It's a very sorry situation. I agree that it could be difficult from a legal perspective given it all happened before he was with Warwickshire.

Highveld wrote:

The "report post" function is not working, meaning we are unable to report spam etc

This is now fixed!

Back to two divisions next season:

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/county-championship-to-return-to-two-divisions-from-2022-1283141

I think it's a bit harsh on Notts after this season, but otherwise seems fair.

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Excellent news.

Andy wrote:

Might go on the Wednesday. Is it true you can't get tickets in the gate? It's touch and go whether I'll get the day off work...

That's correct, see here:

https://tickets.lords.org/en-GB/shows/bob%20willis%20trophy%20final%20-%20second%20day/events

It does say that tickets are issued as soon as the transaction is complete though, so I imagine that you'll be able to buy one through the website and be able to use it immediately.

Wow! What a day. I’m still buzzing!

Managed to “work from home” at Edgbaston yesterday and today (including having a Teams meeting at the back of the Hollies this afternoon!) and I’m so glad I did.

A perfect performance today. I think the wicket just before lunch was the turning point - that meant we went to lunch in good spirits. It was looking a bit dodgy up to that point.

I also managed to get photo of me holding the trophy, as well as with Hain and Rhodes. What a wonderful group of players we have. Rhodes is also really growing as a captain, that was a great declaration and great bowling changes all day.

Exciting times ahead!

I thought we were pretty unlucky in the Somerset first innings. Leach must have played and missed about 20 times! Woakes in particular was unfortunate. Hopefully we'll get a bit more luck in the second innings and Somerset will collapse. Unlikely, but you never know!

I'm clinging on to the fact that Somerset have shown themselves to be very capable of a collapse recently.

Does an over rate of +5 mean we’re ahead or behind the required over rate?

It would be nice to pay Hampshire back for that one by preventing them from winning the title this year!

Hmm, so we will need 4 wickets in 33 overs tomorrow (unless Lancashire can pull off an unlikely win), followed by another 11. Going to be tough...

DANNY BRIGGS YOU BEAUTY!

I think the end of the day came at the wrong time for us yesterday.

But I suppose that we could end up regretting our decision either way!

I think we have to go for the extra batting point given that Lancashire are now 28/5

Think that’s a bit harsh on Sibley as the first hour was very challenging, the ball was moving around all over the place.

Well, that was a pretty good day all in all! Lamb was a bit unlucky to be out as it looked to be sliding down leg.

Given the score in the Hampshire-Lancashire game I think we really need to go for the fourth batting point tomorrow morning, and then hope that we can bowl Somerset out twice!

This is tricky now. It looks like Hampshire won't get any batting points, so if we got four batting points and won, it wouldn't matter if Hampshire also won. But we now need to score at 4.5 RPO to get there in time. There's also the problem of needing to score at least as many points as Lancashire to stay ahead of them, so we might have to hope that they can't get many batting points.

I think we're going to be relying on Lancashire winning a low scoring game as I can't see us picking up many batting points. Batting looks very tricky right now.