Moderately jumbiflic
Warwickshire 84 for 4 (34 overs). Troughton 11, Frost 8.
For those of you who have not frequented Uxbridge Cricket Club, it is a pretty ground with trees, mainly firs, standing tall around two boundaries, and a rather ramshackle but quaint pavilion situated square on to the pitch. The outfield is a bit rough and very undulating and there are two blocks of bright blue temporary seating, somewhat incongruous to the sylvan setting.
The ground is moderately jumbiflic, although never tranquil due to the constant grind of traffic emanating from the main road immediately behind afore-mentioned firs. The arm of a big red crane waits motionless, reaching into the ground from an adjacent building site, poised above the scorers' tent as if ready, at any moment, to lower an enormous celestial sugar-cube into David Wainwright's cup of tea.
Troughton and Frost retrenching. Could be in for an afternoon of gritty fare.
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Brian Halford - Brian Halford’s look at Edgbaston.
GRITTY STUFF IS WHAT WE NEED
I hope we can get a decent cup of tea tomorrow,I may bring cake!
Powell and Poonia have undertaken another orgy of runs..... two for the chop come the meeting of the 2008 Hire and Fire Committee !
Too right Warley. Theyve had enough chances. Give Parker a proper go.
The traffic noise was n't enough to stop one gentleman from falling asleep before lunch as he sat under the trees on the side of the ground adjoining the road.
I noticed too that, bizarrely, one elderly chap was actually sitting in the hedge on that side of the ground - a position from which the traffic noise was at its absolute maximum. Strange.