Leicestershire Foxes skipper Josh Cobb labelled yesterday's 25-run defeat by the Birmingham Bears in the NatWest T20 Blast as a "bad day at the office."
The Foxes slipped to their second consecutive defeat in the competition after failing to chase down a target of 176, which Cobb said he felt was around 30 above par.
"We were flat from ball one, I don't know why that was," he said.
"We didn't execute our plans as well as we would have liked and we made some sloppy mistakes in the field, so we continued to be flat."
Cobb had put the Bears into bat after winning the toss and that looked a good decision with a couple of tight overs early in the piece suggesting the deck was not particularly full of runs.
"I thought it was a good toss to win," he added.
"But we didn't make the most of what was in the wicket.
"It wasn't the best and they probably got 30 above the par score.
"Tom Wells played an exceptional innings to get us to 150, which I felt was around the par score on that wicket."
Wells' performance – he hammered 51 before playing on off the final ball of the match – was the one real highlight of the day for the Foxes, although the fact that Jigar Naik conceded just 22 runs in his four-overs is also worthy of mention.
All-rounder Wells smashed four huge sixes, all shots which were well picked and perfectly executed to suggest that it is not only Scott Styris who will be producing fireworks in the 20-over format this season.
"Tom is very powerful and clears the boundaries," said Cobb. "Hopefully we will see plenty more of that as the season goes on.
"It was an exceptional innings but we had left ourselves with a lot to do in the second half."
