Northern Red

Tough morning for batting everywhere it would seem, other than at Canterbury.

Totally agree. There was a BBC article on him earlier this week looking at his story so far, which explained how he'd been let go by Kent and then sacked by Yorkshire for poor discipline and attitude, and by his own admission he wasn't taking his cricket seriously enough. He's since turned his career around and forced his way into the England setup. The tweets in question would date back to those early days with Kent so you have to assume that he's grown up since then. Still can't get my head around how people allow this stuff to still be visible though, nor how and why someone would have the inclination to trawl back that far looking for incriminating tweets.

Early chance for Somerset fans to have a look at Devon Conway.

He's going to have to. Lawrence can bowl a bit of spin as well if needs be. At least the toss means that we won't be bowling in a 4th innings on day 4/5 trying to win the game.

Was always going to be a straight choice between Robinson or Overton. No spinner is quite the call, especially with the weather as it is.

Never in doubt....

Good of Newcastle to put up a fight against Exeter this afternoon

Proper game that. A mad 10 minutes did for us.

Surrey will probably be missing their England contingent. Though that'll mean Glos miss Bracey as well.

Worcestershire getting bowled out twice in a day (in terms of overs) takes some doing.

Looking at the forecast I doubt there'll be a result in any of the games.

Speaking of Surrey, 135-0 to 142-6 in the space of 8 overs.

Interesting to hear Pat talk about how the reintroduction of fans will take some adapting to, particularly with regards to the in-game communication among the players. They've got into the habit of being able to hear every word being said on the field, which won't be the case anymore.

FFS score the try before you start showboating, especially after the amount we've had ruled out this half.

12 wickets and bowled just about half of Essex's overs in the whole match. Nothing to see here

Joe Root out for 99 against Glamorgan, chopped on trying to run one down to third man.

They've announced today that the players who've been at the IPL are unlikely to play in the first Test against NZ, meaning he's in line for a call up.

I was quite surprised to see it was his first ever red card.

Sinckler has hopefully shut up a few know-nowts with that.

Complacent.

The Somerset commentator has posted on the BBC live text page that a Somerset first innings lead isn't guaranteed, which probably tells you everything...

It appears that the Sky coverage of the Glos game is being taken from Middlesex's web stream, therefore it's not going to be as slick as it would be if Sky were broadcasting it themselves. Similar in a way to the football they show on the red button - better than nothing but not absolutely ideal.

They should sign Rahkeem Cornwall as well...

Good news. The IPL getting canned has left a big hole in their schedule so hopefully there'll be more to follow.