Super win. A shame that we weren’t able to force the win against Notts or Somerset as we might still have a sniff at the title if we did, but I suppose there are always lots of these “what ifs” in a season

Highveld wrote:

If the council had signed a contract to loan the money, they are legally obliged to honour the contract, or face legal action, and extensive costs, for breach of contract.

We can only hope that the voters of Birmingham remeber which party caused the severe financial mismanagement at the next local elections.

We can also hope that voters remember which party are the reason that local authorities across the country have no money to spend in the first place.

10 overs remaining!

I’m hopeful that that’s it for the rain, now it’s all about how quickly they can get it dry and if the light holds. Lord’s does drain quickly at least.

Unfortunately rain is not too far away…

Craig Miles that was horrible.

Admittedly I haven’t seen much of this game but from what I have seen it seems to be more movement in the air with a little bit of nip off the pitch? This is one reason why the championship shouldn’t be confined to the start and end of the season.

Happy birthday Terry!

I think a lot depends on how we do in these last three games. If we can win one or two and get ourselves in the top three, I’d say that’s a decent improvement on last season. However if we don’t win any or struggle in them then that’s more of a concern given that all three opponents are currently below us in the table.

Just checked my emails - Rhodes signed a new contract in January this year to take him until the end of 2024, so I assume this was a one year extension.

If I remember correctly some of our other players have also signed one year extensions this season? Can’t remember who though

Great news. Puts that particular rumour to bed.

I’m not sure rumours about the dressing room or individual personalities are particularly helpful, especially as I have never seen any evidence provided for these. If anyone has a source for them, please do share.

I think we just need to stop losing the toss to be honest.

According to the playing regulations “one reserve day is allocated to the playoffs, semi-finals and final”. The minimum length of the second innings also increases to 20 overs for the knockout games.

Could someone enlighten me as to what Country Membership is/was?

Some brainless cricket here. We need less than a run a ball so why are we trying to hit every ball out of the ground?

I know our stream isn’t the best around but it’s streets ahead of this one. Can barely see the ball from one end.

Highveld wrote:

Of course, if yesterday's game had been scheduled for an outground, there would have been no play and the club would only have a single point for an ababndoned game, putting qualifycation for the play off stage at risk.

Not necessarily by any means - the showers that went through that delayed the start were very localised and so almost certainly wouldn’t have impacted an outground.

A good win, I didn’t think we had enough either but comfortable in the end! I think that pretty much guarantees us top spot in the group, barring a big NRR swing?