Quote Originally Posted by Loramski View Post
Some good posts here. It's funny FJB should bring Northeast up, I was wondering about whether he should have played too. As soon as Smale was out I thought 'what would Chrisp have said if Northeast had taken 10 overs to get 26'. I dread to think.

It was a painful watch and we got out thought, as others have said. Those lower run chases can be tricky though. It's a bit like being up against 10 men at football, you feel it should be straightforward but you can easily get in a muddle as to how to go about it. I take Pearcey's point about Kellaway but the no risk strategy wasn't exactly a great success either and left us too much to do in the final overs.

Let's hope the rain holds off on Friday. I'll be looking out for you if Northeast plays, I assume you'll be giving him a standing ovation when he comes out to bat.
I must have got a bit too predictable there! I gave him a standing ovation at Lords last year when he brought us home mind 😂.

I'm very much a believer in being aggressive in T20, especially with a long batting order and I've always thought it quite telling that quite often a team that wins a tournament will have one or 2 of the lowest scores all year or how often one of the top teams from one year can't buy a win the next ( SRH in the IPL for example). The aggressiveness required to win needs to be on the edge of potentially making yourself look very stupid.

If we'd have been shot out for 70 I think I could probably accept that better than being throttled in a small chase