For anyone who questioned Rhodes a few weeks ago as if he didn't seem to be doing anything with the bat once he announced he was leaving, well he has shown he still cares - He will be missed a lot.

Well if Kent have a big list of missing players, it's no worse than the list of our players who missed the 50-over cup which was between 8-10 for one reason or another and probably the only way Glamorgan were likely to beat us. We cannot afford to slip up, we don't want to get behind anyone at this stage and have to do a last-day escape like 2022 v Hampshire.

It has not always been the case with the ECB, they do not care one bit and if a fixture list from years ago can see Test players never missing a cup game whilst the CC, B & H, Natwest, Sunday League had to be accommodated, then there is no excuse now. Woakes bowling 8 overs and a bit of batting in finals day (If we get there), is hardly going to wear him out.

That is yet another example of how the ECB do not care at all about county cricket. Years ago, the B & H cup and Gillette/Natwest were prime competitions that all Test players got to play in.

If today told me anything, it is that we need to get a FAST bowler who can put the S** up opposition batsmen. Good as they are, OHD, Rushworth, Barnard would gain more if it was the time of green prepared pitches (Up to late 1990's) where a home side did what they liked. It isn't, and although I am pleased with Rae, will he be here for the long term. I do not have much faith in Briggs as a CC bowler although he is superb in 50 over and T20 and we can't keep using Yates and Bethel just because we have no faith in Briggs. Glad Davies decided to bring pace on or we would be still fetching the ball from Rew's huge hitting.

Unfortunately, I have looked at the forecast on the 'Met Office' site and it looks worse than it did yesterday with 40-60% chance of rain from 11 till 4pm, sorry to bring potentially bad news but I hope it is wrong otherwise it looks like a draw. Not sure if I should go now or not after seeing that.

It appears to be very negative in the last hour apart from Bethel so we won't be setting as big a target as we should. Perhaps the plan is to keep wickets in hand and go mad in the morning for 45 minutes.

I have to agree about the Somerset commentary being very biased, I didn't have it on much whilst at work, only occasionally now and then but every time they were on it was like they were listening to a director who was telling them to be totally one-eyed. I have heard it before and it is tedious at best, bad enough listening to it on Sunday in the Glamorgan game with their commentary.

Cricket will always seem exciting when a game is close but after a few games, anyone new to it will realise there are very few really close games. I once asked someone if they liked cricket, they said "I like, one-day cricket..." and after asking why, she said it was exciting but I pointed out that it can be exciting whilst the team you are following, are winning and when they're batting, if 6's and 4's are flying about then yes it is but overall, the excitement goes downhill once the result is pretty obvious. I think, ultimately, that the Hundread will bring a few new fans to the game but it won't mean many more youngsters are playing it, I think that will happen if it gets back on terrestrial TV and if clubs are funded by money instead of a new format and maybe schools will play it if they are given equipment free.

I have many gripes with The Hundread but the main 2 are always loads of talk about families as thought hey are banned from all other forms of cricket, when to look at T20 in the UK, you will see families everywhere so it isn't as if this new format has 'Saved Family Cricket' when it never needed saving. Also, bringing new supporters to cricket, great, but are these new supporters young and are they going to want to play the game. If the answer is yes, brilliant but they will not become Test cricketers because they will no doubt have no idea about why a team has to face 25-30 overs to get to 100 when they can do it in75 balls in The Hundread. Will they have the patience to want to watch a Test, if the answer is no, then they are unlikely to want to play first-class cricket and so therefore this whole competition will have served no purpose other than to bring in youngsters who want to play in The Hundread.

Yes, they carried the momentum into our innings as we really should have restricted them to 210-215 but losing early wickets was also our undoing and in the end, wickets in hand could have won it for us easily as most of their bowling isn't exactly div1 standard but we gave too many away again and no big, nasty fast bowler to clean up their tail.

Benjamin has gone backwards since he made his debut and is only in the team because of players who are in The Hundread, no doubt Robinson will find a place for him in the T20 quarter-final.

Well, in cricket, they do say momentum counts for a lot. And a game were were in charge of has become a real task. This will be harder than Friday's game.

This is very poor bowling, Douthwaite seems to like anything he can swing at and so we are bowling it just where he wants it, you get the feeling that straight and full might give him more problems. We might have blown it here because 80 from the last 10 overs should never have been on with just the tail in, poor bowling in my opinion as opposed to good batting.

Well, I did it again didn't I. Where do I go from here, "I need to win the lottery next week, it just has to happen".

Agree, didn't we have our own stream today. Need to get this partnership broken or we could be looking at 250+ which won't be easy, chasing often seems to be a problem on Welsh pitches.

At last, professional cricketers listening to me when I suggest something. I have been watching Warwickshire for decades and shouting all sorts of things and now after all these years they must realise that I am here to help.

I hope if Barnard has bowled a good tidy spell, he doesn't take himself off. New bowlers can often get carted as the pressure is off to a certain extent, if you are tidy, carry on and finish your spell.

Wow, 3 down, looked a bit 50/50 that last one but when the replay was slowed down, it looked a very good shout.

Remember though, that final v Surrey, they chose to bat as the pitch looked awful as both captains pointed out and Bell would have done the same but as it worked out, Bell lost the toss as he did all season and Surrey went from 99-2 (25) to 136 all out. As it's not played at Lord's, the early morning movement might not be so bad. Good so far, Barnard has the wickets but OHD is getting loads of late swing.