All matches from 1993 onwards were four days long, if that helps! Between 1988 and 1992 there was a mix of three day and four day matches.

The all time record is 214 set by Nick Knight and Alan Richardson in 2002, which will take some beating. They were pretty close to a record against Surrey but I don't think they quite got there, I think that was around 125-130 set in the 1920s!

In 2019 it was five counties:

https://edgbaston.com/news/warwickshire-extend-membership-arrangements-to-five-counties/

Not sure if that has changed after the pandemic, though. You could try emailing tickets@edgbaston.com, they should be able to tell you.

I'll reserve judgement until after he's played for us, but I will say that it's hard these days to find an overseas player that is available for a good number of championship matches - we saw last season with Vihari and Malan (both international standard players) that if someone is only brought in for a few games that doesn't give enough time for them to get used to the conditions. Malan's only good score for us was in his last game as I recall?

Championship: Winners (seeing as no-one else has gone for that!)
T20: Finalists
RLC: 3rd, knocked out in the next round
Player of the season: Liam Norwell (if he doesn't get poached by England and can stay fit)
Breakthrough: Jacob Bethell
Team for game 1: Sibley, Yates, Mousley, Hain, Lamb, Rhodes, Burgess, Briggs, Miles, Norwell, OHD with Davies in for either Mousley or Lamb for the second game

In order to stop spam postings (which seem to have increased in number lately), I've decided to disable new registrations on the forum for the time being.

Therefore if you aren't a member of the forum but would like to be, just send a brief email to bearsfans@bev.name and I will re-enable registrations until you are signed up.

Hopefully I'll be able to find a more permanent solution at some point, but this should at least stop the spam in the meantime.

Thanks for your patience,
Jon

Has signed for the Blast. He's available for the first 12 games in the group stage, and maybe finals day

https://edgbaston.com/news/stirling-to-blast-for-the-bears-in-2022/

Good signing!

Have I missed news of the champion county match against the MCC, or is it not happening?

Unfortunately I think they'll make do with the bowlers that are already in the Caribbean but I reckon Norwell would do well in these conditions.

I have been deleting some of the earlier spammers, but don't want to delete the more recent ones just yet as it means that they can sign up again with the same email address. If I can find a way to block them in the first place then I can delete them later.

I think it looks great and it's good to see the club doing more to celebrate its history. Not sure when I'll get a chance to see it but I look forward to it!

I agree, and I also think that what is deemed as “acceptable” can change quite a lot over the course of even a decade. There are words or phrases that I would say when I was 18 that people didn’t bat an eyelid at then that definitely wouldn’t be acceptable now, 10 years later

I agree that it’s annoying (trust me, there are far better things for me to be doing than deleting posts and banning users) but as it’s only an average of about one spam post every couple of days at the moment, and I’ve just started a new job in a different country, forgive me if I don’t put it at the top of my priority list at the minute! I will try to look into it at some point but for the time being everyone will have to put up with it I’m afraid

Yeah unfortunately the club won't be able to tell you that. In my experience though it's usually easy enough to move around a bit on the day as some people don't turn up (amazingly), as long as your seats aren't too far apart.

I find it amazing that there are any professional sportspeople out there who haven't been through their old social media posts. I know I have been (and I didn't find anything too bad, just a few embarrassing posts!)

Yes, unfortunately I don't think there's much I can do about it, other than delete and block when it happens.

Not sure why that's happening, a bug with the forum I suspect. If you copy and paste the link into a new window it works.

Yes, thanks for these! Views of opposition supporters are always welcome. Very nice to be able to relive the final day drama!

Andy wrote:

Championship matches starting on Monday or Tuesday, why?!

Quite. The games in September are particularly baffling given there's no other cricket on then.

I'm beginning to get concerned that England will come calling for Mark Robinson at this rate...