Sunday and no cricket? What is the world coming to?
Anyway, it lets us get key players fit and keep a wary eye on the progress of others.
Lancashire v Durham is an important game and defeat would see the visitors and holders eliminated. I'm not sure which would be a better result for us, as a win would leave Lancashire close to qualifying and leave the group with our needing to finish above Yorkshire to qualify.
Scotland could do us an enormous favour by beating Yorkshire today, but I don't see it happening. The Scots are strengthened by the presence of Navdeep Poonia from Warwickshire, and a reprise of his innings against us would do nicely. The home side's bowling is competitive, but the batting folds too regularly for sustained success and unless they get to bowl first in seamer friendly conditions should not really trouble the Yorkies.
Incidentally, the game against Derbyshire is in Glasgow at the Titwood Ground of Clydesdale Cricket Club. Having played on both grounds, I can say with a degree of confidence that batting conditions are normally more favourable in Glasgow and the game may not come down to winning the toss and bowling.
So I'm off to get on with some work and will keep an eye on the weather and perhaps pop across to Grange later on to see if the Saltires can produce a display like they did at Old Trafford.
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