Fine margins and momentum it feels like currently. Finding ways to lose games.

Our last over goes for four with three wickets off the last three balls. Find the way we approach the middle overs tedious, lots of swinging and missing at Scrimshaw who was executing a simple short at the big boundary plan.

Barnard looks a little off the pace as a T20 captain. The loss of Briggs, Lintott, and Hassan Ali as three incredibly experienced T20 players and bloody good bowlers has hurt immeasurably it seems. Desperate for Gleeson to come back in to at least offer some threat first up.

For what it’s worth, I feel pretty sorry for Taz Ali who bowled immensely in that first game at Glos and has been asked to do a relatively thankless and almost experimental job thereafter.

Bowled three balls with no one behind square today, all of which went to the boundary and two from false shots. Extremely talented and full of potential, but not being given the surroundings to demonstrate his ability enough for me.

Our last over was disappointing and I did wonder at the time if 208 was enough but even if we got another 10, it doesn't mean we would have won as exactly the same thing can't happen if the circumstances change. But, that was defendable but the 'Powerplay' was awful, too many short balls and it continued into the 12 before we appeared to bring it back slightly. I cannot see the point of bowling it halfway down the pitch, full balls proved to be difficult to hit and so our best batting was followed by our worst bowling. What to do, is it too late, try Gilchrist and Bamber or change the name back to 'Birmingham Bears'. Just a thought, some bloke called Lintott took 4-1-19-3 today v Surrey, just saying.

Well some of you did say it was our worse team in years. I didn’t think we’d be 0-4. A few brighter points today but Northants looked a stronger team with the bat.