Looks bad on Brookes, Johal, Garrett and Miles when they're all fit and available but we've had to get someone in on loan.

Pope has just thrown away a certain ton, an absolute gift for Wheal.

It's generally a very welcoming ground. Impressed by the amount of young people and families here today too.

Was there to be hit I thought but yes that was a shocker from the umpire.

Interesting, thanks for that.

Do you not think Warwickshire with its large Midlands catchment area should have more academy players in its squad and playing XI's? For a long time now we seem to have been a county that relies on looking outside and signing from other counties as opposed to promoting from within.

We consistently seem have the least amount of homegrown talent of all the counties.

Surrey look like they have another good one in Tom Lawes. 19 years old, brisk seamer who gets it in the right areas, think he bats a bit too.

Surrey get a lot criticism for poaching from other counties, we do it too. But the difference is Surrey have a good track record with bringing their own players though with Pope, Burns, Ryan Patel, the Curran's, Jamie Smith etc.

Why can't we bring them through like that?

Irrespective of whether batting 3 or 6 or 10 that is absolutely dreadful from Benjamin.

23 ain't bad for him

Only 1 academy product in the XI. Its pretty poor really.

I've signed

Joins on loan

His stats do make bleak reading but I'd rather see Yates opening than Alex Davies.

We're gonna regret this. From what we've been reading about about him the past few weeks he's not far off getting these back issues sorted, he's used his downtime well and his pace is back. He'll be good to go in April I reckon. Yeah he'll always pick up injuries here and there but the games he does play wow what a difference he makes.

It's also another popular member of the squad leaving. Its a real shame this. I'm more gutted about Stone leaving than Sibley actually.

However, we do poach from others quite a lot so we can't argue when other counties come in and sign our players.

If Notts have offered him an all format deal then we could have. Even if he only played 3 FC games and the Blast it would have been worth it in my opinion.

We'll see what comes out but if it's a case of Notts offering him an all format deal and us not offering him one then we've essentially let him walk away. Which is mad.

Na, he offers nothing in T20 and has a low strike rate in 4day cricket so he'd wouldn't fit in as one of 'Farbys Favourites'...

I never thought we'd dominate for the next few years, there's quite often a drop off after a Championship title win, but I didn't think we'd be like this. I had us down for 5/6 before a bit of a bounce back to challenge again in 2023.

If we are indeed releasing Matt Lamb in order to create space for the likes of Mousley and Benjamin then its total madness.

Dan and Chris may well turn out to be the guys but right now they not quite ready for regular spots in the 4 day side.

It's beyond a joke at this point.

I said when we signed him, 'does he really walk into our 4 day side', and people thought I was mad.

Gets so square on and has such hard hands, he'll always nick off.