Agreed, however he may well of being released at the end of the season anyway so it would have felt cruel to stand in his way of getting a new deal elsewhere now.

He did get his chances, however he was a touch limited with both bat and particularly ball. Despite this he could very well go on to have a decent county career still.

Game 9! Change the title, it will mess with my ocd otherwise!

Big game this. 4day games during the Blast group stage can throw up some wild passages of play and outcomes.

We owe Durham one. Agree that If we can win, or even just draw well, we have a real good chance of finishing in the top 2.

Yes Stokes available you'd think. Sibley available, Yates back.

Sibley
Rhodes
Yates
Malan
Hain
Burgess
Bresnan
Briggs
Miles
Norwell
OHD

Case for Malan missing out?! Lamb could well come in for Malan or a bowler (Brez?).

Joins Derbyshire permanently. Good luck Alex.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Carlos has covid

I see Hain's been roped into this rubbish now. Replacement player for somebody.

Same squad, we go again.

Can we do the quadruple over Notts?!

Agreed. Terrific news that he's signed an extension, bad news about the injury. He'll be back though, so much potential and he has an insatiable will to win.

We'd be crazy to give up on Kelley at aged 18, wouldn't hurt to give him another year or 2 to see how he develops. He's not been playing or keeping because he's been injured.

Bit of a let down? Na, always good to give Yorkshire a doing.

That was so easy it was scarcely believable. All done and dusted in under 2 hours!

Pleased to see us go back of a length up front and nick a couple off with them fending off the back foot. It's aggressive tactics and they work on pitches like this, other sides have been doing it to us. Good in the field again, Lamb's catch was particularly good, it was always going away from him, his fielding has really improved. Couldn't imagine anybody but Michael Burgess behind the stumps for us these days. Pleased for Hose, he needed that, he kept his shape better tonight.

Back on track, we're good again, crisis over!

Big game this, hoping for a performance.

Yeah that's fair. I think we've had moments go against us in both games, we've also created our own problems at times. I maintain that Ben Raine catch was a total 1 in a million catch though. And at a really crucial time.

It's all subjective but I think we bowled so poorly up front against Derby that realistically the game was gone before the PP was even over. We had a glimmer when we got them 5 down but it was all too brief.

Against Durham we bowled really well up front, bowled to a plan of having a man out on the hook and it worked. I liked our aggression. However at the death we were appalling, I haven't tried to defend that at all in my post further up or call it unlucky. To ship 20 runs when bowling at numbers 9 and 10 is unforgivable.

Good info, thanks. Fingers crossed its not as bad as rumoured.

OK I'll spell it out...Im referring to the overseas players we sign specifically for the T20 comp.

Alex Thomson would be no use, it would be like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Lintott will come straight back in. However I'm not sure he's necessarily the answer on these hybrid pitches at Edgbaston. It's clear from the games against Derby and Durham that extra pace is key on that deck right now. Scrimshaw, McKerr, van Beek, Stokes, Potts are all sharp enough and it's showed up to good effect. Pace on, back of length, hurry the batsmen. Look at Hain's 2 most recent dismissals, forcing off the back foot.

Miles was our quickest the past 2 games I'd say, and he ain't as quick as any of those I've listed.

Spinners have generally bowled from the City End. If Lintott bowls from that end his stock delivery will be turning it in to the right handed batsmen, into the short boundary.

Yorks and Notts are stacked with right handers, Kohler Cadmore, Brook (in form), Root, Hales, Joe Clarke, Mullaney, Patel etc.

We've got match up problems.

We are absolutely crying out for H. Brookes here. Is he close to being available yet?

Stone and Woakes would be ideal but they'd be ideal for any team anywhere!

Everyone's talking about dropping batsmen etc but how the hell did Durham get up to 164?! Example, Miles (I don't mean to pick on him this is just an isolated example) had 3 blokes on the leg side boundary for that last ball with mid off up, Eckersly on strike. Has to be a short ball, field is set for it. Bowls a slot ball, batsman goes over long off for 6. I mean come on, we've stopped doing the basics. 20 off that last over.

We're not having any luck either. That Ben Raine catch was outrageous just as Lamb looked like he was on the move for us after hitting Stokes, and previously Raine, for 6. He won't catch one like that again.

I still think we'll qualify for the quarters.

There is a case for moving Hose down the order, I'm keeping Lamb in though.

Re. Brathwaite. He's been a pretty average cricketer for a while now.

Conway, Glenn Phillips, Finn Allen etc were all available at the time when we signed him.

I maintain we haven't had a properly good overseas in T20 since Shoaib Malik in 2014.

Didn't realise Curran had so few wickets.

To be fair to Jordan that's probably not a bad economy rate considering he bowls exclusively in the PP and in the death overs.

Cheers Malc.

Hello,

Is anyone able to settle a debate...

Are visiting members entitled to access into the Lords Pavilion area during County Championship matches?

I believe as a Warwickshire member you would be able to do this in a Middlesex v Warwickshire 4 day match as long you adhere to all the relevant dress codes.

Can anybody clarify?