Start delayed at Edgbaston. Unlikely to be much play today or tomorrow.

With little prospect of a result, will Bresnan be allowed to rest up for this one to preserve the 100% record?

typical english weather !!!



why don't England play their home games in Toulouse ?

With the Hit & Giggle starting today who are people tipping to win it?
I will go for Surrey or Essex with someone unusual like Derbyshire being a dark horse.

Couple of quick T20 questions....
1) which team has made most Finals Day appearances?
2) which team has made most Finals Day appearances without winning it?
3) which teams have never made it to Finals Day yet?...clue...there are only 3 who haven't got there yet.

Not sure but here are my guesses

1) Leicestershire

2) Lancashire

3) Derbyshire, Worcestershire and Yorkshire


Can not agree on Derbyshire as they are good at 4 day cricket but very limited at the one day game (though in Tom Knight have a very good one day spinner). Saw them against Warwickshire the other day and the Bears are my idea of potential winners as they look a very strong outfit and in Darren Maddy have someone who knows the 20-20 game down to a tee. Should come 2nd at worst to Somerset in their Group though can see them topping the section.

Correct, correct and orrect! Well done.

Will Warwickshire be OK with no Bell or Trott in their batting line-up? And do they have anyone explosive lower down the order to win them a game? That is the one area that Lancs haven't improved in and another reason we won't win it.

smart !

question - before Brendan Nash, who was the last white cricketer to play for the West Indies ?

I think its a case now of England players not really playing county cricket so not sure Warwickshire will miss players who never really turn out for them anyway (at least after the first few weeks of a season), as for an explosive hitter the jury is out but only because so far they have not really needed to wag the tail in one day cricket as they are winning without losing many wickets but winning breads confidence and they are doing the business on all fronts at present but then I've probably given them the kiss of death tipping them up

Pass lol

good question that !

difficult without resorting to wiki etc

Does Larry Gomes count as white??

certainly not sir !!!

if he's white then i'm a chinaman !



ok - a clue

this guy was a wicketkeeper/batsman and played a few tests in England when the regular keeper was out of action - I watched him play so it's in my lifetime and i'm 58

Nottinghamshire were tipped up to win it by the Racing Post yesterday and looked good yesterday though hard to believe how bad Leicestershire were and perhaps Derby/Yorks/Lancs have a sniff of qualificationwith up to 3 coming out of that group under the new format.

If Yorkshire bowl well enough then the addition of Miller to the batting could add some real fireworks. Just worry about our ability to take vital early wickets.

Stuffed Cleckheaton last night in a warm-up, therefore we're going to win it oh dear me yes

Andrew Gale has been saying you mob are better prepared than ever before after having a full week to get ready. We all remember one of his last gobbing's off to the press cmoing back to bite him on the arris though dont we?!

Couldn't be any less well prepared than last year, where IIRC we had three consecutive Championship away games then the first T20 game up at Headingley the day after finishing a four-day game at Hove.

Dreadful news about Tom Maynard

Absolutely awful.

The death of Tom Maynard is simply tragic. Details emerging of the circumstances suggest it was a senseless and rather bizarre accident.

I was lucky enough to see a lot of Tom batting since he moved from Glamorgan to Surrey before the start of last season. He was a brilliant prospect. An obvious future Test batsman, with the all round game to flourish in the limited overs stuff too. Just turned 23, he should have been one of the next generation of England middle order batsman along with the likes of Bairstow and Taylor, who will eventually succeed Trott, Pietersen & Bell.

terrible news

Absolute tragedy.
Only saw him play "live" once and he scored 103 not out off 68 balls for Glamorgan at Old Trafford. Wonderful talent.

Gayle storms over the Oval.

Awful but even harder to take as he should never even have been in London as Glamorgan should never have sacked his dad as coach, and thus making him want to move on, but that is just one of the stupid decisions they have made since going "big" time and getting test matches in Cardiff whilst letting the team go to pot.

I'm not sure he had the natural talent Matthew did but both were great to watch and just a real shame and needless tragedy.

Lots of hoo-hah over England resting players for the final ODI, especially Bresnan who has only played two internationals on his home ground.
How are we all feeling about this rotation policy?