Good solid batting but the feeling now is that if Benjamin is in the side, he has to go in AFTER Bethell. Hopefully Yates will be back and come straight back in. Both Barnard and Bethel can bowl so that makes even more sense to leave Benjamin out.

Good bowling again and the spinners once more strangling the middle overs/order 11-0-64-2. Yes, Benjamin is lucky to be in but even his brief innings today didn't fill me with confidence, his inability to time the ball is worrying if he continues to get picked.

I often looked at our old pavilion and thought "How on earth do we ever get Test matches with a pavilion like that..." but even though I was happy that we had a new one, I cannot say it is very pleasing to the eye or a place where I sat a lot during games. It was all based on being big and getting loads of people in but when you are a business, I suppose this sort of pavilion is needed in terms of making a profit.

Should have won that one. Their bowling is nothing special and it was a pity to see Davies get out when set and there were some lame shots. It looks like a fairly comfortable win for Durham but at certain stages we were so much in control that people around me were saying that they could not see us losing unless we started to give wickets away. We did well to claw it back to under 200 but we must pick things up now and look to change the side. The batting looks weak and surely Barnard has a place in this side, he should replace Benjamin, would score more than him and bowls as well. He scores quickly, it wouldn't be so bad if Benjamin came in, got 25 off 15 balls and then got out but he is getting a run a ball and then doesn't kick-on.

England should make things clear to him so he can look at his career and decide where to go until he retires. The national side have always treated him poorly, if they had the good sense to pick him earlier last season, England would arguably hold The Ashes now. I would love to have him in the side until the season ends, the national selectors have left him out of the T20 world cup squad whilst picking the overrated Chris Jordan so he owes them nothing and should, as a professional cricketer, be allowed to play.

Totally agree, by taking a late wicket, you have earned the right to have a go at a new batsman and should not let the opposition have the chance to put a proper batman in first thing in the morning, they should face the dilemma of whether to put in a night-watchman or not. The bowler has earned that 'Pressure Moment' to bowl at someone new and it has been taken away.

Have to agree about the opinions that we are prioritising the T20 Blast. If you have a good championship side, that is the basis of all good clubs. A good 4-day side usually contains players who will play T20 anyway, Davies, Yates, Hain, Bethell, Mousley, Woakes, Briggs, Miles, O H-D, etc so if the core are good, getting a big name to add in T20 doesn't always work anyway and a few of the recent winners of that competition have not had outstanding contributions from overseas players anyway. If you get the 4-day side right, you will get a lot of players for T20 from there and by all means get a good overseas signing but we have struggled to get a good signing in the CC lately apart from Hasan Ali but it's unfortunate that Pakistan keep picking him to carry the drinks. I hope something positive comes out of this poor defeat and regardless of whether or not we should have made them follow-on, if you get skittled for 94, it knocks your confidence, the opposition get a lift and they go into the last innings with a mindset of "We should be out of the game but we have now given ourselves a chance and to win now would be massive" and from our point of view the opposite applies. Hopefully a few 'rockets-up-the-posterior' for the team and they should all be told that no one is guaranteed a place in the side.

These two look as though they could bat forever and the lack of a front line spinner is looking like a poor decision although it doesn't mean we would have been in a winning position anyway. The 94 all out 2nd innings does look really bad in the context of the pitch not looking anything like being difficult.

Can't complain at 2 early wickets. Keep going lads.

Brilliant 7 wicket partnership, watched most of it online and the way both were committed to staying in and just hitting the bad balls was exemplary. Both of them left loads of balls that could have seen them get out and were prepared to just get a good position going. Think we need 400+ but it's better than the 140 all out that it could have been.

Well, unless we have a good first and second wicket opening partnership, this one looks like it's gone. All those nice 20's and 30's from the first innings will have to stretch a bit more in our second innings - As long as the umpires don't make a mess of things like they did on certain first innings dismissals.

Well, when I said we were short, it would see as though we are. Could be a stern test this afternoon with Surrey close to our total and a few batsmen to come. Anyone else think we need a spinner, RY could be doing a lot of bowling, just hope he has the success he has had so far this season.

Bloody hell, missed out on another batting point, great innings from Barnard but didn't expect that shot and I do think we are a few short, lots of starts but I hope our bowlers can prove me wrong.

Seem to remember Hain getting a shocker a few seasons ago, given out caught down the leg side off Roach, a bit of Deja Vu rearing it's ugly head.

No great shock, surprised it didn't happen earlier. That is Pakistan cricket for you, totally disorganised, like the year they chose 31 different opening partnerships in all formats of cricket and then wondered why their openers could never gel.

If his team are unlikely to qualify, are they just keeping him there on a 'We have paid for him so he will have to stay here for now' basis. If he does gat picked for a Test squad, he will be rusty having had little cricket for months. Cannot believe that they have picked Archer and the overrated Jordan, a bowler who can barely get on the pitch and one who isn't consistent enough but seems to be lucky to put in the odd performance when there is a tv camera about in 'The Hundread'.

All this on/off cricket hasn't done us any favours and those are horrible conditions to bat in. Glad I didn't go.

If only Duckett could have got out early. But, he didn't and we have had the worst of the day. OHD was superb and so was Rhodes in spells and Hassan later but not over-impressed with the new guy but hopefully he will improve as he plays more. As for Briggs, this is a worry as he looks innocuous again and just appears to feed runs whilst rarely giving anyone any trouble. Credit to Duckett though, he played intelligently from the start whilst still keeping up his very attacking way of playing.

Just had a look at the Met Office forecast and Sunday looks to be be the worst as far as rain goes but the temperatures look awful as well. Anyone going, do not put away your big coats away yet, they could be needed.

After a poor showing in the 50 over world cup, you wonder if the selectors will stick with him. Not sure what England's best T20 side is. Would love to see him play some CC cricket otherwise he could be rusty if they decide to play him in any of the Tests.