Exiled Bear wrote:

Why did they run two on the first ball of that over?

Woakes over confident

And I think the plan was Hain to take Organ

The only worry is throwing away a couple of wickets at the end. Need a solid start tomorrow!

UrsaMinor wrote:

UrsaMinor wrote:

GerryShedd wrote:

Great effort from Alex Davies. Who was the last man to carry his bat for the Bears?

Go on, then. I'll bite. I seem to remember somebody doing it in the last few years when they were the first person to do it since Billy Ibadulla or someone of that ilk. If it was recently then, maybe, Sibley?

Could well be Sibley. 92* out of 188 against Hampshire in 2017.

Sibley did it four times for Warwickshire and he was the first since Westwood in 2010.

Davies on course to become only the second ever Warwickshire player to carry his bat in both innings!

It was obvious we should have enforced the follow on with that short period - 18 overs I think - left on Saturday evening.

A lesson for Davies et al that you don't give your opponent a break and let them off the hook when you are on top. It betrayed such a defensive mindset. I do hope we learn from this!

Well we seem to be starting with six overs of gentle throw downs to get their eyes in before the new ball.

Probably need to remove one of these before the new ball.

The_Lickey_Banker wrote:

BosworthBear wrote:

We got this one wrong given the short period there was tonight. Should have enforced the follow on.

Just got to hope we can get another 50 or so now.

Yep. I'm not a 'told you so' guy, but ...... !

Yep I posted it before you!

We got this one wrong given the short period there was tonight. Should have enforced the follow on.

Just got to hope we can get another 50 or so now.

Superb today but slightly surprised we didn’t make them follow on give the short period left tonight.

Anyway let’s hope we can now bat them out of the game!

Exiled Bear wrote:

The injury to Miles could have cost us 100 runs in their first innings

And was self inflicted. Crazy really it was the night watchman!

I suppose we are unlucky to play Surrey without the kookaburra, at least five bowlers, and with good weather but the best side will have won the match!

Melinda is generally pretty good as a broadcaster. She got herself in a tangle recently defending the kookaburra ball being used early season and in the processed displayed ignorance about where the County Championship fits in our cricket fabric compared to Sheffield Shield.

She’s nowhere near as pretentious or irritating as Norcross and Adam Collins.

The strange posh one was a jolt yesterday too!

I think the BBC commentators generally have better grounding and training than this lot!

I think it was more that I just can’t stand Norcross or Collins. Neither are as good a broadcaster as they think they are.

So the posh one might be bloke? Either way they were delivering one word a minute because they were struggling to speak and when they did claimed Surrey would be batting once in the match!

Not a bad effort in the end. I hope Miles is ok. What a way to get injured after bowling so well?

Serves the commentators right. Collins and Norcross so dreadful and self important and a strange posh lady who can barely speak because of the plum in her mouth. At one stage she stated Surrey would only be batting once in the game!

I still don’t understand why Surrey chose to field unless they are so cocky their worry was taking 20 wickets in the match?

GerryShedd wrote:

Rain getting very close to Southampton.
One consolation is that it may get to Canterbury too before Surrey finish off Kent.

Is this why we just kept batting?

I've raised this a couple of times at AGMs and told them its an easy PR and marketing win. The present lot just grin which is an improvement on some of their predecessors.

They seemed to drop the B word as soon as Hundred was introduced.

One memory from last season was the tense game against Essex when the whole crowd was chanting "Warwickshire la la la" at the crucial stage of the match.

I hope we play well but the 13 man squad looks pretty poor!

We don't seem to be ready this season!

Travelled the 27 miles home to watch the football.

Combination of brainless batting this morning and toothless bowling this afternoon.

Fear for our chances of staying up this season unless we can get a few games of Hain, Woakes and Ali.

A truly awful session this morning. Hard to come back from!

Thrown it away.

Now relying on bowlers to get us back into it!