Leicestershire’s first defeat of the season will not trigger panic, says Foxes all-rounder Logan van Beek.
Sunday’s five-wicket T20 Blast loss to Northants Steelbacks came two days after the County Championship Division Two leaders opened their white-ball campaign with victory against East Midlands rivals Derbyshire.
Two wickets lost in the first over and an early batting collapse had Leicestershire at 39-7 and staring at the prospect of setting a club-record low total in the competition.
A knock of 42 from Van Beek helped then to 122 all out, and while they had Northants 75-4 in the 14th over, Ravi Bopara’s unbeaten 46 off 40 balls took them home with four balls to spare.
“We just had a terrible start, and that doesn’t mean the wheels have fallen off or anything like that,” Van Beek told BBC Radio Leicester.
“We just have to acknowledge it. We had a bad start, that was it. We now have another game in two days’ time, so let’s click into that.”
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