Tight early overs

Gloucestershire 19 for 0 (8 overs). Spearman 10, Porterfield 7.

Tahir and Woakes have opened the bowling and bowled accurately although perhaps it's a little disappointing that more balls have not got past the bat. The first boundaries, one for each batsman, came in the eighth over, from Woakes.

Darren Maddy's misfortune is being discussed in the press tent and has just provoked an anecdote about a frigid midget with a rigid digit.