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Josh Cobb\u2019s 100 was not enough to help the Steelbacks over the line at a sun-drenched County Ground.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The batsman hit his century off just 58 balls, including eight fours and half-a-dozen sixes, but it was a personal milestone that was ultimately in vain as his team failed to chase down the 188 they needed to beat Birmingham Bears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aside from Ricardo Vasconcelos – who had been racking up the runs nicely before being caught brilliantly on the boundary by Aaron Thomason – and Brett Hutton\u2019s late run-a-ball 15, the rest of the home batsmen failed to get out of single figures as the Bears bowlers piled on the pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s bitter-sweet,\u201d Cobb acknowledged while talking to BBC Radio Northampton. \u201cIt was pleasing after having had a few low scores recently, but unfortunately it was in a losing side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI had a great net this morning where everything seemed to come out of the middle and that gave me confidence. It\u2019s a confidence game, and while it was my day it wasn\u2019t enough to get the boys over the line. We lost wickets at bad times and didn\u2019t build partnerships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had a few individual performances that have deserved to have been on a winning side and we\u2019ve had a terrible run of games in terms of losing. It needs guys to take the game by the scruff of the neck, and hopefully we\u2019ll get a bit of confidence and some wins by the end of the comp.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lack of runs was frustrating, but the result was also as much down to the final three overs in the visitors\u2019 innings, when Birmingham managed to shake off the shackles which the Steelbacks attack had imposed for the first 80 percent to take their score from 144-5 at the end of the 17th over to 187-7 at the end of the 20th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nathan Buck, Hutton and Seekkuge Prasanna bore the brunt of the onslaught in those final three overs as England star Chris Woakes, who finished with an unbeaten 57, Bears captain Grant Elliott and Thomason threw their bats at the ball in what proved to be the deciding acceleration of the run rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a particular shame for Buck, whose first three overs had seen him take two wickets and concede just 18 runs, while Hutton\u2019s economy rate had also been impressive. Indeed none of the Steelbacks bowlers went for more than 12 an over and the seven wickets to fall were shared by four of the six players to be handed the ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately though, positives like this do not count for much when the overall result does not go your way, but the Steelbacks will be nevertheless looking to build on them – and Friday\u2019s performance at Headingley – when they travel to Derby on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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