I was thinking earlier is there no way he can't be persuaded to change his mind!

Maximum batting points is within reach - well under 5 an over needed after lunch

Notts and Lancs both struggling so all in all a good start to this round of matches.

Surprised no room for Lintott or Briggs.

In fairness to the ECB could it be they have chosen a squad from which they will release any involved in Finals Day .

At what time will they declare a draw now they are off for bad light

Have Warks settled for a draw before the day started?

For once I will put my faith in the BBC apart from 30/40% chance of rain around 2pm/3pm they are saying 0%. It would be such a shame if the weather interferes with a result being obtained

Notts and Lancs could well lose tomorrow so I suppose a draw will mean we leapfrog them and Worcs go above us so we gain one place. but the extra points from a win will be very welcome.

With not losing being the first aim at what point do you think we should declare to give us a chance of victory, weather permitting?

BristolBear wrote:

What’s all the moaning with the Abell LBW? Looked very out to me.
No shot offered, on the back foot, going on to hit off stump.

Too many Somerset fans getting desperate and fool by his movement after the ball had hit him.

I must admit I thought it looked high - it hit him above his pad and my first reaction was it would have gone on over the wicket. However, it is noticeable that he appeared to walk as the umpire's finger went up and when a batsman doesn't hesitate on LBW then you can be sure it was the rightr decision.

All things considered not a bad morning for us.

That caught behind looked a tad suspicious

Put in to bat - excellent start just a shame Davies got out

Yes agree about Shaikh - I thought Kai might have been given a game too but I suppose still need to keep the side balanced and strong.

Inside-edge wrote:

Somerset win the toss and elect to bowl.

Yates
Davies*
Rhodes
Shaikh
Bethell
Mousley
Barnard
Burgess+
Rae
Rushworth
OHD

There must be a mistake - no Benjamin !!
Pity we didn't win the toss.

Inside-edge wrote:

It’s horses for courses.
I spoke to a fellow yesterday who knows I follow cricket but has never shown any interest himself. A friend of his got tickets to the eliminator at The Oval so he went along. He said it was very exciting, he thoroughly enjoyed it and would definitely go to a 100 game again. He remarked how different it was to the ‘boring’ cricket that was on the BBC back in the day.
It’s definitely not for me but I can see the appeal for new audiences.

I bet he will go to a few of these games and then he will find constant 6s and 4s becomes repetitive and boring and will move on to his next adrenalin fix. Could this be what the BBC are starting to find?

It's alright to claim the Hundread has attracted newcomers to the game. However has it or has it just attracted people to the Hundread and once the games in their area have finished they go off to something else to provide an evening's entertainment? If these newcomers are not going on the watch some T20 or CC then this isolated tournament has failed.

540000 tickets were sold - does that mean that 540000 people paid the prices on the ticket or were a lot of them tickets dished out by sponsors etc.
Given who they admit the tickets were sold to why did they need to take the best players away from games played in front of established cricket followers. Surely new to the game people would not have a clue about the players.

The ECB treatment of the ODC is criminal really. It is a major form of cricket at International level and should therefore be used as a platform for players to develop and come through for international honours but that won't happen if players are syphoned off to the one competition that has no international standing. Likewise the ODC has a similarity to a single innings C/C.
I would like to see Kai Smith be given a run in the C/C given the way he played that innings last Friday.

This is worse than Friday. Why is Benjamin batting higher than Smith? 5 down with 191 still needed.