Davies and Yates set a lovely platform for them. When you bat as deep as we do this game (Woakes 9, Booth 10) you can afford to have a dip, particularly walking out there with 100 on the board on top of a 120 lead.

Hain and Rhodes will need to accelerate a bit after blocking the shit out of it for half hour like this...

Why does it always rain, or be forecast to rain, when we're getting on top!

Could do with a tune out of Woakes...

Highveld wrote:

Booth has made an impressive start, and looks like he could develop into a really useful player, in all departments of the game.

Surely it would be better to concentrate on his development, than waste money on two overseas players who have been injured more time than they are available?

He is an overseas. But no I agree with you.

Brilliant last session, to score 370 odd after losing the toss and being 40/4 in tough conditions is terrific.

Our session, Somerset a little bit wayward.

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

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

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

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...

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...

The stattos on twitter seem to think this guy has a decent future ahead of him.

Has played twice for NZ

NZ all rounder has signed for the remaining 6 Blast games.

Said it last season on here and a few people got the hump but he really is extremely overrated.

GerryShedd wrote:

OK, we'll get rid of the batters, bowlers and coaching staff. Can the stewards stay or do they need to go too? And I've just had a word with the cleaning lady who's a bit worried about losing her job in the big clear out.

Little bit rude that. The poster was just giving an observation.

We really do wilt in the 3rd innings quite often.

I understand he was having personal, non cricket related, issues around that time which very much meant things were up in the air for him.

There's a bit of nibble this morning, nothing exaggerated but enough.