After a testing season in Division One, it was confirmed midway through the fixture at Durham that Worcestershire had been officially relegated, with not enough points left on offer to make final dash for survival.<\/p>\n
Having been dodged the drop last year against the odds, the Pears were up against it from the get go this time around, but continued to be resolute throughout and show a real fighting spirit that saw them graft until the bitter end.<\/p>\n
Richardson, said it was important for his side to give a good account of themselves this week despite the surrounding circumstances.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, if I\u2019m going to be honest, it was more after the Notts game where I realised that we\u2019d have to pick up 48 points and everyone else not pick up many at all, if any. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat was a real low point for us all, but then the main objective here was to make sure that we put in a really good performance, to give a really good account of ourselves. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think at times, we haven\u2019t always done that, obviously, because of the position we\u2019re in. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo for us to have done that even with the inevitability of what was around the corner really was good, but we didn\u2019t want to be distracted by anything else that was going on, and make sure that we gave a real good account of ourselves this week, which I believe we have done.\u201d<\/p>\n
One shining light for the Pears across a turbulent season of red ball cricket, is seam bowler Tom Taylor, who collected his 50th wicket of the Rothesay County Championship season on the final day at Chester-le-Street.<\/p>\n
Taylor, who had limited opportunities last season courtesy of injury, has excelled for Worcestershire this campaign, and Richardson praising his key man for an outstanding contribution.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s been brilliant ever since he\u2019s come in with us. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe had that injury at the start of last year, which was unfortunate, so he only played about six or seven games, but made impacts in those games and he was part of all three of our wins last year, which was really important. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd this year again, he\u2019s been a really solid performer, really consistent, Assistant has a threat with a new ball throughout and he\u2019s kept running in for us. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn the field and with the bat, he\u2019s got lots and lots to add as well. I\u2019m really pleased because when people change clubs and move clubs, it can be difficult. It feels like Tommy\u2019s settled in really well with us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a testing season in Division One, it was confirmed midway through the fixture at Durham that Worcestershire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-146614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}