Definitely a good toss to have won, evidenced by how damp the washing was this morning after leaving it up last night! To be fair, a very good seam attack helps too. Think only two of the dismissals before we got to the tail end were batter’s choices (Gill and Cooke?). Still, a disappointing start to the day.

If only we could’ve held on till lunch with only a couple down as the afternoon session was glorious weather wise and we fared much better with the bat afterwards. Fairplay, we started pulling it back as the evening wore on and Harris probably had his best spell since returning. Nice to see Hogan get a wicket in the flesh for maybe the last time unless I can get down to Hove at the end of the month.

Not a shabby day out for a Monday. Plenty of action, salt beef sandwich from Panzer’s with a glass of wine for lunch, few beers afterwards, and very pleasant weather for the time of year. On it’s day, the championship can be a great day out fairplay.