WORCESTERSHIRE director of cricket Steve Rhodes admitted there was plenty to work on in the field after Rapids suffered their third home loss in a row in the NatWest T20 Blast.

Rapids totalled 186-5 against Derbyshire Falcons with Joe Clarke (42), Ben Cox (40 not out), Ross Whiteley (39) and John Hastings (16no off three balls) their main contributors.

But their New Road visitors won with 10 balls to spare thanks to Billy Godleman (70) and Wayne Madsen (58 not out) despite spinner Mitchell Santner's 2-27 from four overs.

Rhodes said: "It was disappointing. It looked a belter of a wicket and 186 is a good score. Possibly at one stage we might have got a few more runs.

"We were (on course for) over 200 at one stage. But it might not have made any difference because Godleman and Madsen played fantastic innings.

"We will look at why and how we could have done better with the ball and in the field but we also shouldn't take anything away, particularly from Madsen's innings.

"Godleman got them going but the way Madsen hit unprotected areas was fantastic. It was like the bowlers were bowling at someone with a round bat.

"He hit the ball 360 degrees. Wherever we moved the fielders from he hit that gap and was very difficult to bowl at in that mood.

"Of course you are always looking for areas where you can improve — whether it be tactical decisions on the field, field placements, who bowls when or just executing things a bit better.

"But we will look at all those things, brush ourselves down, fight again and try to win as many games as we can in this competition because if we can do that with the games left to play then we've still got a great chance.

"Seventy-odd in the powerplay for only one wicket was a big problem for us because it meant with 14 overs to go you are only needing about 110 with nine wickets in hand.

"They had done the damage in that powerplay. We had a good powerplay but they had a better one.

"Joe Clarke's knock was lovely and it went a long way towards us getting 60-odd off the powerplay.

"We've got to try to find ways of picking up more wickets, especially early on because that really does get the opposition behind the eight ball."

Rapids have a quick chance to claim their first T20 win of the season with a fourth consecutive home game tomorrow when Lancashire Lightning visit (5.30pm).

They then head to Yorkshire Vikings on Sunday (2.30pm).