Steven Finn roared back to the top of our table of county players to watch this season with his nine wicket haul in his first home test match at Lord's over the weekend.
Regular visitors to this site will know that just before the start of the county season, we named our dozen players to watch (see Part 1 and Part 2 here). We thought it would be fun to see how the 12 fare over the 2010 season, so devised what is probably a flawed points system to help assess their progress. We recently extended this list to 16, adding Andrew Gale, Chris Woakes, James Hildreth and Ben Stokes to the mix.
Finn now has a big lead at the top of the table as the points system is weighted towards test appearances and performances. He was helped by the weather decimating the programme of county matches, which meant only two of our 16 were able to star. Prior to the game against Middlesex, James Taylor has not been able to repeat the excellent consistency of 2009, but he came back to form with a bang with an unbeaten double century.
And for the second successive match, Adil Rashid took four wickets and hit a fifty as the Roses petered out to a draw. Rashid seems to have regained form and confidence and with the World Cup being on the subcontinent next year, maybe now is the time that the England selectors gave him a run in the side for the forthcoming one day matches with Australia and Bangladesh.
| The Reverse Sweep's County Players to watch 2010 - League Table | |||||||
| Player | County | Played | Points | Points awarded* | |||
| Finn | Middlesex | 6 | 99 | County Appearance | 5 | ||
| Rashid | Yorkshire | 8 | 89 | Lions Appearance | 10 | ||
| Gale | Yorkshire | 8 | 85 | Test appearance | 20 | ||
| Hildreth | Somerset | 7 | 77 | T20I/ODI appearance | 3 | ||
| Taylor | Leics | 8 | 75 | Score of 40-49 | 3 | ||
| Stokes | Durham | 7 | 68 | 50-99 | 5 | ||
| Woakes | Warks | 7 | 66 | 100-199 | 10 | ||
| Kieswetter | Somerset | 10 | 59 | 200+ | 20 | ||
| Hamilton-Brown | Surrey | 7 | 59 | 3 wickets in an innings | 3 | ||
| Northeast | Kent | 7 | 50 | 4 wickets | 5 | ||
| Panesar | Sussex | 7 | 50 | 5 or 6 wickets | 10 | ||
| Bopara | Essex | 4 | 38 | 7wickets+ | 20 | ||
| Wainwright | Yorkshire | 4 | 24 | Catches | 1 | ||
| Tremlett | Surrey | 3 | 23 | Stumpings | 3 | ||
| Borthwick | Durham | 4 | 22 | ||||
| Hales | Notts | 2 | 21 | ||||
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