September 2008 Archives

Play will begin at 11am and the day will comprise three two-hour sessions.

The start will be delayed due not to the mist, which has largely cleared, but to dew. The outfield is, allegedly, dangerously wet.

Not all bad news though. The public address system is supplying us with a range of options for offloading money at the club shop.

Good morning ladies and gentlemen. It is a damp, misty morning at Edgbaston and the mist has a bit of clearing to do if play is to start on time.

Isn't fog and mist great though? All cosy and romantic.

Close of play: Warwickshire 55 for 3 (21.3 overs). Frost 29, Troughton 1.

The covers are going on the pitch, accompanied by the plangent screeching of seagulls overhead.

Where else, I suppose, would they be?

Warwickshire 52 for 3 (19.2 overs). Frost 27, Troughton 0.

They are off for bad light again, this time, I suspect, for keeps.

Trott, on 7, fell lbw for the second time in the match. It's almost as though the nation's umps have got it in for him...

Warwickshire 38 for 2 (13 overs) Frost 20, Trott 0.

Shantry swings one in and Poonia, on 16, gets forward but not far enough forward to dissuade Jeremy Lloyds from his view that the ball would have struck the wicket.

"Come on, come on, let's have another notch in the bedpost now..." a Glamorgan fielder has just bellowed.

Warwickshire 37 for 1 (11 overs). Poonia 16, Frost 20.

Bad light has stopped play although, with 24 overs left, possibly not for keeps.

Just popped into the press box - John Hampshire, umpire at a rather famous Warwickshire v Glamorgan fixture: 1994, Lara's debut, Bears 657 for 7, Twose 277 not out, Croft 2 for 173.

A fly is circling above the head of the Times correspondent.

Warwickshire 19 for 1 (6 overs). Poonia 10, Frost 9.

Maddy edged the second ball of the innings, from Gillespie, to first slip so has bagged a duck in each of the last three championship games.

Poonia is batting fairly solidly but, on 9, was perilously close to caught at mid-on off Shantry. It would have been an unforgivably loose way to perish.

Now, with all the time in the world, can Poonia build the big innings he has failed to construct on so many occasions this season.

The light is going, though, making batting tricky.

Glamorgan 193 all out (18 no balls).

Harrison, having ensured this game will go into a third day with a robust 20, hooked Woakes to long-leg where Rankin took the catch.

Woakes then completed a career-best six for 68 when he lured Dalrymple, on 92, into an attempted lofted straight drive which found only the mitts of Carter at wide long off.

Warwickshire lead by 122, well-placed for their first home championship win since April 2007.

Woakes could go far.

Glamorgan 158 for 8 (45 overs). Dalrymple 77, Harrison 1.

Trott sends one down quite wide and Gillespie, on 2, plays the shot of a man participating in the last first-class appearance of a long, arduous career and flaps it straight to Troughton at extra cover.

Woakes is back on.

Eight more to avoid the follow-on.