Highveld
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Cricinfo report on the day, also confirms the conference format will, probably, remain next season, and the club have decided not to sign an overseasn batsman for next season.
Good to see the club will continue to back our young batsmen.
Preview from the Professional journalists of Cricinfo
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/bob-willis-trophy-2021-1279896/warwickshire-vs-lancashire-final-1279470/match-preview
Johal in for Woakes
Live Stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDaHdfa9qB4
Live Scores etc
https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/#m640a0d0c-167b-47e0-b8fc-6089ceed8bdd
Live stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYrCSIQY1LM
Following the serious security threats to the NZ team, and the increaded security risks of visiting the country, the ECB have just announced that both the mens and womens tours next month have been cancelled.
A good victory by 10 wickets today
The club have made remarkable progress this season, despite, effectively, playing the first few games with ten men!
Our young players are continuing to develop now they are given the chance of a run in the side, and despite injuries to be in with a chance of winning the championship going into the last game is a massive achievement.
We could, possibly, be at the dawn of another spell of great success for the club.
Very good to see that Chris has decided to put his family first and not return to the IPL, along with Bairstow & Malan.
He scored 0 playing for Kiderminster in the Birmingham League today.
Good to see former Bear Callum McCloud is included in the Scotland squad for the tournament, and Trotty is the "Lead Batting Coach" for the Scotland team.
The match has been called off, the BCCI should be made to cover all the costs incurred by the ECB.
A serious risk of the final test being called off, at least one member of the Indian side has tested positive for COVID, and obviously as a touring party the other members of the party will be close contacts. and therefore will need to isolate.
I hope the ECB's contract for the tour specified that the BCCI should be resonsible for all costs and losses as a result of their sides failure to meet their contractual obligations.
A thought, the game may have had a very different result if we'd had any of our top four seam bowlers available.
I'm sure any combination of Chris Woakes, Olly Stone, Henry Brookes and OHD would have perfromed better with the bat this afternoon, regardless of what they did when bowling.
Not many sides could cope with losing four players from a key position.
103 off 77 balls for Ed, with 20 x 4 & 1 x 6
Ethan Brookes currently 61*
Sheikh, Velari & Hose all failed.
With Whitely, Wessels and Mitchell leaving the staff at the end of this season, there is a big opening for a batsman at New Road.
A move to a new county is probably the best for Ed at this stage.
Yes, four weeks until the end of the season.
of the five overseas players we've had this season, he's in the top 3, with Malan and Carlos!
He'd be a really good signing for Worcestershire, and hopefully they will give him a chance in red ball cricket too.
Always disappointing when a home produced player leaves, but hopefully he goes on to have great success with Worcestershire.
Surely it is better for him to try to fill the opportunity for a back up keeper at Worcestershire than to be 4th string at Warwickshire, where he's unlikely to get a full time contract.
Warwickshire have tried a number of young keepers over recent years, including Ben Griffin and Jack Holloway, but none of them were able to score the runs needed to go with their keeping ability.
It would seem some here fail to realise you can't score runs sat in the pavillion, that there are two sides in the game trying to get a result.
The points for a draw, or better the win are of more benifit than a single bonus point.
This isn't a 20 over slog, we have four days play to get a result, a big first innings and bowl the oppositin out twice is a method used throughout the history of the game, because it works.
Possibly because after finishing his High School education in South Africa he chose to come to England and study at Durham University for four years. He's skilled in the lecture room as well as at cricket, in many ways his path into the professional game wasn't all that unusual a few years ago.
To think there were some here against giving Benjamin a chance, due to the nationality of one of his parents!.
A great championship debut from Chris, and even betetr to see Sam Hain get a century again.