KISHAN VAGHELA AT THE OVAL: The 45-year-old Surrey head coach was left frustrated by his side despite an improved bowling performance
Surrey head coach Michael Di Venuto bemoaned his side's lack of consistent good cricket after their fourth consecutive Blast defeat.
Despite an improved bowling performance from the home side, Gloucestershire managed to compile 165 runs at The Oval, and in reply Surrey began slowly, reaching 52 for 2 from 7.5 overs before the rain intervened.
The revised playing conditions resulted in Surrey needing to double their score with 25 balls remaining to win, and despite a valiant effort from Sam Curran and Ollie Pope, the hosts fell short to extend their winless run to five matches, a set of results that has annoyed the Australian.
"It is frustrating, there is no doubt about that. It is not just this competition we haven't played well in this season.
"Our cricket has been up and down and a lot more down than up for the majority of the season for a lot of reasons.
Sam Curran and Ollie Pope could not see Surrey over the line
"We are not playing good enough cricket consistently enough to get the results that we are working for, so it is disappointing to lose.
"It was a much better effort tonight, it was much better in the field and with the ball but we fell two shots short of a victory, so it is another loss."
After conceding 210 runs on Thursday evening against Middlesex, Surrey's bowling unit were in much better flow and took eight Gloucestershire wickets, which pleased Di Venuto, who also reserved special praise for allrounder Sam Curran.
"The bowlers bounced back quite well today, some good skills were shown. It was probably an under-par total on that wicket and on that surface.
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"But still it would have been a tough chase because the Gloucestershire boys do defend quite well had it been a full 20-over game, so it would have been an interesting run chase.
"But we are pleased with our start and the way we were going about it.
"It was an excellent performance [from Curran]. He has really grabbed his opportunity of going up to no.3, he has got a couple of fifties and a 30 or a 40 as well. He has batted beautifully for us.
"He is a super-talented young man and who has shown everybody what he can do."
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Posted by Laurance Mendes on 10/08/2019 at 14:04
I feel for all fans and for all Surrey CCC staff. I don't believe that any professional club has ever had more injuries than we have this season. I'd like to see the end of season injury total. However, with International call-ups too, the fact is that it's around 4 wins from 24 games. I've supported Surrey since 1965, never a season like this. How about not changing the batting order so much eg Ryan Patel has played in about 7 different batting positions. I know that with injuries etc you need to juggle. Sadly, and undeservedly I sense thatit's necessary to review everything at season end including the head coach. A clean slate perhaps. I'm thankful but I will never go near the new 100 game.