Worcestershire Head Coach Alan Richardson gave an honest assessment after his side were resigned to a 141-run defeat by Middlesex, falling away on the final day of a frustrating Rothesay County Championship clash at New Road.<\/p>\n
Chasing a daunting 358 to win, Ben Allison\u2019s magnificent 89 threw the Pears a lifeline in a morning session that gave the hosts plenty of belief as they lost just one wicket.<\/p>\n
The dismissal of Worcestershire\u2019s top-scorer 11 runs short of a maiden first-class century came as part of a cluster of middle-order wickets that saw the Pears collapse from 131-3 to 155-7.<\/p>\n
Zafar Gohar was the catalyst on a day four pitch that offered plenty for the spinner, as Middlesex worked their way through the rest of the home side\u2019s batters, sealing victory early on in the final session.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on the defeat, Richardson detailed areas of the Worcestershire performance that he felt saw his side fall short.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs per usual with any defeat, real disappointment and frustration, but I think a little bit of that is around the performance as well. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve competed as well as we can, for the duration of the game and there\u2019s been moments, but ultimately in a four-day game of cricket, you have to do it for longer than we have done really.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were hanging on and that\u2019s not good enough to win a game of cricket. You can do it for a while and you might be able to then salvage something, like you might be able to get a win from there or a draw, but more often than not you are struggling.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to do the basics for longer. That means being able to bat for longer, being able to create pressure for longer with the ball. That means holding onto our chances and fielding better.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like we\u2019ve been slightly immature in and around how we\u2019ve gone about things in this game.<\/p>\n
\u201cFair play to Middlesex, they did the basics of the game for longer than us, which is the disappointing thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Worcestershire Head Coach Alan Richardson gave an honest assessment after his side were resigned to a 141-run defeat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-738510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}