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The 'Demon of Wales' has figures of 2/2 off 5 overs at lunch!

Mulder has just picked up his first IPL gig, signing for SRH in place of the injured Brydon Carse. Good luck to the fella, hope he does well.

Great to see Rishi extending his stay with the Foxes for another two years, he must have had other decent offers.

Having looked to be on the cusp of finally cracking test cricket, cementing his place in their first choice XI etc., Wiaan Mulder fractured his right hand middle finger while batting today against Sri Lanka. Trust it will be fully healed by the time the Foxes next play Sussex

Shame about Josh missing out on the test tour to Pakistan due to his quad injury. Oi England, stop breaking our bowlers!!

Hull out of ODIs: "England have also confirmed that Josh Hull will play no part in the ODI series, after sustaining a minor quad injury on Test debut at The Oval last week. A team spokesperson suggested that his absence is only precautionary, and that his participation in October's three-match Test tour to Pakistan is not under threat."

We'll do well to make 40 at this rate 3-3 FFS!!!

Currie and Cox are back for the crunch game against the racists: "Ben Cox and Scott Currie both return after missing out on the previous two red-ball squads. Peter Handscomb has flown home to Australia, while Alex Green also drops out of the 13. Ben Mike (side) and Matt Salisbury (calf) will step up their respective recoveries with the Second XI this week. Ben Green remains with Somerset ahead of Finals Day, while Josh Hull is on Test duty with England. Leicestershire: Ahmed, Budinger, Cox+, Currie, Holland, Hill*, Kimber, Patel, Rahane, Scriven, Trevaskis, Wood, Wright."

Alex Green won't be featuring in the next couple of games, he's been selected by the England Under 19s

"I'm Martin Jarvis, and So Is My Wife"

As opposed to the fictional island in ITV's 'Take Me Out'?

Nottinghamshite will be offering Evans a couple of years after today's knock!

2024 First-class bowling averages from today's XI (Wright and Wood n/a). We probably need to take 20 wickets to win the match - 7 bowlers with 27 between them all season. IG Holland 2024-2024 3 5 96.0 22 274 5 4/64 54.80 2.85 115.2 - - - - TAR Scriven 2024-2024 8 9 170.0 25 594 9 3/30 66.00 3.49 113.3 - - - - Rehan Ahmed 2024-2024 5 5 91.4 6 431 6 2/64 71.83 4.70 91.6 - - - - LPJ Kimber 2024-2024 10 10 72.5 4 336 4 1/21 84.00 4.61 109.2 - - 9 - L Trevaskis 2024-2024 3 4 64.0 4 292 3 1/15 97.33

He signed a two-year deal at the end of the 2022 season so with Holland now here, Budinger may be on his way. Evans certainly putting himself in the shop window after a brilliant century yesterday.

Funnily enough the same thing was being said by another idiosyncratic, non-textbook leg spinning all-rounder c.12 years ago, who was coming in as low as number 9 for this country. If Rehan's career trajectory get anywhere close to following Steve Smith's (sandpaper aside), we may just take it.

Josh Hull has made the squad for next month's England T20 (x3) and ODI (x5) series against Australia

No Hill in the Seconds team just starting today: ST Evans*, SG Budinger, HJ Swindells†, JLJ Dunk, NV Gorantla, JS Madan, RI Walker, SB Wood, CJC Wright, NJ Bowley, AM Green, A Farooq

If I was Hill, I'd be up in Loughborough tomorrow trying to find some batting form playing for the Seconds in their game against Notts.

So no Walker or Budinger in the final XI. Could be a very tricky first session under the clouds, shame we lost the toss even with two twiddlers in the team.

Team news No Cox or Chris Wright

Couple of things picked up from today's TF podcast. These next two CC games are the last for Handscomb before he returns to Oz in preparation for their domestic season. On the injury front, it sounds like Ben Mike is out for the rest of the campaign and Salisbury is still a doubt. Everyone else should be available.

It's not the same as football, we are expected to pay exactly the same as his parent county right down to appearance and bonus money; it's in the player loan section of the regulations.

Two years after leaving the county, spinner Nathan Bowley is back playing in our 2nd XI clash with Glamorgan. Rishi Patel opened the innings and made a brisk 45 from 54 balls. No sign of Rehan, nor Mike (presumably still injured).

Only the on-loan Scott Currie played more twice out of the five of them, just ridiculous.

Didn't want to play Glamorgan anyway (with apologies to Andy Murray)