RIP Roger Woakes. I'm sure Chris will be back for the Bears as soon as he feels he is ready.

The weather has cost us this game, a full days play today and we would have won.

Does anyone know how long we have got Michael Rae for? He has certainly livened the bowling attack up, he's been impressive in the last 2 games.

Oh no - another rain delay. Lancs 89-4 after 15.

4 down, 3 for Rae. 50-4 after 10 overs.

Jennings gone for 18 bowled Bethell, could be a vital wicket that. 38-2 after 7 overs.

Wicket already for Rae, 5-1 after 2 overs

Play scheduled to start at 13.10, possible 72 overs left in the day - rain permitting of course.

Doubtful whether we'll get all those overs in, maybe we should just declare now and go for it.

Davies out for 17, 30-2 at Tea.

Bethell and Lintott - the new spin twins! 135 the lead, surely we won't throw this one away?

7 down now, Bethell is bowling superbly. Come on You Bears!

A great little knock from Hassan Ali, another 50 or 60 runs would give us a decent score.

I don't have much faith in Davies as captain and i don't know why he chose to bat first. Possibly he was worried about Lyon spinning us out if we batted last?

Bad light stops play - that could be it for the day

Problem for Davies now does he carry on digging in or does he try to score more quickly?

73 - 1 at Tea, the Captain's playing a responsible innings - 35 runs in just over 2 hours.

TEAM:

Rob Yates
Alex Davies(c)
Will Rhodes
Dan Mousley
Ed Barnard
Jacob Bethell
Michael Burgess(wk)
Michael Rae
Olly Hannon-Dalby
Hassan Ali
Jake Lintott

Won the toss, batting first

Briggs is out with a finger injury sustained in training.

I think it would harsh to leave out either Rae or Simmons after they took 5 wickets each against Essex last week, Ali should play so i think we'll go with 4 seamers with Burgess batting at 7.

My predicted XI: Yates, Davies, Rhodes, Barnard, Mousley, Bethell, Burgess, Rae, Simmons, Ali & Hannon-Dalby.