Rule 30.

Good morning ladies and gentlemen. It is an overcast morning at Edgbaston but without evident threat of rain so Warwickshire should resume at 10.30am in pursuit of the 80 more runs they need to clinch the Second Division title.

Helpful, especially to Carter, is quite a short boundary on the Rea Bank side, although it's not short enough to have invoked Rule 30 of the Birmingham Suburban Cricket League in 1924. That was, rather harshly to the batsmen: "Scores for boundaries shall be four to and six over, but if the boundaries be less than 30 yards from either of the wickets the scores shall be two to and four over."

Batsmen on small home grounds had smaller averages then!