A serious risk of the final test being called off, at least one member of the Indian side has tested positive for COVID, and obviously as a touring party the other members of the party will be close contacts. and therefore will need to isolate.
I hope the ECB's contract for the tour specified that the BCCI should be resonsible for all costs and losses as a result of their sides failure to meet their contractual obligations.

A thought, the game may have had a very different result if we'd had any of our top four seam bowlers available.
I'm sure any combination of Chris Woakes, Olly Stone, Henry Brookes and OHD would have perfromed better with the bat this afternoon, regardless of what they did when bowling.
Not many sides could cope with losing four players from a key position.

103 off 77 balls for Ed, with 20 x 4 & 1 x 6

Ethan Brookes currently 61*

Sheikh, Velari & Hose all failed.

With Whitely, Wessels and Mitchell leaving the staff at the end of this season, there is a big opening for a batsman at New Road.

A move to a new county is probably the best for Ed at this stage.

Yes, four weeks until the end of the season.
of the five overseas players we've had this season, he's in the top 3, with Malan and Carlos!

He'd be a really good signing for Worcestershire, and hopefully they will give him a chance in red ball cricket too.

Always disappointing when a home produced player leaves, but hopefully he goes on to have great success with Worcestershire.

Surely it is better for him to try to fill the opportunity for a back up keeper at Worcestershire than to be 4th string at Warwickshire, where he's unlikely to get a full time contract.

Warwickshire have tried a number of young keepers over recent years, including Ben Griffin and Jack Holloway, but none of them were able to score the runs needed to go with their keeping ability.

It would seem some here fail to realise you can't score runs sat in the pavillion, that there are two sides in the game trying to get a result.
The points for a draw, or better the win are of more benifit than a single bonus point.

This isn't a 20 over slog, we have four days play to get a result, a big first innings and bowl the oppositin out twice is a method used throughout the history of the game, because it works.

Possibly because after finishing his High School education in South Africa he chose to come to England and study at Durham University for four years. He's skilled in the lecture room as well as at cricket, in many ways his path into the professional game wasn't all that unusual a few years ago.

To think there were some here against giving Benjamin a chance, due to the nationality of one of his parents!.

A great championship debut from Chris, and even betetr to see Sam Hain get a century again.

Live scores etc

https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/#m4b3dff97-1fdc-4496-ab53-3f8289d3a8d3

A contact at New Road advises that Garrett was in the original 12, and that Woakes was "resting" after his 6 overs!

Davies and Burgess are both mid to late 20's, Benjamin is 22, Smith is 16, if he continues to develop, he'd only be about 20/21 when Burgess or Davies are nearing the end of their careers.
Therefore it would be sensible, and a wise investment, to keep links with him.

I thought Jacob Bethell batted well in trying to rebuild the innings.
Also Kai Smith looked useful with the gloves, and is definately worth developing for the future.

A good move for Chris, hopefully he will concentrate on his role with Warwickshire and not become a franchise cricket mercanry.
As a club we should be given some loyalty after giving him the opportunity to play professionally.

there was more spam than at a Monty Python convention :-)

My contact at New Road has confirmed it's Kai Smith from the UAE.
Possibly he's out there as his parents work there? I remember Ethan Holmes, who played at Barnt Green and a few games for Worcs 2nds who is now the Hampshire Physio had a similar background.
It's probably safe to assume Dougie Brown advised the club about Kai Smith.

Michael Booth is a 20 year old fast bowler, who is studying at Durham Uni, and has played for Kwazuly Natel Indlands in South African Domestic T20

The keeper does look very young.

Hopefully Lamb does play on Friday, he was the best batsman in the 50 over competition.

Jacob Bethall is captain.

The live stream is good, just silent as no effects mic sound.

Live scores etc https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/#m4ba41efa-e2db-4765-8f53-e3e25cb0fc0b

The live stream of the game is also accessable through that link