Jack Taylor - "We know we can play better"
15 May 2017
All rounder Jack Taylor has pinpointed a lack of consistency across the team as the reason for Gloucestershire being eliminated from the Royal London One-Day Cup in the group stages.
Surrey visit the Brightside Ground on Wednesday knowing a win will take them into the play off for a place in the semi finals, and while it is possible that Gloucestershire could be one of four teams who could finish with eight points an inferior net run rate counts heavily against them.
Speaking after Sunday's win over Sussex, in which he made his fourth half century in the competition, Taylor said "We've not played as well as we would like as a team. We've had some good individual performances but not as a collective and it's been a bit of everything - batsmen batting through the innings, bowlers taking enough wickets and in the field we've dropped a few catches. We know we can play better cricket and we want to use the Surrey game to test our skills for the T20 later on."
Gloucestershire v Surrey (1.30pm) - Royal London One-Day Cup - Wednesday 15 May - Click here to book tickets
Chris Liddle's second five wicket haul in a week took him level with Glamorgan's Marchant de Lange as the joint highest wicket taker in the Royal London Cup, and Taylor revealed that the players were pleased that the former Sussex man has shown some form after a difficult 2016.
"Chris has worked hard and done really well" he went on. "Sussex had made a good start, but we pegged them back in the middle overs with our spinners and when Chris came back he helped us to contain them to what we thought was a par score because it was a typical club wicket. It was a decent pitch but the ball did stick in it a bit once the hardness had gone from the new ball."
"In the end we timed the chase perfectly. With small boundaries we felt anything was possible in the final few overs and I think that's why Michael Klinger put Sussex in. We could also see how the pitch played as well. Michael and George Hankins set the position up with their stand and you generally know bowlers will look to bowl a fuller length towards the end of the innings so it was just a question of giving myself a few balls and then trusting my hands and eyes."
Wednesday's fixture with Surrey is a day-night match starting at 1.30pm.
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