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!

Don’t agree the LBWs the finger went up far too quickly and the caught behind looked v suspect.

It’s both ends not just her!

Just got to hope we get suspect decisions when we field!

Not sure about the umpiring here

I have to say that was a good email from Stuart.

Someone reads this forum because all the Birmingham references were replaced by benefitting the county in terms of the knight head criteria.

So credit where it’s due. I thought it was much better!

paulbear wrote:

The 2010 was the semi-final where we beat Yorkshire, played Somerset in the final when Bell made that superb ton. I remember it because I looked around at the sparse crowd and realised that a Lord's final had stopped being an event like it used to be. It also started in the afternoon and went on till 8.30pm which was when the last train to Taunton left from what a Somerset fan told me, which he said put people off, especially older members who didn't fancy sitting there in the September cold.

Yes it was played 18th September and was v cold. They ruined the event,

Even 2005 was a sell out against Hampshire on a lovely sunny day!

ITE7376 wrote:

BosworthBear wrote:

ITE7376 wrote:

Andy wrote:

Yep no more 4day cricket til September and like I said in the Worcestershire thread we'll have had no cricket at Edgbaston from July 25th til August 26th. That's just a disgrace.

I thought we were all for 'taking us out to the out grounds' and giving a chance for fans at the opposite end of the country geographically?

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Some of us are but every year there is a loud minority Birmingham contingent who complain.

honestly I don't recall anyone on here at all complaining about it last year it seemed a rare unanimous moment

Unfortunately I do and I’ve been waiting for it to start this year again. It happens annually now.

Someone was even complaining it was near to Leicestershire seemingly not realising that Warwickshire borders Leicestershire and for some of us that is the local derby not Worcestershire.

Anyway I’m looking forward to it!

ITE7376 wrote:

Andy wrote:

Yep no more 4day cricket til September and like I said in the Worcestershire thread we'll have had no cricket at Edgbaston from July 25th til August 26th. That's just a disgrace.

I thought we were all for 'taking us out to the out grounds' and giving a chance for fans at the opposite end of the country geographically?

Some of us are but every year there is a loud minority Birmingham contingent who complain.

For some of us every game at Edgbaston is like every game at Rugby for them. And the Club doesn’t offer Country Membership anymore to those disadvantaged by distance.