Such sad news about Keith, an underrated keeper (except to us Bears fans) who will always be remembered for being our keeper during 1994's treble winning season, and for being at the other end when Brian Lara made his astonishing 501 against Durham. A sad loss, RIP Keith.

Superb batting from Webster and Mousley, really top class. It just shows that if you have one of your top 4 batsmen (in this case 2) still going strong in the last 5 overs you will be in with a chance of winning the game. Let's hope this is a turning point in the Blast.

So where do we go from here? 4 games 4 defeats. In 2 of those games the batting hasn't been good enough & in the other 2 the bowling has let us down. Tariq & Thompson bowled well today but OHD & Woakes were poor, far too many easy balls for their batsman to hit to the boundary. Very disappointing indeed.

They seek them here, they seek them there, those Bears fans seek them everywhere. Are they in Heaven? Are they in Hell? Garton injured, Gleeson IPL.

Where are Garton & Gleeson? There is never any mention of them on the website, the lack of info on there drives me nuts.

Westwood clearly has a lot of thinking to do before next weekend's round of games. Mousley is back ( I think) from The Lions & it's clear that Davies is badly out of form. Bamber must be considered as well to start on Friday.

Nope we couldn't defend it! Save for Woakes & OHD, bowling nowhere near good enough

Now that's more like it but can we defend it? Up to the bowlers now.

I hope our batters were watching Gloucester tonight, they were 7 - 3 after 2 overs chasing 158 but somehow they pulled off an astonishing victory. The crucial part of the game was the 4th wicket partnership between Hammond & Jack Taylor, showing how important it is to get a partnership going in this form of cricket. Let's hope we show the same sort of grit & determination in our game tomorrow.

It doesn't get any easier, Somerset next on Sunday! Difficult to see what can be changed regarding the batting line-up, if Davies fails again he surely can't continue to be selected. Maybe Barnard can open with Smith batting at 6 or 7.

That was embarrassing, bowled out with 32 balls still left in the innings. They should have paced the first 10 overs without trying to smash every other ball to the boundary - what were they thinking?

It will all depend on how our middle-order approach the innings when they come in to bat, we will of course need to up the run rate after lunch. However, if their bowling's a bit wayward this afternoon then we have the batsmen to take advantage of it, so there's always a chance.

I think we can win this providing one of Mousley, Hain, Webster or Barnard can score a quick-fire hundred. Important that Davies & Yates can give us a sound base to work from.

Another one gone - come on you Bears!

Can we get these last 3 wickets quickly, chase 350 maybe?

Special mention as well to Rob Yates for his excellent catching, 6 i think it was in the match. Also his 2nd innings score of 81, it helped lay the platform for our huge total and put us in a great position to win the game.

What a brilliant win that is, the third innings was crucial but our bowling performance was superb. Great stuff from OHD & Bamber, Thompson too for chipping in with 5 wickets. Even more impressive when you think we were without Woakes, Barker & Gilchrist, with Booth only bowling 3 overs as well. The next game against Glamorgan should be exciting, they've just had a great win over Somerset and are only 5 points behind us so looking forward to that one.

Ok, maybe looking at 550 now!

Disappointed that Webster is out, but at 300-4 we're still in a great position.

If we are still batting at tea i reckon we will have around 500 on the board by then. The position we are in at the moment we have got to be looking at something around that total.