Enjoy the occasional game in this comp but I can't see how they are ever going to increase the number of matches unless the Blast is reduced.

Proper league played right through the season one game per week I'd quite like 2 divisions of 9 - 8 home 8 away - 2 up 2 down - beside the County Championship
A proper 32 county knockout cup would also be nice
Neither is particularly likely unfortunately the players want all this rest and 'prep' between games and not only that they also want big gaps between formats so we end up with a kind of mini pre-season in July playing a random friendly against a minor county - completely nonsensical IMHO

If changes occur they'll fudge it like they normally do but there's no way they'll add more games to this competition I'm afraid they'll more likely reduce it to 4 group matches 2 home 2 away games then quarter finals.

I don't like this mini-comp format personally though as it robs the counties who don't qualify of perhaps two weeks of prime cricket season when they're not having any cricket at all to watch - late August when God willing we might actually have some summer but 12 counties will be sat twiddling their thumbs.

Free entry to Bears members at Leicestershire remember for this comp. They've got a game tomorrow v Notts and the forecast isn't too bad

I looked back to our results in this comp last year as I could recall winning by 8 wickets against Gloucs at the start. Our placing wasn't terrible last year, just got two massive defeats so it might well be we're very well placed this year, we're building off something. I notice Bethell didn't play in the 100 last night - would be good to get him back as a batsman.

Yes we've been competitive in previous years having lost many players to injury or the other competition. Having Lintott this year is huge.