Awful decision to give Briggs last ball as a wide as well. He stepped right across his stumps! Cost us 7 runs.

meashambear wrote:

Lyth is plum there, hitting middle and leg without any movement but the umpire is lookng too hard at it thinking it is moving down leg side. Poor decision.

Agreed, I thought that looked good. Hassan should have been on a third hattrick in three games!

So whenever we do well it’s just because the opposition are rubbish?

Great finish.

I know we’ve made some poor signings in recent years but credit where it’s due, Barnard must be one of the best signings of any county recently.

I’d bring in Yates for Smith. I’m not sure why Smith is in the team if he’s going to come in at 8.

Good comeback. That take by Davies down the leg side for the 4th wicket was excellent.

Garton not bowling was a really strange one. He’s got to be a better bet than Sylvester to open the bowling?! We’ve got too many passengers in our team at the moment and our tail is far too long.

Can’t afford to drop catches when you’re only defending 143

Seriously, why is Sylvester in our team, let alone opening the bowling?

If we can’t defend 226 against one of the weakest teams from last season then I really fear for our chances. We HAVE to recruit a bowling all rounder pronto. Having Miles and Sylvester in the same team was never going to end well.

When is Gleeson going to be back, and what about Mousley?

Sub-par fielding by our standards as well. Several boundaries let go that should have been stopped.

At least with such a big score to defend, even though they got off to an absolute flyer they still need to score at over 10 an over.

Andy wrote:

This is the thing with him, he doesn't shape it all so on flat pitches like this he's absolute cannon fodder. Clearly struggles under pressure too.

Yep, I remember him having an over like that last season as well, think it was the last over of the innings. Can’t remember who against but as soon as the first couple of balls go for boundaries the rest seem to as well.

Good recovery to end the powerplay, feel like we can’t lose too many more wickets for a while though

Yes, who could have seen this coming..?!

Seems a bit light in the batting to me.

I think in the past you’ve been able to buy them in the shop on the day? Would be daft if there’s no way to turn up and pay

I can understand the frustration with not winning this one, but I don't think the weather forecast was bad enough to warrant a much earlier declaration. If it was going to be a complete washout on the final day then that would be different, but if we'd declared early and given them something chasable, and then the weather turned out to be better than expected and Worcestershire had won, then people would also have been very upset!

We're in a very good spot after 7 games and aren't a million miles away from the top, which I'm not sure many people saw coming before the start of the season, so I'm pretty happy with how things have gone so far overall.

Malik’s LBW looked marginal as well.

This seems like it should be a good pitch for our seam attack.

Smith given out caught off his shoulder, nice.