Encouraging progress

Warwickshire 178 for 2 (42 overs). Chopra 74, Maddy 24.

Chopra reached 50 from 100 balls with seven fours and one six. Maddy has settled well. These two have so far added 83 in 16 overs and it is an encouraging start by Warwickshire.

Chopra has played some handsome cover-drives including two in the last over from Hussein.

Charlie Grove took a hat-trick here in 1947. The new Somerset chief executive is a former member of the S.A.S. Former Lancashire opening batsman Andrew Kennedy subsequently taught at Taunton School. An ambulance siren is sounding in the distance.