Rayb wrote:

We don’t have many squad options and I’m not sure that many of our first team regulars are that bad. I do think however that we need a far more robust attitude to our four day cricket, our bowlers and more importantly our captain and coach, need to realise that having the opposition 7 down does not mean they are all out! In addition our batters need to spend more time with a batting coach who impresses on them that 20/30 is not enough.

Sometimes I think we do so well with the new ball it makes our lower order bowling look poor, I just think we lack a bit of pace and sometimes other teams bat all the way down and have abit of grit

Totally agree about the batting.

Highveld wrote:

A lot of the problems this season have been caused by the poor starts from the opening batsmen, with very very few exceptions.
However their mediocraty was rewarded by giving them full county caps when they were not deserved.

Have to agree although youd have to add Rhodes in to. Rhodes dissmisal second innings was awful.

Barnard bowled well in very favourable conditions as you would expect.

If he's batting at 6 he's in the side for his batting more than his bowling

Merely stating it would be good tor Bethell to get a good run of games and think that should be elsewhere.

Just like to see more fight.

Davies for one..Barnard has done little as a batting all rounder. Bethell needs a loan in a Division 2 side

When the going gets tough, we crumble.

Not that we have the squad depth but some of these players need dropping

Back to our Day 1 batting

Very eventful day but poor quality pitch and some awful batting.

Need better pitches than what we've seen today if we want to produce quality players.

Who knows how tomorrow will go, here hoping for some partnerships and bat for the day..unlikely after today !

Enjoying some quality batting

Shame it's the other side.

BosworthBear wrote:

If we bowl our way back into it we are likely to be docked points - Catch 22.

And I'd suggest we deserve it

Points deduction for a shocking pitch

Flight from Dublin at 8am this morning..should have booked a return for this evening..lucky to get two full days at this rate

What a woeful start, surely has to be down to a very poor pitch

Off the top of my head

Rhodes
Barnard
Yates
Burgess
E Brookes (first team ish)
Miles
OHD
Rushworth
Lintott

Basically not many, like to think we'd bring in at least one overseas.

Very dissapointing, felt like not enough experience heads in the side and with OHD bowling the last over it demonstrates a lack of depth

H Brookes..Benjamin and Maxwell were very dissapointing and we are far too reliant on Hain

Group stage seems bit pointless when the top side after 14 games doesn't get to Finals day.

That was shocking

Miles..brookes..Ali..Davies..carrying too many players

Nice if Maxwell fancies showing up to

Only Hain seems to have turned up.

Need a reset which includes dropping Moeen.

All the batting talent we have, Davies and Yates up top seems abit of a waste

Yates for Benjamin

Rhodes for Barnard

Maxwell to up his game

Great result and agreed, Davies was spot on today.

I know it was a bank holiday but that was a very impressive attendance today.

I'd suggest refraining from playing songs during the game that are played by football clubs..just a suggestion. Even as a Villa fan I don't want to hear footie chants at a cricket game

Stirling hasn't worked has he !

Hoping to watch tha game on YouTube. Doesn't seem to be any audio at the moment, same for others ?