Come on, who hasn't had that happen to them. I was lucky, when I fell off my smugglers cart, I was only trampled by my pet stoat Gerald.

This business of trying to win too soon by playing too many shots, is beginning to really piss me off. No one has to smash it about when you can bat the overs out in a 'normal' way but to see a losing margin like that with that many balls to spare, smacks of batsmen playing like stupid kids having a slog. With wickets in hand, 29 from 21 balls is easy but when you leave it to hope the tail can rescue you, then it is batsmen not using their heads. All the hard work done and then messed up like schoolboys.

At 61-1, this was very comfortable but now it's gone.

It might get to the point where we run out of balls, nearly 5 an over but we are scoring slowly so at some point someone is going to have to 'Go for it'. So that's what 'Poom Poom' meant, bloody hell, when those girls insisted they give me some, I was thinking it was a new perfume from YSL. Just think of all I missed out on. Grrrrrr!

I enjoyed Imran Tahir during 2010, strange that he had 1 season and had an agreement to go back to Hampshire after his time with us. Wickets, and then you would have to try and see which direction he was racing off to. This run chase isn't going too well, plenty of time, we just need to bat out the overs without doing stupid things.

Spinners, 32-2-138-7, that'll do.

Triple-wicket maiden.

If someone had mentioned to me during the 1990's, that Warwickshire would be using 4 spinners in a game of one-day cricket (Remember when we called it that), I would have asked where it was that we got them all from.

"I believe that children are our future..."

Joking apart, really good win, get the net run/rate up a bit and Taz is having fun. Also a mention to Sylvester, pity he was taken off, he was really enjoying himself and was really tidy, barely a bad ball from his 5 overs.

Yes, but I never got excited either when I took wickets - I was mainly in shock that anyone could actually get out to me.

I turned it off because of the bloke who's name I don't know. He has 'Commentary by numbers' as everything he says is contrived and obvious.

Well, I know it sounded obvious at the time but early wickets are welcome and 3 of 'em, yessssssssssssss!

Is it enough, hope Sylvester can find his radar as early wickets are needed.

Mixed reviews about Rugby but at some stage I might have to go. What a turnaround, with 4 down I was expecting another poor game but we are now in charge.

Poor Jani, the worst ball of that over and he hits it straight to a fielder.

The 4th wicket looked dodgy seeing as most close in fielders didn't react but if we are getting out to at best, a 4th seamer like Luke Procter, we must must be poor.

Solbear wrote:

Andy Umeed is also leaving Somerset and currently playing for SACA. As others have opined before, there aren't too many former Bears who dramatically shine brighter elsewhere - Ethan Brookes being the current exception to that rule. His brother Henry, meanwhile, doesn't seem to have flourished since moving to Middlesex and I noticed that Will Rhodes didn't appear in the last couple of Durham matches having ironically done better in T20 than four day cricket since making the move. I haven't seen Ed Pollock's name too often this season either, so unless he's carrying an injury suspect his days with Worcs may be limited.

Have a look at yesterdays Durham v Sussex game and the whole scorecard.

The solution is, if he looks the part and makes runs then give him a contract as soon as possible. We have lost too many good players over the last 5 years and to lose one who has only just started, could mean the pain of watching him score 15+ years of runs for another county.

Meanwhile, up at Durham, some bloke called Will Rhodes scored 96. Oh and then he went and took 5-30.