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Most nations would say the same about English green seamers. Teams know the score before they tour, but few have the players to master hostile conditions these days.

Lived in one, worked in three. Family originating in three or four further places within our borders too.

That would mean you have to sack the current board of directors first...

West Indies leading by nine after two completed innings on day one sums up how this series has gone.

Found it at my local Everard's gaff in Derbyshire. Assume it's in all of their pubs as it's their 175th anniversary beer.

Er, he did choose - and continues to choose - to run it. He's not sat in the director's box at gunpoint. He is, however, gleefully front and centre any time we're doing alright on the pitch.

Those people shouldn't be running historic institutions adored by hundreds of thousands of people then.

That should have been when the alarm bells were ringing for everyone.

Haven't seen it anywhere for ages.

Tiger Triple Gold. The best limited edition pint Everard's have ever done.

Just on a Kent Brewery Old Skool best bitter in the King Charles I, Kings Cross, before the train home.

Yeah, mobs committing insurrection are famous for knowing where to draw the line.

Nazi salutes are sound now because common sense

The Cricketer are reporting we're splitting up the captaincy this season. https://www.thecricketer.com/Topics/county-cricket-premium/leicestershire_captaincy_options_2025.html?t=638729611956666808

Give us a shout if you opt to head over on a weekday.

Any club who'd achieved the things listed would still be challenging for the same trophies regularly if they were run competently. Top is incapable of leading a reset, hence why we're in this position now instead.

The dream of us ever being a club consistently competing for trophies has died with King Power's short-sightedness. I just want a sustainable club my daughter can grow up supporting now, with a majority shareholder who will start treating fans with respect, whatever division we're in.

50+1.

Fixtures didn't fall brilliantly but we've managed to get tickets for... Duisburg v Oberhausen (Friday): Repeat visit for me and only managed to get seated tickets (terrace was sold out), but should be a spicy local derby. Bochum v Freiburg (Saturday): Relegation Friendship drowning our sorrows together. Leverkusen v Hoffenheim (Saturday): Sorted via European Football Weekends on the away terrace. €15 to watch the German champions... LCFC ticket office, take note. Not a fan of either club, but a new ground and no doubt a few pre/post-match Kölsches in Cologne to round the weekend off. Also, match tickets mean we should only have to pay for one public transport journey while we're over there - and even then, half of that journey will be free of charge.

Also on ARY Digital (Sky 748).

Nah, come on. It's a swindle.

Anderson to Budinger at 11.01am. Yikes.

He should make mincemeat of Div 2 batters, especially with so much of the season taking part scandalously early. Got to rate his commitment to wanting to play.

Even this could be turned into a league in some way. Double round robin but points only given for overall series results to help nations for whom hosting longer series isn't commercially viable - say you give 7 for a series win, 3 each for a drawn series and a point for the losing side if the margin of victory was one game (2-1 or 3-2). Agree with the @Tommy Fresh World Cup idea, using County Championship style bonus points as deciders in the event of draws. You'd probably always have to hold it here for it to be remotely commercially viable though. I don't even think the two division idea is terrible, but we all know it'll be executed poorly as a stich-up between the Greedy Three, the fixture list will become boring and, eventually, fans will start voting with their feet when theyre being asked to shell out daft money to watch the same tourists every other year.

Yeah, think I'll be back in tomorrow barring any further rain but I'll be on alert for that sound coming through! Happened to my boss this morning.