The Glamorgan game

Warwickshire beat Glamorgan at Cardiff by 6 wickets with 5 balls to spare. At a canter.

Neil Carter will be on a hat-trick when he comes on against Northamptonshire at Edgbaston on Monday. His final over today was arguably the finest ever in T20; a string of rapid yorkers, two of which whizzed just past off-stump and two of which hit the stumps.

Nice little cameo from Trott. He signalled to the pavilion for a new bat, suggesting his current item was fatally flawed - then hit the next ball into the river. He never did change the bat.

Ian Westwood fielded superbly, mostly at extra-cover, to lead impressively by example.

Smallish crowd. And the way Glamorgan played you could see why.

95 per cent of Sophia Gardens is ready for its inaugural Test match but I would imagine an awful lot of fingers around Cardiff are crossed about the other five per cent. The Media Centre is literally a building site full of planks, sawdust, stepladders, drills, saws and yellow things with 'high optic pull' printed on them. The club is confident that everything will be ready in time but they are cutting it fine. Access for a big crowd to this tight venue, up a cul-de-sac by the river, is also a potential nightmare.

For "ordinary" games in the run-up to the Test, journos are housed in small boxes which, bizarrely, are freezing cold even on a lovely, hot day. Cruel.

Dozens of seagulls spent the entire evening gliding insouciantly to and fro over the ground. Rather attractive, graceful creatures.

I would imagine that Eric Idle never imaged that his lyrics would echo out over county cricket grounds.

Warwickshire's cricket in their last two games has been excellent. All set for a cracker against Northamptonshire, with their 100 per cent record, at Edgbaston on Monday.