Azhar Mahmood can only watch as Rob Key is run out in Saturday's Friends Life t20 quarter-final defeat. Picture: Ady Kerry

It's almost still hard to believe that we lost our Friends Life t20 quarter-final at Leicester on Saturday in the way we did.

Having got 200-plus, you would expect to win the game 99 per cent of the time and at halfway we had done so well and I was confident that the bowlers would go on and win in for us. For it not to happen was a massive shock.

Credit to Leicestershire, everyone who came in was striking it out of the park from ball one. They had packed their team with batters, got on a roll and we couldn’t do anything about it.

The dressing room was a quiet place afterwards. It’s always difficult when you have lost a big game like that and the home crowd are celebrating just below us.

Little was said afterwards and probably best to give everyone a bit of time to clear their heads, deal with it in their own way and come back this week ready to start again in Canterbury Week against Surrey.

It was similar to the game against Middlesex at Uxbridge. Bowling then with a wet ball didn’t help us and it was the same at Grace Road.

Treddy couldn’t get any turn, the ball just slid on, and there was no seam movement either.

We didn’t know how to deal with it and the fielding could have been sharper. We have to learn from it.

There might not now be any trophies at stake but there is still personal pride and contracts to play for. We have got to put in some big performances in the last part of the season.

Personally, three ducks in the championship have been disappointing. I have got far too many scores under 10 and too many in the 30s, being out after getting myself set.

I don’t feel I am 100 per cent at the moment and Alan Wells, who I worked with at Tunbridge Wells earlier in the season, came in this week to work with me.

The consistency isn’t there, a few errors have crept in and I have been getting into old habits.

There is an eagerness to get to the ball too quickly, which affects my shape at the crease. When the ball is seaming, I seem to be in no position to play the ball and nicking myself out.

It’s all about keeping working at it, until it becomes second nature and finding the level of consistency I am looking for.

I want to get some big scores in four-day and one-day cricket in the remainder of the season and keep progressing.

As a team we have got some big games coming up and are not where we want to be. We now have to show what we are capable of doing.