Yorkshire v Derbyshire T20

Yorkshire 220-5 (Root 64, Lyth 61, Fraine 44* McKiernan 2-22)

Derbyshire 121-9 (Critchley 26)

Yorkshire won by 99 runs

After short consideration, I think that was the worst performance in this competition by Derbyshire in a couple of seasons.

We badly lacked the control of Rampaul, at the top and tail of the innings, but the rest did themselves no favours with bowling of erratic length and line. I wouldn't have gone for Conners and Cohen in this format, and their lack of overs confirmed the skipper might not have done either.

The only bowler who emerged with credit was Mattie McKiernan, who strangely didn't finish his allocation. The rest were summarily despatched by Lyth, Root and Fraine, who batted well but were given way too many full tosses and half volleys on which to gorge themselves. Nor was the fielding especially sharp either, with a few mishandlings and some wild throwing.

It was a good toss to win, to be fair, as it is usually better to bat first at Headingley in such matches. From Lyth's opening over of our reply, the writing appeared to be on the wall and neither Madsen or Godleman looked at ease. 

Once they and du Plooy had quickly departed, two to decent catches, it became a case of damage limitation and protecting, to some extent the net run rate. Their fielding looked far sharper than ours, Godleman's blinding catch at cover apart, but it is much easier to field when your bowlers are in the right areas, of course. 

This was our Leicestershire at the County Ground of two summers ago. A major sea change needs to take place for our T20 prospects to come close to those in the four-day game, or for us to come close to the knock out stage this year. It was diametrically opposed to our four day performances and while one eye will, naturally be on next weekend's game at Liverpool, we are much better than this. 

It was poor and I expect to see a reaction on the same ground in front of Sky cameras tomorrow. I doubt Dominic Cork will accept less.

Finally, a word about the stream. I know it was free, but it started late and later went out of focus and required refreshing several times. There is potential for such streams to raise income for counties in the long term, but it needs to be better than this one was.