BosworthBear wrote:

Well at the very least the Brummie contingent now appreciate the trek the rest of us have to make every time to get to Edgbaston (on the western edge of the county) to support our county now!

It was always very much appreciated, keep up the good work and dont be late Friday, i trust you'll be there...

Hope you've enjoyed the County Championship wins, Sunday League title wins, record breaking innings/partnerships, memorable victories, iconic Test matches, incredible World Cup matches and T20 Finals Days we've had at Edgbaston down the years. The home of Warwickshire County Cricket Club.

I'm sorry Edgbaston Cricket Ground and Birmingham is such a chore for you.

Roll on Friday. You Bears!

mad wrote:

Pleased with the home tie on a personal level but it doesn't half sum up the absolute state the ECB has led the game to. Worcestershire one of those counties that last few seasons are shorn of and therefore need multiple days cricket to host in summer and a Lions v Sri Lanka game will have attracted maybe a couple of hundred to go and watch it. A plum semi-final against their local rivals will have had a fair few hundred more and they've been denied this. The game has and continues to be driven into the gutter by ECB shortsightedness

Yep farce isn't it.

We're very lucky to be at home. Robbo said at the start of the comp it was great to have these games at Rugby but we are conceding some home advantage...and so it transpired. I must stress, I was all in favour of using an outground and I still am, some outgrounds are good, but 3 out of the 4 ODC home games all at Rugby School was just too much. People may complain about the pitches at Edgbaston but these pitches haven't exactly been great have they? Having said this I feel it would have been better and fairer to have had 2 of the games away from Edgbaston, 1 at Rugby School and another elsewhere at Nuneaton or Leamington or wherever. Rugby School is closer to Grace Road than it is Edgbaston, to be expected to trek over there 3 times in the space of 2 weeks was ridiculous.

The once a yearers and the casuals all had a great day though...

puts and helmet and body armour

Really, is that confirmed?

Could get bundled out here

Umpires at it again I see...

Batting first on what feels like a bowl first day on a pitch where nobody seems to know what a good score is. And we have a particularly weakened batting line up. Wish we'd have won this toss.

I think this is a decent move. He did well against the odds, some of the comment about him was a bit mean (Dobell criticised the signing without ever having seen him play), he showed good pace and gave us something a bit different. Absolute unit.

I said back in June I was slightly surprised he didn't get a go in the Blast as he showed some good one day skills in the game up at Lancs when we had them on the ropes before the rain shafted us.

BosworthBear wrote:

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!

Fed up at me wanting us to play at home in the knockouts?

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.

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.

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

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

Not a lot of bounce in this pitch...

This is desperately sad. So many memories, 2021 title winning season, particularly the 6fer on that flat one at Old Trafford, Taunton away in 2019, obviously the 9/62.

He was extremely close to getting on the England tour to West Indies in March 2022.

Was also a particularly nice man with impeccable manners who was always happy to chat, if you chatted to him even just once he'd remember you. I'll really miss Liam Norwell the human being as well as Liam Norwell the cricketer.

It's crazy how many of that 2021 title winning side have moved on, Sibley, Rhodes, Bresnan, Norwell, Lamb, Stone. Also Pop Welch, Farbrace. Also fringe players like the Brookes brothers, Johal, Hose and Garrett.

I've said on this forum before we do have a large/regular turnover in staff in comparison to other counties.

Outrageous that Hundred players are exempt.

This is inconvenient. Would have thought this is a chance to get Amir Khan a game? Hope nobody else gets injured.

Bit mad that Hain, Bethell, Mousley, Yates and Shaikh, all academy product batters, all contracted by Warwickshire and all playing for other teams.

Yep, particularly important we top the group here.

Will this 4 day fixture have First Class status?

Finally back at Edgbaston and it's raining, typical!

OHD back.

Dobell a couple of weeks ago.

Yes, linked with Kent.