Warwickshire vs Derbyshire, VITALITY T20 BLAST 2023, Today Match Prediction

warks vs derby Match Prediction & Analysis

T20 Blast tournament is spicing up with teams fighting hard to gain crucial points from every match. Warwickshire won their first 4 matches but suffered back to back losses in their next 2 matches and they will look to return to winning momentum in this match. Derbyshire won 2 of their last 2 matches after losses in first 3 matches. Both teams will look to win this match and make a move ahead in this table.

TEAMS PREVIEW

Warwickshire Preview

Warwickshire failed to chase down the score of 215 runs and lost the match by 11 runs in the last over. Sam Hain was their top scorer with 97 runs off 52 balls with 8 boundaries and 4 sixes. Alex Davies (19 runs), Barnard (19 runs), and Dan Mousely (28 runs) led their innings with crucial cameos in the middle. They will hope their batters will post a good a big score in this match too.

Their bowlers gave the opposition to 214/3 in the match. Their trio of Craig Miles (0/45), Maxwell (0/18), and Dan Briggs (0/15) went for runs at over 12 RPO in the match. Brookes was superb with the spell of 4-0-34-2 while Dan Mousely chipped in with economical spell of 4-0-24-0.

Key players: Dan Mousely, Sam Hain, Glenn Maxwell 

Warwickshire Predicted Playing XI:

Sam Hain, Dan Mousely, Daniel Briggs, Glenn Maxwell, Craig Miles, Henry Brookes, Alex Davies, Barnard, Moeen Ali, Benjamin, Jake Lintott 

Warwickshire Actual Playing XI:

Chris Benjamin, Sam Hain, Robert Yates, Danny Briggs, Craig Miles, Chris Woakes, Alex Davies, Dan Mousley, Moeen Ali, Henry Brookes, Glenn Maxwell

Derbyshire Preview

Derbyshire lost their last match against Yorkshire by 7 wickets as they scored 166/8 in 20 overs. Haider Ali played a valiant 47-ball 74-run knock to lead their batting line-up. Wayne Madsen chipped with a crucial 46 runs in the match. Their top order batters need to play more consistently and post a big score in this match too.

Their bowlers gave the opposition to 170/3 in 18.2 overs. Zak Chappel (1/34), Thomas Wood (1/17) and George Scrimshaw (1/33) chipped in with a wicket each in the match while Mark Watt was economical in his spell of 2-0-12-0 in the match .

Key players: Haider Ali, George Scrimshaw, Mark Watt

Derbyshire Predicted Playing XI:

Luis Reece, Haider Ali, George Scrimshaw, Mark Watt, Zak Chappel, Thomas Wood, Wayne Madsen, Leus de Ploy, Brooke Guest, Matt McKiernan, Zaman Khan 

Derbyshire Actual Playing XI:

Zak Chappell, Wayne Madsen, George Scrimshaw, Tom Wood, Matt McKiernan, Brooke Guest, Zaman Khan, Luis Reece, Leus du Plooy, Mark Watt, Haider Ali

PITCH AND WEATHER CONDITIONS

Weather Conditions

Birmingham is one of the placid tracks where bowlers will have an upper hand owing to true bounce. Birmingham will have bright and sunny weather on the match day with no rain expected.

Venue Details

Birmingham will have good bounce and pace that will be enjoyed by the bowlers and any target above 200 runs will be tough to chase on this pitch.

Toss: To Bowl

Both teams will look to bowl first as this pitch might ease down as the match progresses and both teams have good success rate while chasing so far.