KingofSpain wrote:

A real shame we didn't get to see much of him. Michael Rae had a bigger impact in a short time. I hope Jamal comes back stronger from the injuries.
Regardless, our recruitment of overseas players needs to be spot on. We need to find committed, quality players of the calibre of Donald and Patel.

Both of whom were rather unheralded at the time of them signing. Would supporters accept signing 'unknowns' as overseas even though they may have increased availability?

Always struck me as the kind of bowler who needs a bit in the pitch to be effective.

Does all the basics well.

Stranded on 98, horrendous, didn't even face in the last over.

Karma for his go-slow on Tuesday?!

whitelightning wrote:

Total comedy our signings for T20. The lack of a pace bowling option will cost us.

Who do you think we should have got in?

Which rounds were with the Kookaburra? Have Davie and Yates literally only made runs against the Kookaburra. They both made half centuries in the game v Somerset, was this against the Kooka?

Poor opening partnership for years? Davies struggled last season I'll give you that but Yates compared very favourably in comparison to other regular openers.

How many kookaburra rounds have we had thus far?

Read an article about the Worcestershire Nathan Smith pick up. Obviously not a household name, Alan Richardson along with other members of the Worcestershire coaching staff watched weeks of live stream action from NZ's domestic four day competition, really studying it and doing background checks on loads of different seamers before deciding on Smith. Really impressive stuff and he certainly does look a good pick up for Worcs. Fit, reliable and fast, bat's too.

Don't really want to be grading/ranking our defeats but this hurts more than the Essex for me.

You just know we wouldn't have even gone for these today had the circumstances been reversed.

I appreciate the hardness of the new ball might be problematic when defending but I think you gamble and take it here and hope Woakes and OHD can nip a couple out.

Conceding a boundary almost every over.

BristolBear wrote:

If we lose this, it can all be put down to that bizarre hour or 2 when Hain came in, forcing the rate to a near stop. Then Mousley and Barnard feeling like they needed to force the issue and getting out. Making Hain hit the breaks once more.
If he and Rhodes had batted normally for those 15 overs around tea, got at 3 or 4 an over with little risk, the target would have been 470-480.

Agreed, Rhodes and Hain played like shit yesterday after being given a superb platform by our openers. Totally let Somerset claw their way back into the game.

Right now however, if Woakes can come to the party in any kind of way we can still put the brakes on them.

Somerset, as I type, will be sniffing a win here.

Almost exactly 24 hours ago we had Will Rhodes and Sam Hain scoring 15 runs in 10 overs before Tea so Somerset are racing along in comparison to that!

Lunch.

Evens?

Have to get a tune out of Woakes here...

Overton has bowled garbage and is, as i type, 4 for 52.

I don't know, it wasn't like we were 30 for 2. The openers had put on over 100, they'd done the hard work. We were 240 odd on when Yates got out, deep batting line up this week, not like Essex away when Che and Rae were 9 and 10. Instead we're here looking at equations and wondering if we can get 10 wickets in 90 or 80 or 70 overs. Should have been 410 lead and having 45 mins at them tonight. 15 runs in 10 overs before tea was outrageous.

There won't be many teams who are 150 in front with 10 wickets in hand at lunch who proceed to crawl along at under 3 an over at 6pm.

Yates and Davies did the hard work before lunch seeing off the new ball then steadily upping the rate afterwards. Perfect, and Somerset were looking a bit ragged. The middle order have rendered it pointless though. Rhodes and Hain 15 runs in 10 overs before tea killed us.

I'm normally positive but it feels like we've bottled it a bit.

We still might win!

Hain has stuffed Barnard there.

Feel a bit sorry for Mousley there having to force the issue due to the pedestrian stuff that happened before him either side of Tea.