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Just been reading the BBC report on that game. Seem to think that the two Warks top scorers were victims of iffy umpiring decisions . Don't know who were the umpires but something has to be done about these situations sooner or later. Div 1 Championship games are serious stuff nowadays and what some ex batter or bowler thinks the ball might have done or not done isn't really a judgement criteria. Anyone know what sort of percentages of reviewed decisions are subsequently changed ?

I watched a few overs of the Surrey game after the Hants game had ended. Warks bowlers were all bowling far too short to extremely experienced batters. It was just a free hit every over. Anyway we need to win all the remaining games and get nigh on maximum batting points and hope that Surrey lose one or draw two. Might not happen that way though.

Surrey have made a good start as well. Don't see them not winning again. Wheal not getting a bowl as of yet in Surrey's second innings, what's up with that because Norwell has been tonked a bit.

The wicket looks much better. Hants not making much progress, maybe the new ball will give us a boost in a couple of overs time.

Think we're heading for a first innings deficit here. Pitch looks unplayable, outfield seems to have slowed up a bit since yesterday as well.

Catastrophic. Hants 5/2 and only 4 balls bowled after the rain interval, before the second rain interval. Not a good period to be playing on crappy outgrounds.

Yorks innings wrapped up in about 10 minutes this morning. 6 fer for Abbott again. Pity we let them get to 159 though, still, not a mountainous total to surpass.

Balls...............they go soft very easily apparently and getting wickets with them is difficult. That said, the number of runs scored by Yorks from edges behind was somewhat annoying. The occasional decent shot and then a couple of streaky 4s behind the wicket. Comes from an attacking field I expect. Raining again now by the looks of it.

Still , the 2 wickets before tea have made it a bit better. A lot of streaky runs from Bess and Fraine though.

Don't know. Hants not hanging about though. What a bore the Glos commentators are, chauvinistic and boring. At least Hants have bipartisan commentary.

Making extremely hard work of this. We might even be throwing it away. 3 dropped catches and frankly the bowling isn't all that great.

A lot of dropped catches this morning.

Didn't know there is a salary cap. How much is it? Anyway there are always "creative payroll" systems to take care of salary caps. Sort of like Saracens I expect.

One of them must be qualified as an English player I suppose. Don't know any details though. Perhaps one of them is like Holland with multiple nationalities.

Stubborn resistance from Glos middle order in their second innings. Aided no doubt by the light which compelled us to use the spinners for most of the session after tea. Hants probably don't need to mess about too much this morning, need to break their 5th wicket stand quickly because I don't think the weather forecast is any too great from about 3 onwards.

Bad light and drizzle now. That short day yesterday won't do us any favours. As for Organ he looks OK when the bowling is as crap as Glos but against decent seamers he looks shaky.

Ah but that's probably because they've been shot or stabbed rather than heat exhaustion.

They're only effective on Harmer special wickets. Strange, heat restrictions at Cheltenham, rain stopped play at Taunton.

Short day today, good start though. Glos live stream very odd, the angle of the camera is such that the non-striking batter blocks the line of view to the actual batter , so you can't really see the shots that are played or any lbw or caught behind incidents.. Back to the short day, never seen that before so how does it work viz a viz bonus points etc ? Means 24 overs less in a day.

Drat! Vince bowled for 5.

And there you go. Just need to keep them in reasonable check from here and we should be OK.

It all depends, Somerset are 2 down in the power play. If we could get Roussouw before he makes a shedload we'll be quids in.

doesn't look to be much of a wicket for average seamers at Edgbaston today. Lancs getting absolutely hammered.

Obviously the same sort of Skate mentality in Yorkshire. Bess has gifted Surrey the game by getting tonked for a packet.

Aie!! Surrey chasing a streaky win, needing 5 or so an over, might get them too. Still they're losing wickets pretty regularily and might give it up if they get to 7 down .