Back from the forum. No great revelations.
Cameron Steel was there , should be fit for the next match and maybe would have fielded this afternoon but thought a fully fit third man was a better option in the run chase. Nigel diagnosed the tissue damage injury
According to Lewis Colly should be back next week and that's why they went for Steel as skipper - give him a chance in a one off game.
Salisbury's registration is somehow between Hampshire & MCC. He was offered a full season loan but turned it doen because he wasn't sure he'd get regular of first team cricket. Lewis implied he would now be happy to sign an extension to the 1 month loan.
They approached Coetzer before the RL50 but couldn't reach an agreement as he'd have missed some games. Lewis said they may have another discussion before the T20 starts but I got the impression he wasn't too keen.
Derbyshire signed MacLeod several weeks ago and just announced it today.
Weighell should be bowling again in the next week or two but I think Lewis said Potts has a stress fracture of the back ( couldn't quite hear exactly what he said.)
Steel said he'd been to a meeting with Collt about the 100 ball competition and left " none the wiser" Lewis also said he thinks it's a bad idea. If it goes ahead however there's going to be a loan system in place to compensate for any players lost to the franchises - Steel said something sarcastic about signing 5 players from Surrey on loan.
Lewis had a dig at FTECB saying the club had complained about the Glamorgan compensation and that he was sick of talking about Graves. Emmerson then said George Dobell will be ok because you can't be guilty of libel for telling the truth. Marty also seemed to say FTECB's lawyers have been after legsidelizzy over her Times articles.
I thought Lewis had a dig at Sir Ian saying that "some idiot" predicted to him that FTECB sanctions would only penalise us for a year - unless he was referring to Graves again!