If you liked watching John Krasinski, Tom Clancy's CIA agent Jack Ryan, and are looking forward to seeing Henry Cavill in Winston Churchill's Ministry for Ungentlemanly Warfare, read about a real ungentlemanly spy on the run. His name is Bill Fairclough (MI6 Codename JJ) aka Edward Burlington. In real life Bill Fairclough was recruited by Colonel Alan Pemberton CVO MBE (MI6). Pemberton's People in MI6 were genuine ungentlemanly heroes and even included self-confessed silent killers and Churchill's bodyguard. For more about them do see the News Article dated 31 October 2022 in TheBurlingtonFiles website. It's called Pemberton’s People, Ungentlemanly Officers & Rogue Heroes. By the way, Bill Fairclough is the protagonist in the factual stand-alone spy thriller Beyond Enkription, the first novel to be published in TheBurlingtonFiles series.
See https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2022.10.31.php.

There is a considerable degree of evidence that labor unions make labor markets rigid, which increases unemployment rates, disproportionately impacting younger and older workers (123). It's to anyone's guess why this is the case, but a consequence of collective bargaining is that, by driving up wages, labor costs increase. That means of course that corporations are creating less low-wage jobs in favor of increasing wages for already-existing ones. An unintended consequence is less jobs for job seekers. By restricting the supply of jobs, unions raise wages for members. This is the best explanation I've found for why South Africa and Spain have absurdly high unemployment numbers; and one reason unions became unpopular in the United States.
Granted, I don't want to oppose labor unions. I've been convinced of their necessity. Without unions—as Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill pointed out centuries ago, and the prevalence of monopsony power illustrates (456)—employers will have unequal bargaining power; enough to drive wages down. This is due to various factors, such as market concentration, idiosyncratic preferences among job seekers, imperfect information, etc. The results of monopsony power are devastating. Unions equalize bargaining power and drive pay closer to what they would be if labor markets were actually competitive (closer to their theoretical potential).
But then I ask myself, which is worse:

1. Jobs are abundant; unemployment levels are below their natural rate. But jobs that are readily accessible pay awful wages and working conditions aren't the best. You may have to get a second job just to pay bills.
2. Jobs have handsome pay and benefits, with outstanding working conditions. But because of organized labor, access to those jobs are difficult, resulting in a high unemployment rate among the youth.

I don't know what to think of this. Two sides of me are at conflict here. I think Macron's recent labor reforms so collective bargaining can be done on the company level instead sectoral level is a step in the right direction. There has to be a middle ground between the two extremes above. There has to.

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Key dates on the 2023 NFL / Patriots calendar.

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New England Patriots News Link Catchup - Patriots already a better team than pre-free agency

