect both captains to take the safe option of chasing in this match.