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Northamptonshire are favorites to win
Northamptonshire will take on Worcestershire at the Country Cricket Ground, Northampton. This T20 match gets underway at 18:30 local time on Wednesday 24th May.
With six wins and six defeats to go alongside their two no-results last season, the Steelbacks missed out on the knockout stage by only one point. They will point to their no-results as evidence that they were not far off a successful season and they have recruited well ahead of this campaign.
Australian big-hitting batter Chris Lynn is returning to Northamptonshire for this campaign but will have a tough job to replicate his impressive numbers from last year when he averaged 64.50. Newly installed captain, David Willey, is also capable of big runs from any position in the order.
Expect David Willey to open the bowling and exploit any swing on offer at the top of the innings. Ben Sanderson impressed across the 2022 T20 Blast with 16 wickets and new signing Andrew Tye comes into this tournament as the second highest BBL wicket taker in history.
Northamptonshire did not win any of their final five matches of last year’s campaign but will be looking to start in the same manner as they did in 2022.
There is a change in leadership at Worcestershire with Moeen Ali leaving the county to play for Birmingham Bears at the end of last season. Brett D’Oliveira will captain the side who have signed three quality overseas players for this year’s tournament.
Scoring runs was the major issue for the Rapids last year with Colin Munro’s total of 323 the highest in the side. They only secured two victories across the whole tournament in 2022 and they will be hoping their overseas players in Azhar Ali and all-rounders Michael Bracewell and Mitchell Santner can make big contributions.
In spite of being plagued by injuries over many of recent seasons, Pat Brown is still recognised as one of the best pace bowlers in England in this format when fully fit. Spinners Bracewell will be used primarily in a holding role to keep the runs down on this surface.
Worcestershire won only one of their last nine matches in the 2022 Vitality Blast and will be hoping to get an early win this year.
This Vitality T20 Blast game will be played at the County Cricket Ground, Northampton. The average first innings score at this venue in T20 cricket last year was 196 and we expect a strong batting wicket.
Read on for team previews, betting tips, latest odds, and match prediction for Northamptonshire vs Worcestershire, Vitality T20 Blast 2023
David Willey (c), Josh Cobb, Emilio Gay, Rob Keogh, Chris Lynn, Lewis Mcmanus, Ben Sanderson, Andrew Tye, Ricardo Vasconcelos, Graeme White, Saif Zaib
Brett D’Oliviera (c), Michael Bracewell, Adam Hose, Ben Cox, Ed Pollock, Matthew Waite, Usama Mir, Dillon Pennington, Adam Finch, Pat Brown, Mitchell Stanley
After a very poor campaign last year, the Rapids will be desperate to get off to a winning start but they look to have a much weaker side to Northamptonshire. Chris Lynn and Andrew Tye are expert players in this format and we expect the Steelbacks to get off to win this game.
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