Harpenden Fox

Cruising along, Turner looking supreme, and Green follows Cox in playing an utterly senseless shot. Just push one and give the form man the strike

It’s been a spell of Boswellian proportions. You need to be of a certain age to get that reference

I read today that when they dig up a wicket, it takes three years before it's playable at elite level

I hope Ben Mike has a new career lined up

Around the time HS2 opens

indeed it was. But as you know most Forest and Cov fans don't know what the internet is.

They had a full week off in the middle of that schedule. Even the best scheduler cannot predict droughts.

Is Rudkin director of cricket as well?

This would be like the injury time loss to Spurs

He’s not. He’s a very decent player. But he’s having a very poor tournament thus far

A humiliating performance on every level. Derbyshire way more committed and competent than us

What’s worse: the bowling, the batting or the fielding?

This is very sad to watch

Leicestershire women won at Lords. Given the almost total absence of victories produced by our male and female football and cricket teams in 2026, rejoice and celebrate the miracle that is an away win!

We’ve been behind since the very first ball of this game I’m afraid. Poor bowling, fielding and batting. Apart from that all good.

I rather like them

4381 survey completes. It’s a decent number, over a thousand more than last season, but it still baffles me that any City supporter wouldn’t complete this now. I hear the ‘Club won’t listen’ argument, but that’s no excuse for apathy. You can still complete the survey today and forward the link to others to do so, please.

The opener for the seconds, Gumbs, is scoring runs for fun it would seem. Holland is too high at 3. Might we give Gumbs his debut?

Our 3 and 4 averaging 22 apiece. Clearly the weak links

Remarkable that in that period of the first half yesterday when we seemed to have about five shots in a few seconds, deep in Blackburn’s area, Patson wasn’t on the end of any of them. Clearly a lovely fella, but an abject disaster.

Followers of our women’s team may like to complete the survey too, if they haven’t already

We have to try. It’s okay to try, right?

Totally. That half an hour made them and destroyed us

I think the tactic is to get 180 ahead and give ourselves 60 overs to try and rattle them

Would at least be something to see Page and Aluko start.