Kadeer Ali says his side is ready to step-up against Gloucestershire this Friday, only a few days on from a\u00a0\u201csloppy\u201d\u00a0performance during Worcestershire\u2019s loss to Middlesex.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
After Monday\u2019s final day defeat, a third in Division Two this summer for the Pears, Worcestershire\u2019s Assistant Coach reflected on the performance with both the playing group and his fellow coaching staff.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
After clawing their way into a positive position on the fourth morning, Worcestershire\u2019s batters were spun out by Zafar Gohar, stifling their efforts to hold on for a draw.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to Ali, the balance of application and intent is one he needs to get right if they are to produce their best display with the bat.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like we were sloppy throughout the game in all three departments, if I am honest, with the bat, the ball and in the field.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery day it felt like we had an opportunity to go past Middlesex, and it\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0feel like we seized those moments, and those are the areas we are looking to improve on this week.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were moments, especially as a batting unit, where we could have been a lot smarter, absorbed a bit more pressure and stayed a bit calmer. There is always that light to come at the end of the tunnel.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe needed a bit of old school graft, where you defend for your life and put value on your wicket and\u00a0probably lacked\u00a0a bit of application, which was the frustrating part.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes you\u00a0have to\u00a0look after your mate in the middle, when he arrives, you take a bit of ownership as a set batter and get through that tough period.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know we weren\u2019t good enough during that game, but if we can convert those partnerships with the bat into big ones, we aren\u2019t far away.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kadeer Ali says his side is ready to step-up against Gloucestershire this Friday, only a few days on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-645955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645955","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=645955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}