How many chances will Davies and Yates get in this batting line up? It’s just not working, something has to be changed surely!?

Another failure for Stirling.

Yes Stirling isn’t really having the impact his first match suggested. However it’s not uncommon with big hitters. I seem to remember (but my mind often plays tricks with my memory) the new England coach had one fantastic innings for us without really doing much in his other games.

GerryShedd wrote:

I think Mark Cosgrove was one who liked batting but wasn't too keen on fielding.
And going back to 2005, Ricky Ponting had something to say about being run out by Gary Pratt.

Ah yes, how silly of me. Definitely Mr Cosgrove.

Wasn’t it Levi of Northants who famously (infamously?) would field the first over and then disappear for the rest of the innings but appear again to bat?

What a finish

I’ve never seen that before, but it was allowed to happen so it must be!

Hain didn’t actually face a ball but perhaps his running helped?

Lintott has just taken a couple of key wickets to bring us back into this!

The damage was done before the last few overs. Constantly losing wickets as we approached parity.

I thought we bowled average to poor after the powerplay, giving them at least 20 runs more than they should have got.

This is pretty poor

Same team, lost the toss and bowling first. I hope Hain makes a speedy recovery. Hopefully going to be proven wrong but I think the top four as it is looks a little brittle, Stirlings first match notwithstanding.

Oh and the stadium announcer was terrible.

An excellent knock by Benjamin, he took his time and then let loose. Hose scored some good boundaries but doesn’t seem to run hard between the stumps and cost us a few runs that Benjamin wanted.

Intelligent knock at the end from the captain.

Yates looked well out of sorts in his brief appearance. Davies came and went as he has all season. Bethell was an odd dismissal. Stirling tried another slog and mistimed it.

Not a bad match to watch though, shame the weather was a bit hit and miss.

We should never have let Barker go.

Yates is really struggling too at 3. Trotty doesn’t seem to be having too much of an impact as batting consultant so far.

Agreed, he has been given some time but he simply has not delivered.

Shambles.

I spoke to soon, pity for Rhodes to miss out on the century.

From a batting perspective it could be argued that even without changes in personnel the line up could change. Last year we regularly saw Rhodes and Yates open so there could be a shuffle to try and help batsmen find some form.

Great to see the character this afternoon though with Hain and Rhodes in particular.

This is really not looking good. The white ball window might actually be coming at a good time for us. A chance to try and regroup.

There surely has to be some changes for the next match, this line up is simply not delivering.

The players obviously have talent but the whole point of a squad is that players out of form can be rotated out.

I’d like to see us have a good opening partnership to set the rest of the innings up. A lot of batsmen out of form so fingers crossed that they can get themselves in and make some runs.

I really don’t want to see Davies get a quick 20 odd (or less) and then get out.