Same team:-
Yates
Barnard
Rhodes
Shaikh
Burgess
Smith
Benjamin
Lintott
Booth
Ali
OHD

Yorkies won the toss and put us in.

Not a lot of bounce in this pitch...

Looks difficult to time the ball on this pitch. I was concerned when Robinson said they were using the same wicket as last time.

Here we go again, a bloke who has 61 wickets in 44 first-class games is making us look like chumps. Yes, I know this is a different format but we do seem to have this great habit of succumbing to part-time trundlers. I do hope this pitch gets slower and lower and maybe we have a good score what ever we make but I would prefer a top of the table finish rather than undoing all the good work in this group and having to play a quarter-final.

I’d put it this way. You know it’s not a batting wicket, when on a small ground, on a hot summers day perfect batting conditions, the visiting team would rather bowl first than put a score on the board.
It just looks like a pitch where it’s not coming on.

Benjamin, Kai Smith and now Duke have all looked OK though, I don't think it's universally hard to bat on. Just saw one a few moments ago where Duke waited on one then still hit it for four, I'm guessing there is a method that can work.

I think Yorkshire chose to field first because they had no idea what a good score would be.

And whilst praising the opposition isn't necessarily the done thing on here, they did bowl very well.

They did bowl well. But just looking at the wickets and when they fall, for both teams. It’s definitely a case of you can’t trust the pace of the wicket. Mostly when batsmen seem to try and play a more aggressive shot or try force the ball into a gap, they get the timing slightly wrong.
And that’s exactly what you’d expect for a wicket used twice, a bit tired, not as much pace, a bit dry too.

Trust us to get beaten (Have I called it too early) by a side who cannot really get through to the knock-out stages. Glamorgan v Leicestershire could be close but we will still be 2nd after this latest round.

BristolBear wrote:

They did bowl well. But just looking at the wickets and when they fall, for both teams. It’s definitely a case of you can’t trust the pace of the wicket. Mostly when batsmen seem to try and play a more aggressive shot or try force the ball into a gap, they get the timing slightly wrong.
And that’s exactly what you’d expect for a wicket used twice, a bit tired, not as much pace, a bit dry too.

No I agree, this is a pudding pitch.

Interesting to see Glamorgan lost in what looked like a great finish in their game too. After what seems like weeks looking at the table and wondering what's what there's still an awful lot TBD. I'm not even sure if we play the third team in our group or the other if, as seems likey, we finish second. Could be a home quarter against Leicester?

Yorkshire look out of it as it's a straight shoot-out between Glouc and Leics which means there is probably nothing riding on Glamorgan's last game v Yorkshire same as our game v Notts so we have to hope we win and Glamorgan lose.

I'm desperate for us to finish 1st or 2nd (ideally 1st, of course) so we get another game at Edgbaston to make up a bit for having to have 3 games at Rugby School. It's like having extra away games.

Graham Smith sets out the permutations for qualification:
https://deepextracover.com/2024/08/metro-bank-one-day-cup-one-round-to-go/

Andy wrote:

I'm desperate for us to finish 1st or 2nd (ideally 1st, of course) so we get another game at Edgbaston to make up a bit for having to have 3 games at Rugby School. It's like having extra away games.

If it was up to me I’d have at least a couple of games away from Edgbaston every season, maybe a bit more spread out though and different formats, perhaps a championship game in June or July. We’re supposed to represent the county of Warwickshire, after all so only seems right that we should spread it round the county a bit.

I suppose that does make sense but we have a big ground just sitting there doing nothing for longer if we don't play there often enough. Perhaps playing more 2nd XI games at Edgbaston might be a way of using it more. The good thing about these games at Rugby is that a crowd of 2000+ is more than we might have had at Edgbaston. A home quarter-final is out of our hands if Glamorgan win their last game and over the yeas we have pulled off many great wins away from home so all the talk of 'Home Advantage' isn't always true.

Andy wrote:

I'm desperate for us to finish 1st or 2nd (ideally 1st, of course) so we get another game at Edgbaston to make up a bit for having to have 3 games at Rugby School. It's like having extra away games.

Really fed up of these utterly predictable comments! So annoying!

paulbear wrote:

I suppose that does make sense but we have a big ground just sitting there doing nothing for longer if we don't play there often enough. Perhaps playing more 2nd XI games at Edgbaston might be a way of using it more. The good thing about these games at Rugby is that a crowd of 2000+ is more than we might have had at Edgbaston. A home quarter-final is out of our hands if Glamorgan win their last game and over the yeas we have pulled off many great wins away from home so all the talk of 'Home Advantage' isn't always true.

It’s not being unused though it has to host the dreaded Hundred.

If you remember last year the square was so overused that all one day cup games were played right on the edge with ridiculous boundaries. The last few championship games were played on dreadful wickets.

It was obvious Barwell thought the situation ridiculous and the Director of Cricket (?) announced at the end of season dinner there would be a festival.

I knew this wasn’t being done for altruistic reasons but would take anything to spread games around the County. We are far too Birmingham centred and it’s not healthy or commercially sensible.

Yes, forgot about 'The Hundread', I often do hope to forget about it. If there are enough outgrounds with decent pitches, it might make sense but I do remember a CC game v Hampshire where the pitch was so poor, it finished in just over 2 days, but I get your point.