"Put that fag out!"

Warwickshire 91 for 1 (26 overs). Westwood 49, Bell 0.

Frost, on 37, leaned forward to Ealham and edged to Chris Read.

Amusing snippet from a journalist who attended Edgbaston yesterday even though play was sure to be abandoned for the day. After the official call-off, he headed back towards the car-park and paused in the deserted concourse behind the Wyatt Strand for a cigarette.

"There was not a soul in sight," he reports. "Not a single person - except for one steward. And he came over and told me to put my fag out because it was a non-smoking area."

Rules are rules!