But what's around the corner?

Warwickshire 129 for 3 (40 overs). Clarke 28, Troughton 17.

Clarke, correctly promoted up the order, is batting very well again. He hit Rafiq for a huge straight six.

Another decent little partnership developing but this season you always feel as if a mini/major collapse is around the corner. If that's the feeling amongst Bears watchers, what's the mentality in the dressing-room? Basically, the players have spent the last three months slogging uphill in the championship and that has taken its toll psychologically.

That might explain Maddy's astonishing pre-lunch rush of blood. Nothing else could, although a Leeds-based scribe has suggested that he (Maddy, not the Leeds-based scribe) might have been angered by the umpires' refusal to take the players off in poor light and, most bizarrely, heavy drizzle.