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Wouldn't we need better bowling for that? Banton and Roussow have put Somerset into an excellent position. T20 campaign about over.

Pretty grim viewing today. Yorks made over 400 and now both of our openers are gone with just 12 on the board.

Good batting from the openers, could have won inside 10 overs had not McDermott got out with just a few needed. Wheal still getting spanked but at least we're not playing Crane any more. Wood, Fuller and Dawson OK, don't think Ellis played, didn't bowl for sure, Currie and Prest a little too expensive.

Some better batting from the openers, the rest about usual. Still, made 199/6. Pity there's no stream to watch it on today. Suppose that's because we're the only T20 game this evening and Sky or something have the monopoly. Any sort of reasonable bowling should get us our first T20 win of the season.

Interesting (or not?) theory expounded by the Surrey commentators on the live stream yesterday evening. Seemed to think that we've spent a lot of money on our Championship side this season and are going all in to try to win it, having failed by a point last season and it being 50 years (is that right ?) since our last County Championship title. treating the Blast as a bit of a secondary event. Don't know how true this might be but it's alright by me, Championship cricket being the true form of the game with the others and all their ancilliary face painting and stuff being just a form of filling the club coffers.

Well, we might get at least half, but 'tis true we've been given a right old tonking. Why are we bowling Crane and Prest? That's just asking for trouble really.

Don't need to understand any theories to work out what's wrong with Hants T20 campaign so far. We don't score enough runs in the power play, play silly shots thereafter and bowl abysmally . We are using second string bowlers to give them a game. Then again Dawson got absolutely hammered at the end of his spell yesterday, probably because he's bowling on a wicket where there's nothing for him. Wood wasn't great in the first two games but Curry was abysmal, as were Wheal and Crane. Ellis at least didn't get hammered but then again he only bowled two overs. Beginning to wonder if Vince is really up to the captain's job in T20 cricket. Think we may need to change the batting order for the next T20 joust, Weatherly to open with McDermott, Donald at 3, Vince at 4.

Well, that was another horror show. The batting is extremely poor but the bowling just defies any sort of hope. Unless we can use any of the front line 4-day bowlers, we're in for a very,very poor T20 campaign. The two overseas players look rank average in English conditions. Mc Dermott may hit the ball hard but he's not finding the gaps like the Essex blokes were.

I suspect that Crane wasn't used at the start of the Lancs innings because we just didn't have enough runs to play with. Probably not a lot in the wicket for him apart from a bit of bowlers footfall rough and we couldn't really afford for him to get tonked. We needed at least another 30 runs and apart from the stalwarts Vince and Dawson the entire side failed with the bat.

You can look at it that way but at the end of the day our batting was nowhere near good enough, the first couple of games of the season apart, but against weak bowling, all season. That has to be corrected if we want to win the championship. We need at least one real opener who knows what to do with dobby seamers bowling straight on favourable wickets. We need to sort out where we are with Aneurin Donald as well, if he's going to play no part again next season he probably needs to be replaced. Need to trim down the fringe players like Fuller and Wood and replace them with serious concurrents for first team places. I see that we've signed Whiteley for the one day games already, that's a start but it's no help for real cricket, ie the CC.

Not going very well in the T20. Hants 81/5 after about 13. Weatherley has made more than half of that total. Batting didn't look anywhere near good enough to trouble Somerset's battery of bowlers overmuch. Still we beat Notts from a similar poor start so who knows.

Yes, a draw was of no value in those days, just whatever bonus points you'd got. Probably why there were so many arranged declarations . Looked at the playing group for tomorrow. Looks a bit weak. No Short, Gubbins doesn't qualify, just the usual regulars and the young players. Somerset on the other hand look to be at nigh on full strength with their test players returning. Might bode ill for tomorrow but perhaps they won't capitulate so easily in next week's championship game.

Yes we wuz robbed. Somewhere along the line Worcs had a dodgy one innings bash that they won because it was in the rules at that time. Can't remember the exact conditions needed for such a match (no play on the first two days or something like that). We didn't match the conditions for a game like that so they got 10 free points or similar and we sat around in the pavilion somewhere or other. Do we have any idea who'll be available for Hants on finals day? Is Short still around and available?

Really? They'd need to either make 400/2 and take 3 Hants wickets or 350/2 and 6. I mean it's possible but I don't see them getting the runs for just 2 down. I'd be more concerned about Warks tonking Somerset in 2 days. Why are Somerset so depleted just now? Have they all gone off to play gig cricket somewhere or other?

I see that some rain is forecast around the Midlands and North West next week. Two days of rain between Tuesday and Friday at Nottingham, Liverpool and Birmingham could make us champions without too much effort.

Not really. Didn't hear the commentators talk about it either. During the Warks match they seemed to think he'd been sub-par against Yorks though and Organ is obviously a better batting option.

Excellent result. Duckett may consider himself unlucky to be given out when he actually was but as he should have been given out when plumb in front a couple of balls earlier I guess that's Nemesis at work. Pitch looked difficult most of the time, especially when Nott's lower order started trying to reverse sweep every other ball.

So, we nned to bowl out Notts for less than 250. Now 250 looked a decent target when Hants were batting but our bowlers don't seem to be getting the same help from the wicket that Notts did. Might be close but just now Notts don't look to be in all that much difficulty.

not even that. Warks collapsed after lunch. 235 all out. Must say the run out looked a bit generous but it made up for the plum in front not given lbw yesterday. Excellent result.

Woeful batting start from Hants this morning. We have just got to sort that out for next season. Keep Holland and drop Weatherley down the vorder and get a real opener in as a priority.

At least we're making a bit of a game of it despite our poor score. Notts will probably win though.

Probably never before. Anyway we are getting absolutely slayed so far. All the real batsmen apart from Prest already gone and only 40 on the score-board. We have to sort the batting out for next season. If we can't get decent overseas players for the T20 it's best not to bother.

T20 quarter this evening. To be honest the batting looks nowhere near good enough to trouble Notts overmuch. No Gubbins, is that because he's ineligible in some way or other or just not available?

Some of them have done well on occasions in this series but not consistently. That said the bowling and some of the fielding was just dire yesterday and there's no real excuse for that. I don't know why Turner didn't play yesterday but Fuller as an opening bowler isn't on. Currie was just rank awful as was Scriven, wayward balls just asking to be thrashed to the boundary by any basically competent batsman. With just 225 to defend they had to bowl consistently on a line and length and they just didn't.

Abysmal performance from Hants today, zero chance of progressing to the quarters. Poor batting and even poorer bowling.