Drink cider from a lemon

Belly really does need a score or two in Test cricket very soon doesn't he?

Mind you, not that I would ever wish Bell and Tim Ambrose, nice chaps that they are, anything but the very best for their international ambitions, but if they did happen to find themselves on the outside looking in to the England team this summer, Warwickshire could be fielding a top order of: Westwood, Maddy, Bell, Trott, Troughton, Frost, Ambrose, which isn't too shabby.

And then if you throw into the lower-order mix the likes of Botha, Clarke, Salisbury, Carter, Woakes, Anyon, Rankin and Sensational Overseas Fast Bowler and, crucially, stir in some good luck on the injury front, then do you perhaps have a team capable of challenging for the championship?