Following the Hampshire game, the team travel to Taunton to take on a somerset side likely to feature two former Bears.

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Yes, should be an interesting contest.
All credit to Andy Umeed for re-inventing himself as a stroke playing all-rounder from being a Bear who plodded along as a batter. As for Tom Lammonby, I'm still annoyed that Somerset managed to poach him from under our noses.
(PS - it's no longer the LVCC - it's the Vitality Championship.)

Actually former Bears then. I was thinking of Tom Banton.

When was Lammonby with Warwicks?

Sorry, Banton was the man I meant! I knew it was Tom somebody.

How can you forget the name of the first England international from Barnt Green?

(Other internationals have played for the club, but TB was the first one who was produced by the club)

13 man squad named:

Barnard
Bethell
Booth
Burgess
Davies
Hain
OHD
Lintott
Miles
Mousley
Rhodes
Woakes
Yates.

Rushworth (back): Hassan Ali (elbow): Jamal (back): Norwell (pectoral): all miss out with injuries.
Che Simmons to continue his recovery from injury with a 2nd XI run out next week.

Briggs is rested, so Lintott will replace him and i think Booth will come in for Miles.

Possible team: Rhodes, Davies, Mousley, Hain, Barnard, Bethell, Burgess, Woakes, Booth, OHD, Lintott.

We still look a bit light in the bowling department, gutted that Norwell is injured again.

Almost unbelievable that Norwell is injured yet again. Presumably this could put him out for the whole season. And Rushworth's injury is taking a long time to heal. Again, at his age, there must be doubts as to when/whether he can come back.
I think that to say that Danny Briggs is being rested is a bit kind. "Dropped" might be more honest because he hasn't looked like a four day bowler at any stage this season. Seven wickets at 81 apiece is a poor return for a front line bowler.
Depending on the state of the pitch, I suspect that Lintott may miss out and they will rely on the return of Yates to provide spin.
Let's hope that Chris Woakes has bowled himself back into form - one wicket in 34 overs so far is well below what he and we might have hoped for.

What is the point of retaining Norwell. As soon as he is available to play he is injured. Perhaps he would benefit from being made to bowl through his pain.

Norwell must be at the point now where he has totally lost confidence in his body. He must magnify any slight twinge or niggle and will always be questioning everything he physically feels. Feel so sorry for him.

Way, way different situation to Olly Stone who seem to have stress fractures diagnosed and a timeframe put on his recovery. Norwell is just neverending niggles, pec, side, shoulder etc...

Spot on Andy. I heard from within the club that Norwell's issues are as much mental as physical. He just doesn't trust his body to get through a game. For me, he has to go at the end of the season along with Miles and Rushworth. Let's get some young fit bowlers in.

Yates is back. Booth comes in. Miles and Lintott miss out.

No Gregory for them is a plus for us, always seems to make runs against us from no.7.

Brace yourselves for the most biased, one eyed live stream commentary on the circuit by the way...

I'm impressed how they've managed to produce a green seamer with all the dry warm weather we've had lately...

Andy wrote:

I'm impressed how they've managed to produce a green seamer with all the dry warm weather we've had lately...

Bit of an understatement. Looks almost like the outfield. Ball moving all over the place 4 down and Hain gone for a duck says it all.

Well quite. Doctoring the wickets at Taunton, they do this a lot down there...

I'm not sure how valid this is, no health professional will be gassing about his patients mental state like this. What I do think is expected is for people to gossip about though and it comes from a logical place. He probably misses all this season now and that will be two full seasons out. It would be rare for an employee anywhere to take two full years off sick. It must have created a terrible mental state for him in that he loses his livelihood once his contract expires. FWIW ai read somewhere it was a chronic condition in whatever part of his body. Couldn't see that it's anything else but career ending.

KingofSpain wrote:

Spot on Andy. I heard from within the club that Norwell's issues are as much mental as physical. He just doesn't trust his body to get through a game. For me, he has to go at the end of the season along with Miles and Rushworth. Let's get some young fit bowlers in.

100 run partnership. Nice to see a couple of guys who missed out v Hants fight back for us today.

Awful shot by Rhodes, so unnecessary having recovered from 40/4. Now Bethell gone cheaply. Barnard 52 not out. 157/6, so another poor batting display. Hopefully Burgess can be resilient again.....

Our session, Somerset a little bit wayward.