Ben Sanderson

They wouldn't thank me for calling them that.

But, I mean, Ben Sanderson just keeps, like old Father Thames, just keeps rolling along.

I mean, 47 wickets this year.

If he gets to 50 in the championship, which I'm sure he will, then it'll be the first time he's actually got to 50 championship wickets for seven years, which is quite surprising.

But when it comes to the Tudor Roses, real standout players in this fixture, Dan, who do you think as supporters, as spectators, as fans of the game, we should be keeping extra close tabs on here in Northampton? I think we probably

both have to start with a favourite of both of ours, and it's got to be Ben Sanderson, hasn't it? I mean, how does he keep doing it? And it doesn't feel like he gets the headlines written about him that he deserves to.

He's always at the top.

He's gone through so many milestones over the last couple of years with the number of career wickets or Northamptonshire wickets that he's taken.

I don't mind it as a fixture.

Worcestershire at New Road, very, very seam bowler friendly.

I mean, who knows what's going to happen if Ben Sanderson performs the way that Ben Sanderson can and the way he did against Worcestershire earlier this year.

That sounds like a nice matchup.

George Bartlett's what an innings that was in the first knock, and Ricardo Vasconcelos getting a ton in the second.

And the bowling catalyzed by the ever-dependable Ben Sanderson.

You had Luke Proctor in the wickets, you had Yuzvendra Chahal in the wickets.

This was a proper team performance from the Tudor Rose, and it sets up a mouth-watering clash this week at the Cinch County Grounds.

You mentioned Matt Potts.

He is the leading wicket-taker in the division, 49 wickets at 17.71. Three wickets behind him is Ben Aitcheson with 46 at 20.3. And the most impressive thing for me, this year, not only has he got a century at Lord's, which has almost catapulted him into a little bit more of a bowling all-rounder status, but he's got four five-wicket hauls.

It's the joint most in the entire division, only joined by Ben Sanderson, who also has a quartet, the North Ant seamer, unsurprisingly, in third place in the overall standings with 45 wickets.

But Ben Aitcheson has had such a desperately unlucky run with injuries in the past few seasons This feels like a massive, massive turning point, not only for his position in that Derbyshire side, but for his wider career.

Yeah, very much so.

Also as well, I think at this point, can we shout out, by the way, Ben Sanderson, who's come in there.

Obviously, I thought that Benjamin was not going to be fit that he was, but I thought he bowled pretty well.

It

It's credit to him, massively, that he's still prepared with a dodgy hamstring to run in like he does.

But he just wasn't quite right and you could tell.

I think as well, what was key here, and I think is a crucial point again, is that with Ben Sanderson, Matt Henry was left out because Ben Sanderson had bowled so well.

So that's all that needs to be said on that one.