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Durham v Warks- 1100-9.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Durham v Warks- 1100-9.

Callum Parkinson with the most expensive figures in the history of the club...but plenty of positives according to Callum!

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Durham v Warks- 1100-9.

Who would have thought a Strauss left field idea would end like this

fair to say that Matt Critchley is having a good game. Scored an unbeaten 150 in the first innings and picked up a 5fer in the second

Simpson scores 200...Sussex end 700/9...

As I said yesterday, substandard pitch. Nothing in it for bowlers.

Three clubs now who have declared after or just short of 700....

Guessing that will be the end of the Kookaburra experiment

Well, Strauss was a batter.

It might be the point of the experiment. Force bowlers to learn how to bowl with it. Now English conditions are very different to Aussie conditions, but perhaps the idea is that something will stick when England are touring overseas.

Of course that's rather negated by the absence of established England bowlers like Robinson, Anderson, Wood and Stokes. Of the future England bowlers, Potts missed the first round of kookaburra because his first match was played almost in the winter, Cook is missing the second for some reason. Leach and Bashir are not getting to bowl with it and Hartley got to bowl one over, so if the experiment is meant to get England bowlers used to bowling with it....... they aren't

All a nonsense, really, but I guess it is an experiment to see if can help at some point in the future, but the way it's being tested is typical ECB.... ill considered and illogical...... throw an idea at the wall, see if anything sticks... if it doesn't, just keep doing it until eventually the law of averages suggests something will.

Ruin the game on the off chance that one day they get to say I told you so

Actually only one dead game after three days. Though the weather may play a part.

Essex look like they're going to win 2 from 2

Durham have some thinking to do

There's a lot of bowling for Warks to do, without a break. Bowling again after a big score might be tough.

only 8 to get now and we're still 150 behind. There's rain forecast for very early in the morning to spice the road up a bit, but without any risk of impacting on playing times. Durham will have to play well to salvage anything tomorrow..... that's not to say we can't, but it'll be tough

The only game actually taking place!

Maybe the rain is just late in getting to Birmingham.

If there's any play in Nottingham today, the fielders will have very cold hands.