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OK, perhaps "about done" was a bit OTT but Abbas has looked far less effective than the Lancashire seamers in this game. When there's nothing in the wicket for Abbas and Abbott nowadays they look very laboured and you just don't see the dangerosity from their bowling. They're not beating the batters very often and it's just really plugging away over after over. We need younger men, fired up with something still to prove. Still think we've got this wrong again on this showing, but let's wait and see a couple more games. Our openers make me shudder though, there again early days but I've not seen anything different from the last couple of seasons as of yet, but it's two outings so early days. Prest looked good though, Gubbins and Vince wasteful of good starts once again. I hope they're far more cautious today.

Yep, Gubbins the culprit, normally a pretty good catcher but this time he sort of fell forward after catching the ball and it sort of fell out of his hands. Hope we can eventually expect better from these openers becaue in this match it doesn't look at all great. Hope we can get Turner in soon because Abbas and Abbott look about done, apart from the odd good ball that is. Still back to the hand-made Duke balls after this game I think. More seam to work with.

Looks tough going in the field, dropping Jennings on about 30 didn't really help. Similar pattern everywhere, probably the passivity of these Kookaburra balls.

Ah, you get 8 points for a rained-off match, didn't know that. Notts in a bit of trouble against Essex though, awful batting.

No play for us today again. So just the points for a draw. Essex are making inroads into the Notts batting and they may well win. We could be nigh on 20 points behind from the outset. Perhaps the ECB should reflect on the value of seriously rain affected matches.

Cock up in the season planning department then. The ECB shouldn't plan games north of Watford Gap before mid-May.

Great start to the season. Been watching Warks-Worcs, Worcs going along pretty easily after being put in. Outfield looks soggy though.

Well, when Saints were dominating in the first half I thought that Ipswich didn't look like a promotion chasing side at all. Second half was very different.

Leicester have a bit of a scoring crisis, t'is sure. But the reffing is pretty poor.

Did Turner get any game time in the pre-season ? Didn't notice his name on the score-cards. Then again there were a lot of overs washed out once again.

I see that Crane has been loaned to Glamorgan, all formats for the coming season. Probably just as well, hardly played for us last season.

Vince having a not so great winter, average in the Big Bash and not better in the Gulf T20. Too much cricket perhaps.

Ah the cricinfo table isn't accurate then.

So the points deduction cost us second place in the end. Even for a match that we lost. Do Essex ever get points deductions for the turnip patches that they turn out to favour their spinner? Anyway good end to the season.

Don't see that happening at all. Maybe someone from another county.