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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 .

Indeed a good day. Holland did a real opener's job and Dawson did well. Some quick runs from Brown and Fuller at the end to get us 4 batting points. It's just a bit of a concern that our early batting is so brittle against decent swing bowling, there was absolutely no need whatsoever for Vince and Gubbins to play those shots yesterday. Organ is too green and needs to be replaced . Hopefully we'll be able to go on and win by Thursday. Don't think Surrey will win, probably just get 5 batting point and the draw, so we'll make up 9 points on them if all goes to plan.

Well that was a vain hope. Hants 24/2. Warks' bowlers getting more out of the wicket than we did.

Warks 217 all out. Not bad considering that the wicket looks pretty flat. They made a few runs after the fall of the 7 wicket though, couple of dropped chances, pretty difficult ones apparently; 5 fer for Abbott again. Hoping we get a good start and don't get out to dubious looking shots as some of the Warks batters did.

So unless we've ditched one of the Aussies before final's day, Abbas having time off would seem purely economic. Most other counties seem to do about the same anyway. Not Surrey though seemingly, the instant Pollard got injured they replaced him with another overseas players. Didn't do them much good for their last couple of T20 games though. Hants bowling first today, Warks won the toss, must fancy the wicket then.

Bear's NRR comes from 2 monster wins against Northants and Worcs. Both sides only scored about 80 whereas the Bears made big scores, obviously batting first. They beat Northants by about 120 in what looks like a 16 over game and Worcs by about 140 in a regular 20 over affair. No wonder they haf such a positive NRR. The rest of their games the scores look fairly even. We have every chance as long as our openers get us off to a decent start and Wheal and Fuller don't concede as many runs as they did yesterday. What's the score with Ellis? Was he rested, injured or some sort of availabily problem with the Australian board ?

We'll be 4th, play against the Bears at Egbaston in the quarters. Essex are playing Glamorgan I think and even though Somerset play Surrey our NRR is too low to hope to go past them, even if they lose. Unless of course Somerset get a real drubbing, but I don't see that happening. Still Hants are something of the form team of the moment, won 8 out of the last 9.

Fuller saves us again !

Wicket is obviously a bit of a dog , difficult to bat on. Glos now 6 down and behind the rate.

Oh dear, what a pity, never mind. We can get shot of the two aussies and get another overseas player in for the Championship matches.

Probably because the current spate of cases are due to the BA4 and 5 sub-variants, the science bods say previous infection and vaccinations don't have much effect on those. Another "present" from South Africa apparently.

Wow, what a disaster. Chose to bat first and we'll be lucky to make a hundred.

Looks like Kent are going to hold out for a draw against Surrey, so 16 points would have put us..........well I suppose there's no point going on about it now, especially as there's no sort of review process for travesties like some of the umpiring in our game.