Regarding Will Rhodes, I think he is an excellent leader; and we know he has the ability with both bat and ball. So I would be reluctant to think that he might have to be dropped.
Having said that, I am reminded that, during the 1994 "treble" season, Dermot Reeve was dropped from the four day side for the last part of the season and Tim Munton took over.

Paul Edwards' report is very much about Dom Sibley:
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/county-championship-division-one-2022-1297650/lancashire-vs-warwickshire-19th-match-1297701/match-report

I agree that Rhodes has enough credit in the bank. It would be great if he could find some form soon though.

I was hoping we might scramble to 350 but after losing those two quick wickets Dom and OHD did well to get us to 315. Still a bit short but could easily have been less than 300.

...and the last batter to carry his bat for the Bears through a completed innings was ...?
(asking because I genuinely don't know)

I'll suggest Nick Knight against Hampshire in 2002.

Sibley did it in 2017 v Hampshire I think? Might have been v Essex?

Good chance he did it in 2019 at some point too.

This is looking disturbingly familiar. A big opening partnership putting us under the cosh.
Miles and McAndrew just don’t have the same level of control as OHD.
Really need Norwell back ASAP. We just don’t do enough damage with the new ball compared to other sides.

Yes, without Stone, Woakes and Norwell, our opening bowling looks easy for most openers to cope with. Miles can be very hit and miss.

Lancs 127/0. Not great at all. As others have said without our senior bowlers including two Test players the attack lacks potency. We should've got at least 400 in our innings, so an under par score is being easily chased down at the moment.

A rain delay at the moment, that might be helpful!

It doesn’t help that this year the balls seem to going softer faster and swinging less. So you’ve got to get early wickets.
Which makes it more annoying in our innings that Hain and Rhodes got out cheaply. Because those were the key overs. As after the first 30 overs, until the second new ball, that’s the time to build a big score.

The Club site report answers the question I posed by saying "..that left Sibley undefeated, the fourth time he has carried his bat for Warwickshire. Indeed, he is the only Bears batter to do so since Ian Westwood performed the feat, also at Old Trafford in 2010."
Here is a question to which i do know the answer:
Who is the only Warwickshire batsman to carry his bat in both innings of the same match?

Sepp Kinneir v Leicestershire at Leicester 1907. I remember only certain bits of it as I was just 10 at the time and it is difficult for a man of 125 to remember everything. The match was drawn as Leicestershire's target of 219 was too much for them as they ended 148-6 (56)

Only joking but as there were not that many over in the game, 288.2, I take it that there was rain/bad light at some point so difficult to say if the home side had only 56 overs to bat of if it rained and they had the 4th innings interrupted.

I have to confess that I missed the game because my horse lost a shoe when I was only half way to Leicester. And you know that when you need one, there's never a blacksmith to be found.
There must have been rain on the first two days because at the end of day 2, Leicestershire had just finished their reply to Warwickshire's first innings and only 158 overs had been bowled in the two days. On the third day, 130.2 overs were bowled, which suggests that it was a (very) full day's play and that Leicestershire just ran out of time.
As well as being the only player to carry his bat twice in the same match, Septimus Kenneir was, in 1911, the first player to score two hundreds in the same match for the county.
The Who's Who of Warwickshire CCC says that, in 1928, Sep Kinneir was found dead in the road at Hall Green next to his motor bike, returning home from playing golf. Death was from natural causes.

Amazing that Leicestershire had 56 overs but still couldn't get the 219 needed to win but I suppose having lost 6 wickets, they played out a draw. Having said that, there are plenty of old games on 'cricinfo' where you see a side chasing about 210 in 90 overs and they still fail to get the target despite only having 4 wickets down. A totally different game then with batsmen not really adept at fast scoring and uncovered wickets meaning that it was difficult to force the pace. In the Robert Brooke book on Frank Foster, he states that Kinneir married a German ex-Lady Of The Night and he went bald almost overnight not long after their marriage and his skin turned blue after 'Catching Something'.

The version of the story that I recall is that he met the young lady in Cheltenham when he was playing in the Festival and was sent to Germany for treatment for the ailment that he contracted from her.
Either way, it's a pity that he didn't keep his abdominal protector on.
As for the more serious business of the Leicestershire match, it's reasonable to assume that, after rain on the uncovered pitch during the first two days, it would have been a bit treacherous on day three.
The game back then was both faster and slower - more overs per hour but fewer runs per over.

It might be that your version is a bit more accurate as it has been a few years since I picked up the book on Foster and had gone through the book on Jeeves and tiger Smith's book also during the same period. Yes, I can imagine a days play might consist of 120 overs and a side scoring 300 runs, a good amount of first day runs but only 2.5 per over. Pity we haven't the footage to watch to see just what it was like. It seems strange now to think that in 100 years time, any fan will be able to watch a game from 2022 in crystal clear quality as though it was being played live.