I believe that for Championship and One Day Cup games at Edgbaston you’re allowed to take alcohol into the ground, but not for T20s. Not sure if it’s any different for Rugby, though.

LeicesterExile wrote:

GerryShedd wrote:

Exiled Bear - it's all very well you applying common sense and a bit of imagination to the problem, so long as you don't expect the ECB to do the same.

I am getting worried about EB - elsewhere he questioned why the One Day game could not carry on until 8pm when the game has been affected by rain.

I hope those at the ECB do not read this forum - they won't be able to cope.

Sorry, I’ll stop now!!

I would hope that whatever they come up with that it will be free for members (at least for home games). Could be marketed as an additional membership “perk”

Andy wrote:

I'm desperate for us to finish 1st or 2nd (ideally 1st, of course) so we get another game at Edgbaston to make up a bit for having to have 3 games at Rugby School. It's like having extra away games.

If it was up to me I’d have at least a couple of games away from Edgbaston every season, maybe a bit more spread out though and different formats, perhaps a championship game in June or July. We’re supposed to represent the county of Warwickshire, after all so only seems right that we should spread it round the county a bit.

GerryShedd wrote:

Exiled Bear - it's all very well you applying common sense and a bit of imagination to the problem, so long as you don't expect the ECB to do the same.

My services are available for a very reasonable rate!!

I'm surprised the streaming stayed free for this long to be honest. It's obviously not the same as going to the game but for many counties it's almost as good as watching a televised game.

I suggested on a different thread that the way to go might be a centralised streaming platform where you can access streams from all the different counties from the same place. If setup and marketed correctly, that could be quite an effective way of advertising the county game. In fact, with a bit of vision, you could imagine having some sort of live programme for a Blast round or a Championship round, where they switch between different games depending on what's going on - something a bit like the BBC live text page but with live footage. Of course, as others have pointed out, the difficulty is that some counties put a lot more effort into their streaming than others. To be fair, I think the average quality has gone up quite a lot over the last couple of seasons. At least if you just had to pay for one centralised service that would mitigate that problem a little bit if you also had access to all the other games. Of course, figuring out a revenue sharing model for such a service could be difficult.

Has left the club by mutual consent:

https://edgbaston.com/news/liam-norwell-leaves-warwickshire/

Sad, but an inevitable outcome really. That 9/62 will live long in the memory!

For a day/night game the hours of play are 2pm-9.30pm.

Makes no sense…10 overs would take at most 45-60 mins to play. Why can’t they play until 7/8/9pm?

I think this bit of rain should pass over pretty soon and I think they’ll get back out…but not sure how much more time they can lose.

Looks like Glamorgan will have one over left to bat.

Exiled Bear wrote:

Is it minimum 10 or 20 overs per side to constitute a match for a group game?

To answer my own question, it’s a minimum of 10 overs per side, rising to 20 for knockout games

Is it minimum 10 or 20 overs per side to constitute a match for a group game?

Wow, that relay catch was stunning.

We could do with some luck here, everything going Surrey’s way

Andy wrote:

Interested to learn that Leicestershire will apparently be charging a fee to watch their live streamed home games from August 11th...

It was only a matter of time. I’m surprised it took this long to be honest.

I wonder if the counties collectively would go down the route of having one subscription that covers all the counties with the revenue split according to how many select a particular club as their “favourite”. Of course one problem is that some counties put more into their live streams than others.

Andy wrote:

Unbelievably poor dismissal from Hamza.

It was there to hit, just got it completely wrong.

I don’t hate it…wouldn’t it be worth increasing the stadium capacity a bit at the same time though?

At least it looks a lot better than the monstrosities they built at Old Trafford…

Gloucestershire at home in the quarter final, then.

He looks so much better opening the batting than coming in in the middle order, I seem to recall that he used to open for Worcestershire as well.

3 from 7 balls when we were going along at more than 10 RPO before that is quite impressive