Lightning v Bears

[Terry]

Lancashire name their squad:
http://www.lccc.co.uk/cricket/news/2016-...t20-clash/
The first line of the report suggests a failure in the numeracy department.

[DaveC]

Suspect we'll be put out of our misery in this competition by 9:45pm this evening.

[Warleybear]

Dave ..... your post made me smile............ that was a pleasant way of putting it.

Onwards and upwards!!!

[The Red Baron]

As always with us in white ball cricket, the toss is crucial. We may know our fate much earlier than 9.45.

Of course, someone could give Belly a lucky coin.

[rednalbear]

Wow what a negative lot some people on here can be at times. We win back to back one day games, and no praise as soon as we lose wednesday on come the knockers. Glad some of you lot don't play in the same cricket team i play in, we all talk positive, and play to win even at the level i play at. I am i not wrong but we can still win all three compitions at the moment we should as supporters be talking positive about this. No team this decade has won more than us plus another i think four runner up spots. If we were consistantlly the bottom end of division two, or still no where near being able to qualify for the 1/4 finals of the two 1 day compititions most years then that would be reason to moan

[Terry]

Preview here by my colleague Scott Hunt:
http://deepextracover.com/2016/07/t20-bl...m-bears-2/

[Lilly]

COYB.

Massive night really. Failure to qualify will be pretty shocking considering the position we had put ourselves into after the first few games.

[Leicester Exile]

Good start 42/3 off 9. Can we keep them below 100?

[Leicester Exile]

Shame about the last few overs but 125 is certainly gettable

[Exiled Bear]

We're doing our usual best to not win the game...

[Harborne Bear]

It's painful listening...we need a big over, and very soon!

[Exiled Bear]

Are we actually trying to hit the ball? I don't see how it's not possible to get at least singles off most balls.

[Leicester Exile]

Painful following it on crickinfo. No boundaries since 5th over!!!!!

[Exiled Bear]

Game over

[Exiled Bear]

Absolutely diabolical batting performance. Absolutely no excuses for that. How we couldn't even score at just over 6 an over I don't know.

[Harborne Bear]

Utter shambles. We don't deserve to progress in this competition - some serious questions to be asked of our team.

[greenday28]

I think some players (potentially a lot!) need to move on....

[Leicester Exile]

15 overs without a boundary. A final score less than Chopra scored in the only innings he played. Unacceptable.

[Paul]

As performances go thats pretty poor

[The Good Mugabe]

batting

by runs scored http://stats.espncricinfo.com/warwickshi...ype=season

by strike rate http://stats.espncricinfo.com/warwickshi...ype=season

When read together the two tables give a lot of useful information about our batting performances.

Bowling by Strike rate http://stats.espncricinfo.com/warwickshi...ype=season

Bowling by Economy rate http://stats.espncricinfo.com/warwickshi...ype=season

bowling by Wickets taken http://stats.espncricinfo.com/warwickshi...ype=season

Again when the three tables are studied it shows interesting information.

I'd suggest that losing Chris Woakes & Mark Adair part way through the group games had a very negative effect on our performances in the field.

Tonight was very disappointing, after 12 overs we were 63-4, so over halfway to the required total, but we only added another 30 runs from the remaining overs.

Perhaps it is time to totally revise the team for next season, as the some players are consistently failing to contribute with the bat.