Bears on a tightrope

Warwickshire 16 for 2 (6 overs). Bell 3, Trott 6.

Maddy drives at Mahmood and edges to Horton in the slips.

Warwickshire need something big from their England pair.

The first of many tightrope-walkers to cross Niagara Falls was Jean Francois Gravelot, a French aerialist, who called himself "The Great Blondin", because of his fair hair. He was born on February 28, 1824 in St. Omer, Pas de Calais in Northern France. Blondin had been walking the tightrope since the age of five. He was orphaned at the age of nine but became a famous tightrope performer and practiced each new feat until he could perform it with his eyes closed. In 1951, at the age of twenty-seven, he joined the Ravel troupe of French equestrian and acrobatic performers on their tour of North American. By this time there were no acrobatic performances at which he did not excel. About Niagara Falls, Blondin, said, "To cross the roaring waters became the ambition of my life."