Following Glamorgan’s early evening loss to Middlesex at Lord’s, Head Coach Richard Dawson wants his team to find ways to convert steady performances into bigger scores.
“We knew we had to dig in hard because we were under pressure,” he said. “I thought how Cooky and Ned went about that partnership was really good. We talked about having plans to combat what they were going to come up with and I thought they did it really well after losing Kiran early.
“That put us on the back foot, but how we responded was good. If we'd have managed to hold on with the bat for another half hour, who knows.
“We were 90-1 at lunch on the first day and had that second session where we lost all those wickets and it put us on the back foot. If that happens it is very hard to pull back – though the work ethic and effort were there.
“In the first innings of games we have to try and put the opposition on the back foot, so that’s one thing we have to improve. We are getting starts (from the top order) so it’s not like people are out of form. We’re just not converting that into big scores. We have also got to keep looking at how we create chances for the bowling unit on flat pitches like this.”
The team next face Derbyshire on Friday May 2nd in the Rothesay County Championship at Sophia Gardens