Key events
England and Zimbabwe are about to get underway at Trent Bridge, you can follow its’ bish-bash-bosh progress with Jim Wallace and Daniel Gallan.
We’ve started a minute before eleven, three slips standing boot to boot, as Holland charges in.
Round the grounds, some ins and outs. Ben Kellaway has exams so misses Glamorgan’s game, but Matt Kuhnemmann plays. No Jimmy as Lancs “manage his return to competitive cricket’. Surrey add Sam Curran (torn away from watching brother Ben at Trent Bridge), Jamie Overton and Dan Worrall, Paul Walter returns for Essex, David Bedingham for Durham.
No Jimmy Anderson for Lancs
Both teams are warming up on the dry Leicestershire grass. Warm sunshine, a few fluffy clouds, lots of lovely places to sit under a tree and read a book. In the middle, Peter Handscomb is wearing his leaf green Leicestershire blazer and has won the toss and having a bowl. No Jimmy today for Lancs – a management of workload thing.
Division Two table
1 Leicestershire 115
2 Derbyshire 85
3 Glamorgan 75
4 Gloucestershire 75
5 Middlesex 68
6 Kent 63
7 Lancashire 63
8 Northants 59
Division One table
1 Notts 96
2 Surrey 93
3 Warwickshire 82
4 Durham 80
5 Hampshire 79
6 Sussex 75
7 Somerset 73
8 Essex 64
9 Yorkshire 56
10 Worcestershire 43
Fixtures
Division One
Chester-le-Street: Durham v Somerset
Southampton: Hampshire v Sussex
The Oval: Surrey v Essex
New Road: Worcestershire v Warwickshire
Headingley: Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire
Division Two
Derby: Derbyshire v Kent
Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan v Middlesex
Grace Road: Leicestershire v Lancashire
County Ground: Northamptonshire v Gloucestershire
Preamble
Good morning from Cross Country trains, chugging through high spring, the Midlands countryside all elderflower and ash saplings, and green, green, green all around.
I’m on my way to Grace Road to see the runaway leaders of Division Two play feeling-a-little-less -queasy-than-they-did-last-week Lancashire. Loads more to look forward to round the grounds. Play starts at 11am, do join us!
