Monday, May 9

225 ...

Indeed, I said to several people that we should have got at least 225. We had 160odd with 10 left. Again though, we can't blame the middle/lower order, it's tough to come in and hammer it to all parts from ball 1. We should again credit Fothergills bowlers with some plaudits because they bowled well at the death to restrict us to 200.

As Dickie said ... we play our game our way and they play totally differently. We don't really have players with the kind of cross-batted hitting ability they did. More power to them for that - we just bat stylishly (he says recalling in horror the awful hoik which saw his stumps flattened) ;-)