Lionator

Ultimately Notts need to win the game and if they lose they’ll be out (which would be funny). So I really doubt they’re going to go out all guns blazing to try and overtake our net run rate, that would be at the bottom of their priorities. Same with other teams.

At the very least just go and see your GP and be completely honest. When you’re in the pits it’s easy to see no way out, and the path isn’t straight or linear, it’s about momentum and making small changes that eventually flower into bigger ones over time.

ChatGPT says that if Notts could catch us, they’d need to win by 151 runs or more batting first, that’s the kind of margins we’re looking at.

Yeah Notts would have to win by loads to overturn that deficit, seems unlikely. Great achievement by the lads really.

Warwickshire and Glos doing us a massive favour by the look of things.

There’s pretty much zero chance we don’t qualify even before today but first place would give us such an advantage as our semi opponents would’ve played 2 times before we play the semi next Sunday. It would be a shame to throw top spot away now.

Every innings poor Hamza has had to play for us so far has been a rebuild job.

Thomas has said he will only play with 6 bowlers in case anyone gets injured and that’s that. Which is stubborn but also shows the squad lacks depth. Fortunately most of our bowlers can bat.

How are they getting out stumped? Absolutely stupid batting as per.

Legit! He’s a fraud whichever way you look at it!

Hope this guy becomes senator.

On the other hand, we’re going to be the only non-international ground county to qualify for the knockouts, the likes of Surrey and Notts have far greater depth than clubs with small squads like ours. Pretty much every other ‘small’ county has struggled. The ball has nipped around a lot at the start of innings. Plus we have our stupid no.3 situation. Other teams bar Lancashire have all struggled early on versus us too.

Leeds to finish top and Wigan to win the play offs.

Who would attack Turkey though? Probably the most likely is Isr and that certainly wouldn’t trigger article 5. Erdogan and Putin are buddies so you can rule Russia out. I also highly doubt Pakistan would make a first move against India given India’s military strength in comparison.

While mathematically possible, unless there’s a complete catastrophe, I can’t see a pathway where we don’t either.

Of course! But 7 games in, net run rate swings are much smaller. It would have to be a genuinely horrific loss for it to swing that much. I feel like only Somerset have a realistically chance of overtaking our run rate. Basically what Bert said above haha

I can’t see a way that we don’t. Somerset and Lancashire have to play each other so one of them won’t be able to catch us given our net run rate. Surrey won’t catch us either due to net run rate. A win on Sunday will more or less guarantee 1st.

Nothing makes me miss home more than hearing the stench and benno lot singing about Ben Mike’s Willy size over the stream. What a result though, seems like we’re going to be the only non international venue county to qualify.

This is tense, 48 needed with 4 wickets left. They’re gonna need part timers to bowl a few overs too.

Yeah if they lose and we win, we’ll be through unless something crazy happens with the net run rate.

Notts and Lancs will both probably win from here but without massively improving their NRR. A win here will pretty much guarantee top 3 but we’ll still need to win Sunday to get top spot.

Such as? Aside from USA, France and UK, Turkey is pretty much the most important NATO ally given where it’s located and defence spending. Saudi is basically a NATO ally, if anything it’ll just help prevent an escalation between India and Pakistan again.

Thought Davies might be an option for Patel’s replacement as he’s out of contract there

Souttar is a good choice, and not really tainted by the last few years.

Odd decision from Warwickshire to bat fast. You always want to be chasing under lights right?