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Bloody hell, missed out on another batting point, great innings from Barnard but didn't expect that shot and I do think we are a few short, lots of starts but I hope our bowlers can prove me wrong.

Seem to remember Hain getting a shocker a few seasons ago, given out caught down the leg side off Roach, a bit of Deja Vu rearing it's ugly head.

No great shock, surprised it didn't happen earlier. That is Pakistan cricket for you, totally disorganised, like the year they chose 31 different opening partnerships in all formats of cricket and then wondered why their openers could never gel.

If his team are unlikely to qualify, are they just keeping him there on a 'We have paid for him so he will have to stay here for now' basis. If he does gat picked for a Test squad, he will be rusty having had little cricket for months. Cannot believe that they have picked Archer and the overrated Jordan, a bowler who can barely get on the pitch and one who isn't consistent enough but seems to be lucky to put in the odd performance when there is a tv camera about in 'The Hundread'.

All this on/off cricket hasn't done us any favours and those are horrible conditions to bat in. Glad I didn't go.

If only Duckett could have got out early. But, he didn't and we have had the worst of the day. OHD was superb and so was Rhodes in spells and Hassan later but not over-impressed with the new guy but hopefully he will improve as he plays more. As for Briggs, this is a worry as he looks innocuous again and just appears to feed runs whilst rarely giving anyone any trouble. Credit to Duckett though, he played intelligently from the start whilst still keeping up his very attacking way of playing.

Just had a look at the Met Office forecast and Sunday looks to be be the worst as far as rain goes but the temperatures look awful as well. Anyone going, do not put away your big coats away yet, they could be needed.

After a poor showing in the 50 over world cup, you wonder if the selectors will stick with him. Not sure what England's best T20 side is. Would love to see him play some CC cricket otherwise he could be rusty if they decide to play him in any of the Tests.

Have to agree, strange angles to watch a game from seeing as it wasn't like that on the first day. Hope we can quickly get to a 200 lead and then the rest of the batsmen must be told to really try and "Give it a whack" and see if we can set them perhaps 280 in 60+ overs. Trouble is though, draw points are worth a lot now so a lot of teams might not be tempted to try and be positive. Essex already have 2 wins and drawing will only leave us and others, a big margin of points behind.

A lot of pissing about this morning and to miss out on the bonus point for 400 is poor.

Tea, 202-1, we will have some of that, thank you. Great start. Well done again AD, no matter how popular he is or isn't, getting runs won't hurt one bit.

Remember Derbyshire offering us the use of their ground in that infamous B&H Cup quarter final in 1994. Kent said no, we had a 'Bowl-Out' in the indoor school, Kent lost and them complained to the ECB (Or whomever was 'Running' the game back then) and then for the rest of the season. What made it worse for Kent was that we beat them every time that season when we played them in other competitions.

We will always be Warwickshire as far as I am concerned and when we won the T20 in 2014, a lot of the commentators still referred to us with our proper name and also the scorecards in the papers the next day had us as Warwickshire.

Did well to get 3 wickets but the pitch looks good but having seen the forecast for Monday, it might be just alright for us to get maximum bowling points and take those.

Wouldn't say Durham bowled badly at all but with a very short boundary on one side, it was easy to get 4's (And a few 6's) and a boundary on the other side that seemed twice as long, 2's could be turned into 3's and 1's into 2's. Both openers did what you should do in that situation, cash in and go big. Haven't seen us score that many in a day in ages. Could be a 700 job and with wickets in hand and fast scoring, that could be achieved halfway through tomorrow. Boland going off didn't help them, I have lost count of the amount of overseas players I have seen go off the pitch when runs are being scored by the opposition and yet it's different when wickets are falling, funny that.

The forecast was different this morning and all this was supposed to blow over in the morning until late afternoon. Probably better for us that we now have more rain but that still leaves me wondering why Worcestershire have batted on. Even if their skipper thought this would happen, surely you would declare once the game started and an hour had been lost anyway. After yesterday, we would settle for this.

Wish the forecast had proved right. Met office had it raining from 2pm and maybe keeping the players inside for a few hours but with the way Worcestershire have scored here, we might have to bat for longer than we would like. No doubt our batsmen will need to do some 'Getting In' as BristolBear keeps saying, even more so now. Getting in helps but Burgess leaving a big gap between bat and pad, no amount of being in for ages can stop you getting bowled like that.

Not excusing him at all, Rhodes would only have tried that shot whilst set instead of coming in and trying it early on. Once you are set, you feel confident that you can expand your innings a bit more, just so happens that it didn't come off. As for Burgess, it was poor shot, too expansive to a new ball no matter who is bowling. The ball moved back into him, that is why he got out and should have looked to be a bit more defensive at that stage.

Bethell was run out so sloppy as opposed to a bad shot, Rhodes had played so well and times the ball nicely so I suppose he tried something when well set as batsmen do but Burgess played a poor shot to a new ball, never decided to have a look first, still poor though as this Worcestershire attack is not that good.

We have lost 7 for 85 since Barnard got out. Pretty awful really.