• Patriots 2023 Free Agent Tracker.
• Mike Dussault notes that according to reports, the Patriots are adding a move tight end to their roster. Mike Gesicki should form a nice pairing with veteran Hunter Henry, providing the offense with an athletic player to be utilized by offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien.
• Transactions: Patriots sign OT Calvin Anderson; Release QB Brian Hoyer.
• Mike Dussault reports the Patriots are bringing back long-time long snapper Joe Cardona.
• Mike Dussault reports DT Daniel Ekuale re-signs with Patriots. He appeared in 15 games last season with two sacks.
• Evan Lazar reports the Patriots are bringing back LB Mack Wilson on a one-year contract. Along with maintaining their depth at off-ball linebacker, Wilson should remain a regular in the kicking game.
• Patriots Catch-22: JuJu Smith-Schuster reaction, analysis of New England’s roster moves in free agency. (84 min.)
• Patriots Unfiltered: Reaction to Pats’ free agency moves so far, JuJu vs. Jakobi debate; More. (2 hours)
• Mike Reiss passes along a report the Patriots agreed to a one-year deal with free-agent tight end Mike Gesicki that is worth up to $9 million.
• Mark Daniels believes that after signing Mike Gesicki, the Patriots offense is headed in right direction.
• Dakota Randall isn’t buying the Patriots doomsday takes amid the Aaron Rodgers-Jets rumors.
• Khari Thompson feels that all in all, the Pats are a better team than they were when they started free agency and still have some money they could use to put toward negotiating extensions, but it’s not nearly enough.
• Andy Hart wants to emphasize that the Patriots are the fourth-best team in the AFC East and yes, he’s aware it’s only March. /Insert eye-roll emoji here.
• Chris Mason writes that after jettisoning Jonnu Smith, Bill Belichick has landed Mike Gesicki, the top free agent TE on the market. Gesicki has averaged 52 catches for 604 yards and five touchdowns over the past four seasons.
• Darren Hartwell says Mike Gesicki is a nice pickup for New England: The 27-year-old set career highs in receptions (73) and receiving yards (780) during a breakout 2021 campaign and caught five touchdown passes in 2022 despite taking a backseat to Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle in the Dolphins’ offense.
• Alex Barth brings up how for the second time in three years, the Pats are signing a high-profile free agent TE.
• Mike Reiss offers his take on why Bill Belichick took a risk in signing JuJu Smith-Schuster over Jakobi Meyers.
• Alex Barth talks about the Patriots bringing back underrated DT Daniel Ekuale on a multi-year deal.
• Doug Kyed explains how the Patriots haven’t missed on re-signing defensive free agents.
• Doug Kyed reports the Patriots finally released QB Brian Hoyer on Thursday.
• Matt Dolloff explains that no, the Patriots are not just dropping $8 million for a running back.
• Zack Cox considers what’s the Patriots’ plan at Tackle after the team’s free agent additions.
• Mike D’Abate (Patriots Country) Patriots host five free agent visits including Rams safety Taylor Rapp and former Patriots DL Trey Flowers.
• Zack Cox notes the Patriots are reportedly hosting oft-injured free agent wideout Bisi Johnson for a visit. Johnson missed the 2021 and 2022 seasons with injuries.
• Tyler Lamb (StadiumRant) The Patriots should look Into these under the radar free agents.
• Zack Cox notes Jakobi Meyers explains his ‘childish’ tweet after the Pats signed JuJu Smith-Schuster.
• Sean T. McGuire highlights Jakobi Meyers’ response when asked about his lowlight at introductory Raiders presser. As always, he handled the question well.
• Sean T. McGuire notes former Patriot and Jet WR Braxton Berrios is staying in the division, signing with Miami.
• Locked On Patriots podcast: Mike D’Abate discusses the JuJu Smith-Schuster signing, his take on the RB James Robinson and more. (20 min.)

Thanks to help from some dear friends on discord, a few days ago I started the process of getting these going again and well it's basically ready to go!
There will be more details to follow, this Is NOT the official launch, that will be either this weekend or next, it is however a chance to prepare your fic.
So to keep the details short. There will be 16 categories (named below). You can nominate one fic per category and self nomination of yourself is allowed.
There's more details avaliable but that's the basics of it. So yeah , this is NOT the launch but prepare your links as that will be soon all things going well.
Here are the categories along with some limitations named:
The following section are the various categories for the awards and what fics/authors qualify:
Best Chapter
Best Overall Fic
Best Ongoing Fic (last updated in at least January 2023)
Best New Fic (must have started in at least January 2023)
Best Author
Best Subreddit Contributor (must have posted/commented on the subreddit to qualify)
Best Discord Contributor (must be in the discord server to both nominate or vote)
Best Completed Fic
Best One Shot ( Must have been started/completed from the year 2018 onwards)
These categories must have been started between 2018-2022 and must have an update since Jan 2022.
Best SI/ISOT
Best Dance era/HOTD Fic
Best OC Fic
Best Crossover
Best AU
Best Crackfic
Best Canon Divergent Fic
Best Canon Compliant Fic

