Highveld wrote:

Excellent from Sam, and Jacob, again, hower the top 3 failed again, and too many runs were conceded .

Too many players are allowed to underperform every game with no consequences.

Like who? I mean apart from Benjamin obviously.

The Bravo Rule

Obviously momentum and role definition is a big thing in white ball cricket and winning is a habit, but could we rest a couple of guys here?...

Some players just need backing through thick and thin, he's one of them.

Mousley is having a tremendous Blast campaign. What a brave player, very unselfish.

Not sure on Barnard, bowling isn't an option in T20 and he has gone 0, 0, 12 on his last 3 T20 innings opening the batting. Having said that it wouldn't be ridiculous to see him back in.

I'd imagine if their all fit and well it will be the same side that we had Friday.

I mean Garton probably had the worst T20 game of all time from anybody anywhere but he shouldn't get dropped. 2-0-49-0, run out the top scorer off yer first ball faced, then get clean bowled on the yer second ball faced! Incredible really.

Maybe a seamer for a spinner?

Interesting one today though, Derbyshire have turned us over the last 3 occasions we've played them at Edgbaston. Bit of a bogey side.

Yep, it's T20, it happens. Have said previously though that i do think Garton has these sort of brain fade overs in his locker. But it happens.

I'm not gonna be too critical of anyone, we've bowed and fielded really well, generally, all campaign.

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!