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.

Lost the toss, not a great start!

Is there any extra prize money for winning the Bob Willis Trophy?

Lamb or Benjamin could also miss out.

Malc wrote:

Mikkyk wrote:

Not sure I've ever seen a batsman refuse to walk after edging to first slip like Thompson just did!

To be fair to Thompson, I was there, sitting side on to the wicket, and I didn’t think it carried. Although there was no doubt at all in the slips.

Thompson's wasn't the one that only just carried - he slashed at a short wide ball from Norwell and was comfortably caught by Bresnan. I'm not sure if he was waiting for the umpire to give him out, or was just shocked that he'd got out to such a poor ball, but eventually he decided that he'd better walk off!

That's an excellent win after the disappointment of the defeat against Hampshire. Hopefully Somerset don't suddenly decide to find some form in their last match!

I've been following the Hampshire v Notts game today. It looks like Hampshire will win, which I think would be a good result for us. If they win and we win, the table will look something like this:

Hampshire 58.5
Warwickshire 55
Lancashire 54.5
Nottinghamshire 52
Yorkshire 41.5
Somerset 26.5

In the final round, we play Somerset, Hampshire play Lancashire and Notts play Yorkshire. If the above happened then it would all be to play for and could well go down to bonus points in the final round - just the small matter of seven wickets for us tomorrow first though!

"Different visions for the future and different journalistic values", strong words. Doesn't bode well for the future of Cricinfo. His were always the articles I'd look out for on there, but I'm sure he won't have problems finding work elsewhere (maybe not for the ECB though!)

Yeah the forecast for tomorrow is poor, but Wednesday looks much better so there should be a result one way or another!

Tea came at a bad time for us.

Here comes the collapse...Benjamin really needs to work on his patience.

Great start to the day!

A few things that I'd add:

A) As the name suggests, the Skyline is the stand that's at the very top of the pavilion. The view is very impressive but can also be a bit distant, and it can get cold up there (there isn't a lounge on the Skyline, Tom Dollery is the nearest one). I like going there sometimes - I'm not sure if the rules have changes or if I inadvertently broke them in the past but I've been up there for T20 and Championship games using my regular membership.

B) I haven't bought tickets to an England game for a while, but you'll definitely be able to get tickets to Finals Day with the members' priority window. The seats in the Tom Dollery area do sell quite quickly but no problems in the rest of the ground.

E) You get four guest passes per season to use for any Championship, One Day or T20 match which means you can bring a friend into the ground for free. I don't think there's anything to stop you bringing a paying guest into the members' areas though.

Confirmed as having signed for Worcestershire:

https://wccc.co.uk/big-hitting-ed-pollock-returns-to-worcestershire-on-two-year-contract/

coolerking wrote:

Exiled Bear wrote:

... and are going into the last two matches with a decent chance of winning the Championship, which is far above my expectations for the season!

It's only a couple of hours ago you were saying that umpiring had probably cost us any chance of the title.

It probably has, especially with Notts winning again. We're now relying on other results going our way, as well as winning both our matches, never mind getting lucky the weather as well. But it's down to two games, and to have a chance at that point is all we could ask for at the start of the season really. I think I'd downgrade it from "decent chance" to "chance" given the Notts result though.

The reaction of some of our "fans" (particularly on Facebook) when we lose is bizarre. They seem to expect us to win every game and think it's a failure otherwise. Sure, we probably should have won this game, and the batting at times was poor, but we've qualified for the first division and are going into the last two matches with a decent chance of winning the Championship, which is far above my expectations for the season!