I suppose that does make sense but we have a big ground just sitting there doing nothing for longer if we don't play there often enough. Perhaps playing more 2nd XI games at Edgbaston might be a way of using it more. The good thing about these games at Rugby is that a crowd of 2000+ is more than we might have had at Edgbaston. A home quarter-final is out of our hands if Glamorgan win their last game and over the yeas we have pulled off many great wins away from home so all the talk of 'Home Advantage' isn't always true.

Yorkshire look out of it as it's a straight shoot-out between Glouc and Leics which means there is probably nothing riding on Glamorgan's last game v Yorkshire same as our game v Notts so we have to hope we win and Glamorgan lose.

Trust us to get beaten (Have I called it too early) by a side who cannot really get through to the knock-out stages. Glamorgan v Leicestershire could be close but we will still be 2nd after this latest round.

Here we go again, a bloke who has 61 wickets in 44 first-class games is making us look like chumps. Yes, I know this is a different format but we do seem to have this great habit of succumbing to part-time trundlers. I do hope this pitch gets slower and lower and maybe we have a good score what ever we make but I would prefer a top of the table finish rather than undoing all the good work in this group and having to play a quarter-final.

Yes, he was a real diamond, had never even seen him play before he came to us and in the only CC game I recall from the past few seasons v Gloucestershire was 2018 in div 2 and he wasn't playing for them, Miles did (5-69) and as if to emphasise Andy's point, only Hain and OHD are left from that side. Whatever he does I wish him well, he has a CC winning medal and it is surprising the amount of great players who haven't got one of those.

At least the commentators in the end, gave us credit for a good win and Barnard is proving to be such a good signing - Can we please do the same with signing an overseas player.

Highveld, was just going to type exactly what you said. You would think Gloucestershire were a side who regularly swept all before them, the way they talk about them. Also their ability to talk down and criticise the opposition, saying that Taylor should have been caught by one of the fielders running after a ball going away from him and disappearing over the boundary over the bowlers head, not sure what anyone could have done with it. Poor captaincy from Barnard, not to bowl himself out early on, it used to be Darren Maddy's downfall on so many occasions when a bowler who had hardly gone for any, was short of their allotted overs.

Excellent, thought it was all gone when Sibley was still there. Nothing worse than seeing one of your old team mates take you apart but we held our nerve, great result.

Flippin' 'eck eh! Good entertainment, thank you to whomever came up with the idea of 'Live Streaming'. A terrific win, who knows if that will be significant in both qualifying and getting an automatic semi-final place.

A big loss, a decent human being as well, never showboated when we won the title in 2021, just accepted the trophy and passed it about, enjoying the whole moment. Great pity, he has a few years yet and contributed at a very poor time for the club when we were losing the majority of the old guard and the team changed considerably but he held things together and came out of it deservedly with praise and credit.

Well, that does appear to have gone quite swimmingly as they say.

Tried to watch it but it all seems too jokey to me. I really do wonder if the players really give a ** or is the money just a big incentive to pretend you like the competition. Not sure how you can just join a team full of players you have never played with, at a venue you are not familiar with, in a competition that you will instantly forget about by next year. When I have seen it, I don't get the feeling that a loss to one side feels like a major drawback with players not really looking intensely horrified when a game slips away from them. As for the graphics, I find that a few of them are so far at the end of the screen, that they are virtually falling off the end. I don't really find that you need a lot of graphics and sometimes it gets in the way. Just a little tiny bit in the top left hand corner would suit me for all cricket.

Matter of opinion but I think it was missing having looked at it again a few times. From where it would have got to after the pads, I reckon missing.

Yates out, not a good decision from the trajectory of the ball, looked like it would miss by a few inches. Umpire took ages which meant he wasn't that sure it would have hit.

324-7, pathetic last over from Miles, you would think with his experience, he would know where to bowl but the last 3 balls all short and at that stage of the game what did he think the batsmen were going to do, tap for singles.

Our team looks a bit light on batting, especially with Benjamin in the side. At least with 50 overs, he has a bit of time to play himself in if he is needed and I think he will be. Had Mousley, Ali and Bethell been available, doubt Benjamin would be there. If Burgess gets runs, I hope they consider him for the T20 quarter-final although it is a long way off.

I agree but hopefully they will play him at some stage in this competition.

Yes, a tasty squad with 4 Warwickshire players in it. Whoever came up with the idea of playing the domestic 50-over game with The Hundread going on during the same time, should be shot. People always said, "What a great opportunity for young players to be given an opportunity to play in the first team in the 50-over format, so they get experience whilst the big guns play in the Hundred..". Yes, like Mousley and Bethel who get that experience, become better player - AND THEN THEY ARE STOLEN AWAY FROM THEIR COUNTIES TO PLAY ELSEWHERE. Senseless.

Nice innings from Mo though I do wonder how Leicestershire got to within one game of going through, thought their bowling was like Worcestershire's, full of trundlers, Hull, a huge run-up only to deliver at medium pace. Poor middle overs from us, 29 runs from 5 overs from 10-14, not sure if Moeen was playing for his 100 but we have to stop getting stuck and letting ordinary bowlers just get knocked about for singles when we should push on, thought he and Bethel just didn't try to move it along quickly enough and to not make 200 was not a good effort even though we did win. The 'Benjamin Situation' is now beyond a joke, he had a good platform to come in to tonight but does not look like he can time the ball at all. In a tight situation in a knock-out game, he will struggle. Burgess could still get in the side but bat down at 7. I doubt he would let anyone down. Also, a shout out to Miles, he gets some flack but bowled well early on tonight and he is one of the best fast-bowling fielders I have seen.

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Are we guaranteed a home tie? I think we are.
Yes, only Lancashire can overhaul our points total and the worst we can do is finish 2nd which means we get a home tie. Not that it makes much difference in T20. Always believe what Neil Carter said, if you finish top, you should get a place automatically in finals day, much the same as in the 50 over competition.