Led astray

Warwickshire's scheduled three-day friendly has ended after two days after rain interfered with the second day and looked likely to affect the third today.

It turned into little more than an outdoor net with a couple of batsmen having two knocks on the second day. Team B ended up with 341 for 7.

Maddy was lbw Woakes 0 then went back in later and made 69 not out. Frost hit 99 off 161 balls then retired out. Ateeq Javed 1 and 15 not out. Barker 54 from 102 balls. Tahir 46 from 57 balls,.

Carter 2 for 53. Woakes 1 for 18 but then limped off in his sixth over and will have a groin injury checked out today. Clarke 0 for 32. MacLeod 0 for 62. Piolet bowled 14 overs of nifty medium pace for 1 for 30. Choudry 1 for 74. Anyon 1 for 14. Westwood 0 for 7.

Today has been turned into a practice and fitness day. Warwickshire's next practice matches are a pair of T20s on Monday.

Fifty years ago this summer, Bears batsman Jim Stewart hit 17 sixes in the championship match against Lancashire at Blackpool, leaving the home bowlers feeling utterly brutalised but in not quite as much pain as B.Halford experienced at Stanley Park in 2006 when he was carted out of the ground in a wheelchair with a back injury caused directly by him being led astray by members of Section 19.