They won’t do it but there’s a strong case to be made for declaring overnight so Middlesex have to bat at 1030 against a new ball in late September!

Oh dear no breakthrough so far after winning what seemed a crucial toss at this stage of the season.

Hopefully batting on a better track than those we've played on recently at Edgbaston may yet help.

Unfortunately we went down the road of calling it a stadium when its really the county ground.

So its functional and concrete rather than stylish and aesthetic.

The outside of the pitch outfield looks horrendous with the green artificial ring round it but that gets covered over during test matches.

Edgbaston is still a pretty ground though and has far more greenery around it than most grounds. Its still more attractive than the Oval even though we've ruined the pavilion End.

Until we get back to being Warwickshire rather than Edgbaston and have people in charge who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing we will struggle. But the ground and the history are wonderful despite the modern monstrosities!

Poor docile pitch. Certainly not a seamer or a batting track.

Another example that Edgbaston has been heavily utilised and WCCC need a better plan involving outgrounds.

We got home and credit to Burgess but not much beyond that.

Not really sure Robinson has much to crow about other than the outcome. Northants captain admitted they had no leg to stand on in the deal and we could have been more ruthless with that but cricket shouldnt be about deals anyway really.

Pretty unsatisfactory all round. Even Burgess played two horrendous shots late on.

Fair comment - having gone on day 1 I always thought their first innings score slightly above par

More about the pressure of accumulating runs because of turgid nature of the pitch be it City End or Pavillion End.

Unfortunately I think we are currently the worst team in the division.

Anyway fingers crossed!

Warwickshire chasing 170 on that pitch was never a good deal whatever the circumstances.

As I say perhaps Northants were generous from their perspective but we were always likely to not succeed.

Still be happy to be surprised by these two!

Maybe "generous terms" from Northants but not a "good deal" for Warwickshire?

I think it was more people claiming "good deal" when really the only beneficiaries of any deal were Northamptonshire.

I'd understand it more if they'd said at least we will get some competitive cricket rather than petering out with a draw which was probably in Warwickshire's best interest.

Every ball on my stream has movement (unless I've got a dodgy screen ???)

The stats of the match don't lie. Its another overused turgid Edgbaston pitch as has been the case for the last two months,

Its not that its a bad deal per se its more that it was never particularly attractive for us batting last, batting poorly and on this wicket.

Perhaps i have a different view to everyone else but I always thought (knew) we would struggle.

I'll still be v happy if Barnard and Burgess put on a century partnership now.

Losing here would be a total embarrassment.

Winning from here would be more of a shock!

I did call it!

Which is the contradiction.

Poor batting side. Poor pitch. Runs on the board.

Not the deal of the century!

19-4 Sanderson hat trick

Not sure this was the ever the deal people were claiming!

19-3 - this is predictable!

I don't think it will be easy at all on this pitch.

Scoreboard pressure and all that.

This agreement rather revealing about what Will Rhodes thinks of the pitch!

I really hope lessons will be learned!

ajones1328 wrote:

Tayls79 wrote:

Anyone watching this live... Are they not tucking into the buffet? Or is the bowling of Burgess, Yates and seam-up Mousley just a bit too incisive? Guess we have to know what target they have in mind. More importantly, who was keeping to Burgess?

Rhodes keeping wicket. Very bizarre from Northants. I thought they would be looking to go 5+ an over minimum. Not much intent so far

I think rather than "cafeteria bowling" its more a case of whittling down the overs so Warwickshire have less when chasing the total.

Presumably because of another substandard Edgbaston wicket - four an over would be extremely challenging for us. I wonder if the agreement is les than that.

I hope the over use of Edgbaston will be raised at the agm.

I don't know how easy it would be to sort but Mickey Arthur and Ian Bell would come over like a shot!

I suppose we won’t know for sure until Hampshire bat but seems to be another of these Edgbaston wickets. Only Hain looked comfortable and even he’s had to adjust a bit!

I was just going to add that there was distant country as well as country membership.

The point of course was that WCCC belongs to all of our county but with Birmingham on its extreme western edge there ought to be some compensation for those whose attendance is not easy.

Even more in these days of not playing games around the county!