Ian Westwood, looking a bit downbeat, reflects on the losses and, and one point, says:
"We need to find our formula", which is quite a revealing comment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lui6iZkXpPQ

sdobbs wrote:

Andy wrote:

Genuinely the bowling line up here is probably better than what we sent out the weekend just gone.
Agreed
I agree, though it looks as though Bamber did a Sylvester - 20 runs off his first over.

Cricket Archive seem to be out of line on this. The ACS (Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians) are on the case.
There are probably a few bowlers playing in the match who would quite like their figures not to be added to their first-class record.

Congratulations to Dan, though apparently, Cricket Archive are saying that the match is not first class (but others are saying that it is - the jury is out and the world holds its breath).

I hear hollow Pears laughter at the thought of anyone from Warwickshire complaining about poaching of players.
I agree that there needs to be some serious soul searching within the Club about this. There could be a whole story that we don't know; but a player of such promise shouldn't have been lost.

I think all options need to be on the table, including giving Latham the gloves. But I don't think we should write him off as a T20 batter - a T20 career average of 28.5 and a strike rate of 129.5 puts him at least on a par with (for example) Alex Davies and Moeen Ali.

I wonder how Will Rhodes feels about his move to Durham. He supposedly left us because he wanted to play T20 cricket and he's in the Durham side but he batted at number 7 and didn't get a bowl.

I feel sorry for Sylvester and I know that some on here have seen him perform well for the second team; but I thought he looked way out of his depth. He had no rhythm in his run-up and his action looked to be all over the place, with so many moving parts that could (and did) go wrong.

BIR stands for Bears in Retreat.

Crowd looks not that big.

Not sure if any posters on here knew him well enough to want to go; but funeral arrangements for Robert Brooke are:
The funeral will be held at 11am on Friday 13 June 2025 at:
The Robin Hood Crematorium
Streetsbrook Road
Shirley
Solihull
B90 3NL
The wake will be held at:
The Red Lion
1672 High Street
Knowle
Solihull
B93 0LY

Mikkyk wrote:

Just to add to all the misery above, Gleeson didn't finish the final over the Mumbai game last night...

Was stretching his leg before the start of the over, bowled 3 balls then went off

That does sound like more bad news. The Cricinfo report says: "Gleeson bowled three hard-to-hit balls in the 20th to close it out mathematically before trudging off with a hamstring issue."
As the oldest Warwickshire member once said:
"When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions."

Be careful what you say about George Garton or you'll have his mum on here berating us as she did on one of the Sussex forums.

I didn't enjoy having to edit my colleague Jamie's report from Trent Bridge - but here it is:
https://deepextracover.com/2025/05/outlaws-beat-the-bears-in-a-high-scoring-contest-at-trent-bridge/

Report on the tied match here:
https://deepextracover.com/2025/05/vitality-blast-women-match-report-the-blaze-v-bears-women/

Match tied:
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/vitality-blast-women-2025-1460986/the-blaze-women-vs-warwickshire-women-2nd-match-1460990/live-cricket-score

mad wrote:

Nothing about the modern game and the insistence on lots of preparation time (which translates as utterly wasted 'fallow days' especially when we get lots of fallow days stacked together for weeks on end in June, July and August) and the athletic prowess some of the players possess now, the sprinting and relay catches etc... pretty as they are... will ever make up for the loss of opportunities to watch red ball cricket in places like this;
https://youtu.be/I6B6EQNPWng?si=qXlVrfko9A0jSptw
Nice interview with Tom Cartwright in the tea interval

Great to see the interview with my hero, Tom Cartwright.
And what a lovely setting! I saw first-class cricket at Abergavenny and on my wall I have a print of Cricket at Abergavenny, painted by ex-Sussex cricketer Martin Speight.

He's not exactly in the Colin Milburn or Mike Gatting zone though, for a quick bowler, he certainly looks as if he could lose a pound or two. But you could have said the same about Merv Hughes and he didn't do too badly.
He does look to have potential, which makes it more surprising that none of the other counties that he has played for have snapped him up.

I think the threat of eight games is so that we will be pleased when it is only reduced to 12.

Excellent article by Nick Hoult in the Telegraph today about Bethell's performance for England yesterday - describing him as a generational talent. It has a picture of him aged 12 with academy director Paul Greentham at Edgbaston in 2013. Worth a read if you can get behind the paywall:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2025/05/29/england-vs-west-indies-live-score-latest-updates-first-odi/?WT.mc_id=e_DM596088&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_PrS_New&utmsource=email&utm_medium=Edi_PrS_New20250530&utm_campaign=DM596088