Having been at the game yesterday, I just want to say how magnificent our support was and it’s a real shame the team weren’t able to get the win the supporters deserved. Once again our top order failed to deliver. Eskinazi isn’t an opener and we have badly missed Budinger in this competition. Very poor shots from Patel, Holland and Green contributed to the loss. We were always keeping pace with the scoring rate and with 13 overs to go, only needed 57 to win. It needed some intelligent batting and just getting ones and twos rather than some of the rash decision making by some of the batsmen which would have seen us home. Just one other player getting 30 odd would have been enough.
Ahmed probably should have reviewed his wicket but having lost Shaikh’s appeal maybe they thought it was too early in the innings to potentially lose another appeal. Some of the umpiring was very poor and the original lbw decision against Holland, which we won on appeal, was shocking as it wasn’t even close to being out.
I’ll be pleased to see the back of this season as it hasn’t gone how we would have all wanted
