The odd thing about looking at all the other scores is thy so many captains who won the toss chose to field but have hardly made any inroads on the opposition.

Early in the season I know but it is very quickly turning into a huge anticlimax after last year.

Apparently he is injured but strangely was included in the squad. Slightly concerned about his continued absence.

Not a very good start to the reply, we need some of our upper order batsmen to find some form. I wonder if there was a degree of complacency in expecting Somerset to struggle with the bat as much as they have in recent games?

I thought McAndrew was a last minute replacement for Bresnan after his decision to retire so I can kind of understand that we were looking later in the window than some others. I was surprised that he opened the bowling though with OHD, I was expecting him to be a second change bowler who could add to the batting line up.

Certainly seems to have been an interesting decision to field first.

It’s a shame Derbyshire are no longer on the list, geographically they were quite handy to go to when there wasn’t a home match at Edgbaston.

Nice to see Ed scoring 112 today!

Not the best of starts, we do seem to struggle early on in the season.

Personally I appreciate all the effort that has gone into starting and running the forum. A few silly messages are not going to put me off from visiting!

Only 8 days in of cricket in July/August at Edgbaston for us, excluding the other competition, which I have to say is pretty disappointing.

Yes I’ve just seen the update, talk about timing 😊 good to see what is being said.

Unless I've missed something there hasn't been any talk of a replacement bowling coach has there?

I hope we don't go down the route of employing a former player as the easy option. I do have more confidence in the current set up in appointing the right people though. It's been interesting to hear a lot of talk about the quality of coaches in the County Circuit (mainly regarding batting) in recent weeks.

I can only hope that the delay is that the ECB are seeing the calamitous performances down under and are trying to get the schedule altered to try and get some more red ball cricket in the summer.

If only there was not some daft competition recently created that no one wanted nor felt was needed but cost rather a lot of money which needed to be placed in the prime cricket playing weeks of high summer.

Hampshire, the Aegus Bowl….isn’t that where he worked during the 100?

I would hope that if they are delayed beyond the early bird window for memberships that the club would extend it. It can be hard to justify purchasing a membership without seeing the fixture list to see how many matches I would actually be able to go and see.

At the same time if TB fronts up acknowledges that what he did was wrong and is determined to make amends by apologising and committing to re-education he could be with us next season. Not only that but he could be an example of the sport acknowledging that things have been wrong in the past but are determined to move forward; not just by being sacked/paid off/retiring but by being an example of positive change.

Personally I think there will be countless more examples of racism and bullying in dressing rooms across the country, what was deemed acceptable is now being proved not to be. 'Banter', which I have always found to be a convenient word to cover a multitude of sins, needs to be examined and people made aware that words cannot just be taken at face value.

Carlos has been confirmed for the whole of the T20 campaign and as captain. I think that’s a good move, he is very experienced and seems to have got on well with the squad. Will be interesting if we also try to sign another player closer to the campaign starting.

I think you may be right but I would say Lamb is a very good squad player to have around who can contribute across all the formats when required.

Considering Holder wasn’t around on the day we won the title, he played a couple of games so actually had more involvement than Hose and Pollock, I presumed he had gone home already.