I made a previous post, but I realised the post might not be the shortest path to helping me: https://old.reddit.com/quant/comments/11wwwsc/using_some_r_libraries_for_finance_data_for
For context, I'm following this video at 8:40, attempting to model EAD, PD, and LGD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYm01d2hr6g
For this post, I'm focussing on my current problem, PD.
I got some data from https://financialmodelingprep.com/api/v3/balance-sheet-statement and I thought that would help me model PD, similar to the video. I thought I can use totalCurrentAssets as firm value, totalCurrentLiabilities as short term liabilities, totalNonCurrentLiabilities as long term liabilities. Here is the data for $INTC:

 date totalCurrentAssets totalCurrentLiabilities totalNonCurrentLiabilities 2022-12-31 50407000000 32155000000 46662000000 2021-12-25 57718000000 27462000000 45553000000 2020-12-26 47249000000 24754000000 47299000000 2019-12-28 31239000000 22310000000 36555000000 2018-12-29 28787000000 16626000000 36355000000 

Am I using the right data/columns? They have other columns in the 'Balance Sheet API' available for free, specifying the columns here: https://site.financialmodelingprep.com/developedocs/financial-statement-free-api/#Balance-Sheet-Statement
(As for mu or expected returns, I'm just making it simple and using approximately 10%, derived from their historical stock price)
The problem is that I get 1 as probability default for pretty much every company I've tried. Eyeballing the numbers, I would expect 1, so I thought I'm using the wrong data or columns. What am I doing wrong?

