Good luck to the Bears this evening, i am hoping we can put in a good performance and pull off a win. I do think we might go with the extra batsman tonight, so maybe Malik in at 7?
Good luck to the Bears this evening, i am hoping we can put in a good performance and pull off a win. I do think we might go with the extra batsman tonight, so maybe Malik in at 7?
Bears have won the toss and bat first
Yates
Davies*+
Mousley
Hain
Barnard
Smith
Garton
Briggs
Lintott
Gleeson
OHD
OHD playing his first T20 match since the quarter final loss v Essex 2 seasons ago.
Great start from Yates.
We are in danger of not getting to 200 when it looked like 220 about 30 minutes ago.
A somewhat below par score but we’ve got a fighting chance so keep the faith! Good innings from Davies, shame Yates didn’t kick on after a promising start.
Alex Davies top score much to the disappointment of the forum
Scoring rate dropped off a lot. What was the reason for those watching? Pace off was harder tonget away?
Somerset supporters are the worst I have ever seen. You can tell that the banter to our players is not funny due to the reaction of them when taking a wicket.
For some reason, I thought they would be a knowledgeable & supportive bunch but they just seem one eyed, rude & entitled.
Back to the game and imo we were 15-20 runs too short.
Barnard has bowled poorly tonight, this was the wrong choice last over.
What was Davies thinking having seen the whole game pan out.
Really really poor decision to bowl Barnard.
Can’t believe he was chosen after his previous overs, lost us the match.
Yet another season of disappointment
Another quarter final blown. Why was Lintott only given one over?
Very disappointing, changing the mentality of this squad is going to take some work.
Always difficult decision because you have to have Barnard bowling one of the last few overs unless you bring him back earlier for one but the way the scoring was at the end, would it have made much difference? Had he have bowled over number 16-18, the same thing might have happened. Either way, not enough runs and 200+ looked easily on and at one point, I thought 230+.
I've only looked at the scorecard all evening but it looked close. Unlike previous QFs we didn't seem to get battered. Some had very good figures. You can tell even from looking at a scorecard Barnard shouldn't bowl the last over though, I put that down to a gamble a few overs earlier that didn't come off.
That's white ball season done now and it's objectively the same levels as the last few seasons. I still feel we're looking up now though and I sense there was just more belief this season. Even if this was just from looking at the scorecard.
It shows my lack of confidence now, as I hadn't a ticket for finals day, I had one lined up ready to pay once the game was done but even with that many needed, I still thought it could all go wrong. Good job I didn't say "That's it, in the bag, here we go". I have watched a finals-day years ago and it is not the same when your team are not involved. Come on Northamptonshire, I really do not like any of the others, especially lucky Hampshire.
It felt as if we were in control of the game for most of the match, but lost it in the last few overs. Fair play to Dickson, it was a great knock from him to win the game. I thought Lintott should of bowled another over earlier on in their innings, it left us short of a death bowler at the end. Felt sorry for Ed having to bowl the last over, although i don't know why he bowled every ball in the slot ready to be hit. I thought after the first six from Dickson he might have tried to bowl the next ball a little wide of the off stump, but hey-ho. When will we ever get past the dreaded quarter-finals of the Blast?!
