We have the best batting & bowling points in the division though..........do they hand out trophies for that?

Apologies for the sarcasm & negativity but I have just about had enough of this ongoing malaise.

Just another 41 runs to avoid the follow on..........

Humiliated on our own patch again.

I am going to sound like a football fan now but I am not putting another penny into this club until the coaching team is gone and we show the ambition of a team that wants to progress and compete.

They roll this garbage out, season after season in all formats and expect us to keep coughing up cash. The relationship between fan & club has changed dramatically since I started going to Edgbaston, so I will now start acting accordingly.

Sliding to defeat here, Davies thrown his wicket away & Mousley doing the same

139 to chase, just take stock and bat sensibly............

Finger spinners have dragged us back in

50 up and nearly every run has been given to them, terrible bowling from us bar the one Gleeson over

Terrible start!

We look light batting, always good to have a 7th

I agree that we will need 7 batsmen.

There is plenty of everything in the team picked above & we should win this tonight.

If we fail to deliver in another knockout game, then serious questions need to be asked about the coaching team and not at the end of the season!

Wow

Had one of those rubbish weeks and at 77/5 all was lost.

What a magnificent innings from 19 year old Kai Smith!

His timing and placement were excellent but the way he paced the innings, only taking risks when it was really needed showed such maturity.

That has put a smile back on my face after writing them off earlier!

That will be that for another season then.

Hamstrung by not having Yates & Shaikh in the lineup but we had enough experience in our bowling attack to have made more inroads on them, not good enough.

We are now being skittled by their 19 year olds, again just not good enough. We keep saying it but the mentality of our players is not a winning one, especially in the pressure games.

We are going to struggle to chase this down

And there we go.........a bit high?

9 gone, lots of balls skimming past the bat but also not lots of runs conceded so pretty even.

We could do with a wicket though before the RR starts going up

It just seems unfair that an already depleted line up has had another 2 batsmen taken out of it, Yates handy as another spin option as well.

The most key game of the tournament as well, it stinks.

How are supposed to compete with so many players missing?

Shame about Norwell but what a last match performance he made.

bobmac wrote:

my best eleven would be in batting order.
Yates
Davies
Ali
Hain
Bettell
Mouseley
Briggs
Garton
Ali
Lintott
Gleeson

Personally, I would switch Garton for Barnard as he adds a genuine option with both bat & ball..........we dont usually bowl 12 overs of seam either so we could share out those overs between Gleeson, Ali & Barnard and retain genuine 7 batters against what will be better bowling outfits. Yates & Davies could go after the bowling 1st couple of overs without worrying too much about losing a wicket.

Hain & Bethell nearly pulled that off with some shots from Garton thrown in.

I am concerned that our seamers have lost control of games recently which negates the good work our spinners put in. Northants were struggling until Miles gave them 16 runs in one over and got Zaib off to a flyer by bowling pies.........once his eye was in, we were not going to contain him and then we were wayward again whenever a seamer came on.

Barnard would give us some help as a genuine AR and we could then bring in Burgess for Benjamin. Drop Miles as imo we only need 3 seamers and bring in Yates to open. Plenty of batting and bowling options with those changes.

We usually save such capitulations for the QF's

Miles out, Benjamin out for those games and hope that Foulkes & Garton dont have nightmares like they have in a couple of recent games

Burgess & Barnard in for me