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!

Bit of a strange one but I really don’t understand why they didn’t keep running on the last ball.

The keeper removed a bail after we had made the ground. He then ran off to celebrate. I really don’t see what was to stop us completing the second run.

Just been sent a pic from the ground. It’s another pitch on the extremity with a silly boundary.

Edgbaston is exhausted. All so avoidable!

We don’t need to replicate the Cheltenham Festival - what a ludicrous comparison!

We don’t need chefs, waiters, Michelin stars or any other bogus obstacle suggested.

We are talking about one day’s cricket not even a four day game at this stage.

It really wouldn’t cost much at all and numerous grounds would qualify but I would suggest higher population areas like Nuneaton and Coventry away from Birmingham would be best.

I’ve seen Warwickshire play at Whitgift, Beckenham, Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells, Guildford amongst others. It’s really not that difficult to set up seating, toilets, a beer tent, burgers and an ice cream van.

Some of the obstacles claimed are bizarre.

And to those talking about distance and transport - imagine what it’s like for some of us to travel to every match at Edgbaston.

As for Birmingham members not understanding the county concept. Of course it’s not all of them. The comment was in reply to Gerry who spoke about Notts members complaining about travelling. I said I’m sure we would get the same. There used to be one chap on the old forum - who came from Norfolk and actually lived in Worcestershire although he didn’t realise it - who obsessively complained about outgrounds because he had had to travel to Stratford. I’ve seen similar obstacle placing from Birmingham based members at the AGM. And obviously there’s a member on this forum coming up with all sorts of spurious excuses.

It’s a sad fact Birmingham has forgotten/lost its connection as being part of Warwickshire in a way Manchester and Leeds haven’t with Lancashire and Yorkshire even though the circumstances are identical.