Yeah, this game is crying out for a frontline spinner. Not sure what Taz Ali has done wrong

BosworthBear wrote:

Troughton at lunch time was interesting and entertaining although Qs from the audience weren’t allowed denying me to ask him how he felt about having the play as Birmingham Bears.

He was alleging Warks have doctored the pitch to ensure a high scoring draw because of surreys bowling attack.

Really hope we can bring them down a peg or two!

We wouldn't be the first to do that this season... Might be a tactic every team uses when at home against them

BosworthBear wrote:

Troughton at lunch time was interesting and entertaining although Qs from the audience weren’t allowed denying me to ask him how he felt about having the play as Birmingham Bears.

He was alleging Warks have doctored the pitch to ensure a high scoring draw because of surreys bowling attack.

Really hope we can bring them down a peg or two!

We wouldn't be the first to do that this season... Might be a tactic every team uses when at home against them

Sibley is going to bat for two days on this isn't he

Maybe it's canny from Westwood knowing that Booth will drop out as and when Latham comes in so is saying 'rested' rather than saying dropped

What was wrong with the decision?

Agreed on Bamber - a young seamer we've been looking for, for years! Just hope he stays fit.

Awful shot selection from Davies there.

Need to break this partnership else it will turn into another game where we're on top and lose our potential winning position

No Hain!

Must be injured as said above, which takes a huge amount out our batting. Perhaps that's why we're bowling first?

13 man squad announced:

Davies
T Ali
Bamber
Barnard
Booth
Hain
OHD
Malik
Mousley
Shaikh
Smith
Webster
Yates

This is included in the membership, will anyone be attending any games?

There's a lot of loose bowling here. Notts bowlers did have better conditions but used them well by being very consistent with their lines and lengths.

We're offering a boundary ball nearly every over it feels like.

If we get skittled very quickly then we will have the same conditions!

But yeah I think they'll get generally better conditions when batting so we'll have to get runs (and probably to save a draw) in our second innings.

And he got 4 wickets first innings last time round, I think he's earnt his place for this game

First bit of cricket i'll be watching in the flesh this season.

Any changes for this one? OHD potentially fit according to Westwood - if so I would bring him in for Fernando but it's unlikely that Fernando will be dropped in his third match of a three match deal

I thought the point of the Hundred and franchise sales was a cash injection that would help protect the county game?

To me protecting the county game means maintaining county cricket and the county championship - apparently not

It was a fantastic game of cricket, and would've been even had we lost, and a fantastic win.

Also fair play to Durham/Alex Lees for the declaration which led to the excitement (take note Sussex).

However we shouldn't be going over the top with where we will end up this season. We still have some glaring deficiencies, being an inexperienced batting lineup and a middling bowling unit that struggle to bowl teams out (we won without taking 20 wickets). I'm not sure that Durham bowling unit was that great and they didn't have one of their four seamers available for most the second innings. Also perhaps a mistake on their part to not pick a spinner.

Clearly we have exciting times ahead with such a young team and in 3-4 years could have a fantastic team but I think there will be a lot of ups and downs before then and this season should still be aiming for mid table consolation and getting experience into the young lads.

On par with Kent at home a couple of years ago for an exciting win

I've not managed to watch any of today - is the pitch deteriorating or is a decent total chaseable?

Highveld wrote:

The big question for today is will we avoid the follow on?

Both dismissals so far were poor shots. Yet again it is down to Sam Hain and Ed Barnard to rescue the team.

Yates is still in??