Lanky won the toss and put the Bears in to bat. Miles in for Lintott. Still no sign of a preview from the club or moody Moeen.

TEAM:

Alex Davies (c), (wk),
Tom Latham
Dan Mousley
Sam Hain
Ed Barnard
Rob Yates
George Garton
Hassan Ali
Craig Miles
Richard Gleeson
Danny Briggs

Big game tonight

Good start even with the wickets.

Davies showing all of his leadership skills by getting out to a poor shot, again!

When you have an opener that fails consistantly, it has a negative effect on the rest of the team.

The team will not be successful until we have a sensible and successful opening partnership in all forms of the game.

We could have held back a little, made sure that we were only 4 or 5 down with 2/3 overs to go and really gone for it but instead we have continued going after boundaries and are now in a bit of a hole. The pitch looks like it is at least a 200 score...........if Butler & Salt get going maybe more & with Miles bowling 220!

GARTON!!

Great start for Garton - except for a wide a 2 wkt maiden.

Great start with the ball

That's the catch of the season from Rob Yates, what a fielder he is.

Great catch by Yates......that over was looking a bad one until then!

We could do with taking a bit of pace off the ball

Good win, Hartley put his hands through a few though.

It is a tight table. Another win should do it but 2 would be ideal.

Excellent win over the Lancashire Globetrotters. OHD said they haven't beaten us at home in T20 for 11 years. Everyone contributed and Yates's catch was worthy of winning any game.

A good win just a bit of a blip the consecutive overs by Briggs and Mousley but otherwise superb. That catch was certainly very special.

Exceptional win. Loved how we kept going hard with the bat, particularly Mousley and Barnard, despite the loss of the early wickets. T20's really can be defined by what happens in the PowerPlays. Lancashire stayed there or thereabouts with the rate but we kept taking wickets, it really is the best way to control the run rate. Modest but enthusiastic and supportive crowd this evening.

as well as Mousley timed the ball i thought Wood's poor bowling cost them the game, Mouse got most of his early boundaries off rank half volleys on leg stump and one through the off side and IIRC Latham and Davies also benefitted from him giving too much width through the off side to that short boundary, their boundaries were gimme balls pretty much with that boundary width.

considering how their spinners often manage to restrict us when we play them away from home (and we often aren't the best at capitalising on spin in the middle overs) I thought we did really well to take Green down for 10s Wells for 8s and Hartley for I think 7s, also we targeted and gave their number 3 seamer the treatment in his first over which was smart cricket.

the players clearly felt it was a 200+ par pitch hence how hard they went and, as said above, the only way to prevent getting hammered on that pitch was to take wickets consistently.

If I were a Lancs fan I'd have been very unhappy with Jennings's flick to the one fielder out on that boundary and I thought Turner's shot off i think Briggs's second ball was also a poor decision.

i don't usually say this but i felt they lost it at least as much as we won it, we got far too many boundaries early that we didn't have to really work for.

Garton's yorker to Buttler, though, eh? what a ball BTW

It was the first time I have really paid attention to Gleeson and I found it fascinating. For such a big man if you watch him go through the crease he resembles a Hassan Ali type much more than say a Flintoff, there's no big leap and gather, he really has a beautiful nimble, light-footed skip through the crease so his quite fast run-up hardly loses any pace.

It's the lack of front arm that gets me, how is he generating so much pace from that. He's utterly rapid.