Rob Yates and Hamza Shaikh are in the squad for the match against Sri Lanka starting next Wednesday so won't be available for the match against Notts in the One Day Cup - but Notts also have two players in the squad.

https://www.ecb.co.uk/news/4078900/england-lions-name-squad-for-sri-lanka-tour-game

The Cricketer reports that counties met recently to discuss the future of live streaming. It reports:
"One of the takeaways from the meeting of the counties – attended by the majority, but not all – with general consensus that it isn't feasible, at a time where finances are limited at several counties, to not be trying to make money from a summer-long streaming service that can essentially operate as a digital season ticket. That is particularly the case where the product is a bells-and-whistles, multi-camera operation, often expensive to run and, in some situations, good enough to be carried by Sky Sports.
While the monetisation of streams is seen as a necessary inevitability in the not-too-distant future, in whatever form that takes, some counties feel more comfortable than others about the use of a paywall because of the money that has gone into production values. At other grounds, where the crux of the coverage might be little more than a couple of static cameras, that might not be the case.
There are also those who are reluctant to put their product behind a paywall for the reason that keeping their product free to view acts as a marketing tool to encourage in-person attendance at matches and retains a connection between fans and the team, while paywalling also brings questions around the use of match-clips on social media."

As the rain was coming down today, I was trying to weigh up the season so far - excellent results in two competitions but very disappointing results in the Championship.
How are we doing compared with other counties? Are there any counties doing well in all three competitions? By “doing well”, I mean having got through to the quarter finals of the Blast and being in the top half of their table in the One Day Cup and in the Championship.
The simple answer is that there is only one county out of 18 that, by the definitions above, is doing well. You can forget Surrey who are having a disastrous One Day Cup campaign. Lancashire are struggling in both the Championship and the One Day Cup; and counties of the calibre of Notts, Essex and Hampshire didn’t make it to the Blast quarters.
So we are left with Somerset, only third in their Blast group but still through to the knockout stages to defend their title and currently top (level on points with three others) in the One Day Cup and second in the Championship. The other 17 counties, including the Bears, can at best boast two out of three successes.
I accept that, for most of us, success in the Championship would count for more than in the other competitions; and that's the one where the Bears have fallen short. But taken overall, it's not such a bad picture. In fact, across all competitions, Somerset have won 15 games, exactly the same as the Bears.
By the end of the season, success or failure will be much easier to judge with titles won or lost and relegation avoided or not. But, as at today, things don't look all that bad (says Mr Glass Half Full).

More information here:
https://edgbaston.com/news/prolific-batter-zen-malik-joins-warwickshire/?utm_campaign=14605787_WCCC%20-%20Zen%20Malik%20Signs&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=DotDigital&dm_i=1AFS,8P1WB,8II8VY,103TLC,1

Five out of five for both teams.
Graham Smith reviews here and doesn't show his Glamorgan loyalties too strongly:
https://deepextracover.com/2024/08/metro-bank-one-day-cup-group-b-match-preview-warwickshire-v-glamorgan/

A very efficient win with Barnard the star with bat and ball. Good to see Hamza Shaikh and Benjamin get some runs again.
Bristol isn't my favourite ground but the weather was ideal so it was a good day's spectating.

Preview here:
https://deepextracover.com/2024/08/metro-bank-one-day-cup-match-preview-gloucestershire-v-warwickshire/

At the half-way stage, my friend and colleague Graham Smith summarises who has done what in the One Day Cup- and manages to hide his loyalty to Glamorgan:
https://deepextracover.com/2024/08/metro-bank-one-day-cup-round-up/

I'd be willing to bet that the catch by Yates/Barnard was the best ever taken on the ground - and the first recorded match there was in 1841 when Rugby School played MCC. The Rugby opening bat and top scorer that day was Thomas Hughes, who went on to write Tom Brown's Schooldays.

A great game of cricket with a fantastic result - and it looked like a great out-ground venue.

BosworthBear wrote:

Glad Gary is sticking up for himself. I think he’s excellent and had to take criticism from know nothing loud mouthed Aussies like Adam Collins last year!

You mean to say there are Aussies who are loud mouthed and know nothing? Surely not!

My fault for suggesting that Dom Sibley might bat Surrey out of the game - he seems to be doing the opposite.

Hopefully we can rely on Dom Sibley to block through 50 overs.

I'm sure that it was because of our constant support for him that Robinson stuck with Chris Benjamin.

George Dobell normally likes to be seen as the man in the know so he will not be happy that Cricinfo have beaten him to it on this occasion.

He is interviewed in The Guardian today:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/31/the-life-of-a-cricket-groundskeeper-its-hard-but-ive-seen-the-worlds-best-players

Steven Finn speaks up for Jonathan Trott as the new coach:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cp3807gmx6vo

Yes, I agree that he isn't a model of consistency and is maybe a bit more so than most players.

I think he must be confident that he will play in all formats. As George Dobell says: " ... he is understood to be frustrated at his lack of opportunities in T20 cricket. He hasn't played a game in the format since 2021." So I would assume that Durham have given him some assurances about T20 selection.

Highveld wrote:

HAHA

However, is that comment really appropriate for a public forum?

Yes, I agree that it's not quite up to our usual high standards as a comment but, even with my super-human powers as a moderator, I'll let it go on this occasion.
As for the average of 30, I was looking at the last five innings before the Sussex game - 42, 0, 35 not out, 15 and 57, so 149 runs in four completed innings. So even if you add in his 2 v Sussex, he still averages fractionally over 30. And then there's his bowling and his catching.