Ultra

Saw a piece on SSN saying that Stoke have narrowed the pitch for league games. Have a look next time they're on TV.

Never has the chorus been more apt..

Statement on Radio Leicester in the morning (around 7.10 am according to Twitter..)

County to stick with selection policy If we were able to retain our top players, this attitude might make sense. But as things stand, our decline towards minor county status looks like continuing..

It wasn't that long ago that the fans (or at least the members) did own the club.

I bet Monty would've ended up with his best bowling figures of the season against us, if he'd been playing..

The problem is, the likes of Pietersen and Flintoff are injury-prone enough as it is without forcing them to play more county matches. There would have quite rightly been a national outcry if Strauss or another key England player had been forced out of an Ashes test because of an injury sustained in a county fixture. That's the reason central contracts were introduced, in order to manage the workload of international players.

Nadal & Federer may have something to say on that.. So did I..

Richard not Raymond..

I don't think it ever pretended to be a factual account of WW2. But it is an agreeable way to spend two and a half hours, and a welcome return to form by QT.

Two wins in two days! That rounds up an excellent sporting weekend.

All credit to him for being open and honest. We look forward to a time when his counterparts in football can do likewise.

Shameful losing in that way. Hop we're better on Tuesday in the floodlit (Sky?) match against Kent.

Depends on how much of the season McDonald plays. New, Cobb and Taylor will become more consistent with experience. But that still leaves another seven places in the team to be filled by players who may or may not be good enough for county cricket. Unless we manage to find a sugar daddy from somewhere, it could stay grim for a long while to come.

Absolutely hammered at Edgbaston today. I had an invite to go but turned it down. No Nixon, Ackerman or Dippenaar in the team. We seemed extremely uncompetitive.