And the official Warwickshire channels normally refer to the awful “red ball” so it’s good to seeing them recognise this as a first class hundred - presumably prompted by someone.

LeicesterExile wrote:

Trouble is most people in the country will wonder where the Bears come from!! Needs to go full circle and refer to Warwickshire Bears.

Indeed but at least now we’ve dropped Birmingham then the media should follow suit! Charles Dagnell just referenced our conversation on air and they’ve all stopped doing it now. Just need the BIR on the graphic changing too!

BosworthBear wrote:

I’m getting annoyed with Sky continually referring to us as Birmingham. I thought we’d dropped that nonsense!

I’ve now written tweets to every commentator using the B word and they do seem to have stopped! Although the graphic is still there!

I’m getting annoyed with Sky continually referring to us as Birmingham. I thought we’d dropped that nonsense!

I’ve now written tweets to every commentator using the B word and they do seem to have stopped! Although the graphic is still there!

ExiledBrummie wrote:

Just so poor and I like him as a batsman but Davies is never a captain in a thousand years. I wish he'd just concentrate on batting or keeping, he's not up to doing all 3!!

I don’t really care about T20 especially when we play under silly names but this comment is interesting and confirms my view about his captaincy in first class cricket!

I received this yesterday

I've had two county bosses contact me in the last 24 hours unprompted.

Both confirm that the 8 match CC before the Blast in June and then 3/4 play offs in September is the preferred solution. Top division of 10 to remain so the 8 games means you don't play one county and in div 2 you play one county twice!

The playoffs are back to back games in September vulnerable to weather and failing light. 4 back to back games is one of the main PCA complaints so why they think it's a good idea to have the finale of the competition done in such intensity at the end of the season is beyond me.

Exiled Bear wrote:

I can understand the frustration with not winning this one, but I don't think the weather forecast was bad enough to warrant a much earlier declaration. If it was going to be a complete washout on the final day then that would be different, but if we'd declared early and given them something chasable, and then the weather turned out to be better than expected and Worcestershire had won, then people would also have been very upset!

We're in a very good spot after 7 games and aren't a million miles away from the top, which I'm not sure many people saw coming before the start of the season, so I'm pretty happy with how things have gone so far overall.

Have a look at the posts from Saturday evening in this thread. It was predictable.

Normally I’d take the rough with the smooth but in a match where we’ve won the toss, have a lead, have Rushworth and Woakes in form (along with Bamber and Barnard) on a seaming pitch, haven’t picked up any batting bonus points you simply have to make sure you win!

Paul remarked on here on the awful forecast for Monday on Saturday evening. I’d seen it too which was why I was alarmed our batting was painfully slow (not even just slow). Since Saturday I’d expected no play at all today!

Pleased I didn’t venture to New Road today.

Having seen every ball on Friday and Saturday and the forecast that’s why I knew the pedestrian batting on Saturday was such an own goal.

We even started off briskly enough before we lost all sense of time and indeed all sense at all.

Picked up Sunday but it was a battle against time and a declaration was the obvious approach.

Good effort today when we were fortunate to get back on but ultimately Davies needs to learn lessons fast if he wants to remain captain!

Yes exactly Yates 29 off 112 balls is absolutely ridiculous and this is exactly the scenario I feared when I first mentioned it on Saturday night! We are lucky we got as much play as we did this morning. We have to seize opportunities!

Was the same with the snail batting on Saturday.

I’m afraid I don’t see Davies as a captain. He seems to rotate bowlers by numbers and is often too defensive with the tail. He doesn’t seem to have it in him to make things happen.

Let’s hope they get back out there but there is a lesson to learn here. Worcs were never going to get above 250.

LeicesterExile wrote:

Andy wrote:

So Smith has the gloves again?!

Re my earlier post perhaps Davies should have a bowl - he does everything else!!

Seriously though - that has been an excellent morning - just 3 wickets to go. Hopefully the rain will not spoil the party.

We’ve done well today. I’m still worried we are going to regret the bizarre batting on Saturday night and the lack of a declaration but we’ve certainly now given ourselves a chance weather permitting!

I think we should declare yes. Goodness knows what we were messing around at last night.

Commentator talking about Worcs victory but it’s highly unlikely

I think we should declare yes. Goodness knows what we were messing around at last night.

Commentator talking about Worcs victory but it’s highly unlikely

We bowled very well.

We then batted very slowly. Presumably it’s not easy. The bad light was no such thing in my opinion. It was actually lighter than when they started after tea.

So we need to push on in the morning now or we are going to regret this one!

Frustrating day to watch.

Anyone would think that tail came from “the dark ages”.

GerryShedd wrote:

I'd be interested to know how Dermot came across on comms. He has obviously had a rough time with a few drugs relapses.

I think he was good. His knowledge of the game is better than our amateurs. Really not sure Phil Britt suited to commentary. Dermot didn’t last season as well and was good then. He even tried ball by ball this time rather than summarising and again his knowledge of the game shone through.

Not sure his heavy breathing ever helped with cricket commentary. For some reason he never had the same problem with football commentary which he has now retired from as well!

When I worked for the PCB he was as popular with ECB as he was with us in Warwickshire when we played at Edgbaston