Stripes and a crescent moon

Tea. Warwickshire 159 for 4 (64 overs). Troughton 42, Frost 40.

A solid 81 without loss in the session. The sort of worthy, unspectacular work of which successful promotion campaigns are built.

The new Twenty20, from 2010, will involve two leagues of ten comprising the 18 counties plus two overseas sides.

"They will **** Twenty20 up by the end of it, they'll ruin the product," a sage in the press tent has just commented.