Hard to say, Usman Tariq is in the country I believe? So he'll play? Would like to think Taz plays too.

white-lightning wrote:

Any news on the rumoured hernia issue Chris Woakes has? Hopefully it can be managed - any operation would rule him out for at least 6 weeks you'd think.

Played t20 for the 2's on Monday and bowled, would of thought he plays Friday if he's pulled up ok.

There's been several games now (Surrey, Yorkshire and Glamorgan spring to mind) where our openers have outperformed the oppositions openers.

No more County Championship at Edgbaston for 94 (i think?) days. Games gone.

We might have had a dip at that you know.

League table is extremely close right now, just gotta see how everyone shapes up in 3 or 4 weeks time when we resume. Our game v Sussex haunts us!

I see that "poor" Yorkshire side we beat had a decent result against some team called Surrey, must be full of cloggers...

Right OK didnt know they were playing List A fixtures too. Its mad that one of our most integral t20 players could miss literally half games like this.

I know it's only clips but some of those boundaries from Hamza Shaikh are absolutely stunning.

Great bloke by all accounts.

All out. Tricky little period coming up for us now, expect Glamorgan to come in hard sensing an opportunity.

One of them days when yer getting frostbite and sunburn, crazy cold at times even though the sun shone most of the day.

An absorbing days cricket and a difficult one to sum up. No doubt about it those first 10 overs which each new ball, it went everywhere. What OHD and Bamber did with the 2nd new ball they should have done with the first - 4 wickets. Thought Kellaway and Carlson rode their luck early on but you need a bit of that with the new ball doing so much. Once that initial shine come off it did look much easier though. Kellaway looked excellent, just very uncomplicated and played very straight, if it was full he drove straight back past the bowler every single time, he didnt miss.

Gilchrist, he beat the bat loads, if Yates holds that chance Carlson offered (on 60 odd) after lunch of his bowling who knows. I thought he was a tad unlucky. One thing thats clear with him though, every spell he bowls he sends down an over which goes for about 12 and just lifts all the pressure. He poses threat, it's just a case of whether he can bowl well enough for long enough to be a heavy enough wicket taker to become a regular in our 4day side. He'd bowl one over where he'd bowl 3 snorters then come back the next and bowl 3 long hops.

Interesting to see how we go when we bat, the overheads were perfect today, seems the clouds are rolling in tomorrow however. The ball went passed the edge loads today, there's a bit in this pitch still. That little partnership between Norton and Crane has probably just put Glamorgan in front.

We've a bit of a longer tail than we're used to with Bamber, OHD and Gilchrist, may well need a tune out of Thompson at 8. Incredibly small boundary Hollies side.

Yes, fairly strong Lions squad too.

Will miss the first 4 Blast matches.

Has signed for RCB for the remainder of the IPL, will miss the beginning of our Blast campaign.

We go again...

No more County Championship at Edgbaston til August 20th after this game...

If RCB make the final he'll play that then line up for England in the 1st Test four days later.

Has signed for Kent on all format loan deal until July 19th.

Im in Dublin that weekend, gutted as its a great place to watch cricket. Hope you get to go mate.

That's a blow

Mikkyk wrote:

Could Zak Crawley be a long term solution for us at the top of the order?

Seems to have lost his way at Kent after England and might want a change of scenery and/or division one cricket. That would solve the Davies problem and allow him to bat lower down the order.

Banter?

Some of the posts from the bedwetters on here on day 1 and early day 2 are hilarious!

The 3rd innings of matches has felt like our achilles heel for a while...until now.