Hi Everyone,
To continue from my post yesterday.
Here's my story. Like all of us I had a difficult childhood, raised by two narcissists (dad overt, mom covert). I'll spare you the details because for the purpose of my response, these are irrelevant. Besides how can we not see ourselves as victims when dwelling on past hurts? I have other med/psych issues and I won't go into those either for fear that I'll reinforce my victim image.
This diagnosis of NPD was given to me after I was hospitalized in psych ward this past Jan (seems like years ago) because of what I think was a narcissistic collapse. Like many of us with NPD, I like looking at porn--it's part of my narcissistic supply. I can look at it when I want (at least discretely) and choose what to view. Nothing hardcore, mind you, but porn is porn is porn. Well, my wife has always been staunchly anti-porn because of the degrading and demeaning way it presents women (I don't disagree). My usage of porn goes back to my teens (before the internet) when all we had were magazines. Never really grew out of it to be honest. But when my new wife tells me she's opposed to porn it probably would have been a good idea to listen (of course I didn't).
Over the early years of our marriage, while I was still in training, I became reckless, looking at this stuff in public places, seemingly daring the Gods to challenge me, not thinking of the serious consequences should I have been caught, e.g., losing my med license (there goes all my hard work getting through college, med school, and residency). We had young children at the time and my wife was a FT mother. What would have I told her should I have been caught and was fired? I surely would have been reported to my state medical society and department of health. An investigation would be underway. The verdict would be published on the public pages of the health website for all to see that my license was suspended/revoked and the reasons listed. So no completing my training, no job in sight because all I knew was medicine. What what I do? How would I support my family? How would I deal with the humiliation? Well as a undiagnosed NPD, I obviously didn't care -- consequences be damned.
My wife has always been an incredibly thoughtful person. To wit:
-She bought me a beautiful framed picture of Sylvester the Cat with his son for my first Father's Day gift. I ignored it.
-She bought me thoughtful gifts for the things and hobbies I really enjoyed. I ignored them and never said thank you.
-She was my practice manager and I never took what she said seriously. Although she has a MPH and could run circles around me with financial-related matters, I saw her as inferior. She couldn't possibly know more about the business end of running a practice (when in fact I don't even know how to balance a checkbook).
-And on and on.
So what was my crisis moment? I continued to look at porn over the years even after I told my wife I wasn't. Then, in early December, 2022 she came across several images of nude women in various positions on our shared Google account. Never mind that she looks at the Photos daily but she also shares images with our children, family, and friends. Imagine the horror, embarrassment should others have seen these images. She texted me that she saw these images and simple wrote "oops." I immediately went into crisis mode. I pulled out all of my usual victimization defenses but none worked. She didn't sleep in our bed that evening for the first time in our marriage. I felt her disgust. But I told her I only recently started looking at it (a lie of course) and I really believed myself and thought she would to. But she didn't. She became cold, distant. My warm caring wife wasn't giving me my supply. I became suicidal, threatening to shoot myself (I have guns). I told her to hide them. I saw a new therapist and told him I was actively suicidal, and that's how I got hospitalized (there for a week).
I thought my issues with my wife were all about sex. She's middle-aged (as am I) but still extremely attractive. She simply wasn't into sex and hasn't been for years, and I always assumed it was because she was postmenopausal. After all, other older women still engage in sex and enjoy it. Well that was my first breakthrough moment: what if it isn't about sex, but about my attitudes and treatment of her? Could that be the cause (yes, it could be). I asked her, and she gave me this incredible look like, uh, yes, and you're only figuring this out now? Well, silly me, yes. My second breakthrough moment is when I (finally) acknowledged that I felt entitled.
Now my wife likes to watch Dr. Phil. He has a very common phrase he asks of his guests: "What were you thinking that made it OK to do the things you did?" My wife asked me, and I simply could not answer the question. But after much soul-searching, I came to realize she was an appendage to me, nothing more, nothing less.
My epiphany: It was like the Grinch at the end of the cartoon hearing the Whos celebrate Christmas without the toys, when he came to his revelation. And so I came to mine when my wife said she was seriously thinking of divorce (and still is).
How did I find out about the diagnosis? Did a psychiatrist tell me? Nope. It was on the discharge paperwork. Imagine a serious diagnosis like NPD and none of the mental healthcare providers told me it. And I'm a physician. So my wife and I began to read up on NPD. Initially I looked at sites where people with NPD shared their thoughts about their condition after they were diagnosed (I needed the confirmation, the affirmation). My wife looked at sites discussing the victims of NPD. She read about trauma bonding, about narcissistic abuse. I saw her revulsion, her anger, frustration, etc. How could she have not seen this earlier? Because I am the ultimate covert narcissist. I put the frog in the pot, filled it with water, and turned up the temp one degree at a time. The poor thing had no idea it was being boiled alive, and so it is with NPD victims.
I had a choice. There was (and still is) a very distinct possibility of divorce. So I kept coming back to Dr. Phil's quote and it finally (FINALLY!!) hit me - she was an appendage, nothing more and nothing less. She was my maid, my accountant, my manager, my lover, but never my equal, never my friend, never my partner. It was a stunning moment. My epiphany. My revelation.
What to do with my new insights? Well, from what I've read looking at Reddit and Quorum, people with NPD who gain awareness of their condition do one of three things: (1) they embrace it, wanting to change for the better (very small percentage), (2) 40% want to go back into their little hideaway spot because it's too painful to come to terms, and (3) 50% know their narcissists but they don't care and have no interest in changing (the usual course of action).
I decided I wanted to try (1). That's when I started to read about how someone with NPD affects (adversely) his loved ones. That's when I realized (slowly) how much I abused my wife, how I ignored her, how I rolled my eyes when she said something that obviously was beneath me to answer. And on and on. Memory after memory came to light, I was flooded with nothing but negatives. How could I have done this? Could I be this uncaring? So, this is when I decided I would no longer hide behind my carefully constructed walls. I let go of my defenses. I deliberately made myself vulnerable. I was scared to hell but I needed to see reality for what it was. I decided I would no longer use my usual victimization strategies. I came up with several simple rules (nothing complicated) how to listen to my wife, and the other things I put into my original post.
Now did I make these changes for my wife? Absolutely. It took several ill-placed pics on Google to start the ball rolling (by the way I still look at the porn but less so and have been honest with my wife but my attitudes are slowly slowly changing).
Someone with NPD cannot look within to make much-needed changes without first having a crisis, collapse, injury, or whatever. I took this opportunity to learn from it, to become a better person.
May be it's too late to save my marriage but should it come to divorce I know moving forwards that should I meet another woman, hopefully I will never go back to my old ways of thinking.
So, to answer Dr. Phil's question: There is absolutely nothing that justifies my behavior or actions. Guilty as charged. My wife now is no longer my narcissistic supply. She is my equal, my partner. And I need to get to know her better. Do you know that after 30 years of marriage, I still don't know her favorite color or her favorite ice cream flavor. I have much to learn and much ground to make up. I pray it's not too late. I'm going to give it my all, to be a better husband, a better friend, a better person. I will accept the consequences of my actions, learn from them, and move forwards. Because, after all, what other choice do we have, really.
Well that's my story. I shall keep everyone apprised of my situation.

