According to The Cricketer, efforts have been made in the 2025 T20 fixtures to decrease the number of occasions where counties are playing Blast matches on back-to-back days. Last year, the Bears kicking off their T20 season with an evening match in Durham followed by a match at Edgbaston the next afternoon was a particularly egregious example of this.

Durham are holding a breakfast morning for members on 26 November because that is when the 2025 fixtures will be announced. Members can talk with players and coaches about the fixtures - a nice idea.

Without totally breaking the paywall, key points from George Dobell's article are:

• A board meeting to decide next steps will take place at the start of December.
• The club have hired external consultants to lead the review.
• The review will cover medical support and pitch preparation as well as player recruitment and development
• Reports from the dressing room on Robinson and Larsen "are not entirely positive".

The article also mentions something that I hadn't heard about - "the imminent departure of Keith Cook". He's spent over 50 years at the club so this may just be a natural time for him to retire; but it will still be a major landmark.

Agree, though it wasn’t enough to win the match.

62 off 32 balls for England today.

Notwithstanding what I said above, it may be significant that in his farewell message, he thanks members, fans and the players but not the coaching staff.

There's an interview in The Cricketer with Ali Maiden who has joined Warwickshire as women's head coach. There is quite a lot of emphasis on how pleased he is to be joining up again with Mark Robinson (he was assistant coach to Robinson when England women won the World Cup in 2017). So unless Maiden is in for a disappointment, it may be that Robinson is not on his way out.

I think if he had just wanted to get away from Warwickshire, there would have been a queue of counties wanting to sign him so I believe it is much more to do with wanting a career outside the game.
Whilst I agree that his absence from the T20 side was strange and disappointing, I also know that, when he had a few personal issues to deal with a year or so ago, the Club was very supportive to see him through the situation.

....and here's the full list - 19 awards, enough to go round:
https://www.ecb.co.uk/news/4169264/2024-business-of-cricket-awards-recognise-inspiring-innovations-and-dedication-across-county-cricket

A couple of awards this year:
https://edgbaston.com/news/warwickshire-award-wins-for-sustainability-and-stadium-welcome/

Hopefully the rumour that OH-D is resigning to become Archbishop of Canterbury is not true, or we are in deep trouble.

It's a big loss to Warwickshire and to the game of cricket more generally - he has been an exceptional talent.

Article about (and quotes from) Dan Mousley here:
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/dan-mousley-dares-different-fast-spin-highest-level-1459286

It was the late Alec Bedser who used to complain that, in his day, kids had to walk 27 miles (well, maybe not quite) to school and back and that toughened them up to bowl 75 overs a day (well, maybe not quite) like he did.

It was 23 November last year so I assume similar this year.

Another Behind the Badge:
https://edgbaston.com/news/behind-the-badge-gerhard-mostert-lead-physio/

Alex Davies has extended his contract to cover the next three seasons:
https://edgbaston.com/news/club-captain-davies-pens-one-year-contract-extension/
It's again significant that the Club quote comes from Gavin Larsen, not Mark Robinson.

Jacob has a central contract (alongside Chris Woakes)
https://edgbaston.com/news/woakes-and-bethell-on-ecb-central-contracts-list/

If you want to depress yourself and also can get past the paywall, read the article in The Telegraph today:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2024/10/29/short-format-leagues-twenty20-prize-money-financial-riches/?WT.mc_id=e_DM443444&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_PrS_New&utmsource=email&utm_medium=Edi_PrS_New20241030&utm_campaign=DM443444
Amongst other topics, it describes how some players sign up for franchise competitions without knowing until they arrive which team they are playing for; and how sometimes it's in a player's interests for his team to lose and not qualify for the later stages because the player is signed up for a different competition that overlaps - what the players call “double dipping”: earning from two competitions being played at the same time.

c2aw wrote:

I thought it was different. Law 4.3.1?

It's definitely 80 overs, though I agree that it's not what Law 4.3.1 seems to say.