Carter unleashes a brute

Durham 28 for 2 (9 overs). Muchall 4, Benkenstein 3.

Carter delivers a brute of a rising ball outside off-stump and Stoneman, on 12, edges to Clarke at second slip.

Warwickshire have drawn a few ribald shouts from the Durham fans with one or two quixotic appeals. Notably when Miller beat the bat and everyone went up for a catch behind when there was clearly no nick.

I suppose when bowlers and fielders do that you can understand batsmen not walking.

Sometimes it seems like the whole moral fibre of the championship, nay, county cricket, nay, the world, is crumbling.