Apples

Warwickshire 405 for 9. Frost 141, Anyon 2.

Tahir is trapped lbw by Hardinges for 37 in the second over of the morning to end a Bears record ninth-wicket stand against Gloucestershire of 87, Tahir and Frost displacing Messers Rotherham and Smart (1921) from the record books.

Have you noticed how much more difficult it has become lately to take stickers off apples? They used to slip straight off but now they cling on for dear life, often coming off only after much scraping and in bits at a time.