Lovely to see him come on as a sub fielder for England today and duly making a catch.

Andy wrote:

Fair play to Vansh, I was fairly critical of him after the Somerset game, since then he's scored well.

This form won’t go unnoticed by other counties. We need to get his signed up for next season and beyond.

Does anyone know if/when Keith Barker will be back? I haven't heard a dicky bird.

Andy wrote:

Highveld wrote:

Very harsh on Theo Wylie after his successful debut.

Surely injured?

Yes, very harsh on Wylie as it was harsh on Malik not to play in the first game so that Garton can play. Communication from the club is hopeless. Is Gilchrist injured or had a fall out? What is the situation with Booth?

Are Gillcrist and Booth injured does anyone know?

Tayls79 wrote:

With the first game tomorrow you'd expect the team out today sometime. Interesting to review people's thoughts on bowlers, seam specifically, as we seem to have a lot of them without much clear hierarchy. I think we'll go with Kai Smith keeping at 7 and Barnard at 6. So that means four seamers, can't see playing a specialist spin this time of the year. I'd like to see Woakes, Barker, Gilchrist and Bamber with Simmons and Booth to slot in for subsequent games - but it's tricky, there could be any combination and it wouldn't be significantly stronger or weaker.

Is Webster missing for the first game?

Yes, Webste is in the squad but Barker isn't.

The_Lickey_Banker wrote:

The_Lickey_Banker wrote:

Highveld wrote:

Live scores link for today

https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/?tab=m_summary#m8691eb1a-0786-4fac-915c-539010b1c121

Team:-
Davies
Shaikh
Mousley
Malik
Barnard (Captain)
Kai Smith (Keeper)
Woakes
Thompson
Barker
Booth
Bamber

I guess that will ne pretty close to our opening CC lineup. Notable that Ed B is Captain today (he must be getting the CC job) and Kai is Keeper (there is,a good chance he'll be first choice as well).
Davies got another high score, opening (88) - being relieved of two other roles, has got to be good for him?!

Its actually a 13 man squad, so I guess that will be the batting lineup, Gilchrist & OHD are also there, so they'll probably feature in the bowling lineup.

Is there any news about Hain and Yates?

Does anyone know whether Bamber was involved in South Africa or is he injured? Hopefully Hain is ok as well?

UrsaMinor wrote:

Back in the day, there were many enclaves and enclaves of counties but it seems very unlikely that the former Colts Ground was ever in Worcestershire.
The Rea does rise in Worcs so it's possible that it forms the county boundary somewhere upstream, which could give rise to this confusion.

Michael Atherton mentioned something on Sky in the summer that when Edgbaston was built it was actually in Worcestershire and the other side of the river (towards Moseley so therefore the Colts ground) was in Warwickshire.

Andy wrote:

They've started no? During the last home game v Essex they appeared to be making a start.
It didn't look like anything had been done when I saw it on the news yesterday (Rachel Reeves was being interviewed there). I had thought that the bulldozers would have moved in straight after the last home match in September.

Does anyone have any idea when work will start on the hotel and new Raglan Stand? There doesn’t appear to be much happening. I had thought they had a race against time to be ready in time for the 2027 Ashes.

GerryShedd wrote:

The return of!
https://edgbaston.com/news/graeme-welch-to-join-warwickshire-as-new-bowling-coach/
Fantastic news. He seems to follow Keith Barker around!

It would be quite nice if Warks Twitter gave us some squad news, or even some acknowledgment that the men are playing tomorrow in a game that would put us in a nice position were we to win.

Ianbaz wrote:

Good chase in the middle, and then a few jitters towards the end, but the game was gone by then.

I only saw the second innings. Does anyone what happened with Garton's one over?

It was pretty rubbish tbh. Full tosses and inaccurate.

Does anyone know how we can get the score for this? I would be interested to see how that XI perform.

He will be a massive loss to our T20 team. It’s a shame that he is leaving but you can’t blame him for wanting to go back to his family area at this stage of his career.

I wonder why Briggs only bowled 2 overs. Bizarre.

OHD out for a month according to the official X account. Not good news at all.

I listened to it the other day whilst out running. Really enjoyable listen. I am looking forward to the Liam Norwell interview.

Excellent signing. Happy with this.