Gidman is in his second season as captain of Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire captain Alex Gidman has promised a thorough inquest following his side's championship defeat at home to Derbyshire inside two days.

Set just 125 to win, Gloucestershire collapsed to just 70 all out, defeat which ends any hope of promotion.

"It's now been two years of the same mistakes with the same batsmen," Gidman told BBC Radio Gloucestershire.

"Undoubtedly everyone would expect us to look at it deeply and to try and get to the core of the problems."

Only Hamish Marshall with 44 offered any real resistance as Gloucestershire contrived to lose a game which they had started by dismissing their opponents for just 44 and managing to take a first innings lead of 112 runs.

Gidman has previously criticised a lack of consistency in Gloucestershire's batting earlier in the season - something he also includes his own form in - but this defeat takes the team's problem to a new depth.

The captain insists that is is a collective issue for the players and not the fault of director of cricket John Bracewell.

"It certainly isn't John Bracewell's responsibility that we haven't succeeded, I truly believe that myself and him have tried to put the right things in place," he said.

"One of the most disappointing aspects is that as a group we've quite often said the right things and thought the right things, it's been our execution.

"Obviously when it comes down to the main part of it, which is delivering, that's where we've failed and that's an individual thing that becomes a collective and is absolutely nothing to do with the coach in this instance at all."

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