Royal London Cup - V Hants (Southampton) 27 July 2015

I do like a nice wide or ten.

Just thinking the same. However, should we pull through tonight there will be others who have.

Poor shot selection Machan. Game over I'm afraid.

Another low score for Cachopa. Why is Brown not playing? Beer and Yardy not playing either. Very strange team selection by Robinson.

Don't care who made the decision it's just plain wrong. Three changes for Thursday with Beer, Brown and Yardy replacing Cachopa, Wells and Mills. Unless he can bowl ten overs Mills is of little use.

Time to take the positives out of this dire season.

That's a heavy, heavy defeat and a demoralising start to the competition.

Let's give the white ball captaincy back to Wright; Joyce has lost seven of his last ten matches in charge.

Hants played three proper spinners, who took eight wickets. Sussex left out Beer and Zaidi and relied on two part-timers, Wells and Nash.

As for Cachopa,no one doubts Brown is the better keeper. But on this season's form he's also the better batsman:-

Cachopa three fifties in 29 innings - Brown two centuries plaus three fifties in 26 innings.

But I fully expect Cachopa to keep for the remaining six games in the 50 overs cup because when Robinson and Joyce get one of their "notions" into their heads, they tend not to stop until they have tested it to destruction.

It's always really tough to chase these big 350+ scores, we actually did OK to get to 40 overs still theoretically in the game. I think selection was poor again which doesn't help, but another encouraging innings from Machan, albeit slower than some of his Championship ones!