Sussex have quite a long tail by modern day standards, pretty sure Crocombe has been no. 11 at times this season but they chanced their arm and got a few boundaries away...might need our guys to do the same.

Don't know if we were coasting, more digging in extremely hard against good bowling in tough conditions. The ball beat the bat loads and we'd only scored 3 boundaries since lunch, 2 off edges. And that makes Mousley's dismissal even more galling, Unadkat and Crocombe were coming to the end of their spells, the latter was just starting to look a touch frustrated after a catch going down off his bowling, and then he gives him an absolute gift after having already scored boundaries off the 2 previous deliveries. I couldn't believe it. He just doesn't seem to read the game situations well enough in 4day cricket and i dont think he ever will. Its crazy because in white ball cricket I think one of his key strengths as a batter is his ability to pick up the requirements of the innings really quickly and adapt accordingly.

Sussex strength with this XI is their bowling, youd fancy us to get amongst them again when we bowl. 2 pretty good attacks on a fairly spicy pitch at the moment. Its clearly very important that we get somewhere near or above their total.

Better weather coming the weekend which may alter conditions, it is going very dark here at times today.

Its nipping about and pretty overcast, bit of uneven from the City End. Ive never seen Sean Hunt bowl badly to be fair, he tails it into the left handers and slides it across the right handers.

Its probably not a 95/7 pitch but yeah it is doing a bit.

Dan Mousley does a load of hard graft against probing bowling then gets out like that.

Capacity staying the same, I believe.

57 for 7 this morning, excellent work. Could so easily have been the case yesterday morning.

Tricky little session coming up now, its shaping and seaming just enough. Feel like its gets much easier after lunch perhaps.

Tear, yesterday afternoon and this morning, looked like a walking wicket.

We go again...

Neil Pratt gave Tom Clark out there LBW but turned down an almost identical shout on Tom Haines first ball this morning, Woakes the bowler. So inconsistent.

Haines has inside edged off Woakes 4 times.

Barnard led us out.

KingofSpain wrote:

ajones1328 wrote:

If its £165 for the Hollies, you're looking at £200 for top tier seats.

Where did you see this ?

It was in a corporate mail out. Trent Bridge published their prices today. Most seats are £155.

So its not £165 in the Hollies then? Im confused.

First day of County Championship cricket at Edgbaston tomorrow since May 18th. Crazy.

Woakesy!

Yates
Young
Mousley
Jani
Barnard
Davies
Woakes
Thompson
Booth
Bamber
OHD

Go bowler heavy? Or chuck Zen in for Thompson as extra batter?

Would think if he has a decent Shield season and then goes well for us he'll be part of that Ashes squad, even as spare batter.

Decent signing imo.

Really hope we bring Beau back too.

So he's available until the Ashes presumably? Do we anticipate next seasons schedule to mirror this seasons?

Yates and Wetherald to open then youd think.

I wonder if we'll still be able to bring Beau Webster back?

cjav1874 wrote:

Pretty special way to sign off with that 3 wicket and utimately match winning over against Essex.

Most electric Edgbaston has ever been on a Monday morning, incredible scenes.

TimW wrote:

Just an update on Keith Barker.
He played for Enfield CC in the Lancashire League on Saturday and took a match winning 4-22.
That was his 16th match for Enfield this summer.
He leads the Enfield stats this year in both runs scored and wickets taken.

He's literally just retired.