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Excellent from the young middle order batters. On another note, Brave look like they might struggle again. Vince out first ball and they're chasing about 150 again.

Don't see us winning this one. Probably should have batted first.

Probably a few more than Hants expected when they asked Derbys to bat first this morning. Getable though, not much in the wicket apart from a bit of bounce with the new ball. Some of the bowling was a bit wayward at times though.

Miracle win. Excellent from Campbell, Currie less wayward in his second spell, not at all bad from the part-time spinners.

We didn't score anywhere near enough and with the crap bowling I'm seeing this is just a formality for Northants. Currie giving them 2 wides an over.

Not so good today. Hants 132/6 after 25 overs. Pitch looks to be shockingly bad, as for the stream , I'd not doubt it if someone told me they are using a 56K dial-up modem.

Ground looks absolutely baked.

Abbott and Barker in the group for tomorrow's match. Holland absent on international duties. Hope they both actually play and don't just fancy a day out on the Isle of Wight.

I think that some franchises have had to recrute more county players than originally planned. I've not really studied all the line ups for The Hundred but some of them seem a bit weak to me. The Fire looked like a simple mish-mash of players drawn from localish counties (and nowhere near up to standard to boot). I suppose it's because there are always international series going on somewhere or other in the world, thus reducing the number of players available for gig cricket.

Weatherley is with the Brave. All those missing from the regular line ups, Abbott,Barker and Abbas excepted, are in The Hundred .

Bit of a scratch side for the One Day Cup match tomorrow. Seems to be a totally devalued competition. Looks like Abbott, Barker and Abbas aren't playing any one day cricket for us this season. Still there's Gubbins, Brown, Holland, Organ and Donald from the regulars plus some of the younger chaps who've played some of the T20 games.

Can't see why Fuller would want to drop down to D2 cricket, unless he's figuring on limiting himself to white ball only. That said it would be bad news for Hants if he did. We'd need another all formats allrounder.

Ex Hampshire player to boot. Billy Taylor.

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.