I believe in synchronization so much.
When I was going through the darkest point in my life (2020-2022) I kept seeing “33” everywhere… it was extremely eerie. I would receive random messages on my phone from random apps saying like “33! it’s gonna be ok 👍 give it time ,, “ etc.
Before I met my boyfriend …. I was constantly seeing 222 on everything… I had a good knowledge of numerology back then, and I knew that the number 2 meant love and unity between 2 people. I took that as a sign to move in with him and it was the best choice of my life …
Fast forward this week … I’ve been getting so many synchronicities. The other day, my boyfriend came home with white roses…. He said “usually I would buy Color roses, but I couldn’t help but buy the white ones for some reason…” - after that, I’ve been seeing white roses everywhere… in the stores, people I know on social media posting white roses, my little sisters cartoons show white roses, etc…
I also dreamt about horses the other night …. And in my previous post, a Reddit user commented and used a horse analogy shortly after I woke up… and after I looked up “meaning of horse in dream”
So much synchronization… I was told that synchronicities are like little winks from your higher self that everything is working out on the path meant for you.
Just wanted to share my experiences, I’d love to hear some of yours.

I am looking for one Tundra friend to send me three gifts. If there exists on Planet Earth a Tundra player who has room for one more friend, I would be most grateful to be that friend.
My trainer code is 6134 9385 1419.
I completely understand if you delete me after sending the three gifts. I assume most Tundra players have lots (and lots) of friends. Of course, I will reciprocate with gifts.
I respect all players but don't wish to add players from other regions. I can barely manage all the new friends I have made due to Vivillon.
Thanks!

Hopefully this isn't too long:
My boyfriend and I have been dating for 5 years. I am now 24 and he is 29.
Our relationship has begun to involve more real life activities in the last 24 months because I was away at college for most of our relationship. I have begun to realize that my boyfriend may lack the responsibility traits needed to be a successful adult. (Job, car, housing, insurance, saving for retirement)
We have had conversations about this and he says that he will get better with time management, money spending, keeping a job (he keeps getting jobs that lower his hours overtime), etc. At first, I was willing to accept that I would have to guide him sometimes but now I think that he has started to rely on me as a crutch even after I told him the added stress that it makes me feel. I feel like I have to be a mother to him or "wear the pants" in our life together.
I decided to put my foot down and make an ultimatum. He has to move out and at least get a roommate by the time I graduate in the summer of 2024. We agreed to this in the middle of 2022.
Am I being too harsh? I want him to show me that he can be diligent, responsible, and forward thinking. Is it possible that I am forcing him to be something that he is not? Would it be better to walk away?
He says that he barely sleeps and eats because of the ultimatum/stress. He said that I am giving him a lot of stress and he thinks that I am making him choose me or his grandparents (which is not my intention).
Ps. He was also partially raised by his grandparents and lives with them because his mother is not responsible herself (she relies on her husband).
This is my first relationship. My mom wants us to go to therapy and work it out. I'm not sure if it will help although we both are open to going (our reasons why are different though - whole nother story) I would be responsible for making sure we go because he is hard to rely on.
Summary question: Does an ultimatum really work in these type of situations when someone has problems making responsible decisions? tl;dr

Broca's area:
https://www.reddit.com/TargetedEnergyWeapons/comments/zo843x/sound_hum_mind_control_light_entrainment_loude
In 2020, I purchased the heaviest plates of carbon steel at Lowes. I tested approximately 8 of them together at a cabin in the radio quiet zone. I took handwritten notes. Because the libraries were closed due to COVID-19, I didn't type up my notes. My notes were stolen. Steel didn't shield. I returned them.
I also tested a WWII steel helmet on my head and five stacked galvanized steel trash cans.
I also tested sleeping in my car. Car frames are of steel. the depth of steel of my car model is not online. Typically,
The 16-gauge varies between 1.4 and 1.6 millimeters.
https://www.bodyshopbusiness.com/in-the-thick-of-it/#:~:text=Many%20of%20today's%20steel%2Dstructured,even%20thicker%2C%20higher%20strength%20steel.
Most of the frame measures just shy of 3 millimeters thick, and the thicker metal (4 to 5 mm thick) is positioned primarily at stress-concentration points.
https://www.motortrend.com/features/2022-toyota-tundra-chassis-islands-of-strength-frame-explained/#:~:text=Most%20of%20the%20frame%20measures,primarily%20at%20stress%2Dconcentration%20points.
With electricity on, steel in combination with the basalt head crate did not shield vibrations and pulsing sound at ear drum and broca's area. Steel does shield flickering laser light.

