....has been appointed coach to Afghanistan:
https://www.sacricketmag.com/trott-appointed-afghanistan-coach/

If the implication is that he makes a big fuss about minor injuries, I have to say that I think that is both untrue and unfair.

As well as confirming Stone's injury, there are a few clues here about the team:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/62270204
Stone out, Woakes out, Norwell and Yates possibly but not definitely in,
No mention of Davies but I suspect that getting him out of the team is harder than getting Boris out of number 10.

He's always come across to me as a really nice guy so I feel really sorry for him that he's had such an injury-strewn career.
I wish him well with Notts.

More on Andy Umeed's contract with Somerset:
https://www.somersetcountycc.co.uk/news/first-xi/somerset-sign-andrew-umeed/
Are there any other counties that, like Somerset, are a bit fragile at the top of the order and could do with signing a solid, well-organised batter?

George Dobell reports that Olly Stone:

• has a finger injury and may be out for the rest of the season
• is going to sign for Nottinghamshire.

A good win against (to be honest) a fairly nondescript Notts team. Maybe best news - at last some runs for Rob Yates, 89 not out.

Apparently, McAndrew wasn't dropped but was ill.

The nearest comparison I can think of is Sean Pollock taking four wickets in four balls on his Bears debut - but that was a 50 over game.
OH-D must be in the running to be the most popular Warwickshire player of all time. Maybe in their day Eric Hollies and Gladstone Small were similarly admired and viewed with great affection by supporters and fans.

Good to see that the MCC are upholding standards and insisting on ties being worn tomorrow:
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/county-championship-2022-ecb-allow-counties-to-shift-championship-start-times-to-avoid-worst-of-heatwave-1325357
I wonder if any of the more reckless and rebellious members will secretly undo the top button of their shirt under the tie.

I seem to recall that Lamb got what many thought was a rough deal when Jim Troughton was Coach - Jim joked at a Members' Event that people thought he must be a vegetarian because he obviously didn't like Lamb.

Those braving the heat can hear Trotty and Neil Smith tomorrow lunchtime:
https://edgbaston.com/news/members-lunch-with-legends-trott-smith/

....and Northants have done the same.

Exiled Bear - you are right about Blast highlights.
There will also be a weekly Vitality Blast highlights show broadcast on FTA TV, as well as one game per round broadcast free on Sky’s YouTube channel.
With most if not all games available on-line anyway, I'm not sure about the value of being able to watch on the Sky YouTube channel.

It looks like Gloucestershire are the first county to change hours of play for tomorrow:
"The Club has acted in line with advice from the ECB to alter the hours of play for the match v Hampshire tomorrow, meaning the new hours of play are now as follows:
The start of play will remain at 11am and will be followed by three 90 minute sessions, with the lunch and tea intervals remaining as 40 minutes and 20 minutes respectively."
Will others follow?

The Kent preview:
https://www.kentcricket.co.uk/news/match-preview-warwickshire-vs-kent/

I see that Stirling scored a century for Ireland v New Zealand. Just such a pity that he largely under-performed for the Bears.

Confirmation that Saqib Mahmood is definitely not headed back home to Brum:
https://cricket.lancashirecricket.co.uk/news/2022-news/saqib-mahmood-signs-new-contract-with-lancashire-cricket/

Good to see Olly Stone playing a four day game and also that Norwell is at last back in action.
If he's been dropped, Matt Lamb can consider himself unlucky in that he averages almost 50 in the Championship this year - ahead of Sibley, Davies, Benjamin, Mousley and Rhodes.

There are two parts to the MCC defence of the umpires. One is that, according to the Laws of the game, the ball is dead once the umpire has signaled a bye and therefore, because the signal had been made, the second run couldn't count. That much is factually correct. The dodgy part is the suggestion that the timing of the signal for a bye was correct. It would surely have been better for the umpires to have made sure that no second run would be attempted - as the MCC says, the striker was still on the move so it would have been best to wait and see what happened next.
Anyway, it was the end of a long day and we all make mistakes. Most of us are lucky enough that our errors aren't shown on TV and mulled over by posters on this Forum and elsewhere.