Harsh on Derbyshire, Paul. They've won 4 on the spin now and are 4th in the table on the back of some good form. Bears were below par today, obviously, but give the opposition credit.
Anyway, on Stirling, this is the problem if you don't sign quality overseas players, they don't perform well enough regularly enough and block opportunities for other players as they seem to be undroppable for some reason.
Any word on Briggs injury? And Hain? He looked to moving gingerly whilst batting and didn't come out to field. If we lose them for a couple of weeks we could find ourselves scapping around for the couple of wins we need for 1/4 final qualification...some tough games coming up...
Yeah Derbyshire are decent and are quietly having a good season relative to their usual lower standards.
Re. the Brathwaite 5 run penalty runs, I expect we'll be seeing it a lot more as it happens every game, I mean Stuart Broad does it every over...
Hain brilliant again, just a shame we couldn't get him on strike more.
Stirling, Bethell OUT
Yates, Mousley IN
I'll be disappointed if Mousley doesn't get the nod tonight.
I've seen him like this before, he really does ride his luck.
Really good game this
Buzzing that red ball cricket is back
I'd like to see
Sibley
Yates
Rhodes
Hain
Lamb
Mousley
Burgess
H Brookes
Briggs
Norwell
OHD
I assume Norwell is fit? Might be a little early for Stone?
Thank god for that
Should maybe be one an innings? Imagine seeing 3 or 4 a game!
Not sure how I feel about these tactical retirements. Think it's something that will either start happening a lot or get outlawed pretty quickly. It has happened before, in the IPL? I remember Pollard doing something like that in the T20 World Cup? Think he came back on though.
Hate to say it but Carlos is looking like a bit of a weak link at the moment, he's going at 12 an over.
We've sometimes struggled on this ground in recent times...
The Eric Hollies stand looked a bit lively...
On the brink of being dropped amirite?!
Sensational from Benjamin. It looks easy looking back at the scorecards but at 34-4 we were losing that game.
No Hain, Yates in. Not the replacement I'd have expected, interesting.
Same team?
Derbyshire will be kicking themselves. Wow.
Hose and Benjamin rescuing this.