A great win for us yesterday, sits us 4th in the table now. A win tomorrow at Derbyshire could potentially put us in 2nd spot.

The 3 spinners were excellent, and i'm a little surprised that Mousley didn't get the man of the match award for his all-round game. He came on to bowl just after Hassan & Woakes had been smashed round the park, and he stopped the flow immediately, conceding just 5 runs in his first over to put the brake on. He also came out to bat at a difficult time when Davies & Yates had gone cheaply, and his knock of 41 (together with Hain) gave the innings some impetus just when we needed it.

For tomorrow's game, Barnard now surely has to come in for Benjamin, and i would bring in Garton for Hassan Ali. Woakes is extremely rusty of course, but we have to stick with him until he gets his full fitness back. Hopefully Gleeson will be ok to play back-to-back matches this week, he bowled superbly last night.

I don't like it when either coaches or players start making excuses, i always feel it's to cover for their own inadequacies. The reason we lost the last two games is because we conceded too many runs in both matches, 370 in 40 overs going at just over 9 runs per over. The reference to Gleeson is just another excuse, because Jamal came into the side for him and bowled one shocking over. But to cover the cracks the excuse is 'we had to rest Gleeson' - justifying Jamal's selection. And why rest Gleeson anyway - can't he manage to bowl 8 overs in two days?

Yes you're probably right, Jacks is more likely to be left out next game.

England could be out of the World Cup this time next week if we don't pip Scotland on run rate. For the next two matches we need to drop old timers Bairstow, Ali, Jordan & Wood, and bring in Duckett, Curran, Hartley & Topley.

I think the team for the next game should be: Salt, Buttler, Duckett, Brook, Livingstone, Jacks, Curran, Hartley, Archer, Rashid & Topley.

We're down to 5th in the table now, and our next two fixtures are against the two teams directly above us - Yorkshire & Derbyshire.

Against Yorkshire on Friday i would go with: Davies, Yates, Barnard, Hain, Bethell, Burgess, Garton, Briggs, Mles, Lintott & Gleeson.

Why was Jamal selected today? Yesterday on the website Miles was in the 13 man squad for the game against Lancs (no Jamal) so why didn't he get the nod today? It must give a player so much confidence to know someone who wasn't in the squad the day before gets picked ahead of you the following day. And then bowls only one over for 25 runs!

Hopefully Burgess will be selected to bat at 6 in the next match.

Burgess should be in the side, i don't understand why he isn't picked. He won't be in todays team unfortunately. I think Barnard will be in for either Benjamin or Mousley, and Miles will come in for either Ali or Garton.

The only change i would make for Lancs on Friday is to bring in Barnard for Benjamin. The bowling attack has been really good for the first two matches, so no need to change it.

Also, i think Davies has captained the team really well in the two games so far. He's constantly talking to the bowlers, and is giving out a positve vibe which is looking good - long may it continue!

RIP Roger Woakes. I'm sure Chris will be back for the Bears as soon as he feels he is ready.

The weather has cost us this game, a full days play today and we would have won.

Does anyone know how long we have got Michael Rae for? He has certainly livened the bowling attack up, he's been impressive in the last 2 games.

Oh no - another rain delay. Lancs 89-4 after 15.

4 down, 3 for Rae. 50-4 after 10 overs.

Jennings gone for 18 bowled Bethell, could be a vital wicket that. 38-2 after 7 overs.

Wicket already for Rae, 5-1 after 2 overs

Play scheduled to start at 13.10, possible 72 overs left in the day - rain permitting of course.

Doubtful whether we'll get all those overs in, maybe we should just declare now and go for it.

Davies out for 17, 30-2 at Tea.

Bethell and Lintott - the new spin twins! 135 the lead, surely we won't throw this one away?

7 down now, Bethell is bowling superbly. Come on You Bears!

A great little knock from Hassan Ali, another 50 or 60 runs would give us a decent score.

I don't have much faith in Davies as captain and i don't know why he chose to bat first. Possibly he was worried about Lyon spinning us out if we batted last?