Yes, I started facing the stick drift issue yesterday. I purchased my PS5 in June 2022 which makes it only 9 months old. I thought to check with the Sony Service center to see if I can get it repaired/replaced. I went to the Sony Service center today and told them the issue. They said the controller is an accessory and for that, you only have 6 months warranty. I was shocked to know this. I thought the controller would also be covered in 1-year warranty.
I checked the warranty document which I got and nowhere it says that dual sense is only for 6 months warranty. Other documents that I got with my PS5 were the Quick start guide and safety usage guide which do not talk about a warranty (Later found on this subreddit that people also got a Dualsense controller guide, which I did not receive. Verified it via unboxing videos of Indian PS5 model and they also did not get).
Later found a link to the PS5 Dualsense Guide which clearly states on Page 10 that it is covered under 12 month warranty.
Went back to the service center with all the proofs and submitted my controller. They said they will drop an email to Sony with all my documents and will let me know if my claim will be approved.
I don't know if I will get a replacement. But I am sad with the current state of Sony because of their quality issues with the controller (faced the same issues on PS4 Pro controllers) and poor customer support. I want to know if others also faced similar problems in claiming a warranty on Dualsense and how did they get it replaced?
If my warranty claim is rejected what would be a better way to raise my voice?

This applies for the first block in the champo of 6 rounds
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The following players wont be available for the start of the season:
Will Jacks was one of surrey's most important players in the last season scoring [email protected] in the championship, striking at 77 and was also hugely important opening in the blast which got him an ipl deal and England debuts in all three formats, county fans will never forget his demolishing of simon harmer to save the match against Essex. He is injured and out of the ipl, unavailable.
Sam Curran has regained his ipl deal after a great winter for england and reinventing himself as a death bowler and strong hitter, he played most of the blast as well as 5 champo matches, scoring 454 runs @ 75 with a strike rate of 79 including his maiden century in senior cricket. He'll be missed as he goes off to india.
Reece Topley also has his first ipl deal, he only played 3 matches last season taking [email protected] but with a much greater career record its another hit to the depth. He'll be much more important in the blast where he'll be available.
Tom Curran is currently injured and also has left red ball cricket for the time being, got his maiden century at Northampton after working on his batting during his injury.
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The following players didn't play a first class match in 2022 or since then, some will be available but unlikely to be selected:
Laurie Evans hasn't played any cricket recorded on cricinfo since the hundred and hasn't played first class in a few years now as he comes to the end of his career.
Jason Roy after being dropped from the england t20 side wasn't able to retain his form in that format but did score an incredible 145* (63) for quetta in the psl and has scored 2 odi centuries from 9 innings in the winter, his last first class match was in 2020 but without an ipl deal or much england selection he may return to first class cricket.
Chris Jordan's last first class match was in 2019 for sussex, I don't think first class is included in his surrey contract.
Sunil Narine is T20 only.
Matthew Dunn only managed to get into the heavily weakened one day side in 2021.
Nick KImber only featured in the one day cup and is yet to make his first class debut, though the bowling all rounder could this season.
Josh Blake is surrey's third choice keeper and is yet to make an appearance outside the one day cup, may do if Jamie Smith is called up to the england side or is injured.
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The following players are available and hasn't played a cricinfo recorded match since last summer:
Connor Mckerr played three FC matches for surrey in 2022, finding it hard to nail down a spot there so went on loan to kent at the end of the season for game time, he took 8 wickets in those 5 matches.
Dan worral was a key part of surreys championship success since switching his allegiance to england and moving to south london, in 9 matches he took 39 wickets at 24 with an economy below 2. He'll be very important this season.
Ben Geddes played three first class matches in his second season of senior cricket, captaining the youthful one day side and scoring 176 runs @ 44 including his second FC century.
