GLORY BE!
GLORY BE! It's lunchtime and there are about a hundred spectators wandering around the Edgbaston playing surface, taking in the lovely sunshine, strolling and nattering and inspecting the wicket, just as in days of old.
The club has relented on its long-held view of keep-em-off-at-all-costs. Access for spectators to the field during intervals won't be available during every interval from now on but at least this is a first step.
One of the daftest and most pointlessly unfriendly policies ever instituted by the club is evidently under review. It's a start!
Lunch: Warwickshire 176 for 3 (53 overs). Trott 51, Troughton 12.
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Brian Halford - Brian Halford’s look at Edgbaston.
We are debating why the ban on access started. Was it my solid defence every 40 minutes when just 10 years old or my mate decapitating a steward with a cricket ball in the same season. Great year 1983!
I think it was just the club's mean-spiritedness mate!
Fair play to them for relenting though. Let's hope they keep it up for the 40over games and in the summer holidays when there's lots of youngsters there.
It was a great sight. Wonder if we will be allowed when the new drains go in and the outfield is relaid?
Yes Jane, I hope that it is, if not a permanent arrangement, something that will be repeated a lot this season and beyond.