Anyon masterclass
Warwickshire 402 for 9 declared. Patel 3, Anyon 14.
Warwickshire take maximum batting points after a glorious cameo from Anyon. Troughton had his middle-stump removed by Shrek and departed for 73. Woakes's furniture was then rearranged by Fletcher off a no-ball but he slapped the next delivery straight to extra-cover to perish for 33.
That left Patel and Anyon, neither of whom had faced a ball, with 16 to find to post the 400. Anyon immediately struck Shrek, Sunil Gavaskar-like for four, took a couple of singles, Geoff Boycott-like off the last balls of overs and then drove handsomely, David Gower-like to the cover boundary to trigger the declaration.
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Brian Halford - Brian Halford’s look at Edgbaston.
Hi Brian I must admit I hate rain affected games where teams just play for bonus points. I'd rather them scrap bonus points all-together and have a winner takes all.
If we end up with 10 points out of this game then we can be quite pleased, but like you said yesterday, at some point we are going to need win some homes games because of the run in of away games in the second half of the season.
I hope the weather stays good for the Durham game so we can really measure ourselves where we are in this form of cricket.
Westwood has looked in good nick since hes got back into the side. I thought he was on for a hundred yesterday.
Just a thought - it might be possible to avoid the bonus point sideshow by simply altering the rule. Points could be made available not for specifically the first innings, but the first innings played by the teams. At least then they'd have no excuse other than defensiveness for not declaring the first innings and playing a single innings match.
Morning folks. I think it's outrageous that so many champo games are written off as draws so early by the participants. Cricket alone, I think, in professional sport, appears at times to regard the provision of entertainment as a complete irrelevance.
If you want entertainment go to a circus.