Jelly

Gloucestershire 46 for 1 (16 overs). Porterfield 25, Marshall 19.

Carter and Trott have taken up the attack. It's quite a lot to ask of Trott to be manning the seam attack after just an hour on the first day but he started with a tidy maiden. Martin's first first-class spell for the Bears: 6-2-15-0.

It has clouded over. A helicopter has circled the ground three or four times, perhaps trying to find a way of hooking off that inexplicable 'd' which is still there, silent, ominous and brooding, like 'Vain' from Stephen Donaldson's 'Wounded Land'.