Jordan Clark played 11 games in the championship and was incredibly important though he is most remembered for his roses hattrick of williamson, bairstow and root. He scored 481 runs at 43 and took 30 wickets @ 35.
Rory Burns, the captain leader legend won his second championship as skipper averaging 40 with 3 hundreds and was one of just 3 players to play every game, the reliable top order alongside him of Amla and Patel. He scored the winnings runs of the championship.
Dan Moriarty appeared just once last season as a victim of Batty's part time spin approach, he was much more important in the blast and got a 100 gig, I imagine that's where his career is going.
James Taylor played the first three games of the season taking 4 wickets but got an injury, he hasn't played since and I'm unaware of his progress, he may still not be available.
Ryan Patel nailed down his spot in the surrey side playing all 14 games and averaged 35 opening the batting and his medium pace entertained some fans at the oval greatly. He also earned a spot in the county select xi to face the kiwis.
Nico Reifer made his first class debut against the sri lankan development xi scoring 68, he's from barbados and the cousin of the West indian international of the same name. I imagine he'll earn a few more appearances this season.
Nathan Barnwell also made his first class debut against the SLCDXI but I imagine he will struggle for appearances.
Tom Lawes' debut season in senior cricket was really impressive, playing 6 championship games taking 18 wickets at 22 and a valuable [email protected] runs will see him play quite a few surrey matches this season as he also made his blast and one day cup debuts.
Cameron Steel, Will Jacks' understudy bowled well when used in his 5 championship matches after signing for the club, taking [email protected] but his batting wasn't up to his usual standard with a high score of 48, he was born in the US so I wonder if they've tried to sign him.
Dom Sibley resigned from warwickshire, he played well there scoring [email protected] and upping his strike rate to a mighty 42, his return should really help the top order with Amla's retirement.
Amar Virdi's only first class appearances was for somerset on loan where he went wicketless, despite lions appearances and an incredible record he's unwanted mostly by surrey, having not made a t20 appearance in his career. I think he could likely move for more matches.
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The following players are available for the first block and have been playing other matches recorded by cricinfo in the winter:
Ben Foakes played 3 test matches scoring 2 fifties, batting well and keeping superbly as usual, when england doesn't take him i imagine he'll be first choice for surrey in the summer after scoring [email protected] in the championship last summer in 9 appearances.
Jamie Smith, second choice keeper who played superbly in his 8 matches, scoring [email protected] including a 234* at bristol on a pitch ollie pope called "a bit flat". He played 4 lions matches in the winter, scoring a century in a first class match at galle, a 50 against the sri lankan presidents xi and some top keeping.
Ollie Pope, invincible at the oval scored [email protected] in his 8 championship matches striking at 66 with 2 run a ball centuries at the oval. He scored 108 in Rawlapindi and 60 in multan whilst stepping in behind the stumps for an ill Ben Foakes. He scored 115 across 4 innings in the test in new zealand and played 2 franchise matches for the first time in his career for the gulf giants scoring 18 runs in 2 innings.
Angus Atkinson was extremely important in the blast for surrey and in the championship bowled very well in the 4 matches he was included in taking 13 wickets @ 28 and will build on those this summer I'm sure. He also had his first franchise winter at 24 years old, playing 10 of the desert vipers 12 games, taking 9 wickets with an economy of 7.8 and was unused by islamabad united in the psl.
Kemar Roach will return for the first block after proving incredible in his 2 previous seasons at the oval with 25 wickets @ 26 in his seven games last season. He played 4 tests in the winter taking 9 wickets including a devastating fifer at centurion.
Sean Abott makes his return to surrey, at time of writing he's currently bowling at chennai, playing well in this series in his international return in the last year. Played well in all three formats domestically including 21 wickets @ 29 in the sheffield shield for new south wales.
Jamie overton, plagued by injury played 1 match in the winter in a lions match in abu dhabi. Last season he played 10 games with his performances earning him a test debut with 34 wickets @ 25 and 355 runs at 29.
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Thats your lot