I stopped following Hopps on Twitter because of his support for Yorkshire during the racism crisis, so when he says "vaguely at odds" he really does mean "vaguely". Reactions to the report don't shock me. I've long thought that county cricket is incredibly conservative, resistant to change and very unwilling to consider itself part of the problem, if it accepts there are problems at all. It's no surprise that people with those attitudes don't like the report's findings.

Top order let us down. Batters 1-7 scored one fifty in 14 knocks.

I imagine there will be a lot of similar statements from counties today, pointing out all the brilliant initiatives and projects they have.

You've absolutely sawed us off here paul.

With an agressive, confrontational attitude like that I simply can't fathom why they might not want to come.

I've been watching the women's Ashes. I assume the track at Essex is as flat as a pancake?

Welcome Dom, and go well.

You have to hand it Notts, to they played well when it mattered and Joe Clarke played the innings of his life. We batted great, we bowled great for the most part and the fielding again was good. Sometimes all that just isn't quite enough.

I can understand if he goes - England are in a right pickle and if they ask him to help them out of a hole I totally get that. It's not a question of disloyalty - he hasn't gone looking for it and the situation wouldn't have arisen at all but for an injury at the 11th hour. As Leicester says, it might even rebound in our favour.

I can see it happening. Rather than pick a substandard spinner just to eat up a few overs, why not pick a quality bowler who is a handful in English conditions and strengthens the batting? It also solves the Stokes problem. The only issue I see is that Chris isn't that different to what's already in the seam attack.

Yes. Now it seems they'll be looking for a spinner merely to give the seamers a rest, the ultimate humiliation. May as well just pick Woakes.

There are worse options. But whoever they pick is going to be targetted immediately.

Jack Leach has been ruled out of the Ashes with a stress fracture of the back. Could England come calling for Mo? Would be a big call but they'll be desperate with it starting imminently.

Josh Tongue has been selected ahead of Chris for Thursday's Test match against ireland at Lord's. Seems his Test career may be drawing to a close although with the state of our quicks' fitness, who knows when an opportunity might present itself.

Very impressive performance. As were the previous two. Great stuff.

I admire Topley for having done what he did and whistleblowers should be treated with more respect than he was but he's a terrible commentator.

While there's room for improvement for most of our batters, the one that worries me most right now is the skipper.

One other point about Yates and Davies specifically is that they're opening batters which is a pretty thankless role at this stage of the season. I think they should be compared to other openers.

I don't disagree about the need for more consistency but for context it would be useful to know how the 'minus highest score' calculation works for other players in Div 1. It won't just be our batters whose average drops in this way.

Totally outplayed them in every department. Rushworth was outstasnding of course. In conditions like that the bowlers have to be backed up by the fielders and I thought our catching was magnificent all match; has been all season really.