The Grill
If Somerset beat Middlesex tomorrow Warwickshire only need to beat Kent on Wednesday to qualify for the FPT quarter-finals. If Middlesex beat Somerset, however, Warwickshire need to beat them at Lord's on Monday and then Kent.
Straight after today's workmanlike win over mediocre opposition Ashley Giles spoke to Warwickshire's players in the dressing-room for half-an-hour. It was not a traditional old football-type dressing-room lock-in (although a couple of Grange employees who popped in to see if they could start clearing up came out again pretty sharpish) but some areas of concerns were addressed, high among them failure to properly utilise power-plays.
Carter is fit to face Middlesex on Monday but Barker does not deserved to be dropped.
The Grange is a very hospitable venue, staffed by lovely people and the home supporters in the small crowd (a lot of Bears fans had made the trip) clearly really love their cricket, all the more endearingly so because the vast majority of people in Edinburgh clearly don't.
Finally, a Birmingham Mail Cricket Blog Quiz Question:
Addressing the media after today's game Ashley Giles compared Jim Troughton and Ian Westwood to which kind of four-legged mammal?
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Greyhounds?
Gazelle
No Flo. Try again Jane.
Oh, all right, I'll have a go.
How about one of the following?
Ruffed lemur, Golden lion tamarin, Long-nosed monkey, Common squirrel monkey, Squirrel monkey, Patas monkey, Preuss's monkey, De Brazza's monkey, Savanna monkey, Collared mangabey, Grey-cheeked mangabey, Chacma baboon, Gelada baboon, Drill, Purple-faced leaf monkey, Golden monkey, Gorilla, Chimpanzee, Orang-utan, Javan gibbon,
elephant, Asiatic wild ass, Mongolian wild horse, Hartmann's mountain zebra, Cape mountain zebra, Grevy's zebra, Central American tapir, South American tapir, Great Indian rhinoceros, Black rhinoceros, White rhinoceros, Bush dog, Fennec fox, Maned wolf, Wolf, American black bear, Asiatic black bear, Brown bear, Polar bear, Sloth bear, Spectacled bear, Sun bear,
Giant panda, Lesser panda, Aardwolf, Cheetah,
Caracal, Jaguar, Lion, Snow leopard, Leopard, Tiger, Cape fur seal, Walrus, White-lipped peccary, Hippopotamus, Guanaco, Vicugna, Musk deer, Eld's deer, Marsh deer, Pampas deer, Addax,
Arabian oryx, Bontebok, Cyprus mouflon, Dama gazelle, Gaur, Goral, Lechwe, Saiga antelope, Scimitar-horned oryx, Takin, Tibetan antelope,
or Dolphin?
Oh, four-legged?
Ah right,
Forget the dolphin!
Wouldn't be a hedgehog would it?
Hard lines Bozza, none of those things.
Although I must point out that Rule 42(g) states that only your first answer can be accepted anyway. And Ashley did not, on this occasion, compare Troughton and Westwood to ruffed lemurs.
Ah, but does the rule specifically state that your first answer cannot incorporate a variety of options?
It seenms easy peasy to me.
Aardvarks
Nope.
Please put us out of our misery, we have tried and failed.
After 2 double choc chip muffins I have the answer it was FERRETS