Might come in for Briggs...

Absolutely horrific. Nothing sadder than a young person dying.

We've 3 4day games between the expected end of his IPL stint and the 1st Test, surely he'll feature for us in at least 1?

He looked good yesterday and today, compact and tighter, not as loose as he's done in the past. Just shows what a run of games can do I guess.

Yes he's pretty much said himself he won't be involved in overseas Tests anymore. Not making the T20 squad is pretty big though, if that transpires his IPL assignment will end on May 19th as its looking unlikely that his team will make the eliminator phase and fingers crossed he'll be back with us, needing games, and with a point to prove. Right? Right?!

Very interesting days cricket, really ebbed and flowed, enjoyed it. Really good cricket wicket, better carry than previous home games and a little bit in it for the bowlers if they could bowl well for long periods. Bethell dropping Slater on 0 was significant I thought, had he held that it would have been 19 for 2 and we'd have had a crack at the middle order early. OHD was terrific, seems to be at his most threatening when he's getting that bit of nip off the pitch, he barely bowled a bad delivery. Rhodes is in decent rhythm right now and is swinging the ball. Aamer Jamal looks like one for the quicker delivery as opposed to the quick spell, he seems to hit the pitch hard but when he went full he looked hittable. Need more of a look at him though. Great to get 8 wickets, particularly as it looked like it had almost gotten away from us at one stage, but I'm not sure we bowled well enough for long enough as a unit from both ends today to really put Notts in proper trouble. 2nd new ball boost was clearly huge for us.

A word on Duckett, that's the best ton we'll see by an opponent this season. Stunning knock. You see him on TV for England and he is clearly a good player but its not til you sit in the stands and watch him that you appreciate what a good player he is technically. Weight distribution and footwork were excellent, never out of position, great hands through the ball, he seemed to have so much more time than any other batter. Always finds gaps. Just really knows his own game these days.

Don't think anybody is suggesting otherwise. There's definitely lots of people who seem to not realise he's at the IPL though, been a few times he's been mentioned on the live stream and the commentary team have assumed him to be resting or injured. Pretty poor really.

Don't know how it all works. Woakes would be playing county cricket right now if he wasn't at the IPL, no doubt.

Warming the bench in the IPL. Hasn't played any competitive cricket since early Feb.

Not a great weather forecast as far as I can tell...

Naqqash Tahir?

Isn't getting a game in the IPL as far as I can tell, if he doesn't make England T20 squad for the World Cup we could see him at some point this summer...

I raised this when we let H Brookes go having already released Garrett and Johal.

We've always been poor at bringing through homegrown seamers and as far as I'm aware there is nobody coming through.

OK we seem to have opened an end up.

Difficult pitch to score quickly on I think.

Not exactly riveting stuff is it...

Unrelated but George Garrett 43* at lunch for Kent .

BristolBear wrote:

In hindsight it looks poor.
But if Bethell and Ali don’t throw their wickets away, you could make the argument, it’s far better to push for 500-550, accept missing the 400 bonus point to keep Hampshire out there and try only bat once.

As it is, unless we see more OHD and Burgess miracle partnerships reaching that sort of score is going to be very tough.

Agree. And the dismissals in isolation look poor but Hampshire bowled pretty well this morning I thought. We still scored over 100 runs in the session.

They've always compared fairly favourably in comparison to some other regular openers.

Yeah I've no sound either