Good morning from The Parks
Good morning ladies and gentlemen. The Parks is looking sylvan and green and gorgeous as Warwickshire's players potter about on the outfield. It is a lovely, timeless sight and almost makes it possible to believe that cricket can survive the spiral of money-grabbing self-destruction on which those at the top of the sport appear destined to take it.
It is 13-a-side and Warwickshire have won the toss and will bat.
Their 13: Maddy, Frost, Troughton, Ambrose, Clarke, Johnson, Carter, Piolet, Miller, Anyon, Javid, Tahir, Webb. The latter, John Webb, is from Bromsgrove School and a batsman from the Bears' academy.
A word of warning for anyone thinking of popping along. A by-law appears to have been passed in Oxford which allows cyclists to go wherever they want whenever they want on the roads.
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Brian Halford - Brian Halford’s look at Edgbaston.
Now we know the season has stated Brian is blogging again.
When I lived in Oxford there was a blind university lecturer who negotiated the high street by using his white stick like a scythe, mowing other pedestrians out of his way. Far worse than any cyclist.
I got knocked over last week on the pavement in Kings Heath by a cyclist who blamed me for having a shopping trolley on wheels.