Yes, you hope they will become better players and if Lintott could become a good CC spinner, as an unknown and rare type of bowler, he could be very useful.
Just had a word with my legal team and they say that your admittance of plagiarism is enough in itself to give me victory, I raise an 'air pint' to you BR.

Did you steal 'HunDreadful from my idea last week of 'The HunDread'. My legal team are checking facts and timelines so you might be hearing from my lawyers. I am expecting no out of court settlements and figures of at least £50 have been talked of.

The only thing to watch has been The Hundred and the games have been awful, full of players who play in the 'T20 Round The World Roadshow' in various T20 leagues and a lot don't seem to have much to offer and are past their best interspersed with county players who no one has heard of and are out of their depth even in this poor excuse of a competition. I do give it a genuine go when it is on but I will never treat it as anything but a joke and I could never bring myself to get behind a team.

Cannot help but go back years when a bowler trying to deny runs would go for yorkers. I do go along with the "Oh! It's difficult to bowl them consistently....". Why, even if you get it on target and it's a low full-toss, it rarely goes for 4. But this business of bowling short at crucial times is nonsense, if a batsman knows he needs runs, he has no option but to belt it and your average pace bowler is big, strong and always fancies 'giving it a belt'. That was poor from us and we should have won it ages before Norwell suddenly said "Y'know what, I'll bowl it full".

Good point and it does seem to be a waste but maybe he will field like a demon but let's face it, that is all he can contribute to this game.

It could still be a 300 pitch but only perhaps thanks to these 2 and maybe whatever is to come.

Seem to be making heavy-weather of this. If the pitch is the usual Oval type then we are not scoring quickly enough and too many balls being patted back to the bowler or hit straight to a fielder.

There will always be those who make this sort of protest look like a big fight but in the long run, as long as the CC is still going and we keep it going, we can disassociate ourselves from any sort of minority who go about their protest in the wrong manner. The incidents that have been mentioned by LCCC have not been fully detailed so it is difficult to say just how aggressive the whole thing has been but I am still glad I signed and will continue to support the issue.

We could always keep nagging away to the management about it and you never know. I kept nagging them about having just 'Edgbaston' on the front of the ground and said we need to have the name of the club on the front and it is absolutely ridiculous not to. It did appear eventually and I am not taking any credit but at some point someone must have addressed the problem and I would like to think that others kept chipping away to get the name of the club on the building. Imagine Old Trafford on the front of the stadium and no reference to Manchester United. So come on Gerry, write 1000 letters to the committee but all with different names put to them, it won't take you long, stamps might cost a bit though.

How about 'The HunDREAD'.

Just watched the last hour, great win, glad we are putting out a strong side unlike last year and what a lovely ground to watch cricket. Hope those that went had a good day.

Confusing, that sums up a lot of the team selection this season.

A strong side v Cheshire so let us hope we are taking this competition seriously. After all, once it starts properly on 2nd August it is a trophy and a cup final so we should do so.

As if we haven't lost enough players over the last few season's, not including Lamb, well isn't that a statement. If he decides he wants to go elsewhere then our management will only have themselves to blame in a season where they have covered themselves in anything but glory.

Sorry to see him go as he was dynamic in T20 and a good fielder. We have Mr Ali returning so it could be seen as a straight swap. Just hope we pick a better overseas player for that competition.

OHD, Burgess and Hain have been superb but so many others have had poorer seasons than last. Yates has gone downhill as have Briggs and Miles and not seeing much of Norwell hasn't helped. Add in some strange decisions at the toss and some equally strange team selections and you have a season that we all want to forget.

Massively disappointing to lose from the position of last night when most of us might have been expecting a declaration at some point. But when the 2 overnight players, well set, get out too early then it does expose the rest. We have come up against some dreadful umpiring in other games and it does make a difference as we have no idea what Hain might have done once he reached his ton and in a game where we looked good overnight it is a huge blow as another 60-80 runs would have leant a different approach from Surrey. The Somerset and Gloucestershire games take on huge significance as we need points. How have we reached such depths when poor sides like Northamptonshire are above us.

Annoyingly, the bad light came when we were in the driving seat and now it might cost us in time lost tomorrow. Best day for us in CC cricket for a long time.

This is what we want, dig in and set 'em a big 'un.

Hated being behind by so much but then again, we could have been behind by about 30 and gone in a after a tricky 11-12 overs and been 20-2.