It’s my first visit to Edgbaston today since 2019 and it’s made me realise just how much I’ve missed a day of county championship cricket! Great last wicket partnership and I agree about the odd field placement - at one point they had both a mid-off and long-off at the same time!

Nice to see the addition of number of balls faced/overs bowled to the live stream - a big improvement in my opinion. Shows that the club do listen to feedback as I emailed Tom Rawlings to suggest it a few weeks ago so if anyone has any suggestions it's worth dropping the club an email!

Do we know for sure that it's the ECB that have prevented Woakes from playing? Given how much he's been away from home/in bubbles over the last year there's a chance that he may have chosen to spend some time with his family.

I don't suppose there's any chance of us trying to go for the win in this game? If Notts win today it will really put the pressure on us to beat them next week.

What an awful start to the day.

Is it just me or does the outfield seem to be very slow?

I suspect that we also didn't want to give Harmer the chance to bowl in the fourth innings.

Nice to win the toss for once! Need to make it count.

He certainly impressed against Essex recently. Hopefully he can produce plenty more performances like that one.

Well this is more like it! When was the last time we were only one wicket down at lunch after losing the toss?

Well this has been a pretty shocking effort so far. There's a very real chance that we could come away from this match with zero points!

I don’t think any of us can say if Vihari has been a worthwhile investment. We don’t know how much he’s cost us. We also don’t know how much he’s added in terms of passing on knowledge to our players, particularly in terms of playing spin (he looked completely untroubled by Harmer in the Essex match, especially in the first innings). His performance in the second innings against Essex was also very important. To be honest, it seems as though some people wouldn’t be happy even if he scored a century every time he batted!

Well, it could have been a lot worse. Now we just need to bowl at the stumps and let the pitch do the rest!

Looks like a horrible pitch to bat on. Very uneven bounce.

I will gladly attend any live cricket that I'm allowed to, whether there are restrictions or not!

Maybe Norwell for Stone if he's fit and Stone needs a rest?

Wow, fantastic! Paced to perfection as well, even though this did mean I was a bit more nervous than I'd like for the last half an hour! I also didn't get much done this afternoon as I couldn't tear myself away from it...

Essex's first defeat in 22 first class matches as well.

Agreed, we have perhaps let things slip slightly and even if we get the last wicket straight away tomorrow I’m not confident that we’ll get the target, but we’ve shown good fight in this match and I feel that the team are definitely heading in the right direction

Yep, good finish to the day. Looked like we were going to concede a 100+ run lead at one point. If we can get close to parity tomorrow then we've got a chance, but I don't fancy us to chase too many with Harmer bowling on a fourth day pitch.

BristolBear wrote:

Anyone else finding the audio quality on the stream is very poor? Or have my laptop speakers given up on me?

It is a bit scratchy for me.

Looks like a bad toss to lose, there's no movement at all out there.