https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/cricket/york-cricket-club-eyes-that-festival-feeling-4269270

Hopefully get chance to visit York to watch some cricket in the coming years. Given Scarborough has two Championship matches annually if York gets one that'll leave Headingley only hosting 4 currently and those will be in April and September

Good news is there is no way they could ever countenance reducing the number of county fixtures if it left Leeds with just 4 CC matches

Hopefully Yorkshire CCC start lobbying for a return to 2 divisions of 9 and 16 county championship matches, a proper one day cup and this Hundred Blast hybrid that's coming in the next couple of years gives the requisite space in the schedule

They seem to be very protective of Woakes and it flukily paid dividends for England in the summer. I guess their initial plan was for him to deputise if needed for Jimmy but he comes in fresh for those last three tests and is player of the series. They might hold him back again for a few ODI's and then the world cup whereas previously they might have encouraged him play this week

At this moment from the bits of the match I've seen I'd have to say Worcester might give us more problems than Hants particularly with the ball. Love Barker to bits but he's a threat with the red ball more than white

What is the situation exactly with player availability for Tuesday then?

Any restrictions on Woakes/Moeen?

Of more significance is Keith Barker's return to the white ball Hampshire team

Be quite nice if he played Tuesday should they win

Not a particularly good Ireland side tbf Warwickshire under 18s beat them the other week Theo Wylie took 7 wickets.

He's apparently switched from seam bowling to off breaks fairly recently and is tall left arm orthodox (a young Ashley Giles perhaps???). What a switch though. Plays for Shifnal in the Birmingham League and came through Shrewsbury as a youngster so has probably played a few games for Salop.

Great signs for Warks if we can get him and Tazeem Ali (a more unorthodox young leg spinner) as a tandem and curate some dust bowls down at Edgbaston in 2027 ish

An agreement was reached at lunchtime and what an entertaining afternoon thereafter.

9 overs of joke bowling and I mean absolute filth lifted Bears score by 190 runs this setting Northants 265 to win in 55 overs. Amir Khan had made a patient 85 before the lunch interval and then benefitted alongside Daniyal Khan from the joke bowling, moving from his 100 to his 150 in just twelve minutes.

A game Northants had in the bag at 2 down at tea time and and again at 6 down and the drinks break when final hour was called they looked very comfortable.

https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/?tab=m_summary&video=v4_046_03#mbfcab67d-2be6-415d-98bd-38c8514e3882

Terrific effort from Sam Atkinson and when his quota of overs was spent the spinners stepped up to claim the final three wickets with some splendid catches too.

Some counties still have country membership Notts for one. It makes sense at Trent Bridge which is centred around a single free standing city with surrounding towns & villages that fan out almost evenly and there are old industrial towns to the north and east of the county. Slightly more awkward to justify at Edgbaston as you're potentially making it cheaper for someone from e.g. leafy Kenilworth to be member of Warwickshire than someone from nearby Balsall Heath. I still think they should have a country membership category however and use other strategies to assist local residents into membership. At Lord's if you had a residents card in the borough of Westminster that used to get you into the ground for Middlesex Championship matches

Think possibly more a victim of circumstances. Club did the right thing responding to impending and inevitable relegation signing Sibley and Rhodes. Mind you I personally wouldn't have minded two/three seasons in the second division more outground cricket available etc...

I do think we're on a better track now with regards the youngsters though. Just look at Theo Wylie today saw him take seven wickets against Ireland u19's last week and now he tons up against the Aussies. My main worry with him is how much of him will we see if England have seen this from him this early??!??

172* today

The day he scored that very slow ton against Lancs and Jimmy Anderson etc was the same day we announced Will Rhodes had signed from Yorkshire. Rhodes has been superb overall to be fair but a sliding doors moment perhaps...

Imagine Umeed now with 4 years first class experience under his belt and the right age to go on to vice captain or even captain

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Kent and Lancashire both declined to use their Hundred players when they became available for last year's final. I think?

I think anyone who hasn't played in the groups shouldn't play the knockouts.

Kent made a big thing of it. Lancs said they'd pick their strongest available side. From.the Cricinfo report of the 2022 Final

Kent omitted their septet as a deliberate show of faith to those who had taken them to the final. Lancashire had no such compunction, but lost three to England, Liam Livingstone to injury and omitted their spinners Matt Parkinson and Tom Hartley.

A good win. Final versus Somerset at Kibworth in a couple of weeks the same Sunday the first team resume their Championship season at Surrey.

