Essex: 154 & 316-7 (108.1 overs)
Nottinghamshire: 180 (47.0 overs)

Yorkshire: 425 (124.5 overs)
Warwickshire: 253 & 14-0 (5.0 overs)

Essex going well 2nd time round (touch wood) and hopefully can hang around long enough to set Notts 350+ which will hopefully be too much. Yorkies looking good for the win

unless the rain gods can weave their magic

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7 down, 3 to go. Come on Essex!!!

Instead, he managed to spray Jim Troughton's nose all over various parts of LS6. Got one between the lid and the grille at around the 94mph mark.

Part 1 completed with Essex thrashing Notts.
Part 2 underway with rain forcing the players off at Headingley with Warwickshire 21 ahead with 7 (maybe only 6) wickets in hand

All we need to do now is teach him to aim at the little wooden things behind the batsmen and he might just turn out to be a worthwhile overseas player.

If only Yorkshire had been able to get Ryan Harris, their original choice prior to his call up by the Australian national team. I think we saw enough in the ODIs recently to suggest he'd have been a real handful in English conditions.

Edit - Warwickshire now 95 in front with 4 wickets remaining (providing Troughton can bat again, which is dependant on the swelling around his eye going down enough to get a helmet on). If he can't then the current pair of Carter and Clarke represent the last real resistance you would think.

Is it just the typically pessimistic Yorkshireman in me that can see these two batting out most the afternoon session and Yorkshire being left chasing 150 plus to win it?

England's greatest ever all rounder is still proving to be a pain in the harris for Yorks

Warks 7 down now (maybe

. Clarke still there though on 87.

Warks 360/7 now. Draw looks very likley now

I dunno!

Warks 371 all out.

Yorkshire needing 200 to win in a couple of hours.

Do-able.

Warks all out for 371. Clarke again not out.

Yorks need 200 to win.

You'd hope so. The pitch seems to have got better as the games gone on.

Yorks 9/1

Lyth gone for 1.

51-2

Mcgrath gone.

Still in the balance, 24 overs to get 149.

Come on Tahir, spin some magic please!



Gary Keedy is back in action for Lancashire today and has already taken 3 wickets in his first 4 overs. Add to that Parry's 3 wickets for the England Lions too.

yorks 100/2 off 23 overs

Anthony McGrath is playing against us?

161/4

39 off 41 required.

He didn't say fattest.

Looks like Warwickshire have given up the ghost in this one...cheers you Midland tw....

He has a Test batting average of 40 and a bowling average of 14. Find me an English all-rounder with a higher batting average and a lower bowling average.

Ricki Clarke surley?

Gone all quiet in here has it?!

Hopefully we'll be out of the T20 now and can concentrate on the important stuff.

Not really sure what happened last night, we were all set to post a really big score then just seemed to let the innings die out, we never really recovered from Moore's early runs and it was obvious we'd lose from a few overs into Lancashire's response.

I lose more interest in T20 as each year comes by, last night we were surrounded by a ridiculous number of bell-ends ("supporters" of both counties), it's just not cricket.

It was horrendous wasn't it? Whereabouts were you sat? We were in A Stand but couldn't take it after the first innings and went to the top balcony where it was a) half empty and b) occupied by older people who were just enjoying the cricket and not the beer.

Cracking win in the end though after 9-10 overs of the Dark Side innings we were more than a bit worried.

We were on the upper tier of F Stand.

I was there with my mate who is one of you lot and we'd been chatting throughout the game in a civilised manner with a bit of gentle banter, after a few overs of the Lancs innings three lads seemed to finally twig that I was a Yorkshireman and then after every run would turn round shouting things like "easy" "who are ya" and "great single" in my face, often accompanied by a gobful of saliva flying everywhere, when I popped to the bar a guy who was in a group from Leeds sat a row or two behind me came over to me and said "if you want to smack that lad do it, if it kicks off we'll back you up all the way".

It was a kind offer but I politely declined!

And behold, the bad side of attracting new fans to cricket. County cricket needs T20 as it was a dying breed with just the 40/50 over stuff and the first class, but add beer and it gives the idiots in the football off-season an excuse to cause some new trouble.

Anyway, lost to Derbyshire again! FFS!