Like many of us I suspect, I was there. One of our very worst performances in all departments.
Team has to be freshened up.
Fielding was appalling. Dropping Finch and Foakes early sealed our fate.
Balance of the side still wrong. Light on batting, and most of what we do have is out of form. Light on big hitting batting. Long on bowling but all the bowlers except Zampa were poor.
Where do you start?
Walter has to play. Pepper and/or Cook snr and/or Zaidi as well? Wagner and/or Quinn can do no worse than current bowlers and can give them a rest. Taylor good in the field.
In terms of candidates to be left out, I think it's everyone bar Chopra Wheater Zampa. Westley RTD Lawrence Bopara all out of form meaning the tail currently starts at 3. Thin batting constrains top order from playing freely. Try a change of order including a pinch hitter or two either as opener or at 3 or 4 if you want to leave the openers intact. Coles and Harmer dropped the catches and bowled poorly. Porter and Cook jnr showed inexperience in this format. Maybe stick with them to give them experience or maybe rest one. Plenty of part time bowling not currently being used and couldn't do much worse than the specialist bowlers allowing the batting to be strengthened.
Management has to be questioned - selection, batting, bowling and fielding coaches.
Apart from that, all is going well!
Totally spot on summary Gilders of the current mess the club is in.
Most of us suspected that the T20 was going to be a waste of time this season but I don't think most thought we would be quite this bad. Thank goodness one of our overseas "stars" is at least deemed good enough to play and is starting to settle in well. We are desperately short on in form batsmen, be it big hitters or not. The fielding has fallen back to the standards of a few season ago too.
The coaches lack of invention with tactics, team selection, batting orders etc is more than a little concerning (but sadly, no surprise to me).
Got to be 3 or 4 changes tonight, and the players coming in may not turn out to do any better but something has to change.
Tonight already is possibly the last chance saloon in this competition because in theory, Glamorgan are one of the very few teams we should beat,so to lose would be unthinkable really and already effectively nearly put us out.
It's time for everyone to step up if they are capable (coaches!) of doing so and start earning their wages.
