GerryShedd
Super Moderator
The BBC get it both right and wrong:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/63075267
(And in case the link gets corrected, it reads: "Warwickshire (21 pts) beat Yorkshire (4 pts) by five runs".
After the match, the players will be in the Dollery Lounge to thank members for their support:
https://edgbaston.com/news/players-to-visit-tom-dollery-lounge-after-hampshire-fixture/?utm_campaign=13498719_Warwickshire%20Members%20Newsletter%20%2828.09%29&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=DotDigital&dm_i=1AFS,81BOF,8II8VY,WVPO7,1
A chance for Alex Davies to say how much he appreciates all the support he has been given.
At one stage this morning, I definitely thought that I could hear Steve McQueen revving up his motorbike; but now I'm not so sure.
Someone else telling us what went wrong:
https://wisden.com/stories/county-cricket/county-championship-2022/warwickshires-journey-from-championship-winners-to-relegation-contenders-explained
Not much new insight but worth a read.
Maybe I'm missing the logic; but I can't understand why the Club has removed Membership renewal by direct debit so that Members have to take action to renew every year. Surely it is in the Club's interests for membership to renew automatically?
George's article is well worth a read, though I don't think he is right about everything - e.g. Keith Barker's reasons for going to Hampshire were personal; and what he says about Burgess is also different from my understanding.
Team news here:
https://edgbaston.com/fixtures/first-xi/warwickshire-vs-hampshire-26-september-2022/
The Michael Burgess question remains unanswered. And no Yadav in the squad.
Malc wrote:
I’m sure I read somewhere that Moheen had been offered a pay as you play deal for CC cricket.
Yes, pay as you play for red ball:
https://edgbaston.com/news/warwickshire-sign-moeen-ali-on-three-year-contract/
There is a lot in the article below to suggest that the Club has belatedly realised that it has not been communicating effectively with members:
https://edgbaston.com/news/high-performance-review-update/
Re Davies's wicket keeping, I only saw from lunchtime onwards but I certainly thought he kept well.
I thought this evening was a combination of good bowling, poor batting and maybe a couple of dodgy decisions - the Sam Hain lbw looked as if it might be missing leg stump.
Highveld and I both worry when we agree with each other; but, having been a great Yates supporter, I have to agree with him that Yates played an awful innings this evening.
I hardly dare say it, but I thought that Alex Davies, apart from one terrible shot, played well. And earlier, I thought that he kept very neatly.
Glad there was one Bears batter who got a fifty today!
Glad he's going to get a game or two, albeit for Durham:
https://www.durhamcricket.co.uk/news-and-media/chris-benjamin-joins-durham-on-loan-from-warwickshire/
Here's my preview:
https://deepextracover.com/2022/09/lv-county-championship-match-preview-gloucestershire-v-warwickshire/
I hope the rumour that I just read on Twitter that Siraj has been called up by India is false because it would mess up my preview and the Bears' chances. I'm told that you shouldn't believe everything you read on Twitter, so fingers crossed!
It's a big stretch from "unavailable" to "dropped" so although it may be convenient to use Burgess as another stick with which to beat Mr. Robinson, I would personally doubt that the Club are lying about Burgess. I have no idea why he is unavailable - it may be a family matter and therefore very personal. Maybe the reason will emerge or maybe not.
I don't know anyone apart from Marina.
All I would add is that I've several times on here and on the predecessor Board encouraged posters who are eligible to stand for election and, as far as I know, no-one has. I'm too old and located in the wrong place so I couldn't stand.
In the replay on the Club site, you can stop the action at the critical moment and the run out looks very marginally not out. In the old days, the umpire would have said to the complaining batsman "Look at tomorrow's paper"; I guess now they would say "Look on Cricinfo."
Unless I mis-heard him, Mark Robinson suggests that, as well as the Burgess dismissal being "unlucky", the run out was a bad umpiring decision too:
https://edgbaston.com/news/mark-robinson-reflects-on-somerset-draw/
I can see that, where DRS is in operation, umpires can be judged by what proportion of their decisions prove to be successful. But that obviously doesn't apply to many county matches.
It used to be the case that county captains filled in an evaluation of the umpires after each match. This allegedly led to a reluctance on the part of umpires to give captains out. That was particularly so back in the days of amateur captains when the umpire was almost certainly a retired professional player and knew that he was supposed to touch his forelock to any amateur and call him "Sir".