Very disappointing. All seemed a bit flat. Slow used wicket and huge number of empty seats. After the Lord Mayor’s Show.

Credit for Barnard for this campaign!

I wonder where the wicket will be on the square?

Devon_Bear wrote:

Remaining fixtures:

Yorkshire: Sussex (A) Kent (A)

Somerset: Kent (A) Northants (H)

Bears: Durham (A) Sussex (A)

Middlesex: Northants (A) Lancashire (A)

Warwickshire

Has the future of county cricket thread disappeared? Its so important

It’s a great effort. Well done!

I hope the rule change goes through and will make sure I’m there. Above all I hope the members’ committee have the gumption to realise they are there to represent members and not to suck up to the Club Board. I hope they are embarrassed by this.

Somerset coverage is very different with pluses and minuses. They are very biased but loveable. The ads are intrusive, they don’t appear to be know much at all about us.

Well it certainly looks like we’ve got to know this pitch! Good effort this. Captaincy, bowling and fielding.

Another big crowd. Three in a row. Must be all the Middlesex supporters!

Yep leg spinners need flight and loop as well as turn.

Ali seemed to be bowling too quickly on Sunday but the results indicated otherwise.

He’ll need to be a lot more consistent and methodical to bowl in the Championship.

Given his background he’s unlikely to play in Sri Lanka but a winter in Pakistan would help his development especially if someone like Mushtaq or Yasir could have a look.

GerryShedd wrote:

I am devastated that we have had no update on the state of the toilets at Rugby.

Ha ha ha!

Don’t even jest. It may still come from him!

A bit snide TBH. It was more of a local game for us which is probably why there was another good crowd. I preferred Kai Smith’s opinion!

Wasn’t there today but crowd looked good today. As somebody just texted me championship crowds at Edgbaston are now lower than anybody but Derbyshire!

Looking forward to Friday!

285 is the par score

Definitely a pitch to take the pace off the ball. Presume Yates is on for a full stint!

Lancashire didn’t offer their members the 14 match option even though they brought in a rule last year that the members had to be given a vote. Now they are holding an SGM to sanction the CEO and to require the 14 match option be put to members.

Our Board did the same trick and didn’t put a 14 match option to the “supposed” members committee.

Sorry to be clear that wasn’t aimed at you. I can see you’ve had a bad experience today although I’m perplexed as we sat to the left of the pavilion for almost all of the day then when the evening sun came we moved to the right of the pavilion with no problem whatsoever.

As I say it was the repetitive criticism of not playing in Birmingham I was responding to not your frustrations. Apologies that wasn’t clear!

I’d actually posted it before your last but one comment came up. Probably shouldn’t have bitten to the wind up merchant anyway!

As I said earlier I hope we can all just comment on the cricket for the remainder of this week!

Crikey if I deconstructed Edgbaston after each day attending the Championship.

Absolutely pointless and destructive IMO

Really hope the Club don’t cave in to vested interests! This has gone on for years. Remember it happening to Griff & Coton and Cov & North Warwicks. Ludicrous!

I remember on the old forum there was a guy who got equally obsessed about Stratford as you do about Rugby. Bizarrely he lived in Warley!

Changed it for you. Hopefully now you know a bit more you’ll give it a rest for the next two games and concentrate on the cricket!

Northants seconds have played away fixtures against Warwickshire at Rugby because believe it or not Northamptonshire borders Warwickshire and Rugby is therefore a logical place to play that fixture. Geography really isn’t that hard.

As for the rest not worth responding to. Its like the first cuckoo signalling spring,

Great day and look forward to the next two games!

Very impressed with Taz’s bowling at what seemed like the key stage of the innings. He could be v useful in the 3 games on this pitch!

Given we’re limited to half the ground it’s strange I’ve sat all day next to the Pavilion in the shade under a gazebo.

Lovely welcome and shown to disabled parking for my 98 old dad even though we hadn’t reserved a place. Sausage roll for £3 and loving the cricket!