Kibworth appears to have two pitches so hosting the final and the 3rd versus 4th game simultaneously

What a great format they've landed on too. A fortnight of this and put the rest of the season back together again properly would suit down to a tee and definitely piss all over the 'variant format' the ECB came up with

At minimal cost Warwickshire could set something up at one or two grounds that would provide the basis for such an event being staged at some point in the future. Much as Portland Road works for me as it means I can get to see 2nds, age group and women's games it just isn't suitable for spectating. It is a training facility. That's where Edgbaston rightly or wrongly have ploughed much of that extraneous investment into over the last 6-7 years. It will take a complete change of approach and direction (alongside a recognition that Portland Road will never be able to stage a professional match, and neither will Moseley with its short boundaries despite having lots of space for parking/marquee's and two hybrid pitches and improved drainage) from the club and will need a staff member on the admin side tasked with facilitating this/work with a couple of candidate grounds to help bring them up to speed/overcome any challenges or barriers like the ones mentioned above. Then opt for one ground to stage perhaps two of these 50 over matches in 2024 and using anything learned from that experience try to stage a Championship match in 2025

Good to see the under 18's complete a 50-overs double over Ireland under 19's yesterday and today. Theo Wylie stood out today on a spinning track taking seven wickets as the Irish slumped after a strong start against the seamers Rory Haydon and Sam Atkinson. Earlier Daniyal Khan had top scored with 70 for the Bears.

They have a semi final up at Chester-le-Street this coming Sunday after winning their quarter final hosted by Barnt Green last Sunday in unusual circumstances (owing to damage to the pitch caused by a stray cricket ball in the warm up slipping beneath the heavy roller in operation one end was deemed unfit for left handers so it was decided after a quick phone call to Lord's that all overs had to be bowled from a single end in order to complete the tie)

Warks under 18's next home 3-day game is versus Northants starting next Tuesday

Point is they can't be bothered to;
a) Work with the host club or host league put some seating out and encourage folks to bring their own fold up chairs
b) encourage people to use public transport and set aside some space for mobility impaired to park their cars
c) the club pays lip service to but clearly does not see a future for a county cricket club in all but the name - increasing reliance on Portland Road for the 2nds games demonstrates this

And yet for two seasons running now we've had Warwickshire send teams to club grounds to play a Warwickshire or Birmingham League select XI in a warm up game of sorts for the T20 and/or 50 overs comp.

Not all that difficult to transition from that to a full first class or List A fixture surely

Thought he did a good job and actually offered up fewer hit me balls than Lintott. His figures punctured by the wides that slipped past the keeper for four and being tucked off the pads that went to the boundary but still not too bad going at fives. He got his wicket after several deliveries tying the batter down and dragging him across in front of his stumps where he was plum in front perhaps a touch high but batter can't have too many complaints he missed the ball and he's got done. I'd say he's in with at least an outside chance of a first class game now particularly at home if the pitches are going to be like this. They'd probably go Lintott first but if Danny Briggs or Jacob pull up you wouldn't rule out Tazeem playing some role in one of these end of season (with very little riding on them) matches as opposed to going out and loaning someone in an emergency. Can actually see him being loaned out to a division two county next season a bit like Bethell was last year

I assume that pitch on the Pershore Rd side of the ground that was being prepared at tea time is for Friday/Sunday. I think it'll reduce Tazeem's chances of playing with that short boundary so maybe Johal comes in or Milo or is Norwell anywhere close?

Colchester is a public park. Hosted festival cricket for decades. Relative paupers in the county game Leicestershire have managed to host games at Oakham school and now Kibworth.

Tell spectators to bring their own deckchairs/brollys and have a supply of chairs for those who don't. I just don't think all the issues are insurmountable or the 'scary' looking cost figure should mean that the county club continues to retreat into it's (almost quite literal) Poveydome sized Brummagem bunker

Today's crowd would have looked quite spectacular at Rugby School or Swans Nest Lane Stratford. And surely the club could work with Rugby School to have a county fixture on during or just prior to or just after the 2 week schools festival taking advantage of all the facilities that are in situ - bit of co-ordination would overcome that particular challenge.

They can and should work to make it happen and get a game on somewhere north south or east of the county

Yes Notts is quite a large county North to South. A few of us went there on the train a few years back massive crowd Alex Hales basically did to us what Barnard and Yates did to Worcester the other day. Nice journey up there but had to be careful with bus/rail connections on the return leg although we were fine once we were in Nottingham.

I see Leicestershire are playing at a club ground in a dot of a village called Kibworth today

If that's feasible then perhaps somewhere like Berkswell is feasible for Warwickshire