According to the post on Facebook, he definitely is in the squad.

How much longer can Key hang on for??

I read on a Leics CCC forum that Ben Cox is heading in our direction next season. This could of course be spurious and frankly, I hope it is because signing another keeper in his mid 30s doesn’t make a lot of sense, unless he’s going to add significantly to our batting line up. I’m not sure Cox ticks that box.

Good result and encouraging team effort, Tariq is an absolute wizard, need to sign both him and Beau for next year and beyond! Slightly concerned about Kai’s wicket keeping, albeit an improvement on Friday when he looked really quite poor. Bit bewildered about the reluctance to bowl Yates, I don’t follow the logic of that.
As a slight aside, the absence of Craig Miles prompted me to take a look at the Gloucestershire website - seems he’s taking a break to focus on his mental health wellbeing. Sad to read this and hope he is ok, professional sport can be cruel and unforgiving and he always struck me as a wholehearted individual who gave of his best, do hope he bounces back.

He doesn’t look like the finished article, although he’s been around a while with stints at both Somerset and Kent behind him. If anyone is able to get the best out of him you’d think Pop Welch is the man. Hopefully, he will do just that. Would also be nice to give Che Simmonds another go, he’s looked promising in the past and, like Gilchrist, someone who’s potentially got a bit of ‘umph’ about him.

meashambear wrote:

What on earth is Mousley doing there?

Honestly, I despair at this team.

So disappointing to see DM get himself out in such a tame fashion, yet again. He doesn't seem to learn.

I’m surprised at Somerset’s conservative approach this morning, thought they’d look to get runs on the board quickly, stick us in well before lunch and aim to bowl us out. As it is, it looks as if we’ll need to negotiate two sessions, which surely we can achieve … can’t we??!

Apologies, my mistake, but the fact remains that Somerset are making very good use of the new rule.

Andy wrote:

They subbed out Gregory for Ball last game. Again, not really like for like.

You certainly feel that Somerset are abusing the substitute rule - today's sub, Ogborne, having himself been subbed for Ball part way through their last match. He's clearly made a very fast recovery! Be interesting to know how many substitutions they've made (esp of bowlers), I may be wrong but don't think we've done so at all yet.

I’m far from being his greatest fan, but I can’t help feeling slightly sorry for Davies. His confidence must be in absolute tatters and when you’re in such terrible form something needs to change to allow some degree of form and confidence to return. Westwood is, in my opinion, guilty of burying his head in the sand and hoping things will magically get better but as Albert allegedly said, ‘insanity is doing the same thing over and again and expecting different results’.

I know this is the last CC game for a while, but for his own sake and that of the team, something really does need to change.

Oh dear, I really hoped he'd finally come good today but Davies is out already. For the sake of the team and for the good of his own mental health, he really needs to be removed from the firing line and either dropped down the order or dropped completely to - hopefully - find some form in the seconds.

Can’t disagree with any of the previous comments, bitterly disappointing; I think we can pretty much write off this year’s campaign already. Also question some of the thinking around bowling changes, Ali and Thompson were the most expensive and yet bowled at the end of the innings when we needed tight control as well as wickets. Webster was economical in his two overs so why was he not given a third? Why didn’t the captain bowl himself - is he carrying an injury?

The team looks seriously lacking in bite, energy and confidence and as others have said, the tail is far too long. A serious rethink is urgently needed if a total capitulation in this year’s T20 is to be avoided.

Yes, it's rather sad to see that Henry hasn't exactly set the world on fire since moving to Middlesex, and the fact that they've sent him out on loan to Gloucs tells its own story. I always thought he was the more likely of the brothers to really succeed but it looks as if I got that wrong.

I also see that he replaced another old Bear in the Glouc lineup for the current game against Lancs - Craig Miles, who had combined figures this year of 2-163 in the first two matches; which may explain why he's being 'rested' for this one. It would be nice to see them both shine in Division Two but on current form I'm not sure that's too likely, sadly.

Congrats to our former Bear on making his Test debut v the West Indies in Wellington overnight, taking 3-66. In fact, two other Bears alumni are in the NZ team too - Tom Latham of course and Zac Foulkes, who played some T20 in 2004 if I recall correctly.

Would rather we invested in some younger home-grown talent, but have read that he’s headed to Trent Bridge in any event.

Brilliant news - hopefully it will bring about a change of fortunes too!

This looks like an exceedingly sad story:

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/ex-cricket-star-charged-after-32904303

An inauspicious day for Bears players - Gleeson went for 45 off his two overs!

Mark Wagh?