budgetmeansbudget wrote:At 90 odd for 2 after 10 it was a stroll.
Sadly our middle order bolloxed it up once again.
Semi final was still a good effort from this particular team.
Yeah, compared to other three SFs at Edgbaston, that was good for us. But we lost the game the moment Vince decided to try and hit Mullaney, and got caught. All we had to do that over was knock six singles, and Mullaney was done. Vince could then hopefully have got stuck into the final five overs, possibly with a bit of help from Carberry. But whatever order we put them in today, Afridi, Bailey and Dawson still didn't even get 10 runs between them. As you say, it's our middle order again. AS it has been all competition. Fairly embarrassing how much we rely on Vince. Possible that we might have only got 160 against Derby had it not been for a freak Afridi innings.
Until we get a middle order, a score in excess of about 150 or 155 will regularly be a very difficult score for us. Somerset got way too many batting first in our final group game, and Notts got too many here.
Can't even say that there's an easy fix by going down the overseas route, because Bailey is here on a two year contract. He hasn't proven himself to be that replacement for McKenzie that we have so badly lacked for a while.
Congrats to Notts though. Best team on paper for years finally makes the final.