Jennings gone for 18 bowled Bethell, could be a vital wicket that. 38-2 after 7 overs.

Wicket already for Rae, 5-1 after 2 overs

Play scheduled to start at 13.10, possible 72 overs left in the day - rain permitting of course.

Doubtful whether we'll get all those overs in, maybe we should just declare now and go for it.

Davies out for 17, 30-2 at Tea.

Bethell and Lintott - the new spin twins! 135 the lead, surely we won't throw this one away?

7 down now, Bethell is bowling superbly. Come on You Bears!

A great little knock from Hassan Ali, another 50 or 60 runs would give us a decent score.

I don't have much faith in Davies as captain and i don't know why he chose to bat first. Possibly he was worried about Lyon spinning us out if we batted last?

Bad light stops play - that could be it for the day

Problem for Davies now does he carry on digging in or does he try to score more quickly?

73 - 1 at Tea, the Captain's playing a responsible innings - 35 runs in just over 2 hours.

TEAM:

Rob Yates
Alex Davies(c)
Will Rhodes
Dan Mousley
Ed Barnard
Jacob Bethell
Michael Burgess(wk)
Michael Rae
Olly Hannon-Dalby
Hassan Ali
Jake Lintott

Won the toss, batting first

Briggs is out with a finger injury sustained in training.

I think it would harsh to leave out either Rae or Simmons after they took 5 wickets each against Essex last week, Ali should play so i think we'll go with 4 seamers with Burgess batting at 7.

My predicted XI: Yates, Davies, Rhodes, Barnard, Mousley, Bethell, Burgess, Rae, Simmons, Ali & Hannon-Dalby.