The Hain injury is a big blow, but the word is that Trott will be available for the next game.
The game is ours to lose now, but I reckon if Worcs had a fourth swing bowler then the game would have been a lot closer. Much is justifiably made of overcast conditions, humidity and moisture in the wicket but I swear that the new Edgbaston sometimes becomes some kind of infernal wind tunnel. The strip is one of those closest to the Rea Bank so you could get a perfect behind the wicket view from the Skyline Terrace above the Tom Dollery. It was swinging big time, with the wind.
In years to come we will learn of the pavillion members who recklessly ventured too long outside before mid July and were frozen into the afterworld. The city end members call it the ice box, and not without good cause.
