v Glamorgan (H) Thu 26 May T20 Blast

Walk in the park. 30 light, could have done with a boundary hitter at the end.

Despite Gordy's overblown and clearly biased defence of the team, this is our poorest T20 side in what... ever? Pretty much in keeping with the demise of the CC side. Your five year plan, that you're 5 years into, sucks Gordy. It needs to be binned along with Greenfield and Andrew. The new leaders will still need a gofer you know, you're job is safe.

Same old issues, wrong team, wrong balance, wrong order, terrible captain who simply doesn't warrant a place in the side and probably the most naïve thing of all, a team full of T20 'specialists' who come into the games with no form at all.

Carter & Orr in.

Only the first game with a number of new faces from last season, so too early to start pressing the panic button or as one or two are understandably doing given their frustrations with the Sussex management drawing very bleak conclusions.

Rizwan, clearly a class signing and without him this would have been over by half past eight tonight. Good bowling from Rawlins and Lenham. Don't forget we are also missing Archer and Hudson-Prentice.

On the half empty glass, we did look very disjointed and naïve particularly with our batting and rarely looked in any position to win the match. Some very poor shots by some of our batters and at least 30 light on a good wicket. The bowlers were on a hiding to nothing.

Ward is a gun fielder and he can give it a bash, but...selected ahead of Alsop (over 40 T20 games and three career fifties) and Ollie Carter (after his second XI performance earlier in the week), someone needs to explain the thinking behind that one!

Bopara looks a shadow of the player that used to dominate for Essex. Other than a handful of innings since he signed for Sussex, has certainly not provided the impetus that was no doubt expected. The jury is also still out on Finn, hopefully he stays fit.

We do need to be realistic. Whereas it was totally reasonable to expect a minimum of quarter final qualification over the last few seasons and hope for the required performance at the quarter final stage. Given the changes in personnel we may need to accept this season may be more of a challenge, but we need to compete far better than we did tonight.

Rusty! They have no business being rusty, the opposition were not rusty.

The morning after and a reflection of last night.

The first game on a cold, cloudy evening in May will always attract the least
number of people. The crowd numbers at the home Surrey match will be a
better litmus test.

Being at the ground, the Sussex players appeared to trudge through rust.
Poor shots and a team that hadn't woken up from winter hibernation. 

Mills had a terrible game. His Dr Jekyl came to the fore. Where was the guile,
his slow bouncer and trickery? He seemed a ghost of last season. All he did
was bowl fast, a gift to the batsmen on this wicket.

Lenham and Rawlins, for me, stood above the rest. George had a stinker and
Finn wasn't much better, although he did take the first wicket. When you're
bowling against the class of Northeast and Labuschagne, you have to be at
your best.

It was a doddle for Glamorgan. Surely, Sussex can only improve from here?

Any thoughts on Bopara’s captaincy?

I thought his body language was terrible for the most part, looked totally uninterested, no energy in the field at all.

It’s a shame Rizwan isn’t around for the whole campaign as he looked more than happy to do the job.

I’d sooner have Salt and Wiese or similar, instead of using an overseas spot to replace a domestic player, meaning the other one can’t come back or be replaced.

Ask yourself why Salt wanted to go…