Close 43-1
Trott 25
Westwood 17
Only another 391 to get!!!!
Trott and Westy looked mostly comfortable from my lofty perch. Sidebottom was getting prodigious late swing into the right hander again but these 2 worked out how to play it. Chopra was bamboozled again.
Looking at the current forecast, we will have to survive 2 sessions to avoid defeat. It Trott and Westy survive for the first hour, we might just do it.
58-3, Sidebottom all 3, Westwood still batting.
We should've just killed Sidebottom before the game.
Still think it will be a draw.
was about to update on Bears progress when Bell dismissed:
Anyway 95-3 Westwood is still batting but has been dropped twice in slips one of which very easy chance.
Westwood 35,Hain 22
Gone off for rain early lunch taken at 12:45 4 overs currently lost.....hope they are the first of many!!!
103-3
Westwood 35
Hain 22
109-4
Westwood LBW Sidebottom 40
10th wicket in the match
Injured McKay coming in before Rikki Clarke, don't understand that.
McKay caught in the slips from Patterson. 123 for 5. The jig is up.
55 overs left in the day now
133-5
Hain 35
Clarke 8
Middlebrook coming onto bowl
Sam Hain on 52. 157 for 5.
Clarke out to a brilliant catch at short lek off Middle room. He had looked very slid. 170/lfor 6. Chris Wright in.
Correction
It was Patel that came in but now he out and Wright is in. 189 for 7.
Eight down....rain urgently needed!