That’s disappointing, although we do seem to be flush with guys who can/have opened. Perhaps Yates will move back to the top of the order and Benjamin will move to number 3 next season?

For moment I was worried that meant Burgess was injured, I’ve just seen that they have swapped roles. Very good.

Has anything been said about why Miles is not bowling?

Young Bethell is certainly having a tough baptism this season.

To be fair to the club, that’s probably why Davies was brought in as an opener. It just hasn’t quite worked out as planned.

The lower order can, and have, scored runs quite quickly but I agree we do seem to be always fighting to get back into the game rather than dictating it.

Whilst it was indeed a poor result, Derbyshire have not by any stretch been one of the weakest teams to play against this season! Mickey Arthur has been a great appointment for them and he has managed to get overseas players in who have not only contributed but have changed the entire dynamic of their side. Something we could certainly not say about ours….

Yates clearly has talent, I remember Hain similarly struggling in the seasons immediately after his first year where he had piled the runs on, but this is surely a situation where being taken out of the firing line would do some good. It’s just not working for him.

How many chances will Davies and Yates get in this batting line up? It’s just not working, something has to be changed surely!?

Another failure for Stirling.

Yes Stirling isn’t really having the impact his first match suggested. However it’s not uncommon with big hitters. I seem to remember (but my mind often plays tricks with my memory) the new England coach had one fantastic innings for us without really doing much in his other games.

GerryShedd wrote:

I think Mark Cosgrove was one who liked batting but wasn't too keen on fielding.
And going back to 2005, Ricky Ponting had something to say about being run out by Gary Pratt.

Ah yes, how silly of me. Definitely Mr Cosgrove.

Wasn’t it Levi of Northants who famously (infamously?) would field the first over and then disappear for the rest of the innings but appear again to bat?

What a finish

I’ve never seen that before, but it was allowed to happen so it must be!

Hain didn’t actually face a ball but perhaps his running helped?

Lintott has just taken a couple of key wickets to bring us back into this!

The damage was done before the last few overs. Constantly losing wickets as we approached parity.

I thought we bowled average to poor after the powerplay, giving them at least 20 runs more than they should have got.

This is pretty poor

Same team, lost the toss and bowling first. I hope Hain makes a speedy recovery. Hopefully going to be proven wrong but I think the top four as it is looks a little brittle, Stirlings first match notwithstanding.

Oh and the stadium announcer was terrible.

An excellent knock by Benjamin, he took his time and then let loose. Hose scored some good boundaries but doesn’t seem to run hard between the stumps and cost us a few runs that Benjamin wanted.

Intelligent knock at the end from the captain.

Yates looked well out of sorts in his brief appearance. Davies came and went as he has all season. Bethell was an odd dismissal. Stirling tried another slog and mistimed it.

Not a bad match to watch though, shame the weather was a bit hit and miss.

We should never have let Barker go.

Yates is really struggling too at 3. Trotty doesn’t seem to be having too much of an impact as batting consultant so far.