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I have a malfunctioning keyboard that s0metimes w0nt type os – though it did then – so apologies – and then- for sometimes having to use a zero.
Surrey have won the toss and will bowl – Noah Thain plays, on the back 0f, I learnt today, a hundred in the second team. Atkinson t0 spruce up Surrey’s b0wling.
Football for Surrey, slip catches for Essex here at The Oval. A groundsman with a red bucket and a fork does sporadic aerating. The seats are filling up on the top layer of the Mickey Stewart pavilion, they’re brave, its in full shade.
This is such a gorgeous ground.
Ooops, I think this may have launched while I was tackling The Oval’s coffee machine, apologies for half-formed thoughts.
Rehan Ahmed off to the IPL
Leicestershire are without Rehan Ahmed, off to bench warm for Delhi Capitals. He will miss the next four Championship games. Leicestershire say there are “absolutely delighted.”
Fixtures
DIVISION ONE
Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan v Leicestershire
Trent Bridge: Notts v Warwickshire
The Oval: Surrey v Essex
Headingley: Yorkshire v Sussex
DIVISION TWO
The County Ground: Derbyshire v Gloucestershire
Riverside: Durham v Lancashire
New Road: Worcestershire v Kent
Preamble
Good morning! Another glorious one, if a little nippy. On my walk from Vauxhall station, the scaffolder filing his bucket and the cyclist zipping past in the bike lane seemed unaware that Gus Atkinson was making his first appearance of the season, for Surrey against Essex.
After last week’s mini-round, we return to eight games, with Middlesex and Northamptonshire the only two sides with their feet up. Poor old Gloucestershire, three losses, three points, and hit by the news that Ben Charlesworth will join Lancs in 2027, must press on.
Games start at 11am, do join us.
